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I got a curious response to my post a couple of days ago, about magical and/or supernatural explanations not actually being explanations at ...

Yesterday, I was discussing with a friend how important it is to find things that lift your spirit. The world has been replete with dismal ...

The injection of AI technology into art has opened up a serious can of worms. I ran into two examples of this in rapid succession a couple o...

William Shatner, of Star Trek  fame, wrote some profoundly moving words in his book Boldly Go , about his experience riding into space on J...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece here at Skeptophilia  about some fascinating new research suggesting that there are links between our...

Today's post is about an odd little piece of research that appeared in the journal Cognition  this week, tying together a number of dis...

Yesterday, I was discussing with one of my colleagues how important it is to find things that lift your spirit.  The world has been replete ...

I got a curious response to my post yesterday about finding out that my previously-held explanation for why people become conspiracy theori...

Yesterday I ran into a "proof of the existence of god" I'd never seen before; the idea that there are mathematical patterns th...