Skeptophilia

I was raised in a devoutly Roman Catholic home, but after spending my teenage years with question after question bubbling up inside me, I le...

Some years ago, as part of the research I did while writing my novel Sephirot , I purchased a copy of Richard Cavendish's book The Black...

One of the things we noticed on our tour of southern Europe -- not that it was any kind of surprise -- was the omnipresence of churches. The...

The drive to adorn our bodies is pretty close to universal. Clothing, for example, serves the triple purpose of protecting our skin, keeping...

Last week, Switzerland opened the Gotthard Base Tunnel , which at 57 kilometers is the longest underground traffic tunnel in the world.  The...