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New Star Wars Themed Snowboard Park Will Train Padawans to Shred
Younglings and hardened Jedis alike will have a chance to hit the slopes Star Wars style when a new 2,000 acre SW-themed snowboard park opens. The park will specialize in teaching kids as young as three the essentials of boarding. And the...
Satan, Santa, and Zombies: Search Patterns Revealed
The University of Oxford’s Internet Institute has analyzed Google search patterns and discovered that there are places in the United States where there are more people searching for zombies and satan than for Santa Claus. “a few pockets...
Foo Fighters Rock So Hard They Cause Recognizable Tremors
A Foo Fighters concert in New Zealand generated geologic activity consistent with volcanic activity. With the power of rock. According to the GeoNet blog, “the biggest shakes started at 8:20 p.m. when the Foo Fighters took the stage, and...
How Much Neanderthal Do You Have in You? Prove it!
23 and Me, the genetics company offering to break down and explain customers DNA using only a spit sample is now allows you to check for another variable. Exactly how much Neanderthal DNA do you have in you? The lab, developed by one of...
Podcast: Sasquatch Rebuked
Andrew sheds light on a brilliant, real life team-up between some of the most brilliant minds of our age. Brian comes ever closer to his life goal of hanging out in space, without have to clip coupons alongside his castle-dwelling...
Hitch on Wine
When a someone truly great dies, everyone talks about how it relates to them. A testimony. As if to say, you could discount everything else about them, but I know my life was changed and here is how. You will see many, many people write...
Man Fends Off Taser with Light Saber After Toys R Us Rampage
A rogue shopper assaulted several with a replica light saber on Wednesday at an Oregon Toys R Us. After being chased into the parking lot and fending off responding officers with his trusty weapon, police decided to employ a taser....
One Mile Offshore – Deer Board Boat, Avoid Drowning
This awesome wildlife rescue happened back in October, 2010 in Taku Inlet near Juneau, Alaska. Alaska Quest Charters was crossing the inlet when four deer approached the boat about a mile offshore. The struggling animals were brought...
Insane Hockey Goalie Explains the Universe, Lethal Chinese Hunting Restrictions
HBO’s suburb hockey documentary series 24/7 debuted last night. It will cover the behind the scenes action of the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers in the lead up to their outdoor game on New Year’s Day. But the real star of the...
Humans Have Better Sense of Smell than Neanderthals
Studies of the similar sized, but differently shaped brains of humans and Neanderthals have revealed one key difference. Our sense of smell is more accurate and intense. So was reality different for our genetic cousins? Before you dismiss...
Mormon Columnist: Bigfoot is Really Cain from the Bible
Is the crypto creature known as Bigfoot really a religious icon doomed to walk the Earth for his sins? What could possibly doom one man to such a hell? What if I told you that man was Cain. He who killed Able. Son to Adam and Eve. Maybe...
Paul Allen, Burt Rutan Team to Launch Rockets from Gigantic 1.2 Million Lb. Plane
UPDATE: Two key points missed in the initial post. First, this will indeed the largest plane ever built. Second, the rockets launched into orbit will be built by Weird Things darlings SpaceX. Paul Allen and Burt Rutan have teamed up once...
Lizard Plays Video Game, Crushes It
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World’s Smallest Frogs Found
If you were on the hunt for the world’s smallest frogs, you better get to New Guinea. Field work by researcher Fred Kraus from Bishop Museum, Honolulu has found the world’s smallest frogs in southeastern New Guinea. This also makes them...
Higgs Boson Explained Using Fat Man in a Pool Metaphor
The Higgs Boson is big news today. We found it. We are close to finding it. We have surrounded it are are now waiting for a list of it’s demands. But if you’re someone who has no idea what a hell a Higgs Boson is, how are you supposed to...
As Private Space Exploration Dawns, NASA Launches Online Radio Station
NASA has officially launched Third Rock: America’s Space Station. It’s also happy to report that they’re only slightly over their $400,000 budget to play a Kings of Leon rock block in the three o’ clock hour. The second part isn’t true....
You Will Believe a Fish Can Walk
He’s no Muddy Mudskipper, but this African lungfish is shown walking on his fins in this video. You know what they say, you have to crawl before you walk and walk before you climb from the water and murder the land dwelling mammals above...
I Know Kung-Fu: Super Fast, Unconscious Matrix-Style Learning Possible
New research out of Boston University and the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan suggests that the kind of super-fast “information upload” style learning upgrades imagined in the Matrix films could be a reality....
Oscar the Octopus Defeats “Two-Ton” Tony
We are roughly 66 years late reporting on this decision, but considering our recent fascination with octopi here at Weird Things, we figured you’d find it relevant. This photo, commemorating the day that Oscar the Octopus beat the burly...
Google Founders Offer to Save Historic Hangar One if They Can Store Private Jets Fleet There
As of now NASA’s historic Hangar One will be destroyed. Victim of a budget cut. One of the largest free standing structures in the world and historic landmark in the aviation history of this country will be completely demolished and lost...