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Given my dual fascination with history and botany, it's a bit surprising that yesterday I ran into a story I'd never heard before th...

The first thing I learned in my studies of linguistics is that languages aren't static. It's a good thing, because my field is histo...

A guy is driving through Texas, and passes a barn.  It's got a bullseye painted on the side -- with a bullet hole in the dead center. He...

It's fascinating how long into our past we've had rituals surrounding death. There's decent evidence that our cousins the Neande...

I recently finished reading Adrian Goldsworthy's book How Rome Fell , and was impressed enough with it that (you may recall) it was last...

I find it fascinating how long humans have been curious about the nature of the universe.  Our drive to understand the world and its working...

Have you noticed that every few months, someone else finds Noah's Ark? Just since I've begun this blog, I've written about fou...

Well, it's Saturday, the beginning of the weekend, and here at Skeptophilia we're hard at work following three stories for your fac...

New from the "News That Is Way Weirder Than Anything I Could Make Up" department:  Baywatch star Donna D'Errico is planning on...