Skeptophilia

Spartacus was a Thracian slave and gladiator, born in around 103 B.C.E. in what is now Bulgaria, about whose early years (despite several m...

One of the more horrifying stories from my home state of Louisiana is the more-or-less true tale of Madame Delphine Macarty LaLaurie . I qua...

The field of forensic anthropology has made amazing strides in the past decades.  Fifty years ago, about all we could count on was identific...

One of the problems with biblical literalism is that the bible has some pretty awful and bloodthirsty bits.  It's been observed more tha...

Is it just me, or do a lot of high-profile members of the evangelical wing of Christianity seem to have lost their minds lately? I mean, i...

When I hear people make ridiculous and deliberately inflammatory statements, sometimes I have to resist the temptation to grab them by the s...