Skeptophilia

I recently finished geneticist Bryan Sykes's book, Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: A Genetic History of Britain and Ireland , which describe...

Coming hard on the heels of yesterday's post about a woman who claims to be descended from Joseph of Arimathea, today we have some actua...

After the last three days' depressing posts, I thought it was once again time to retreat to my happy place, which is: cool new scientifi...

Something I fight continuously, as a teacher, is the idea that the most important thing is THE ANSWER. It's the fault of the way educa...