Skeptophilia

After a recent post about the " Beast of Gévaudan ," an undeniably real creature that slaughtered between sixty and a hundred of t...

I'm currently in the alarming situation of having reached the last book in the TBR stack on my dresser. My next good opportunity to rest...

Not long ago, I was listening to one of my favorite pieces by Claude Debussy, The Drowned Cathedral , and I started to wonder what legend ha...

A point I've made before, but one I think is absolutely critical to skeptics, is that sometimes we simply don't have answers -- and ...

Here's a question I wonder if you've ever pondered: Why do the Spanish and French speak Romance languages and not Germanic ones? It...

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...

I recently finished geneticist Bryan Sykes's book, Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: A Genetic History of Britain and Ireland , which describe...