Skeptophilia

After Thursday's post about nonexistent islands, a loyal reader of Skeptophilia  asked me if I'd ever heard of the country of Listen...

One of the things we noticed on our tour of southern Europe -- not that it was any kind of surprise -- was the omnipresence of churches. The...

Greetings, loyal readers, I'm back a couple of days earlier than anticipated from a two-and-a-half week's trip to Europe, still a bi...

Humans have been modifying their own environment for a very long time. Our capacity for building stuff is pretty extraordinary.  Birds build...

One of the unresolved mysteries of European anthropology is where the Etruscans fit into the big picture. The Etruscans lived in northweste...

I think my love of science comes from the joy of unlocking one at a time the pieces of the universe that were mysteries.  It's why I...

I was kind of tickled, when I got my "23 & Me" results back a couple of years ago, to find out that I had 284 identified Neand...