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Podcast: Redneck Fireworks Massacre
Are We Missing the Point of Avatar?
Prolific Weird Things scribe Matt just posted his criticism of Avatar’s bioelectric network premise. Basically he feels that director James Cameron is trying to make it a parable of earth and our resource use – and that it’s an unfair...
Beware the Super Snake!
Florida is under attack from giant snakes. If that’s not bad enough, in a turn fit for the SyFy channel, authorities now worry that different breeds of python may be merging together into some new kind of “super snake”. From the...
Can You Have an Ice Age in the Middle of Global Warming?
According to some scientists at the Daily Mail, the answer is yes. A long term global warming trend due to CO2 emissions doesn’t preclude the possibility of nature deciding to flip the bit at least for a few decades and make things cooler....
9/11 Is Responsible For The New Love Robot
Amongst all the hubbub today about Roxxxy the new amorous robot designed to satisfy your carnal desires, comes this little tidbit buried in an article by The Money Times… Hines inspiration for Roxxxy came from the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks....
How To Make Crop Circles… By Amtrekker
Brett Rounsaville is special to iTricks. Follow his hobo adventure at Amtrekker.com After nearly two years wandering America as a homeless vagrant I’m no stranger to the weird. Like a bedbug outbreak it jumps quickly from city to city,...
What Happened to the Lost Race of Supermen?
Discover Magazine has a very intriguing story: In 1913 two farmers uncovered a skull in South Africa that still has paleontologists scratching their heads. The so-called Boskop Man was first thought to be a distinct genus while some argued...
Does Our Solar System Have 900 Planets?
After the discovery of Neptune in 1846 astronomers began to wonder if there were other planets beyond its orbit. The discovery of Pluto (now not a planet) seemed to answer the question, but others wondered if even further out a larger...
Military to make flying cars a reality (we hope)
Sphere.com reports that the Pentagon has launched a program called Transformer X with the intent of developing flying cars for the battlefield. Awesome. The objective of the Transformer (TX) program is to demonstrate a one- to four-person...
Podcast: Attack of the Sexy Clones
A tangent becomes a tangent when the hosts try to stretch their feeble minds around the global warming, the energy crisis and the singularity (again) after discussing clone sex. Link: Craig Venter at TED on creating synthetic life Link:...
Tips On How Make To Your Christmas A Black Christmas
If you had to select one of Bob Clark’s Christmas movies to incorporate into your annual yuletide festivities, which one would it be? If you said “A Christmas Story,” you’re wrong! It would be “Black Christmas,” Clark’s genre-defining 1974...
Vegetarianism IS MURDER!
Natalie Angier at the New York Times has an interesting article that suggest if your goal in life is to avoid eating other sensitive, feeling communal creatures, going vegan isn’t enough. According to plant biologists, our leafy friends...
A Crowded Multiverse?
In the latest Scientific American theoretical physicists Alejandro Jenkins and Gilad Perez speculate that there might be a greater chance of life developing in other universes with different physical laws and that our own may not be as...
Voynich Decoded?
The Voynich manuscript, a mysterious medieval document that has confounded the best cryptographers for centuries may finally have been cracked. A researcher studying the manuscript suggests that the secret coding may be anagrams created by...
Aww… We Like You Too Michael Rooker
Thanks please follow @Michael_Rooker. Special thanks to Matt Finley for his work on the Rooker articles.
Science, Philosophy & Tiny Naked Men Who Live In Your Eyeballs
This week, Weird Thing Culture Reporter Matt Finley takes a look at the Homunculus, a strange idea that survived against reason and logic. Monday we looked at how long the idea has been around. Wednesday we found out how science got past...
MIT finally figures out how to build our robot overlords
Gizmodo reports that the brains at MIT have decided to take a new direction for creating Artificial Intelligence. They’ve thrown out some age old assumptions and are considering new alternatives to concepts line the Turing Test. We’re glad...
Weirdest Statue In The World LIVE CHAT
Today We Find The Weirdest Statue In The World At 6 p.m. EST
They serve as markers for the very society that came before us. Reminders of a bygone era in art, industry or culture that resonated on such a level it had to be publicly memorialized. Or someone just had a eff’d up idea and decided to...
Earth the Ice Planet
LiveScience is reporting that the latest core sample data gives more credibility to the scientifically challenged sci-fi movie The Day After Tomorrow‘s rapid freezing scenario. Except we suspect they didn’t actually see the movie because...