Skeptophilia

Yesterday's post, about the remarkable similarities between mythological gods and goddesses in cultures widely separated in space and ti...

My M.A. is in historical linguistics, focusing particularly on northern European languages and how they interacted in (relatively) recent ti...

Beliefs in an afterlife of some sort are pretty ubiquitous.  It's understandable; death is scary, and seems final, and it's natural ...

I've written here before about the tragedy of lost books -- and that prior to the invention of the printing press, the great likelihood...

In general, I always cringe a little when I see that a scientific study has been called into question. These days, especially in the United ...

A paper this week in the Journal of Holography Applications in Physics  left me scratching my head. To get why it's so puzzling -- and w...

I may have many faults, but one thing I try my damnedest not to do is to spout off on topics about which I am clearly ignorant. That determi...