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Want To Be Taken More Serious? Get Heavier, Harder
Our primate brains seem to equate seriousness with touching heavier or harder objects. For example, a resume on thick stock will be taken more serious than something printed off on fax paper. Think I’m kidding? Would someone with a...
Germans Forcing Octopus To Make Psychic Sports Predictions! [WeirdThingsTV]
Dismissed Study Alleging Proof Of Martian Life On Earth Finds New Support
In 1996 a team of NASA scientists published a study saying the they’d found signs of life on a Martian meteorite that crashed to Earth in 1984. They were summarily dismissed by many. 14 years later, as science has caught up, their findings...
Crazy German Zoo Forces Shockingly Accurate Sports Predictions From Octopus
From his aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany an octopus named Paul has predicted a win for the home team over England this weekend in Knockout Round World Cup play. Paul has been forced to predict national soccer matches regularly and so far...
X-Rated X-Rays!
Japanese monitor maker Eizo released a pin-up calendar of provocative x-ray images. The company says they used computer graphics instead of real models.
7th Grade Class Makes Mars Discovery, Punks NASA, Higher Education, Your Mom [WeirdThingsTV]
Real Time Brain Scans Accurately Predict Your Decisions Before You Act On Them
New, real-time brain scan accurately predicted 2/3rds of study respondents would make a decision even if they told the administrator they would do the opposite. Could revolutionize advertising, education and determining if bartender at...
7th Graders Pwns Geological Surveyors By Finding Unknown Mars Cave Opening
I believe that children are the future, give them pictures of Mars and let them find the caves. A heretofore unidentified Martian cave opening was found by a group of 7th graders. It was completely unrecorded by our official geological...
A Look At The Southern Lights… From Space!
It’s either that or we’ve begun principal photography on the long-awaited Ghost Busters spin off Slimer Goes To Space. [Daily Mail via NASA]
How First-World Bias If Not General Racism Created The Artwork Of Atlantis
German explorer Leo Frobenius came to West Africa and made a startling discovery. Gorgeous statues cast in exquisite bronze. So intricate, so beautiful, they so could not be the work of the locals. No, of course not. They simply had to be...
Jet Pack! Jet Pack! Jet Pack! First Commercial Jet Pack On Sale Next Year!
UPDATED: with test footage thanks to @LHymas on Twitter. Aw hell yeah. The Jetpack achieves with 30 minutes of flight time and is fueled by regular premium gasoline, though you will undoubtedly earn some disbelieving stares at the petrol...
Human Sacrifice: Ancient Chinese Secret, Huh?
New archeological evidence proves that the China’s Western Zhou dynasty dabbled in human sacrifice roughly 2,700 years ago. “In general, there’s been a tendency to describe Western Zhou as a more humanistic period, when the practice of...
5 Weirdest Survival Stories Revealed! [WeirdThingsTV]
Further Developments In North Carolina Bigfoot Stand Off
We have more footage of what can only be described as a tense stand off between one mountain man and a predatory Sasquatch. We talked about Tim Peeler in the most recent WeirdThingsTV but another local news station covered the battle and...
Nick Fury’s Dreams Come True, Army Building Real SHIELD Helicarrier
All the best tech comes from Sci Fi and comic books, fact. The United States Army has ordered a huge hybrid airship longer than a football field to watch over battlefields in Afghanistan by the end of 2011, according to the airship’s...
Boater Surprised By Random Periscope Of Mystery Sub
You’re on a boat (in the T-Painian milieu) off the coast of Fort Lauderdale. All of a sudden a random periscope pops up and looks you right in the face. You look back. It recedes in the water. But no one will own up to owning the sub or...
Is Your Car A Biological Weapon? [WeirdThingsTV]
Cheap Out On Windshield Wiper Fluid? Weaponize Legionaires’ Disease
“Why do I need to buy windshield wiper fluid?” wheezed the Cheapest Man in the World. “I’m just going to shoot it out on the street!” As it turns out, those who try and use tap water to clean the bug incrusted looking glass are likely...
North Carolina Man Claims He Saw Bigfoot
Beautiful hair… [CNN]
The Boy Who Played It By Ear [Weirdest Survival Stories]
Everyday this week… Brett Rounsaville brings us the Weirdest Survival Stories ever told. What happens nine months after that stick bug from Disney/Pixar’s Bug’s Life and Dumbo get a little frisky one night at a Disney holiday party? You...