Natural Anomaly
5 posts
Experience the McGurk Effect: Like Weird Magic
The McGurk effect is something that you’ll just have to hit play on the video above to experience. It’s like some weird magic trick and the secret is that your brain, eyes and ears have to work together to make things understandable. But...
BOOM! Possible Supernova Recorded in 774AD
Centuries ago, in AD 774, some guy in Britain is keeping a written record of life’s goings-on. In that year he mentions witnessing something strange…a weird “red crucifix” hanging in the sky. Fling yourself forward in time. Researchers are...
Silver Lining To Recent Flood Victims, It Could Have Been A Megaflood
With all the talk of flooding in Tennessee, it helps to look back into history to gain perspective. After all, at least it wasn’t the megaflood that completely redefined that Alaskan landscape 15,000 years ago. One of at least four...
Making Star Trek Possible: The Humanoid Problem
A five-part series that tries to explain how to make the science of Star Trek real… In an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation called the “The Chase” a long running problem in Star Trek was finally solved – Why do all the aliens in...
Chicago’s Mysterious Bubbling Creek
Bubbly Creek looks placid enough in the photo above, but its shallow depths hold a gruesome secret. This small section of the Chicago River was named Bubbly Creek because of the bubbling gas coming off the riverbed below that has been...