Skeptophilia

In today's News of the Surreal, we have: the Vatican is tightening the rules on what it's willing to call divine supernatural phenom...

If you ever think we've discovered just about everything there is out there to discover, consider the story I found out about from my ea...

American economist Thomas Sowell famously said, "Endless repetition does not make something true." I used to run into examples of...

In the New Research That Sounds Crazy But Isn't department, we have: an inquiry into whether the universe is actually shaped like a donu...

One of the most brilliant and startlingly original composers who ever lived was Ludwig van Beethoven . He was capable of deep, stirring path...

In John Neufeld's novel Sleep, Two, Three, Four! ,  the United States has become a fascist dictatorship, run by President Wagenson, who ...

One of the things we noticed on our tour of southern Europe -- not that it was any kind of surprise -- was the omnipresence of churches. The...