“You can be a rooster one day and a feather duster the next” – Frank McManus. By Aaron Dabbah.

Zen and the Glass Block Universe. By Eric Wargo.

Skinwalker is the blanket explanation used by the Ute tribe of northeastern Utah to explain a myriad of frightening, seemingly paranormal events that have occurred in the Uintah Basin for hundreds, if not thousands of years. By Jeremy Corbell.

Looking at depictions of St. Anthony in the paintings of Renaissance masters, the influence of the disease of ergotism on the history of art starts to become clear. By Forrest Muelrath.

The White Lady of the Hohenzollerns. By Aaron Dabbah.

When I was a kid, my Dad taught me all about werewolves. Little did I know he was preparing me to understand his depression. By John Brownlee.

Not one to try at home. By Laila Tyack.

As electricity revolutionized the Western world, some began to admire it for more than just its scientific prospects. By Addison Nugent.

Seeing things that are hidden; failing to see things in plain sight. How magic exploits the everyday weirdness of perception. By Vebjørn Ekroll.

It‘s not that uncommon, but it was hard to figure out how to respond. By Steven Petrow.

Even today, the 1863 edition of the “Dictionnaire Infernal” is the stuff of nightmares. By Eric Grundhauser.

“We are all constantly cheating death” is how I usually translated the Creole phrase that my mother had been casually saying for years. By Edwidge Danticat.

Residents of La Unión, Honduras, say that after a fierce storm, the ground is covered with small fish. “A blessing from God,” one farmer said. By Kirk Semple.

Ancient monuments, clay tablets, paintings, and photographs reveal the power that solar eclipses have had on the imaginations of prehistoric and modern civilizations. By Jen Viegas.

Anxiety over “wind-turbine syndrome” stems from a decades-old misunderstanding of inaudible noise. By Philip Jaekl. (June 19, 2017)

Neuroscience is confirming what Aquinas recognized long ago: Human beings are not purely material. By Michael Egnor.

“I can’t tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house” – Matthew Tobin Anderson. By Aaron Dabbah.

Totality, traffic, telescopes: How ready are you for the event of the century? By Paige Blankenbuehler. (July 7, 2017)

Thousands of years after acupuncture was invented, controversy remains over whether the Chinese traditional medicine technique works. By Angela Chen.

The tale of this monster grew in the telling, but the carnage still left nearly 100 dead