Skeptophilia

In the course of writing Skeptophilia  for nearly fifteen years, I thought I'd run into every purveyor of woo out there. I was wrong. So...

An Introduction to Language  (by Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman, Third Edition, 1974) defines language  as "rule-governed arbitrary...

I'm really interested in research on aging, and I'd like to think that it's not solely because I'm Of A Certain Age myself. ...

Today's topic comes to us from the One Thing Leads To Another department. I got launched into this particular rabbit hole by a notice f...

It's virus season, which thus far I've been able to avoid participating in, but seems like half the people I see are hacking and sno...

I understand dogs a great deal better than I understand my fellow humans. Dogs are straightforward.  They interact with their world in a dir...

The human/alien hybrid is a common trope in science fiction.  From the angst-ridden half-Vulcan Mr. Spock, to the ultra-competent and powerf...

I recently finished geneticist Bryan Sykes's book, Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: A Genetic History of Britain and Ireland , which describe...

One of the (many) things I find fascinating about science is how often research involves crossing the boundaries between disciplines.  Ideas...