Skeptophilia

I remember a while back reading an interesting paper that concluded that dogs have a concept of fairness and morality . There have been a nu...

My fellow author and twin-brudda-from-anudda-mudda Andrew Butters  is one of several people who are always the lookout for cool developments...

I've written here before about the Permian-Triassic Extinction , sometimes nicknamed "the Great Dying."  It occurred 251.9 mil...

There are certain pieces of terrain that are just peculiar. We tend to give them evocative names, because they are evocative; and this ofte...

Despite the fact that she's been dead for over four hundred years, Mary, Queen of Scots remains a controversial and divisive figure amo...

I was listening to tunes while running yesterday afternoon, and Christina Aguilera's beautiful song "Loyal, Brave, and True" (...

A guy is driving through Texas, and passes a barn.  It's got a bullseye painted on the side -- with a bullet hole in the dead center. He...