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This Picture was Painted in Blood
His name is Dr. Rev. His work is painting using only his own blood. Is this: 1) A bold artistic statement 2) An interesting concept 3) The creepiest thing on the planet Check out his gallery below. [Blood Painting] via Tony Ley
Hitler’s Medical Journal’s Revealed: Cocaine! Veggie Farts!
A new round of Hitler memorabilia is about to hit the auction block and among the items for sale is Adolf’s medical journals. One of them was compiled from interviews with six of Hitler’s chief doctors and the other comes from only one of...
WeirdThings Podcast Live with Justin Robert Young, Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt
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You Decide: UFO Proof or Streaks of Cosmic Rays?
Is the picture above an unidentified space ship? Or simply a collection of cosmic rays that have formed an unusual grouping? Our hope: both. You know what happens then…
Fortune Teller Gets Busted for Googling Information on Clients
A pair of fraud Romanian fortune tellers have been busted for the oldest tricks in the rankable page index: Googling information on their clients. The two made a living allegedly selling “the future” to customers by pearing into a crystal...
Another Reminder: Nature Wants to Kill You, Eat Your Children
Seriously, nature wants you and your whole family dead. Remember that the next time you’re thinking about saving the planet. It really hates you. [CNN]
The Day it Rained Meat in Kentucky
It was a lonely day in Northeast Kentucky, when all of a sudden out of the blue blazes… meat rained from the sky. In 1876 a shower of three-inch chunks of meat rained down from a clear sky over Olympian Springs, Kentucky. The Louisville...
MCA is Dead, Here is the Video for Intergalactic
As you might have heard Adam Yauch died today, a victim of cancer. He was 47 and is survived by his wife and child. Arguably the best of the Beastie Boys deep videography, Intergalactic is easily the most Weird Things of the bunch....
Debate Rages Over Man Who Attached a Fricking Laser Beam to a Shark
A man named Luke Tipple, marine biologist most recognizably known for his work on the Discovery Channel, attached a laser beam to a shark. It was temporary. The laser was the lowest powered model produced by Wicked Lasers, which promoted...
R/C Fire Breathing Dragon
Are you ready to terrorize a small medieval village? How about set fire to your enemies? Threaten the slave city of Astapor? Is this the RC toy for you! It flies. It breathes fire. It looks like a dragon. Named “Mythical Beast” this bad...
The Optical Illusion that Explains Bloody Mary
The whiz kids at io9 have put together a compilation of research that explains why we see imaginary, monstrous faces when we look in the mirror for an elongated period of time. This is the very basis for sleepover games like Bloody Mary,...
Harry Potter Diary Inspired Bloody Invention that Could Save Your Life
You are involved in horrible car accident. Paramedics buzz around to make sure you make it to the hospital alive. You’re losing blood. If you don’t get more of the right time in you soon, things could take a turn for the worse. But the...
Scientists Recover World Oldest Blood Cells from Iceman Mummy
He lived. He ate deer meat. He took an arrow to the shoulder and died. That was roughly 5,300 years ago for the corpse they call Ötzi. Hikers found his body in the Alps in 1991. But only now did scientists realize he brought us an amazing...
Blue Origin Ready for Next Step
Blue Origin, the space exploration company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is ready for it’s close up. Although notoriously secretive in comparison to companies like SpaceX, May is a huge month for Blue and now they’re ready to...
Super Villain Calls Out Phoenix Jones in Hilarious YouTube Video
His name is Red Velvet. He is sick of the antics of Phoenix Jones, Seattle’s real life super hero who recently was forced to unmask under threat after a legal snafu. It’s not quite clear what Velvet wants, but the video is awesome....
Meet the Avengers of Science: Earth’s Mightiest Brains Assembled (Also Ashton Kutcher)
They meet at school. Singularity University to be exact. A who’s who of future makers with a collected resume that would make Alexander the Great offer to bus tables in their presence. Musk. Page. Aldrin. Cerf. Valley start-up...
Podcast: Reality Television Death Races Of Atlantis
GUEST: Scott Sigler Brian and Scott are approached by a wizened trucker who offers them a deadly new opportunity on reality television. A frantic scientist in the ancient civilization of Atlantis opens up a hole in space and time to warn...
UK Government Might Put a Missile Launcher on Your Roof this Summer
In many apartment buildings throughout big cities around the world, roof access is off limits. But only in London this summer, will it be because they might be firing a missile off of it to destroy an airborne terrorist attack. The British...
We Aren’t Allowed to Dream About the Future Until NASA Gives Us Permission
The future seems closer today than it did yesterday. People are talking about mining asteroids that contain more platinum than we’ve ever dug up on Earth and finding water that could be the key to permanent space habitation and long...
Wired interview with Elon Musk About SpaceX’s ISS Mission
SpaceX founder and CEO, Elon Musk talks to WIRED magazine’s Jason Paur about the upcoming mission to the International Space Station. (Thanks to Daniel Connors for the link)