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UFO Conspiracy Killed John F. Kennedy & Marilyn Monroe?
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Birds Eat Leftover McDonalds, Leave Entire Upstate New York Neighborhood Covered In “Yellow Goo”
You wake up one morning and your Upstate New York house is covered in a thick yellow goo. What’s more? The same has happened to your neighbors. Intitial theories pinned the blame on a passing aircraft discharging the foul spread all over...
And Now: A Gorilla That Loves To Walk Upright
A Silverback gorilla called Ambam loves to walk around on his hind legs. Among other uses, he apparently uses this trick to be able to carry more food. [Geekologie] [The Telegraph]
Weird Wiki: How Much Would You Pay For The Corpse Of A Fairy?
In 2007, an illusion designer from the UK put up for auction what appeared to be the remains of a dead fairy. The winged creature was said to have been inspected by X-Ray and proved a biological organism. Although the bone structure seemed...
The Science Behind Software That IDs Dudes Who Flash Dongs On Chatroulette
You know, if we have a machine that can destroy legendary trivia heads at Jeopardy it’s high time we had a piece of software that could spot some creep trying to pull out their 4 Wood on sites like Chatroulette. But how? A new research...
Iceberg Mystery In The Antarctic
While it might not be as interesting as a skeleton melting out of an iceberg, a single wood block floating on top of an iceberg within the no compass region around the magnetic south pole has people scratching their heads. This lonely...
One Fingered Dinosaur Discovered
A new alvarezsauroid dinosaur (Linhenykus monodactylus) with a single finger has been discovered in Mongolia in about 80 million-year-old rock and was recently described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The earliest...
Convict Monkey Escapes
Officials in Mishima City, Japan have reported that a terrorist monkey, known as “Lucky”, has escaped during a cage cleaning and has left the government-run nature park where it was being held. Lucky is most widely known for biting nearly...
Are human brains too complex to replicate?
Over at his Bottom-up blog (safe for work) Cato scholar and CS PhD candidate Timothy B. Lee makes a case that we’ll *never* be able to copy the human brain in software. He argues that the human brain is too complex and living systems...
The Cave of Forgotten Dreams
The Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in France is the subject of a new documentary by Werner Herzog called Cave of Forgotten Dreams. The cave was discovered in 1994 and is filled with cave paintings that date back from 26,000 to 32,000 years ago....
Bull Sharks Swimming The Flooded Streets Of Australia
The recent floods in Australia have provided new hunting ground for bull sharks. Recently, two bull sharks have been spotted swimming past the McDonald’s restaurant in Goodna. “It’s definitely a first for Goodna, to have a shark in the...
Futurism: Why Atom Lasers are Awesome
Technological advancement moves in strange ways. It’s often the technologies that come from just outside our mainstream field of vision that change things the most radically. The properties of semiconductors were well known decades before...
The GhostBot Robot Fish
Northwestern University scientists have have created a robotic fish (GhostBot) that mimics the swimming motions of the black ghost knifefish found in the Amazon. Ghostbot can move from swimming forward and backward to swimming vertically...
Alien Pool Party! Strange Cases Of Vanishing Water Blamed On Spacemen
One day you’re floating in your backyard above ground pool. Sipping on a Costco purchased pre-made margarita listening to C&C Music Factory. Life is good. You head to sleep with dreams of another day of aquatic lounging splashing around in...
Hoax Of The Day: 1960 Batavia River Monster
Imagine a tale of suburban terror in the Upstate New York town of Batavia in the Mad Men-era year of 1960. Several youths report banshee-like screaming while crossing a town bridge. Days later the kids investigate and later tell...
Australian Birds Use Fear To Attract Mates
Male splendid fairy-wrens flirt using fear and sing a special song each time they hear the call of one of their predators, the butcherbirds. Although this behaviour exposes their position and puts them in danger, it has been determined...
Scientists crackle the code
I don’t know how this got by us in 2006, but apparently scientists have finally figured out what makes Rice Krispies snap, crackle and pop. It turns out that the fact that they’re made by frightening little Lebensborn demon elves has...
Does surviving swine flu super-charge your immunity?
Researchers studying nine patients who survived swine flu during the H1N1 pandemic have noticed that they produced a wide range of antibodies that could be used to fight off other strains. Currently they’re looking to see if they can use...
Woolly Mammoths By 2015?
One man is on a mission to bring woolly mammoths back from the dead. A technique for successfully recovering frozen cells to use in creating clones was pioneered in 2008 by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama, of the Riken Centre for Developmental...
Sun Rises Two Days Early In Greenland
No one knows exactly why the sun rose roughly 48 hours ahead of schedule in the remote Greenland town of Ilulissat which like many arctic circle towns spends prolonged periods in total darkness. Some say global warming has melted the ice...