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...

Back on the ninth of June, 53 B.C.E., seven legions of Roman heavy infantry were lured into the desert near the town of Carrhae (now Harran,...

In the Doctor Who  episode "The Eaters of Light," the Twelfth Doctor and his companions, Bill and Nardole, go back to second-centu...

I recently finished the outstanding novel The Song of Achilles  by Madeline Miller, which tells the story of the events of The Iliad , focus...

You may have heard that upstate New York is called a "four-season climate."  Sounds nice, doesn't it?  What they neglect to te...

I'm currently working on a trilogy about the fall of civilization that is not, I hasten to state, inspired by current events. It's a...

Humans have been making and consuming alcoholic drinks for a very  long time. We're hardly the only animal species to experience the psy...