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I've been interested in memory as long as I can remember.  Part of the reason is that my own personal brain seems to be made up of a rat...

I just ran into an article over at Psychology Today  that I thought deserved a close examination. It's by Steve Taylor, senior lectur...

Yesterday, we found out that the president of the United States ordered his lawyer to commit perjury before Congress, and has taken his ...

We're at a dire crossroads, here in the United States, with a president under investigation, foreign and domestic policy decisions being...

People have really weird attitudes toward death. Note that I am not just referring to religious concepts of the afterlife, here, although ...

I got a "what do you think of this?" sort of email from a loyal reader of Skeptophilia  yesterday, along with a link to an article...

After yesterday's post about mysterious explosions in distant galaxies, today I want to look at a colossal explosion that happened much,...