Skeptophilia

In his brilliant, labyrinthine novel Foucault's Pendulum , about the conspiracy theory to end all conspiracy theories, Umberto Eco's...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Nabisco creating a hermetically-sealed, bomb-proof vault on the island of Svalbard, with the sole purpo...

With all of the controversy right now over the upcoming presidential election, the conflicts over gun rights and federal land ownership, and...