Skeptophilia

Do you want to learn a new skill?  Something that will make you super popular at parties? Do I have an opportunity for you. I found a site t...

Some of you may have seen the piece done on 60 Minutes  a few days ago about UAPs -- unidentified aerial phenomena -- which most of us call ...

Let me ask you a hypothetical question. You're over on Twitter, and you post a link making a political claim of some sort.  Shortly ther...

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation  episode "Night Terrors," the ship gets trapped in a phenomenon called "Tyken's Rif...

In her phenomenal TED talk " On Being Wrong ," journalist Kathryn Schulz says, "[W]e all kind of wind up traveling through li...

I've long been fascinated with communication network theory -- the model that maps out the rules behind the spread of information (and i...

Every once in a while, the targeted-ad software that decides which advertisement to paste to which website screws up, and you'll see som...