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Podcast: How Chris Taylor Conquered Star Wars
After Things: The Right Audience
Podcast: Generation Awesome
After Things: Our Now Will Look Like History
Google’s ATLAS Robot About to be Unleashed – Mankind Should Probably Start Worrying
In 2013 Boston Dynamics introduced its ATLAS robot to the public. It was a little creepy because the thing walked around sort of like a child learning to walk around… Like this… The only thing making us all feel relatively safe from the...
Podcast: Martian Canyons
Opportunity Rover Celebrates 11 Years on Mars
What was supposed to be a hopeful three month mission has quietly stretched into an unbelievable journey. Opportunity bounced onto Mars back in 2004. During that time the little rover has traveled twenty six miles and transmitted a lot of...
Nightmare Shark Caught Off Coast of Australia – Has Been Terrifying World for 80 Million Years
That nightmarish thing in the photo above isn’t a screen-used graboid prop from Tremors. Nope. That’s an actual creature that lives in our oceans…you know…that giant mass of water that you swim in when you vacation? Caught off the coast of...
Government Releases 130,000 UFO Files to Public – Aliens Chuckle Because We Still Know Nothing
Lots of ufologists, saucer-chasers and hunters of little green men became super-excited recently. John Greenewald of the BlackVault.com and his continuous efforts to petition the government via the Freedom of Information Act to release...
[video] Falcon Rocket Goes Boom in Epic Explosion
For those that haven’t seen it or listened to the last episode of WeirdThings where we discuss what happened. Here’s the video of the Falcon rocket going all Hollywood explosion-ish during its attempted soft landing on the autonmous barge...
After Things: Hurry Up and Wait
Podcast: MuskNet
Researchers Create Off-The-Shelf Cloaking Device
Two scientists, John Howell and Joseph Choi, of the University of Rochester have taken a couple of lenses, set them in a particular configuration and tah-dah! You can now hide your Harry Potter puppet in plain sight without anyone ever...
Shining’s Stanley Hotel Looking for a Hedge Designer
The next time someone goes crazy in the Stanley Hotel and begins hunting someone with an axe in the snow, you could possibly be the level designer. Because a kid thwarted someone suffering from cabin fever all those years ago, the folks...
Because the Ocean isn’t Scary Enough…Robosquid
Robots. We just can’t stop building them even though countless movies tell us where it’s all headed. Not only can we not stop trying to emulate ourselves mechanically, a small portion of the robotics community can’t stop trying to emulate...
After Things: Approaching New Projects
The Face on Mars
Podcast: Face of the Dragon
Podcast: Memory Door
Idaho High School Catches Ghost or Possibly a Predator on Surveillance Video
In mid-September, surveillance cameras at Pocatello High School in Idaho caught what paranormal investigators are calling a human-looking figure wandering the halls during the winter break. After seeing the video, you’ll probably shake...