Skeptophilia

A while back, I wrote about the strange and disheartening research by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter , the upshot of w...

When I lived in Olympia, Washington, I knew a woman who was a professional spinner and weaver.  She made beautiful wearable items as well as...

Ever heard of a tulpa ? I wrote about this (alleged) phenomenon a while back, so long-time readers of Skeptophilia might recall that it is ...

Between December 16, 1811 and February 7, 1812, a series of four earthquakes -- each estimated to be above magnitude 7 -- hit what you might...

Pytheas of Massalia was a Greek polymath who was born in what is now Marseilles, France in around 350 B.C.E., making him a generation young...

I've blogged before about "miraculous thinking" -- the idea that an unlikely occurrence somehow has to be a miracle simply bas...

As of this morning, I have now seen the following post five times: It seems like it should be obvious this can't be true, because if the...