Skeptophilia

Have you ever heard of Mrs. Tottenham, of 54 Berners Street, Westminster, London, England? I'm guessing probably not.  At least I hadn...

Richard Feynman famously said, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool."...

After Thursday's post about nonexistent islands, a loyal reader of Skeptophilia  asked me if I'd ever heard of the country of Listen...

In my Latin and Greek classes, I always warned my students to avoid Google Translate. It's not that it's a bad tool, honestly, as lo...

Mice are kind of ubiquitous, and it's easy to think of them as all being pretty much the same, but the family they comprise -- Muridae ...

Eminent astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson made a trenchant and amusing observation apropos of people who see something moving across the ni...

Back when I was a teacher, I was often the first person to arrive at the high school in the morning.  Not only am I a morning person, but it...

In my Latin and Greek classes, I always warn my students to avoid Google Translate. It's not that it's a bad tool, honestly, as lo...

A couple of days ago, we had the conspiracy theory on the part of the pro-Trump side of things that moderator Lester Holt had thrown the deb...