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Here in the United States we're celebrating Thanksgiving today.  It's a day a lot of folks think about their heritage, and the weird...

My maternal grandmother was born Flora Meyer-Lévy, in the little town of Chackbay, Louisiana, in 1893.  I never knew her -- she died fourtee...

A lot of us probably have moments in our education where the teacher showed us something that overturned some piece of how we saw the univer...

It was in my evolutionary biology class in college that I ran into a concept that blew my mind, and in many ways still does. It was the idea...

A while back I had my DNA tested.  I know a good bit about my family tree, and I did it not only to find out about my genetic heritage, but ...

Today's topic comes to us from the One Thing Leads To Another department.   I got launched into this particular rabbit hole by a notice ...

Here in the United States we're celebrating Thanksgiving today, hopefully by staying home and not turning this into a nationwide supersp...

Coming hard on the heels of yesterday's post about a woman who claims to be descended from Joseph of Arimathea, today we have some actua...

In the latest from the Wishful Thinking department, we have a woman in Murrysville, Pennsylvania who claims she is the Virgin Mary's fir...

A friend and long-time faithful reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link a few days ago to a webpage entitled, " Expert Says Humans Are A...