Skeptophilia

In his famous dialogue Phaedrus,  Plato puts the following words in Socrates's mouth: If men learn [writing], it will implant forgetfu...

A couple of days ago, a friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link, and asked, "What would an introvert make of this?...

I find the human mind baffling, not least because the way it is built virtually guarantees that the most logical, rational, and dispassionat...

There's apparently a evolutionary significance to kissing.  Who knew?  I'm an evolutionary biologist by background, and I didn...