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Study: Single Psychedelic Mushroom Creates Personality Change Lasting Up To 1 Year
If you’ve used hallucinogenic mushrooms (active ingredient psilocybin) in the past year, you could still be feeling the effect. Long past peaking, 60% of participants in a Johns Hopkins study found a marked rise in openness a far as a year...
SpaceX Announces Radically Cheaper Spaceflight
At a National Press Club luncheon today, Elon Musk, head of SpaceX announced plans for a reusable rocket that could dramatically lower the cost of going into space by a factor of 100. By amortizing the hardware costs over a lifespan of...
SpaceX Reveals Images of Next Generation Spacecraft
Along with announcement for an Elon Musk appearance at the National Press Club, SpaceX revealed new conceptual images laying out their vision for the future of spaceflight. One image gives us our first look at what is probably the...
SpaceX to Launch Vertical Take-off and Landing “Grasshopper” Rocket
Those ambitious folks at SpaceX aren’t going to let American enterprise sit out the new space race. They’ve requested permission to test out a vertical take-off and landing rocket system at their test site in McGregor, Texas. Although...
First Irish Case Of Spontaneous Combustion Confirmed
Welcome to the big leagues Ireland. You’ve just confirmed your first ever case of spontaneous human combustion! The pioneer went by the name Michael Faherty, he was 76. “This fire was thoroughly investigated and I’m left with the...
Is This The Biggest Snake In The World?
Wrangled by a man in overalls, friends with people in devil costumes, ladies and gentleman: Medusa, the world’s largest snake.
First Enlistment: War for Profit Part One [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail Imagine a world a millennia from our current...
Podcast: Badassic Park Featuring Hitler & The Chocolate Factory
A feral child in the woods of Germany lead the Gang into a rousing conversation that eventually ends with Hitler running a magical chocolate factory. Brian is tasked with stocking a new theme park with the most deadly animals on the...
Insane Slow-Motion Sky Diving
Experience Human Flight from Betty Wants In on Vimeo.
A Compilation Of Dan Aykroyd’s Fascination With UFO Research
Ghostbuster, Blues Brother, UFOlogy advocate: Dan Aykroyd. The comedic titan has remolded himself in recent years as not only a hawker of Crystal Head vodka but a celebrity endorser of UFO research. What follows is a brief tour trough...
Thermals [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail If you are looking for intriguing...
SPICE World: Artificial Volcanos Could Help Cool The Planet
Without delving into the debate on how it’s happening, most reasonable people can agree the world is getting warmer. If we want it cooler, we are going to have to do something about it. Sure, we could all drive electric cars to our...
Meteor? UFO? Transformer? What Was In The Sky Over The American Southwest Last Night?
A sudden bright spot in the night changed colors from blue to orange before streaking across the sky and disappearing has caused hysteria amongst residents in California, Arizona and beyond. While many scientists are pegging the light show...
Everything You’d Like To Know About Pet Mummification
Glow In The Dark Kitties
Glowing cats – I want one. [Mirror]
The Old Man and the Waste Land [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail It’s not often that a book brings me to...
How to Succeed in Evil [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail Even evil villains need help, and when they...
Flying Cars, Death Rays & Killer Robots: Fact Checking The Future Promised By The 1950s
In the post World War II era the future seemed like a wonderful place full of atomic-powered wonders. A Future World unspoiled by pollution, radiation or flower children. Lets examine the promises and realities of that vision of the Past’s...
Man Retaliates Against Beehive
What would you do if a bee stung one of your friends while he was visiting your house? Would you shrug it off and continue enjoying the day? Would you grab a can of Raid or a water hose and extract some minor vengeance? Or would you pump...
Did Hurricane Irene Wash Up Another Long Island Monster?
We rate this mystery somewhere between a mystic, regal hybrid of manatee and wild boar at it’s most compelling and the corpse of a bloated, dead dog at it’s most depressing. Either way, something really gross washed up on the shores of...