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Every once in a while, the targeted-ad software that decides which advertisement to paste to which website screws up, and you'll see som...

I have commented more than once about my incredulity with regards to end-of-the-world predictions.  Despite the fact that to date, they have...

Sometimes I sow the seeds of my own facepalms. It happened just yesterday, when on a lark I clicked on the link to Skeptophilia 's Goo...

By now, most of you have heard about the Bowling Green Massacre , a horrific attack by Iraqi immigrant terrorists in Bowling Green, Kentucky...

A couple of years ago I wrote a piece about the Mandela Effect , which is the idea that when you remember some major event differently than ...

Every once in a while, the targeted-ad software that decides which advertisement to paste to which website screws up, and you'll see som...

What never ceases to astound me is the way woo-woos use minuscule amounts of evidence to support claims that under most circumstances would ...

Making its way around the internet in the last few days we have the strange story of Lerina Garcia, a Spanish woman who is making an extraor...

I've always had a fairly good memory -- for certain things, at least.  I usually lecture my classes without notes, for example.  I find ...