Skeptophilia

In 1904, biologist Joseph Grinnell formulated what has since become known as the Competitive Exclusion Principle : if two species overlap i...

There's a lot of human behavior that, looked at from a perspective as if you were studying us from the outside -- say, as an alien anthr...

I had an interesting, and rather revelatory, experience this summer. One of my passions is running.  Well, to be more accurate, I like havin...

One of the funniest scenes in the Monty Python movie Life of Brian  is when a man is condemned to be stoned for saying "Jehovah," ...

I am deeply ambivalent about running. On the one hand, while I'm doing it, every fiber of my being is begging me to stop.  I'm sho...

A few years ago, I wrote a post here at Skeptophilia  called " Grass, gulls, mosquitoes, and mice ," in which I laid out the argum...

I'm of two minds with regards to the Olympics. Okay, to be fair, I'm of two minds with regards to most things.  More than two minds...