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See It, Shoot It, Share It
Look alive, Morgan City. Seriously though, what in the world is this? [io9]
Podcast: Officer Fudge’s Mystery Package of Death
In the first of a two part episode we’re introduced to the macho cop alter egos of Brian and Justin. Brian eats up NASA’s arsenic announcement despite Andrew and Justin telling him why he shouldn’t. Then we all learn a valuable holiday...
Proof Found That Giant Storks Ate Hobbits [WeirdThingsTV]
Solar Powered Hornets!
Scientists have recently discovered that the exoskeleton of the oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis) contains special structures that trap sunlight and convert it to energy. Using an atomic force microscope they discovered that the yellow...
Croatia Planning Moon Landing in 2012
The Croatian Astronomical Society Vidulini is planning on putting a rover on the moon by the end of 2012 near where Apollo 17 last landed in 1972. The rover is called Histrohod and will only cost 20,000 Euros to build. The Astronomical...
Fully-Automized Robot Debones Ham
Sure, let’s invent a robot that utilizes the sophisticated technology necessary to artfully carve up a soft meat like a ham. Great idea. When the streets are littered with the cleanly picked skeletons of the resistance, let me know how...
Otters Plot Take Over Of Boca Raton Suburbs
They are coming. They don’t like being filmed. They are the otters who will one day govern Boca Raton, FL. [Sun-Sentinel]
Cassini’s Hyperion Flyby
Here are the pictures of Cassini’s flyby of Saturn’s moon Hyperion stitched together in an awesome video. [Discover]
Hairless Creature Captured, Dubbed “Oriental Yeti”
Hunters in the remote woodlands of the Sichuan province in China caught a small hairless creatures that is said to resemble a bear with a kangaroo tail. The creature has been shipped to Beijing for scientists to examine and DNA test. The...
Disney Killed A Mermaid! [WeirdThingsTV]
Assassin Bug Uses Aggressive Mimicry To Catch Spiders
A species of assassin bug, Stenolemus bituberus, sneaks onto spiders’ webs and pretends to be prey, then captures and eats the spider when it comes to investigate. It was noted that on occasion the ploy of the assassin bug failed and it...
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Wormhole
That cute little star that you’ve pointed out to your son/daughter/neice/ward you’re training to fight crime? It could be an insanely badass wormhole big enough to fit a human or spaceship. So the next time you’re telling the story of the...
Will Wikileaks Publish Cables On UFOs?
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange spoke with The Guardian including this awesome tidbit: Many weirdos email us about UFOs or how they discovered that they were the anti-christ whilst talking with their ex-wife at a garden party over a...
Podcast: Alien Gun Fetish
Jamaican Ghost [Hoax Or Real?]
This news report on a Jamaican Ghost was sent to us today. Our question to you the reader, was this set up from the start or did the news crew genuinely stumble upon an afflicted family? Thanks to Nathan for sending this in. Vote in the...
NASA = Attention Whores [WeirdThingsTV]
We Will Just Walk in Circles When We Are Lost
Researchers from the Multisensory Perception and Action Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany have provided evidence that if you ever become lost in the desert you are more than likely going to...
Real Life Swamp Things
Scientific American takes a good long look at the crossroads between moss and animal: the bryozoan. To celebrate, we are reposting one of the most disgusting bryozoan videos we’ve ever posted. Hooray! [Scientific American]
The Honey At Red Hook
In Red Hook, Brooklyn, a beekeeper noticed that a hive had begun to transform and display mysterious stripes of color in their honey stomachs. Even stranger, instead of honey, the hive began to produce a bright red substance that resembled...
And Now: A Squid Orgy
Squid Run at La Jolla Shores – Nov. 22, 2010 from Walter Chung on Vimeo. via Pharyngula