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When the topic of the paranormal comes up, I'm sometimes asked how I can be so sure that (fill in the blank: ghosts, cryptids, psychic ...

It's been a good while since I've written a post about a story that's just plain loony. Maybe it's because here in the Uni...

In my Latin and Greek classes, I always warn my students to avoid Google Translate. It's not that it's a bad tool, honestly, as lo...

Here at Skeptophilia  we've talked about "Poe's Law" -- the general rule that a sufficiently well-done satire is indisting...

I've commented before how the advent of the internet has changed information transfer -- both in good ways (such as the availability of ...