Skeptophilia

Mice are kind of ubiquitous, and it's easy to think of them as all being pretty much the same, but the family they comprise -- Muridae ...

To round out our week of looking at odd and creepy tales, today we're going to consider one of the most famous: the story of the evil Bi...

When I was a graduate student at the University of Washington, I took a course in Anatomy & Physiology.  The anatomy part turned out to ...

One of the most difficult-to-fight biases in human nature is the sunk-cost fallacy . The idea is the more time, effort, and/or money we...

Being a linguistics geek, I've always been fascinated with the mechanisms of communication.  My interests span such topics as the evolut...