Skeptophilia

One of the most persistent -- dare I say, canonical -- stories of alien abduction is the tale of Betty and Barney Hill . The gist of the sto...

Every so often, I run into a claim that some archaeological site aligns with a particular astronomical object, and all too often, everyone d...

The human brain is a pattern-seeking machine. We are evolved to look for correlations, probably because those correlations can be awfully us...

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...

One of the most persistent -- dare I say, canonical -- stories of alien abduction is the tale of Betty and Barney Hill . The gist of the s...

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...

I've always been fascinated with patterns.  Starting with a love for geometric patterns when I was a kid, I remember finding out about t...

I'm sure many of you know about classical conditioning , a feature of learned behavior in which an individual learns to associate two th...