Skeptophilia

As an avid birdwatcher, I've learned many of the vocalizations of our local species.  Some, especially the migratory species we only hea...

Yesterday over at The Anomalist , a website I frequent that acts as a sort of clearinghouse for News of the Weird, I ran into a link to a po...

There's something about the mysterious that invites attention.  Curiosity is built into the human mind; it's just not in us to say ...

It's often difficult to look at other cultures, especially ones in the distant past, in a dispassionate way, without making value judgme...

There's long been an association between creativity and mental illness.  Certainly there's plenty of anecdotal evidence -- people li...

Contrary to what the medieval church wanted you to believe, the Earth is in constant motion. They went to enormous lengths to stand by the p...

If I asked you to name the deadliest single-event natural disaster to strike the western half of the United States in recorded history, what...