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Archaeologists Find Bilbo Baggins’ House and Hobbiton
Okay, maybe not quite – at least it looks like Bilbo’s house from the photo of the archeological site. What scientists do think they’ve found is the oldest town in Europe, dating back to somewhere around 4500 BC; 1,500 years before the...
Podcast: Gary and The Weasel
Gary and The Weasel make their podcast debut to solve a Polish crime. Who would win in a fight: a Neanderthal or a human? Andrew quizzes us on a mysterious man who witnessed something amazing. Can the boys figure out his identity? And what...
DARPA Robot Navigates Obstacles – Strolls Into Your Nightmares!
Remember that weird and completely creepy mule-like, self-stablizing robot that’s been swimming around the internet for a while now called the BigDog from Boston Dynamics? Well BigDog just got out-weirded and out-creeped by DARPA’s newest...
Change You Can Believe In [The Walking Dissection]
Leadership is a strange concept. There are elements of leadership we admire and those we apologize for. At best, an effective leader needs to achieve the goals of his community, make tough decisions when they need to be made and advance...
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Pleased To Meet You [The Walking Dissection]
The overarching story of The Walking Dead in any form or function in the loss of humanity amongst the living while the dead roam the Earth. In the same way that Battlestar Galactica could be set on a submarine and still be awesome, TWD...
Meet the Bagel-Heads! Crazy Body Modification Gets Trendy!
Body modification seemed to root itself into underground culture of the 90s. Since that time we’ve seen our share of modded bods. You’d think that there just wasn’t anything to really mod until low-cost cybernetic parts started popping up...
Beluga Whale Speaks Crude Human!
There are a lot of animals that mimic human vocalization. But when an animal you’d never expect to develop mimicry suddenly begins doing it? It’s a little disturbing. Imagine if your dog suddenly quit barking and just started asking for...
South Korea’s Deadly New Border Weapon!
Because there’s not enough tension already in North and South Korea, a company has now developed what’s being hailed as a ‘super gun’ to help keep an eyeball on the demilitarized zone between the Hatfield/McCoy-style rivalry amongst the...
Help Brian Brushwood Launch Scam Stuff and Get Some Awesome Stuff!!!
Go to IndieGoGo and support this project Here’s Brian’s explanation of what it’s all about: What’s This All About Anyway? Hey all, Brian Brushwood here, host of Scam School on the Revision3 network. For the past four years, the Scam School...
Disturbingly Detailed 17th Century Wax Anatomy Models Go On Display!
Long before we were able to see inside people with x-rays, tiny cameras or accurate 3D models doctors still had to know what pieces we were made up and where they went. Students learning anatomy didn’t always have the luxury of a bunch of...
Interactive Look Inside Space X’s Dragon Capsule!
If you’ve been following WeirdThings for any length of time now, you know that every time space exploration is mentioned we grab our big, pointy-fingered, foam hand and start fist-pumping toward the heavens. Most of us are never going to...
“Transformers! Roll Out!” Life-Saving, Wind-Powered Landmine Destroyer!
The Mine Kafon (teaser) from Callum Cooper on Vimeo. Looking like a cross between a Transformer sea anemone robot and a giant 1960s-styled light fixture in some swank space-lounge of that era, this strange-looking object is set to save a...
Entrepreneur Continues Hunt for Sasquatch with Airship
William Barnes calls himself an “idea man” and this is one idea we enthusiastically endorse. Barnes is equipping an airship to hover over the Pacific Northwest in a hope to find the beast they call Sasquatch. His passion stems from a...
Podcast: No Stop Space Drop
Felix Baumgartner is amazing, but seriously, what comes next? The boys make their guesses. Killjoy scientists try and kill our dinosaur dreams. Because they hate joy. And want to kill it. But fear not! Andrew has a plan that can not only...
Elon Musk Hints at New Mystery Rocket
During interviews on SpaceX’s current and near-future plans for the company, both Elon Musk and SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell have made allusions to a much larger rocket than the Falcon Heavy they plan on launching next year. The Falcon...
Did a Trail Camera Capture a Passing Zombie?
We are pretty sure this picture from a trail camera in Luneberg County, VA is either not real or some kind of lighting trick. But also… HOLY SMOKES THAT’S A ZOMBIE! THE END IS NIGH! Thanks to reader J Lowder Jr. for sending this along....
A Whole New World [The Walking Dissection]
Imagine you have an alcoholic uncle. He and your dad were always close and even though he’d embarrass himself sometimes it was always funny and never tragic. But over the last few years things got worse. He borrowed money, burned through...
Possible Chinese Rage Virus? Man Chews Other Man’s Arm Over Subway Seat!
Here in the states, Bath-Salt Zombie activity has gone into a lull as everyone following the gruesome trend keeps a wary eye out for the next crazy-looking person who reeks of ‘Blossoming Garden Jasmine’ and keeps eyeballing your body like...
Multiple Yeti Sighted In Russia!
Russia has become a hotbed of Yeti activity over the last couple of weeks. And what’s more awesome than seeing a Yeti? Seeing a group of Yeti. In those last couple of weeks the sightings of Bigfoot’s Siberian cousin, two have included...