Skeptophilia

One of the things I love about science is how it provides answers to questions that are so ordinary that few of us appreciate how strange th...

I don't know if you've ever considered what I'm about to describe; I know I had to have it pointed out to me. Let's say you...

Our ability to perceive color is, when you think about it, a peculiar thing. First, there's the rather hackneyed question of whether we ...

Eminent astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson was talking about the unreliability of the human sensory-perceptive system -- how, despite our c...

After yesterday's rather humbling post about how easy it is to fool the human senses, today we get knocked down another peg or two with ...

Sometimes there's a discovery that's just so cool that I need to tell y'all about it.  It's not apropos of much except that ...

Perception is such a mystery. Neuroscientist David Eagleman, in his brilliant TED talk " Can We Create New Senses For Humans? ",...

I was making dinner last week, and the recipe called for soy sauce.  I knew we had a bottle of it -- and I was pretty sure it was somewhere ...

One of the critical functions of our brain, and one that we don't often think about, is its ability to determine quickly what stimuli ar...