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The difficulty with paleontology is its inherent limitations. There are, of course, things it's very good at.  In the hands of a skilled...

I've spent a lot of time here at Skeptophilia  in the last five years warning about the (many) dangers of artificial intelligence. At th...

Sometimes, with folk tales, you can pinpoint exactly when a legend entered the public awareness.  Someone writes and publishes a story in on...

How many languages are there in the world? Seems like it should be an easy question, right?  Not so much.  Just like the issue of biological...

Here in the United States we're celebrating Thanksgiving today.  It's a day a lot of folks think about their heritage, and the weird...

As hard as it may be to imagine, dogs -- yes, all of them -- are the domesticated descendants of gray wolves. Well, it's hard for me  to...

In the past week I've experienced a couple of strange synchronicities.  In the first, I was talking with a friend about the strange Swed...