Skeptophilia

Given my dual fascination with history and botany, it's a bit surprising that yesterday I ran into a story I'd never heard before th...

Today's post is about the outcome of last week's election -- but a part of it you might not have heard about, given the media furore...

New from the "Not Poe's Law" Department, we have: some evangelical Christians who are concerned that demons are now "lega...

No one would be happier than me if it turned out there was an afterlife. Well, at least some  types of afterlife.  The tortured-forever-in...

I think the human brain is fascinating.  Not a surprising statement, I suppose, coming from someone who teaches (amongst other things) an in...

"Well, I saw it.  I saw it with my own eyes." You hear that a lot, in claims of the paranormal.  I was just sitting there, in m...