Skeptophilia

Here's a question I wonder if you've ever pondered: Why do the Spanish and French speak Romance languages and not Germanic ones? It...

Greetings, loyal readers, I'm back a couple of days earlier than anticipated from a two-and-a-half week's trip to Europe, still a bi...

After yesterday's rather elegiac post about the breadth of creative work we've lost over the ages, a friend and long-time loyal read...

I've always wondered how our distant ancestors survived during the various ice ages. After all, we're mostly-hairless primates evolv...

My fellow author and twin-brudda-from-anudda-mudda Andrew Butters  is one of several people who are always the lookout for cool developments...

It will come as no surprise to long-time fans of Skeptophilia  that I love a mystery.  And if that mystery is mixed up with questions of anc...

I've always been in awe of cryptographers. I've read a bit about the work British computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing ...

One of my favorite movies, which I have seen I don't even know how many times, is Jurassic Park . I'm honestly not much of a movie-w...