Skeptophilia

Ever heard of the opposite of déjà vu  -- jamais vu ? This may sound like it's the setup for some sort of abstruse bilingual joke, but i...

One of the things I learned from 32 years of teaching biology is that many non-human animals are way smarter than we give them credit for --...

I hate computer games. Now, don't get all up in arms.  I'm not saying you  can't love them and want to spend all available wakin...

Picture a place you know well.  Your house, your apartment, a park, a church, a school.  You can probably imagine it, remember what it's...

I'm fortunate to have been raised in a bilingual home.  My mother's first language was French, and my dad (son of a father of French...

There's one incorrect claim I find coming up in my classes more than any other, and that's the old idea that "humans only use 1...