Skeptophilia

In the menagerie of weird creatures from urban legends we have such entities as the Men in Black, Slender Man, the Black-eyed Children, not ...

When I was in my twenties, my parents got into watching the television series Cops . Me, I never could see the draw.  The plot was the same ...

As I write this, large chunks of the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, M...

I hate it when popular media reports on science stories with headlines like, "New Discovery Has Researchers Stumped!" and "Th...

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about the brilliant and tragic British mathematician, cryptographer, and computer scientist Alan Turi...

I was cleaning up my garage a while back, and I found this. There are two holes on the squared-off lower edge, so it was evidently meant to ...

I am blessed with a good innate sense of rhythm. I've always felt rhythms in my body; I never had to struggle to keep the beat while pla...