Skeptophilia

In Shirley Jackson's eerie gothic novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle,  the main character -- an eighteen-year-old named Merricat B...

When I was little, I had a near-obsession with figuring out whether things were real. I remember pestering my mom over and over, because I f...

A lot of the time, I'm hopeful about humanity, convinced that we have sufficient intelligence and compassion to figure out, and ultimate...

There's an old quip that there are lies, damned lies, and then there's statistics. I'm not saying it doesn't have its uses, ...

In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle , a scientist develops a polymorph of ice with a very strange property. Unlike ordinary ice, t...

I'm currently reading James Burke and Robert Ornstein's book The Axemaker's Gift: Technology's Capture of Our Minds and Cult...

Is it just me, or has the quality of the conspiracy theories really been dropping off lately? I mean, back in the day, you had your Moon-lan...