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Robot Learns to Throw…Humanity Flinches!
Anyone who’s been following the evolution of Boston Dynamics has been creeped out at one point by their BigDog robot. BigDog is a quadraped robot that has learned a lot of tricks since it was a terrifying little puppy of a machine. It...
Podcast: Brown Menace
Original three reunited again for this very special episode of the podcast! Andrew introduces a birthday question in honor of Justin’s 30th Name Day. A space pioneer wants to make a fly by around Mars but the price may be too high for some...
‘Cigar UFO’ Spotted Doing Volcano Drive-By in Mexico
What’s up with UFOs, volcanoes and Mexico? Just now hitting the internet are videos of a ‘cigar ufo’ doing a drive-by of a volcano in Mexico. In October of 2012 a more daring group of what’s probably the alien equivalent of a tour bus...
Fanta Wants You To Taste Fanta – By Eating the Print Ad About How Fanta Tastes!
In another step toward getting our food like the Jetsons, Fanta has created a print ad to describe, in a lot of adjectives, what their orange-flavored soda tastes like… Then they offer you a chance to taste it. And not by giving you a...
Swedish ‘Hotel’ Where You Can Live Like the Homeless
Ever wonder what it’s like to be homeless? If you live in Sweden, you can quit wondering and put your money where your wondering is. In order to raise awareness for the plight of the homeless population in the city of Gothenburg, an...
Russian Team Creates Cheap, DIY Ostrich Mech – Future Armies Will Look Terrifyingly Ridiculous!
Russia is a unique place. They drive a little differently there, meteors land there and now they’ve decided to tackle robotics…in the form a creepy walking robot disguised as a cute (but threateningly non-cute and blankly-staring)...
Podcast: Smoking Crater
Justin and Andrew are again two against the world. We discuss the Russian meteor and why it explains how terrible Russia’s music taste is. SpaceX is hinting at a new test launch that could leave a smoking crater in the ground. A law is...
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Huge Meteor Burns Out Over Russia – Plays Out Like a JJ Abrams Movie!
Like found footage from an unannounced JJ Abrams flick, video is slamming YouTube from all over Russia about a large meteor that hit the atmosphere. Details are still coming in about the event and we’ll have a fuller piece about it later....
Podcast: Double O Heaven
Justin and Andrew are riding as a power duo in this episode of the Weird Things podcast. Who is going to be the next Pope? We thumb through many surprising possibilities including a few super spies who would take the head Vatican role on...
Robot Begins Year-Long Mission: To Survive One Year of Elementary School Among Real Students!
We’re always making references to the ‘Robot Apocalypse’ or about all of us being enslaved by ‘our future overlords’ when it comes to our slowly evolving erector set-like counterparts. While 30 and 40-somethings stand around and make...
Famed English King’s Remains Discovered – Under a Parking Lot!
King Richard III’s body has been missing for several centuries now. Most historians figured the guy was buried near Leicester, England…somewhere. Nobody could figure out where the hell the body ended up after Henry VIII’s people lost the...
Podcast: Thunderwell
OG Lineup Reunited! A mystery that could rewrite cultural, space and political history is revealed. What is the future of television? How about a technology that draws on your flipping eye balls! This triggers Brian to imagine a beautiful...
Awesome 1970’s NASA Film on Space Colonization
Dream big kids as you check out this retrotastic video from NASA on building colonies in space. Besides the awesome music, my favorite part is NASA’s recommendation for getting a better growing season from your crops on the space station –...
Researchers Record the Moment of Inception…in a Hungry Zebrafish. We’re Next!
‘Squirrel!’ Ever wonder what it looked like at the inception point of a thought? Like when your watching ‘fail videos’ online and you do that mental cringe at the exact moment that you’re watching someone sledding down a hill on an oil-pan...
Need a Hand? Prosthetics Can Now Be Printed at Home!
Not sure about you…but pretty sure that having the ability to create our own bad-ass appendages like He-Man’s Trap-Jaw would take precedence over things like eating…sleeping…everything…well almost everything. Ivan Owen created a mechanical...
Dig In! Tokyo Restaurant Features Meals Made with Dirt!
Sometimes you go out for dinner and wonder whether or not the guys in the kitchen are fixing your meal based on your server’s impression of you and using questionable ingredients like forehead sweat just to teach you a lesson. At Ne...
Berserker Attacks Man, Makes Love to Floor, Gets Tased!
BAM! You’re chillin’ at home in front of the television. BAM! BAM! BAM! You hear some kind of resonating thud from outside. You assume it’s thunder or a neighbor and his anvil. BAM! You’re about to be REAL wrong! BAM! BAM! BAM! You hear...
Scotland Decides Ponies in Cardigans Will Boost Tourism: They’re Right
Sometimes towns and even countries have to stretch to lure potential tourist dollars. Occasionally the only thing are some strange promises of something unique about a particular area. We’ve all seen photos of the Giant Ball of (insert...
Crappy Little Beetle Helps Develop True-Color Nightvision!
For two decades Eric Warrant has literally had a pretty crappy job. As a student who specializes in optics at the University of Lund in Sweden, he has been passionately studying the last creature on earth that you’d think of when it came...