Clowns have a habit of terrifying many of us. So why shouldn't we be surprised to see mass clown panics?

Today marks the 1000th Skeptoid episode. And it's time to raise the question: What are you going to do for it?

Medieval tales of walking corpses reflect common misunderstandings of death and the era's blurred line between myth and reality.

What began as 19th-century mind-cure mysticism has morphed into a billion-dollar culture that may be hurting more minds than it helps.

Using real science to investigate the question of whether some people can "hear" the aurora.

The 1928 murder of a folk healer ignited a media frenzy and moral panic, revealing how superstition and magical thinking can fuel real-world tragedy.

We’re sharing a preview of a new audiobook, Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth, which celebrates the wit and wisdom of the legendary science fiction author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Douglas Adams was someone who thought deeply about the biggest problems in the world, from the internet, to artificial intelligence, to space exploration, politics, and conservation—he was a sharp critic and a profoundly disruptive thinker of the way we do things. Written and narrated by Arvind Ethan David, Adams’ former protégé, this one-of-a-kind audiobook includes rare archival material from the Adams Estate, interviews with Adams’ personal friends like Griff Rhys Jones and David Baddiel, and reenactments of his work to form an immersive journey through the mind of one of the most visionary writers of our time. Get Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth now at Audible, Spotify, pushkin.fm/audiobooks, or wherever audiobooks are sold.

Is there good science backing up the idea that you should eat based upon which of three body types you have?

Will our improvements to AI's voracious appetite for electricity keep pace with the exploding demand?

Do you really need to pay quite so much attention to which foods you eat, and which you avoid?