Skeptophilia

On the morning of October 24, 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted  in one of the deadliest volcanic events in recorded history. The nearby towns...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C. E. and its destruction of the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum make for a story that is as fasci...

It will come as no surprise to regular readers of Skeptophilia  that I have a peculiar fascination for things that are huge and powerful and...

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...

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 ...

One of the most utterly terrifying phenomena on Earth is called a pyroclastic flow . Pyroclastic flows are explosive eruptions of volcanoe...