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The Center Of The Earth Is Crystal
Science may now confirm what the dude screaming on Venice Beach has theorized for years. The center of the Earth is made of crystal. The outer core is composed mostly of liquid iron. The inner core is solid ball about 750 miles in...
Russian Man Claims He Rescued Yeti From Freezing River
So awesome. KEMEROVO, April 29 (Itar-Tass)? A resident of the village Senzaskie Kichi, Kemerovo Region, hunter Afanasy Kiskorov, claims that he rescued a Yeti during a spring flood on the mountainous river of Kabyrza. His actions were...
Scottish Police Believed In Loch Ness Monster, Conspired To Protect It
Newly released government documents confirm that Scottish police believed there was a strange, beautiful creature in the Highlands lake of Loch Ness, and no one was going to kill it on their watch. The files from the National Archive of...
Penn State Using Acoustic Scientists To Optimize Drunken Screaming For Their Benefit
College football is a loud sport and in a game as verbally-dependent as football if a visiting team can’t relay their plays effectively or make last minute adjustments, it can be huge advantage for a home team. So it is no surprise that...
Chilean Earthquakes Create Massive Influx Of Ghost Sightings
The string of earthquake in Chile not only inspired an outpouring of foreign aide and worldwide attention, it’s also been the impetus for a ton of recently-minted ghosts to rattle around the areas in which they died. Shadows cross the...
Pentagon Releases Details On LSD, Mind Control Experiments
Not exactly Men Who Stare At Goats, but here is some recently FOIA’d info about how the Pentagon oversaw experiments into forced narcotics dosing and mind control, all in an effort to get an edge on the godless communists in the Cold War....
New Study Classifies Colossal Squid As Pretty Lazy
The myth of the colossal squid as a fearsome aggressive predator has been sunk… Measuring longer than a school bus and sporting tentacles covered in razor-sharp hooks, the colossal squid is the stuff of nightmares. However, new research...
A Quick Summation Of Timothy Leary’s Stance On UFOs
UFOs? Horse apples! At least according to Timothy Leary. In case you are unaware of the outspoke academic and LSD poster boy’s theory on contact with alien life, here it is: Leary felt that intelligent life exists throughout infinite...
Did 80s Interdimensional Visitors Use The Classifieds To Communicate With Each Other?
Let’s assume we live a universe of infinite dimensions. Let’s also assume that in one of those dimensions, we are aware of the this fact and have found a way to burrow a path another, concurrent dimension. Finally, let us assume it is 1985...
Reason #99,912 Why Nikola Tesla Rules: He Knew Mobile Phones Were Coming
From a 1909 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine. It will soon be possible, for instance, for a business man in New York To dictate instructions and have them appear instantly in type in London or elsewhere. He will be able to call up from...
Have Scientists Found First Ever Proof Of Ejected Black Hole?
Probably not, but maybe! A mystery object in a galaxy far, far away could be a supermassive black hole that got booted from its home galaxy’s center, according to a new study. Then again, the strange body could be a rare type of supernova...
Scientists Chemically Alter Developing Fish Brains So They Resemble Other Species
A breakthrough in how we understand brain development has led a group of researchers to totally change a developing fish brain into one that looks like another species of fish… In another part of the study, the team wanted to see if they...
What Technically Defines A River Monster?
Above is a scene from Animal Planet’s series River Monsters. But although some fish look straight up and down bizarre (see the massive fugly catfish above) that doesn’t necessarily make them dangerous. For example, hippos and alligators...
Silver Lining To Recent Flood Victims, It Could Have Been A Megaflood
With all the talk of flooding in Tennessee, it helps to look back into history to gain perspective. After all, at least it wasn’t the megaflood that completely redefined that Alaskan landscape 15,000 years ago. One of at least four...
Asteroid (Sample Safely Harvested By Japanese Satellite) To Hit Earth!
Scientists might be able to gawk at a piece of asteroid that hasn’t been through the horrific re-entry process after a Japanese satellite sends a sample it collected back to Earth on June 13th. Why do we care about this? It could...
Video Proof Of Restarted Heart
We told you about this yesterday… but be prepared to witness the heart that was restarted 24 hours after it died in a Harvard laboratory. [Singularity Hub]
Bat Boy Figure Released Just In Time For Mother’s Day
Available on pre-order for only $24.99! Thanks to reader Vox Anon for the tip. [Go Hero Shop]
Breakthrough Solution Keeps Heart Alive Outside Of Body For 10 Days
Behold, the heart that lived outside a human for 10 days but WOULD NOT DIE! (thunder clap!) It could revolutionize those who are relying on organ donations! (organ music!) It hopes to be on the open market soon! (maniacal laughter!) [Pop...
Maya Plumbing = Oldest Pressurized Water In New World
The Maya people were forerunners on a lot of concepts. You can add piping pressurized water all over the place to that list. A water feature found in the Maya city of Palenque, Mexico, is the earliest known example of engineered water...
Newly Discovered Microbe Super Small, Bizarre, Works In Copper Mine
Could this microbe be discovered under any less awesome conditions? Researchers have discovered some of the tiniest and weirdest microbes ever seen growing in a copper mine sludge that is as acidic as battery acid. Theses ultra-small...