Skeptophilia

I'm not a historian, but I certainly have been fascinated with history for years.  I just finished re-reading Robert Graves's wonder...

The map of the world's continents is so familiar that for most of us, it seems permanent.  Even when you find out that the Earth's l...

The history of dyes is actually way more interesting than it sounds. People have been coloring cloth (and pottery, and cave walls, and the...