Skeptophilia

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...

It's a little odd that someone as center-of-attention-phobic as I am has chosen something that is bound to garner close looks.  I'm ...

We have an unfortunate tendency to idealize the past. Well, unfortunate is probably the wrong word.  I don't guess it does any real har...