Skeptophilia

In 1869, explorer John Wesley Powell did the first systematic study of the geology of the Grand Canyon.  As impressive as it is, the Grand ...

Today, from the "Who Could Have Predicted This Besides Everybody?" department, we have: a study by psychologist David Blanchflower...

"If humans came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" If there is one phrase that makes me want to throw a chair across the ...

Urban legends often have nebulous origins.  As author Jan Harold Brunvand describes in his wonderful book The Choking Doberman and Other Urb...

I've written here before about unusual paleontological discoveries -- illustrations of the fact that Darwin's lovely phrase "ma...

Sometimes I have thoughts that blindside me. The last time that happened was a couple of days ago, while I was working in my office and our ...

Next to the purely religious arguments -- those that boil down to "it's in the Bible, so I believe it" -- the most common obje...