Skeptophilia

When you think about it, color perception is really  strange. Just about all of us have wondered whether we all see colors the same way -- i...

New from the "Well, I can't see any way that could go wrong, do you?" department, we have: scientists growing Neanderthal brai...

"I'm sorry, but I have no idea who you are." I can't tell you how many times I've had to utter that sentence.  Regular...

One of the things I love about science is how it provides answers to questions that are so ordinary that few of us appreciate how strange th...

You probably know that there are many languages -- the most commonly-cited are Mandarin and Thai -- that are tonal .  The pitch, and pitch c...

"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...

I've always wondered why words have the positive or negative connotations they do. Ask people what their favorite and least-favorite sou...

Life with prosopagnosia is peculiar sometimes. Better known as "face blindness," it's a partial or complete inability to reco...

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...

Last night I dreamed that our local mall had been converted into a giant used book store.  (Something I would entirely approve of.)  We were...