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Exercise The Demons [The Walking Dead Dissection]
Finally. This is the show I fell in love with. These are the conflicts caused by the world rotting from the inside out. These are the decisions made by compelling characters with conflicting points of view. This is the genre violence that...
Why The Muppets Are Still Relevant [Opinion]
I took my six-year-old little brother to see The Muppets. He was excited. Not because he’s ever seen an episode of the original series, or any of the previous feature films or even the Muppet Babies cartoon, which remains memorable to...
Life Size Mario Karts Currently On Display At LA Auto Show
You only have a few more days, but fans of the koopa shell flinging road derby franchise Mario Kart can see life size constructions of some of the vehicles on display at the Los Angeles Auto Show. You only have until the end of this...
Man Demonstrates Qi Telekinesis On Chinese Television
Chinese television news features a man who claims to move objects and shatter glass using only the power of Qi.
Black Friday! Best Of eBooks Part Deux [eBook Review]
Today all over the United States people have been standing in line for hours in hopes of getting that one great deal on their special someone’s Christmas gift! Unless of course you’re me then you prefer to stay home in your pajamas, eating...
Russian Researchers Say They’ve Found Yeti Nest
A recent collection of Yeti researchers in Siberia might have turned up evidence of a nest. “We didn’t feel like the trees we saw in Siberia had been done by a man or another mammal…. Twisted trees like this have also been observed in...
Fraking Toasters: Mitchell & Webb’s Hilarious Battlestar Galactica Parody
The crew of a human vessel under attack by robots that take human form deal with the stress. Specifically Colin. Performed by the hilarious Mitchell and Webb.
The Daleks Are Better The Less They Talk [Opinion]
Monsters are monstrous. That’s the point of them. Their inhumanity is defined by how little of ourselves we see in them. For example despite his Gallifreyan origin, The Doctor is chock full of human quirks. He’s prideful, arrogant, caring,...
Shhhh… The Show Was Actually Fun To Watch [The Walking Dead Dissection]
Holy crap. Stuff actually happened on this show. Sure, there were some pretty maddening plot problems and we rehashed a few issues for the millionth time, but at the end of the episode people said important things to each other that might...
Shanghai’s Haunted Train Station [Weird China]
Chinese native Chunzhenwang reports from Shanghai I don’t like horror movies or ghost stories. My imagination pictures those things, especially at night, which freak me out. But the curiosity never stops me from listening to them. I want...
Blue Earth [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail Blue Earth would not be a typical pick for...
Pedochair Spotted
Spotted at a Kroger. [@ITJanitor]
And Now, The Best Song About An Axolotl You’ll Ever Hear
If you are unfamiliar, please refer to this Wikipedia page. La la la la. [Rather Good via Improbable Research]
DARPA Wants To Build A Robotic Ostrich That Runs 50 MPH
Robot Ostrich. Yes. [Improbable Research]
Craig Venter Updates His Findings On Algae As The Fuel Of The Future
In the pantheon of Weird Things heroes, Craig Venter stands among the most revered. His controversially sequenced the human genome faster than the most aggressive estimations. His swagger and braggadocio wrankle rivals who seem him as a...
Is The Mysterious Google Maps Anomaly China’s Area 51?
Pictures of a strange plot of land in China’s western Gansu province could a secret weapons testing facility and if one weapons expert is to be believed, it’s very similar to American installations in Nevada. Including the famed Area 51....
A Hunt With No End [The Walking Dead Dissection]
Like a zombie whose brain has been cleaved in twain by a last minute arrow, this episode of The Walking Dead was of two minds. The first, let’s continue to put our characters on the path of the most boring, pointless plot arc in history....
We Can Create Yeast Cyborgs
If you thought that we’d never create a feedback loop with yeast that could help us control it’s organic nature using a computer, you are dead wrong. This work, performed by scientists at the Automatic Control Laboratory at the Swiss...
Best of eBooks [ebook reviews]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail The gift giving season is upon us and I...
They Are Evolving: Octopus Goes From Opaque To Transparent In Seconds
We’ve talked at length on the podcast about the intelligence and possible threat presented by Octopi. This will do nothing to bury those very real, justified fears. Two deep-ocean species of cephalopod, an octopus and a squid, can go from...