Skeptophilia

On the 26th of May, 1828, a strange teenage boy showed up on the streets of Nuremberg, Germany.  He was dirty and wore tattered clothing, an...

If you needed more evidence that we're living in surreal times, some scientists have collaborated with the Tourism Board of Lexington, K...

In many people, there's a deep-seated need to find a reason for the bad things that happen in the world. Well, of course, there always a...

If there's one thing I've learned from my forty-plus years of dabbling in science, it's that the universe is a weird and complex...

Some years ago, I injured my left knee doing martial arts, and a couple of weeks later found myself inside an MRI machine.  The technician, ...

I just finished reading The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization  by Brian M. Fagan, and what struck me over and over again was an ...

Today's topic falls into the category of "The More You Think About It, The Weirder It Gets," and comes to us courtesy of my wr...