Skeptophilia

As far as scary critters go, you'd have to look hard to find one scarier than the elasmosaurs . If you've never seen an artist...

As part of my research for Skeptophilia , I spend way too much time perusing questionable websites. Not that  kind of questionable.  Get...

Today is my last day as a classroom teacher. We still have finals week yet to go, but for all intents and purposes, this is it.  The last ...

I recently re-read John McPhee's wonderful quartet of books on geology, Basin and Range, Rising from the Plains, In Suspect Terrain , an...

It's a strange thing, identity.  How we see ourselves, how others see us -- and the parts of us we deny, sometimes even to ourselves. ...

As a language geek, the loss of our ability to understand communication from past civilizations always strikes me as tragic. It's wors...

Do you believe in ghosts?  Would you rather not wear any clothes? Do you want to combine the two? Apparently there's a subset of gho...