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Let me start out by saying that what you're about to read is in no way meant to be critical of scientists in general, nor the entire sci...

A loyal reader of Skeptophilia  asked me what I knew about a strange geological oddity called " Klerksdorp spheres ," which are ro...

The environmentalists tell us "extinction is forever," and that certainly seems unarguable.  Once a species is lost, evolution wil...

A post I did a couple of weeks ago , about my view that creativity is a relationship (and thus inherently subjective, in the sense that each...

Ready for a strange story, that has a curious connection to yesterday's post, about doorways and liminal spaces? Let's start with H....

There's something about doors that is magical. They're portals from one room to another or from the inside of a house to the outside...

A point I've made here at Skeptophilia  more than once is that I don't automatically  disbelieve  in anyone's claim of having a ...