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NOAA Study Ends Mermaid Fairytales
You can all rest easy now. NOAA, a government body that apparently has a lot of time on their hands, have recently laid to rest the idea that mermaids might actually exist. According to NOAA? They don’t. Thanks, NOAA…you’ve single-handedly...
Podcast: Unicorn vs. Pegasus
We turn it over to listener questions for this July 4th edition of the podcast. Who would win in a fight: a Unicorn or a Pegasus? If you could live forever and but a stranger had to die, would you? Is there a mega shark lurking beneath the...
Apocalyptic Chic: ‘Ghost Cities’
Like some kind of massive, uber-budgeted, city-wide set of a Ridley Scott film that takes place after the fall of mankind, several cities built by China are almost completely devoid of life. What’s even stranger is that these massive...
WeirdThings Tracking Zombie/Cannibal Activity World-Wide
Grab your shovels, shotguns and a copy of Zombieland, kids…we’re just gettin’ started. Here’s your cannibal/zombie update for the July 4th holiday: United States – In Georgia, Karl Laventure consumes everyone’s favorite new synthetic...
Cat’s Litterbox Causes Suicidal Tendencies!
Feeling a little down lately? Maybe even depressed? Possibly eyeballing that extension cord in the garage and just thinking the world might be better off without you? Own a cat? Then it’s really not you. You’re worthwhile. Stick around and...
Weird Things Recording 7/2/12
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“Bone Devourer” Worm Disolves Bone By Puking Acid!
It’s like Ridley Scott had a hand in designing worms. Those dainty little flower-like objects in the picture above are anything but dainty little flower-like objects. Those things are worms of the Osedax (Latin for “bone devourer”) family...
Meet Your New Running Partner – Joggobot!
Jogging just got potentially exciting. Meet the Joggobot, a small quadcopter drone, from Exertion Labs. Running around town with your own drone is kinda nerdy…running around town with about four or five of these hovering around you?...
You See Red, I See Blue: New Study Says Color Perception Not Set, Can Be Changed
Our perception of the world around us could be very different than the person next to you. In extreme cases it could mean the luscious red strawberry could look like a bulbous blueberry to someone else. Even more mind altering, results of...
Paper Copy of 122 Year-Old Record Played Back!
In an awesome case of 1890s cutting-edge tech meeting modern technology, sound historian (yes…that’s a job) at Indiana University, Patrick Feaster, has done something amazingly nerdy and fantastic. While looking for an illustration of the...
Meteorites Reveal More Water on Mars Than Thought!
Science can’t seem to make up its mind about Mars. Over one hundred years ago, scientists thought that Mars ran wild with water. Many decades later, scientists discovered they were wrong and that the planet may have once had water but was...
Mother Nature Creates Giger-Inspired Wasp!
Let’s imagine Mother Nature wanted to create a wasp to remind us that she’s still very much in charge of things. Let’s say she’s been looking at a lot of HR Giger’s work for inspiration. Now let’s say that she’s already finished it and...
Man’s Best Friend Not Safe From ‘Zombie’ Attacks!
Eventually it’s going to stop, right? The zombie-style incidents? They’ll come to an end before we all end up eating one another, won’t they? Not any time soon, people. Not only will they not stop but they’re already getting tired of the...
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...
Podcast: Ferret Cooties
Brian stumbles into his new infant child’s room only to find a bloody mystery involving a deadly animal and a hidden menace. Andrew reassures the listeners that the labs producing the most deadly diseases on the planet are being kept...
Military Weaponizes Lightning! Hell Yeah!
Here’s your ‘Hell Yeah!’ moment of the week! If you enjoy phrases like “a device that shoots laser bolts” or “50 billion watts of optical power” you may want to continue reading about how the military is weaponizing lightning with a device...
HYSTERIA ALERT: Human Blood Still Has More Alcohol than Soda
The UK’s Daily Mail is breathlessly reporting that leading soft drinks including Coca-Cola and Pepsi contain trace amounts of alcohol. What ramifications should this have for teetotallers and people who abstain for drinking for religious...
Besties Forever: Woman and Cow Found Buried Together
During the excavation of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Cambridgeshire, archaeologists have discovered the last resting place of a woman and her….cow? University students who uncovered the find first thought the animal was a horse since men...
[Video] Man vs Robot at Rocks Paper Scissors.
News about this Rock Paper Scissors-playing robotic hand has been buzzing because people seem to think it’s novel and cute. Mocking the slow reflexes of humankind is not novel and not cute. This is more like a total dig and a little kid...
33 Pound Tumor Removed from 26 Pound Boy
During a 10 hour surgery, doctors at Mexico City’s La Raza Medical Center removed a 33 pound tumor from 26 pound two-year-old Jesus Gabriel. Gabriel was born with a small, benign lump on his right side that grew faster than he did and...