Skeptophilia

There's a general rule that once a baseless claim is made, getting people to dis believe in it is nearly impossible. This is a pattern t...

When I visit New York City, one of my favorite places is, unsurprisingly, the American Museum of Natural History .   And my favorite spot in...

Dorothy Louise Eady was born on the 16th of January in 1904 in a suburb of London, the only child of a tailor and his wife.  She seemed to ...

John McPhee's wonderful book The Control of Nature  describes three attempts to alter naturally-occurring geological processes: the shif...

One of the things that has always struck me about woo-woo types is how little it takes to get them going.  I suppose when you've already...

There's a claim I've now seen three times on social media stating that the ancient Egyptians knew the speed of light . This is prett...

I ran into an interesting article in Science News  yesterday about a new museum in Egypt that will feature the famous treasure trove of King...

Today's post combines archaeology, mythology, and an etymological mystery -- surely a recipe for something fascinating. I first ran into...

I've been interested in rocks since I was a kid.  My dad was a rockhound -- more specifically, a lapidary, who made jewelry from such se...

I'm fascinated with history, and have always been especially interested in times and places for which we have few records and, therefore...