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...

Any cat owners amongst my readers will undoubtedly know about the strange propensity of cats to climb into boxes.  Apparently it works for c...

I got an interesting email a few days ago, which I quote (with permission): I keep running into references to places called "gravity hi...

I have a fascination for optical illusions. Not only are they cool, they often point out some profound information about how we process sens...

One topic I've come back to over and over again here at Skeptophilia is how flawed our sensory/perceptive apparatus is.  Oh, it works w...

Eminent astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson was talking about the unreliability of the human sensory-perceptive system -- how, despite our c...

Any cat owners amongst my readers will undoubtedly know about the strange propensity of cats to climb into boxes.  Apparently it works for c...

About two weeks ago, I wrote a piece here about a Scottish cryptid called the Am Fear Liath Mòr  -- which roughly translates from Gaelic as...

I've always had a fascination for optical illusions. The enjoyment of bizarre trompe-l'oeil  is connected to a persistent theme in m...

When we think about our own bodies, we tend to externalize them.  It's subtle, but ponder it for a moment; when I say "this is my h...