Skeptophilia

Something that really grinds my gears is how quick people can be to trumpet their own ignorance, seemingly with pride. I recall being in a s...

Any cat owners amongst my readers will undoubtedly know about the strange propensity of cats to climb into boxes.  Apparently it works for c...

The southern tip of mainland Italy is called Calabria.  It's a strikingly beautiful place, containing three national parks ( Pollino Nat...

You may have heard that a 54-year-old paranormal investigator named Dan Rivera died a few days ago while on tour with a supposedly possesse...

One of the most curious features of evolutionary biology is the cui bono principle . Cui bono?  is Latin for "who benefits?" and i...

In my Critical Thinking classes, I did a unit on statistics and data, and how you tell if a measurement is worth paying attention to.  One o...

I find human behavior absolutely baffling a lot of the time. I've spent a significant fraction of my life thinking, "Why did (s)he ...