Skeptophilia
Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week
Friday, September 20, 2019
Pitch perfect
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Following up on a post last week about our perception of aesthetics in music, today we look at the question of whether the way our brains in...
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Marsupial menagerie
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One of the most biologically unique spots on Earth is Australia. Besides the fairly familiar suite of marsupial mammals, there are a lot o...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
The most beautiful brain network
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece here at Skeptophilia about some fascinating new research suggesting that there are links between our...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Impulsive art
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It's no surprise to the people who know me that I'm an enthusiast of body art. Well, if it was a surprise, it isn't any more,...
Monday, September 16, 2019
The best of the worst
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It's mid-September, so you know what that means: It's time for this year's Ig Nobel Prizes. The Ig Nobel Prizes celebrate t...
Saturday, September 14, 2019
The illusion of truth
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Because we apparently need one more cognitive bias to challenge our confidence in what we hear on the news on a daily basis, today I'm g...
Friday, September 13, 2019
Life in the shadows
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In Michael Ray Taylor's brilliant1999 book Dark Life , the author looks at some of the strangest forms of life on Earth -- extremophiles...
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