Skeptophilia

Not long ago, I was listening to one of my favorite pieces by Claude Debussy, The Drowned Cathedral , and I started to wonder what legend ha...

It's always thin ice to make too many assumptions about why our distant ancestors did what they did. Most of the time, all we have is th...

I've mentioned before how much I love a good mystery, and there's a hell of a good one underneath the town of Margate, Kent, England...

If there's one place and historical period I could choose to know more about, it would be England during, and immediately following, the...

It's a point I've made before, but it's worth saying again: we queer folks are not  "pushing our lifestyle in other people...

Maybe it's because I'm fundamentally a home body, but I find it really hard to understand what could have driven our distant ancesto...

A year and a half or so ago I wrote a piece about some of the biblical apocrypha -- books and epistles and letters and whatnot that didn...

One of the most frustrating things about science, from the point of view of non-scientists, is that sometimes we have to say "we simply...

When you think about it, it's unsurprising that our ancestors invented "the gods" as an explanation for anything they didn...