Skeptophilia

One of the features of linguistics I find the most interesting is regional accents. Americans are usually aware of this phenomenon apropos o...

Depression is, at its heart, a completely irrational condition. One of the (many) therapists I've seen during my life told me that the w...

Today's post asks a question not because I'm trying to lead you toward a particular answer, but because I honestly don't know th...

In the Doctor Who episode "The Hungry Earth," a scientist named Nasreen Chaudhry is trying to break the previous record for deep d...

I really am extraordinarily lucky. Following the breakup of my (all things considered) disaster of a first marriage, I had pretty much figur...

Self-proclaimed psychics hated   James Randi , the venerable debunker of all things paranormal, who died in October 2020 at the honorable ag...

Seems like for each of the last few years, we've said, "Well, at least next year can't be as bad as this year was!"  Then,...