Skeptophilia

Maybe it's because I'm fundamentally a home body, but I find it really hard to understand what could have driven our distant ancesto...

Some time around 1150 C.E. in the Faroe Islands, a comb-maker named Unås and his wife Gunnhild had a baby boy, whom they named Sverre.  Unås...

I'm sure most of you have heard of the Norse god Odin, at least from his appearance in the Marvel universe.  My first exposure to this b...

I ran into two examples of complete batshit lunacy in the last couple of days, and they're kind of interesting in juxtaposition. The f...

Sometimes I can be a little slow on the uptake, I'll admit. I think reasonably well, but I'm not quick.  Still, the other shoe doe...