Skeptophilia

I've long been fascinated by the phenomenon of priming , where our interpretation of a sensory stimulus is altered by what we expected t...

You probably know that there are many languages -- the most commonly-cited are Mandarin and Thai -- that are tonal .  The pitch, and pitch c...

I can think of no more terrifying disorder than locked-in syndrome . Locked-in syndrome, also called a pseudocoma  or cerebromedullospinal d...

Earlier this week I looked at three cool archaeological discoveries -- cave art in Indonesia, and two finds in Egypt, one of a bone from som...