Skeptophilia

Halloween, of course, always brings out our deeply buried, most primitive fears.  With its millenium-old history of development from the Cel...

So now all the woo-woos of the world are celebrating the "smoking gun" which finally proves that time travelers are real -- that p...

I've been considering the phenomenon of the lexical gap -- a concept for which no word exists.  For example:  what's the word for so...

Recently I have begun rereading the first four books by the enigmatic author Carlos Castañeda.  It is a bit of a mystery even to myself why ...

Every so often, I think that I have plumbed the deepest recesses of human credulousness.  At those moments, all the sasquatches, hauntings, ...

Imagine my dismay when I read yesterday that a new study has shown that the world is probably not going to end on December 21, 2012. Mysel...

New from the News You'll Think I'm Making Up But I'm Not department, officials at the Vatican have declared that after some year...