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In linguistics, there's a bit of a line in the sand drawn between the descriptivists and the prescriptivists .  The former believe that...

Three of the most vexing problems in physics -- and ones I've hit on a number of times here at Skeptophilia  -- are: dark matter -- the...

About two months ago I signed up with Duolingo to study Japanese. I've been fascinated with Japan and the Japanese culture pretty much a...

A while back, my wife and I were lucky enough to have the opportunity to visit the lovely island of Puerto Rico.  On the way there, Carol as...

An inevitable side-effect of writing six times a week here at Skeptophilia is that I get some weird gifts sometimes. This explains why I am...

I want you to recall something simple.  A few to choose from: your own middle name the street you grew up on your best friend in elementary ...

My novel In the Midst of Lions ,  the first of a trilogy, has a character named Anderson Quaice, who is a linguistics professor.  He also ha...