Skeptophilia

Thursday's post -- about a strange legend from England called the "fetch" and similar bits of odd folklore from Finland, Norwa...

There's a Senegalese expression that goes, "There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense." The outcome o...

After recent posts dealing with politics, culture, the hazards of AI, and important scientific discoveries, I'm sure what you're all...

Well, the Rapture happened again , and just like every other damn time, I got left behind. At this point, I've kind of given up.  There...

At the end of yesterday's mashup of alien invasions and giant superintelligent (and malevolent) bugs, I wrote that I couldn't guess ...

Carl Linnaeus was born in Råshult, Sweden, on 23 May 1707.  His father Nils was the minister of the parish of Stenbrohult but was also an a...

A paper appeared last week in the Journal of Zoology  that has elicited a good bit of self-satisfied chortling amongst the people who think ...

One of the problems that crops up in discussions of cryptids is that a lot of people consistently fall back on arguments based upon the numb...

Well, the biggest mass search for the Loch Ness Monster in history has come and gone, and like Monty Python's camel spotters, the searc...