Neuroscientist Christof Koch has just published an interesting article in Scientific American on near-death experiences. It is when Koch addresses some of the neuroscience attempts to explain NDEs that his discussion goes off the rails.

Free will is a devilish problem — for materialists. Dualists have no similar difficulty; they assume that some aspects of the mind, such as intellect and will, are immaterial and thus not determined by matter. This belief in libertarian free will is common across cultures and is correct.

Released in April, Fifth Kind is a documentary starring Stephen Greer (the man, the myth, and the legend in the UFO believer community). With so many stories of UFO encounters, personal visitations, abductions, and so on, the UFO community has always fascinated me. Who believes in UFOs and who are the people who claim to have experiences with them?

Is it really true that, as a recent column in a psychology magazine claims, women are more likely to cheat during the COVID-19 crisis? An evolutionary psychologist thinks so; let’s explore this a bit.

Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviewed Thomas Furness, an engineer who wanted American fighter pilots to be able to see what was really happening around them in the air. It seemed that they needed virtual reality to do it. And that’s how the technology that powers so many computer games today got started.