Skeptophilia

An Introduction to Language  (by Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman, Third Edition, 1974) defines language  as "rule-governed arbitrary...

British science historian James Burke has a way of packing a lot of meaning into a small space. I still recall the first time I watched his...

The word creativity  is strangely hard to define. What makes a work "creative?"  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  states t...

I was asked a couple of days ago by a loyal reader of Skeptophilia  if I'd ever heard of  The Backrooms  -- and if so, if I thought ther...

My master's thesis is titled, "The Linguistic Effects of the Viking Invasions on England and Scotland," which should put it in...

Scientists have an undeserved reputation for being dry and humorless. If you doubt the "undeserved" part, consider scientific name...

I know the universe can be a weird place sometimes, but... let's follow Carl Sagan's dictum of looking for a normal and natural expl...