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Like many people, I've at times been in the position of having to interact with narcissists. I'll not name names, but two, in partic...

In Isaac Asimov's deservedly famous short story "All the Troubles of the World," the megacomputer Multivac has so much data on...

Last night I had a good bit of trouble sleeping. This isn't all that uncommon.  I've had issues with insomnia ever since I was a tee...

As a writer of fiction, I have wondered for years where creative ideas come from.  Certainly a great many of the plots I've written have...

Regular readers of Skeptophilia  know that I've been a musician for a very long time.  I started on the flute when I was a teenager, mor...

When I was about twelve, I was lying on the sofa in my living room one evening watching a horror movie called Gargoyles . From the perspec...

The brilliant Scottish poet Robert Burns packed a lot of truth in these four lines: O, would some power the giftie gi'e us To see our...

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

As someone fascinated by neuroscience, language, and music, you can imagine how excited I was to find some new research that combined all th...