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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...

Regular readers of Skeptophilia  may recall a post I did about a year ago about the Miyake Events , seven wild solar storms that occurred ov...

I sometimes get grief from readers because of my tendency to reject claims of the paranormal out of hand. In my own defense, I am  convincib...

Archaeologists and paleontologists are up against the same problem; bones and other fossils only get you so far. There are cases where fossi...

When I was a kid, the high point of my year was the two-week trip my dad and I took every August to Arizona and New Mexico.  He was an avid ...