Skeptophilia

The difficult thing about any sort of historical research is that sometimes, the evidence you're looking for doesn't even exist. In ...

Sometimes I run across a piece of research that is just so charming I have to tell you about it. This particular one comes from the European...

It's often difficult to look at other cultures, especially ones in the distant past, in a dispassionate way, without making value judgme...

My grandmother was born in Wind Ridge, Pennsylvania, a little village in the Allegheny hill country in the southwestern corner of the state....

One of the things I learned from 32 years of teaching biology is that many non-human animals are way smarter than we give them credit for --...

People who know me are well aware that I consider our two dogs, Guinness and Cleo, to be family members, not just pets. They're kind of ...

The difficult thing about any sort of historical research is that sometimes, the evidence you're looking for doesn't even exist. In ...

The drive to adorn our bodies is pretty close to universal. Clothing, for example, serves the triple purpose of protecting our skin, keeping...

A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the discovery and decipherment of a codex written in Nahuatl , one of the languages spoken by the Aztecs...

A student of mine once said that he was sick of Stephen King's books because he was "tired of reading about people in Maine." ...

A few weeks ago I was in my office working, and while writing on my computer I was listening to the London Symphony Orchestra (under the dir...