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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...

In case you needed something else to facepalm about, today I stumbled on an article in Vice  about people who are blending AI with religion....

A friend of mine posted a link on social media about how forty percent of Republicans approve of how Donald Trump has handled the whole hor...