Skeptophilia

Almost all of us implicitly trust our own memories. Experiment after experiment, however, has shown that this trust is misplaced.  Even if y...

"The human brain is rife with all sorts of ways of getting it wrong." This quote is from a talk by eminent astrophysicist Neil deG...

On July 7, 2005 , an Islamic suicide bomber detonated an explosive device on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square, London, killing thirte...

About ten years ago, some students in my AP Biology class decided to do an experiment on false memory as their final project. The setup was ...

Sometimes science uncovers things that are profoundly unsettling.  The problem is, as Neil deGrasse Tyson pointed out, "The good thing ...

One of the most ubiquitous, but mysterious, phenomena in neuroscience is déjà vu . We all get it from time to time -- the uncanny sense th...

I've always had a fairly good memory -- for certain things, at least.  I usually lecture my classes without notes, for example.  I find ...