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Podcast: Attack of the Sexy Clones
A tangent becomes a tangent when the hosts try to stretch their feeble minds around the global warming, the energy crisis and the singularity (again) after discussing clone sex. Link: Craig Venter at TED on creating synthetic life Link:...
Tips On How Make To Your Christmas A Black Christmas
If you had to select one of Bob Clark’s Christmas movies to incorporate into your annual yuletide festivities, which one would it be? If you said “A Christmas Story,” you’re wrong! It would be “Black Christmas,” Clark’s genre-defining 1974...
Vegetarianism IS MURDER!
Natalie Angier at the New York Times has an interesting article that suggest if your goal in life is to avoid eating other sensitive, feeling communal creatures, going vegan isn’t enough. According to plant biologists, our leafy friends...
A Crowded Multiverse?
In the latest Scientific American theoretical physicists Alejandro Jenkins and Gilad Perez speculate that there might be a greater chance of life developing in other universes with different physical laws and that our own may not be as...
Voynich Decoded?
The Voynich manuscript, a mysterious medieval document that has confounded the best cryptographers for centuries may finally have been cracked. A researcher studying the manuscript suggests that the secret coding may be anagrams created by...
Aww… We Like You Too Michael Rooker
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Science, Philosophy & Tiny Naked Men Who Live In Your Eyeballs
This week, Weird Thing Culture Reporter Matt Finley takes a look at the Homunculus, a strange idea that survived against reason and logic. Monday we looked at how long the idea has been around. Wednesday we found out how science got past...
MIT finally figures out how to build our robot overlords
Gizmodo reports that the brains at MIT have decided to take a new direction for creating Artificial Intelligence. They’ve thrown out some age old assumptions and are considering new alternatives to concepts line the Turing Test. We’re glad...
Weirdest Statue In The World LIVE CHAT
Today We Find The Weirdest Statue In The World At 6 p.m. EST
They serve as markers for the very society that came before us. Reminders of a bygone era in art, industry or culture that resonated on such a level it had to be publicly memorialized. Or someone just had a eff’d up idea and decided to...
Earth the Ice Planet
LiveScience is reporting that the latest core sample data gives more credibility to the scientifically challenged sci-fi movie The Day After Tomorrow‘s rapid freezing scenario. Except we suspect they didn’t actually see the movie because...
Podcast: Dark Territory/White Meat
In this episode Brian is forced to make a choice involving cannibalism and his family and utters the phrase that will haunt his children for years to come, “Cannibalism ain’t as bad as it used to be”. Andrew struggles to explain the...
Singularity 101
So what is the Singularity? Check out Ray Kurzweil’s TED talks to get a jump start. Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s,...
Weirdest Commercial In The World LIVE CHAT, Watch Now!
Today We Find The Weirdest Commercial In The World
Face it folks, they pay the bills for your favorite entertainment. All they ask is you metaphorically cement your butt to your couch and keep your itchy DVR finger at bay while they explain why you should spend your money with them. But...
New Evidence for Life on the Martian Meteorite
According to Spaceflight Now, NASA researchers are about to release new evidence that a Martian meteorite shows evidence for life. The research team originally announced the discovery of the meteorite back in 1996. There was a lot of...
Kecksburg UFO: Case Closed?
Is the story finally over for the Kecksburg UFO case? A lawsuit against NASA and an attempt to use the Freedom of Information Act has left UFO researchers as frustrated as ever. Check out the story on Space.com: SPACE.com — Is Case Finally...
Weirdest Book In The World LIVE CHAT
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We Find The Weirdest Book In The World Today At 5:30 P.M. EST
To be honest, I’ve never been a book worm. Sure, there is the odd tome or two that’s captured the imagination but rarely are we moved to cozy up and lose myself into a story. I guess I’m just on the hunt for something more. So brush up on...
Are We Next Door to Another Universe?
According to NewScientist, Researchers examining the data from 1000 galaxy clusters streaming in one direction are puzzled by what is causing this. One interpretation of the data suggests that we’re looking at the effect of a neighboring...