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SPICE World: Artificial Volcanos Could Help Cool The Planet
Without delving into the debate on how it’s happening, most reasonable people can agree the world is getting warmer. If we want it cooler, we are going to have to do something about it. Sure, we could all drive electric cars to our...
Meteor? UFO? Transformer? What Was In The Sky Over The American Southwest Last Night?
A sudden bright spot in the night changed colors from blue to orange before streaking across the sky and disappearing has caused hysteria amongst residents in California, Arizona and beyond. While many scientists are pegging the light show...
Everything You’d Like To Know About Pet Mummification
Glow In The Dark Kitties
Glowing cats – I want one. [Mirror]
The Old Man and the Waste Land [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 It’s not often that a book brings me to...
How to Succeed in Evil [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 Even evil villains need help, and when they...
Flying Cars, Death Rays & Killer Robots: Fact Checking The Future Promised By The 1950s
In the post World War II era the future seemed like a wonderful place full of atomic-powered wonders. A Future World unspoiled by pollution, radiation or flower children. Lets examine the promises and realities of that vision of the Past’s...
Man Retaliates Against Beehive
What would you do if a bee stung one of your friends while he was visiting your house? Would you shrug it off and continue enjoying the day? Would you grab a can of Raid or a water hose and extract some minor vengeance? Or would you pump...
Did Hurricane Irene Wash Up Another Long Island Monster?
We rate this mystery somewhere between a mystic, regal hybrid of manatee and wild boar at it’s most compelling and the corpse of a bloated, dead dog at it’s most depressing. Either way, something really gross washed up on the shores of...
Chatbot VS Chatbot
What happens when two chatbots talk to each other? Spoiler alert: it involves unicorns. [Engadget]
Dead Dwarves Don’t Dance [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 What would you get if you combined Sam Spade...
How A Random Dude Became One Of The Most Successful Water Dowsers Of All Time
He attended James Randi’s talk at the 2008 edition of Dragon*Con as a regular guy. Yet, he left with a reputation as Zen The Dowser, having just turned in one of the most accurate public dowsing demonstrations under test conditions ever...
3 Theories On How To Build A Real Life Lightsaber
Jedi Masters pass down the secret knowledge of constructing “an elegant weapon for a more civilized age” to their young Padawan learners. We are not fortunate enough or have the midiclorean count (ech, think I gagged a little there) to...
Trainport [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 There is nothing better than the feeling of...
Make Anything You Want Appear Develop Inside An Instant Camera Picture
SPONSORED POST A spectator signs a card. They’re given an undeveloped photograph to hold. The card is lost back in the deck. Before their astonished eyes they watch as the photograph develops into an image of a hand holding their signed...
Why We Will Be Able To Build A Synthetic Dragon In Our Lifetime, Why It Is Okay
A few months ago the world was shocked to discover that a US company had designed and manufactured the world’s first synthetic living cell. The researchers had written the genetic code on a computer and then, through the aid of some very...
“Fairy” Captured Outside Guadalajara
Speaking of fairies, one was captured by a guava picker outside Guadalajara. Hundreds of residents have now lined up for hours to pay 20 pesos to see the fairy. And when I say a fairy was captured, I mean a plastic toy was placed in a jar....
Mummified Faeries Found
Who knew these delicate dead faeries were hiding on Etsy all along? This is the handiwork of Weird Things reader Jim Transue who hand makes all of these oddities by hand and sells them for those who really want to get a gift for a man who...
Containment [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 Have you ever read a book where you are left...
High Adventure In 1890 Boston With Andrew Mayne’s The Chronological Man For Only 99¢
SPONSORED POST A Tale of Scientific Adventure… It’s 1890 and the citizens of Boston are beginning to go missing in the fog. The police are confounded. The public is frightened. The city is on the edge of hysteria. It’s up to the mysterious...