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I've played English country dance music for years.  It's a lovely repertoire, and playing for dances creates a wonderful synergy of ...

I remember a few years ago noticing something odd.  While eating breakfast on work days, I'd finish, and always give a quick glance up a...

Did you know that there are illegal numbers ? I didn't, at least not until yesterday.  It turns out, of course, that the issue isn't...

Ernest Hemingway famously said, "There isn’t any symbolism in The Old Man and the Sea .  The sea is the sea.  The old man is an old man...

A recent study found that regardless how thoroughly AI-powered chatbots are trained with real, sensible text, they still have a hard time r...

A friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link to an interview with author Sharon Hewitt Rawlette about her recent book, The Sou...

When I was in freshman lit -- a lot of years ago -- we were assigned to read and analyze Robert Frost's classic poem, "Stopping by ...

When I was a graduate student in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington -- an endeavor that lasted one semester, at whic...

I remember a couple of years ago noticing something odd.  While eating breakfast on work days, I'd finish, and always give a quick glanc...