Skeptophilia

This weekend, I stumbled upon one of those websites that is such a distilled bottle of crazy that I just have to tell you about it.  It invo...

There's a strange tendency in some humans to want to stir things up -- if life is boring or mundane, to create a flurry of interest for ...

To round out the week in an appropriately surreal fashion, today we consider one of the most pressing issues facing mankind, to wit: Is the ...

I am endlessly amused (or endlessly frustrated, depending on my mood) by the way the same piece of information can be interpreted by differe...

Worried about aliens and/or the Illuminati and/or Bill Gates beaming secret subconscious orders directly into your brain?  Want to protect y...

Having looked recently at such important scientific developments as gravitational lensing by black holes, the evolution of flowering plants,...

About a year ago, I got into a fairly surreal conversation with a friend of mine over the phenomenon of "Bronies." A "Brony,...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Nabisco creating a hermetically-sealed, bomb-proof vault on the island of Svalbard, with the sole purpo...

Yesterday we looked at a website haunted by the ghost of a little girl named "Repleh Snatas," which would be kind of creepy if she...

This weekend, I stumbled upon one of those websites that is such a distilled bottle of crazy that I just have to tell you about it.  It invo...