Skeptophilia

Sometimes my mental processes are like a giant exercise in free association. I've always been this way.  My personal motto could be, ...

It's remarkably difficult to decide exactly what we mean when we say something is alive . As a biologist, this is kind of embarrassing...

Coming hard on the heels of yesterday's post about a woman who claims to be descended from Joseph of Arimathea, today we have some actua...

Coming from the Wishful Thinking department, today we have a woman in Murrysville, Pennsylvania who claims she is the Virgin Mary's firs...

When I was about twenty, I stumbled upon the book The Dancing Wu-Li Masters by Gary Zukav.  The book provides a non-mathematical introducti...

Apparently, it's easier than I thought to give your soul to Satan. You don't have to attend a Black Mass, or hold a séance, or eve...

Yesterday I was thinking about issues of empowerment versus despair. I guess it's understandable enough, given our current state of ...