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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...
Opinion: The Walking Dead Must Kill Rick Grimes
Would you rather an adaptation of a source material be a literal copy or a totally new story with the same characters and themes? It’s a fundamental question, which I believe is at the heart of the ever raging debate amongst The Walking...
And Now… A Rhino Suspended Upside Down From A Helicopter
Houdini was a hack. The following photo comes from a new campaign by the World Wildlife Fund. In an effort to save endangered black rhinos from rampant poaching, the WWF is trying to expand their range. The problem? Getting the big lugs...
Man Climbs Chimney To See Passing Asteroid, Falls Into Chimney
A modern day tale of Icarus! The burning need to see an asteroid pass between the Earth and the moon led one man to do his best impression of Father Christmas one and a half months early. Translated from French paper Est Republicain: A...
Cemetery Historian Kept Collection Of Mummified “Doll” Corpses
A 45-year-old Russian historian kept a collection of 29 human-sized dolls comprised of mummified corpses wearing the clothes they were buried in. The man was a well renown expert on cemeteries in the region and was published in the local...
White House Responds To Petition Demanding Disclosure Of Alien Evidence
The Obama administration has formally responded to an online petition signed by over five thousands respondents demanding the acknowledgement of alien visitation. Here is what they said… “The U.S. government has no evidence that any life...
Proof? Man Gets Video Of Ogopogo Lake Monster
The Canadian Loch Ness Monster equivalent Ogopogo is back in the news with this curious clip. A man on vacation gets the shot from an elevated perspective which seems to depict a large, if unmoving, object just underneath the gentle...
Werewolf Sighting In Washington DC, Just In Time For Election Day
A resident of Washington DC suburb Woodbridge, VA called the cops when a werewolf was sighted last night. There wasn’t even a full moon Monday night, but an anxious neighbor on Colchester Road told police he saw a werewolf. Police...
To The Well Once Too Often [The Walking Dead Dissection]
In a story about a band of survivors in constant peril the sin of safety is major one. Thankfully, this episode did a little bit to shake things up in this frustratingly slow season but some major issues still remain. Well… one issue....
Woman Claims Painting Haunted By Headless Ghost
It’s a painted picture of a paranormal photograph. But aside from alliteration, it’s also haunted by the headless ghost captured in the photo and immortalized in the artwork. Office Havoc. I took the framed painting with some others for a...
Woman Claims Painting Haunted By Headless Ghost
It’s a painted picture of a paranormal photograph. But aside from alliteration, it’s also haunted by the headless ghost captured in the photo and immortalized in the artwork. Office Havoc. I took the framed painting with some others for a...
The Plague: Dead Solstice [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 As much as I love to read, sometimes I just...