Skeptophilia

I picked up a copy of John Julius Norwich's A Short History of Byzantium  (at almost four hundred pages, it's only short by comparis...

In Paul McCaw's musical comedy The Trumpets of Glory , angels back various causes on Earth as a kind of competitive contest.  Anything f...

I'm currently reading James Burke and Robert Ornstein's book The Axemaker's Gift: Technology's Capture of Our Minds and Cult...

Being in the midst of the holiday season, I'm seeing a lot of people posting about various traditions and rituals and celebrations.  But...

I've spent a lot of time here at Skeptophilia  in the last five years warning about the (many) dangers of artificial intelligence. At th...

My M.A. is in historical linguistics, focusing particularly on northern European languages and how they interacted in (relatively) recent ti...

Beliefs in an afterlife of some sort are pretty ubiquitous.  It's understandable; death is scary, and seems final, and it's natural ...

When Vermont Governor George Aiken was asked in 1966 what should be done about the ongoing military debacle in Vietnam, he famously responde...