Skeptophilia

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

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...

A paper published this week in the journal Nature: Scientific Reports  provided some interesting insights into how our memories of our own p...

A friend of mine recently posted, "And poof!  Just like that, 1975 is fifty years ago." My response was, "Sorry.  Wrong.  197...

There are two distinct, but similar-sounding, cognitive biases that I've written about many times here at Skeptophilia because they are...

"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...

A little over a year ago, I decided to do something I've always wanted to do -- learn Japanese. I've had a fascination with Japan si...

In recent posts we have dealt with the Earth being invaded by giant alien bugs, the possibility that Bigfoot and other cryptids are actually...

About two months ago I signed up with Duolingo to study Japanese. I've been fascinated with Japan and the Japanese culture pretty much a...