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One of the first things I ever wrote about in this blog was the phenomenon of pareidolia -- because the human brain is wired to recognize f...

One of the (many) things I find fascinating about science is how often research involves crossing the boundaries between disciplines.  Ideas...

Anybody have any ideas about what this is? I've shown a bunch of people, and I've gotten answers from an electron micrograph of a sp...

As a followup to yesterday's post, about my generally dubious take on the claim of a Mexican scientist that he'd discovered fossiliz...

Because my reputation has apparently preceded me, I have now been sent a link five times to a news story about an alleged governmental meeti...

If it hadn't been for a sharp-eyed loyal reader of Skeptophilia , I might well have missed the fact that the Rapture is going to happen ...

As a linguist, one of the things you have to get used to is that languages change. The denial of this basic fact is at the heart of the argu...