Author: Roger

  • Quantum Entanglement in Your Brain Is What Generates Consciousness, Radical Study Suggests

    Quantum Entanglement in Your Brain Is What Generates Consciousness, Radical Study Suggests

    This controversial idea could completely change how we understand the mind. gremlin//Getty Images It has long been argued that the human brain is similar to a computer. But in reality, that’s selling the brain pretty short. While comparing neurons and transistors is a convenient metaphor (and not completely out of left field), the brain…

  • Your Consciousness Can Connect With the Whole Universe, Groundbreaking New Research Suggests

    Your Consciousness Can Connect With the Whole Universe, Groundbreaking New Research Suggests

    This latest clue about the architecture of consciousness supports a Nobel-Prize winner’s theory about how quantum physics works in your brain. A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness. To pull…

  • This Quantum Paradox Shows We’re Not Real.

    This Quantum Paradox Shows We’re Not Real.

    Well, not “locally real,” at least. Yuichiro Chino//Getty Images For over 100 years now, quantum mechanics has rattled the cage of everything we’ve believed we know about physics. Is everything just made of wiggles and waves if you look close enough? How far can one entanglement be stretched—is it long enough to…

  • Five English Witch-Haunts: Witches & English Mythology

    Five English Witch-Haunts: Witches & English Mythology

    English myth is a curious being. Compared to, say, that of Ancient Greece, which gives origin stories to real-life flora and fauna from across the world, our tales often involve more local variations. Nowhere is this clearer than in a huge sub-part of English myth: folklore, the traditional beliefs and…

  • The Pendle Witch Trial of 1612

    The Pendle Witch Trial of 1612

    At the assizes at Lancaster in the autumn of 1612, twenty persons, of whom sixteen were women of various ages, were committed for trial, and most of them tried for witchcraft. Their names were: Margaret Pearson was tried 1st for murder by witchcraft; 2nd for bewitching a neighbour; 3rd for bewitching…

  • How Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Defined the Genre

    How Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Defined the Genre

    Their account, recovered with the help of hypnosis, detailed extensive medical exams, including a crude pregnancy test. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Is it chasing us? That thought coursed through Betty and Barney Hill’s minds as they drove down the empty winding country road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. It was a September…

  • Travis Walton – An Ordinary Day

    Travis Walton – An Ordinary Day

    By Travis Walton Condensed from the book Fire in the Sky It was the morning of Wednesday, November 5, 1975. To us, the seven men working in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, it was an ordinary workday. There was nothing in that sunny fall morning to foreshadow the tremendous fear, shock, and confusion…

  • The Phoenix Lights, 1997, Arizona

    The Phoenix Lights, 1997, Arizona

    The Evidence UFO researchers and writers today are tantalized by the increasing reports of alien abduction, possible photographs of alien beings, physical trace cases, and implant removals. In a way we have become spoiled-expecting the sensational. This desire for ultimate proof has caused us to overlook the seemingly mundane, everyday…

  • The Roswell UFO Incident Story 

    The Roswell UFO Incident Story 

    Like all good UFO stories, there is always the event that triggered the imagination.  The Roswell story is no exception. Below is a brief synopsis of what took place back in 1947. It all started on June 25th, 1947 when a pilot named Kenneth Arnold reported seeing several objects while flying…

  • 21 Facts About The Unresolved UFO Incident at Rendlesham Forest

    21 Facts About The Unresolved UFO Incident at Rendlesham Forest

    The mystery, dubbed “Britain’s Roswell”, is still keenly debated by UFO enthusiasts and skeptics alike. Hints of a government coverup, compelling eyewitness accounts from airforce officials, a spacecraft purportedly hovering through trees and landing; the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident has it all when it comes to instances of the unexplained. Here’s…