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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...

An inevitable side-effect of writing six times a week here at Skeptophilia is that I get some weird gifts sometimes. This explains why I am...

I remember a while back reading an interesting paper that concluded that dogs have a concept of fairness and morality . There have been a nu...

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...

An inevitable side-effect of writing six times a week here at Skeptophilia  is that I get some weird gifts sometimes. This explains why ...

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...

As a science teacher, one of the things I find fascinating and perplexing is the phenomenon of innumeracy . An innumerate person is someon...

Sometimes you have to admire the woo-woos' dogged determination to fashion the universe into their own bizarre version of reality. Mos...