Skeptophilia
Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Cups and scrolls
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I recently finished the outstanding novel The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, which tells the story of the events of The Iliad , focus...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Brain of glass
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Because my other option is to go on a crazed rant about how my country is being run by an amoral sociopath, and about how even given that fa...
Monday, October 7, 2019
Pulled from the fires
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Note bene : If you haven't read Umberto Eco's brilliant medieval murder mystery The Name of the Rose and are planning to, be aware ...
Saturday, April 13, 2019
An avalanche of fire
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One of the most utterly terrifying phenomena on Earth is called a pyroclastic flow . Pyroclastic flows are explosive eruptions of volcanoe...
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