Skeptophilia

British science historian James Burke has a way of packing a lot of meaning into a small space. I still recall the first time I watched his...

There's an unfortunate but natural tendency for us to assume that because something is done a particular way in the culture we were rais...

When you think about it, writing is pretty weird. Honestly, language in general is odd enough.  Unlike (as far as we know for sure) any othe...

My fascination with languages goes back a very long way.  I was raised bilingual -- French was my mother's first language, and all of he...

I've always been in awe of cryptographers. I've read a bit about the work British computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing ...

Sometimes I need to tell y'all about a new discovery not because it's weird or controversial, but simply because it's cool. I ow...

There's an unfortunate but natural tendency for us to assume that because something is done a particular way in the culture we were rais...