Skeptophilia

In his absolutely terrifying 1904 short story "Oh, Whistle and I'll Come For You, My Lad," British writer M. R. James  tells u...

In his 1967 short story "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne," writer R. A. Lafferty took one of the first looks at something that since...

"Prior to the End-Cretaceous Extinction, mammals were all small and shrew-like, restricted to skulking, scurrying forms because of comp...

In my Latin and Greek classes, I always warned my students to avoid Google Translate. It's not that it's a bad tool, honestly, as lo...

So Dictator-for-Life-elect Donald Trump has started to select his appointees for cabinet and other major government positions, and his choic...

In a study from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , we learn something simultaneously fascinating and alarming; humanity's...

Sometimes I run across a piece of research that is just so charming I have to tell you about it. This particular one comes from the European...