Skeptophilia

After a recent post about the " Beast of Gévaudan ," an undeniably real creature that slaughtered between sixty and a hundred of t...

I'm currently in the alarming situation of having reached the last book in the TBR stack on my dresser. My next good opportunity to rest...

One of the main reasons I recommend rationalism for everyone is that humans are really, really suggestible. Once strong emotions are engaged...

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...