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In my last post, we looked at a wild story illustrating the general principle that once some crazy claim gets out there, it's damn near ...

After fifteen years of writing here at Skeptophilia , one thing that never fails to amaze me is how little it takes to get a crazy claim goi...

I suppose it was a natural progression. First we had AI art, starting out with the innocent-seeming "Show me what I'd look like as ...

In 923 C.E., a massive earthquake -- estimated at magnitude 7.5 -- struck the Pacific Northwest. Marine terraces  -- stairstep-like formatio...

I was chatting with a good friend and long-time reader of Skeptophilia about the difficulties of finding topics to write about six days a w...

Aficionados of Star Trek: The Next Generation  might recall the fourth-season episode "In Theory."  It had to do with the usual te...

One of the reasons I became a speculative fiction novelist is because I love to think about how the world would be if the rules were differe...