Skeptophilia

One of the most terrifying episodes The X Files  ever did was called "Folie à Deux."  In the opening scene, a man sees his boss no...

One of the first things I ever wrote about in this blog was the phenomenon of pareidolia -- because the human brain is wired to recognize f...

As part of my research for Skeptophilia , I spend way too much time perusing questionable websites. Not that kind of questionable.  Get you...

As we get closer and closer to something that is unequivocally an artificial intelligence, engineers have tackled another aspect of this; ho...

When  The Polar Express  hit the theaters in 2004, it had a rather unexpected effect on some young movie-goers. The train conductor, who (...

As part of my research for Skeptophilia , I spend way too much time perusing questionable websites. Not that  kind of questionable.  Get...

One of the first things I ever wrote about in this blog was the phenomenon of  pareidolia  -- because the human brain is wired to recognize ...

If you needed further evidence of how powerful surveillance technology has become, consider that Google Street View has captured a photograp...

I ran into an article in the New York Times  a couple of days ago that begins with the line, "The brain has an amazing capacity for rec...

The enlightened amongst us like to think that they're free from biases and prejudice, that they treat everyone fairly, that they make no...