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And Now… A Man In A Bender Costume Tries To Stop A Russian Street Fight
Thanks to Weird Things reader Mark Sissions for the link.
“Super Pack” of 400 Wolves Terrorizes Russia Town
A “super pack” of wolves, said to be 400 hundred strong, has been terrifying the Russian town of Verkhoyansk and has left more than 30 horses dead in just four days. The authorities have put together twenty four teams of hunters to try and...
Get Ready For The Water-Powered Jetpack
Q: What qualifications do I need to fly? A: You must be a good swimmer, and should not feel uncomfortable having your face in the water from time to time. You should not have a fear of heights. You should be in good health and physical...
The Corrupted Blood Incident
On September 13th, 2005, an update to Blizzard’s World of Warcraft online game introducing the Zul’Gurub dungeon helped unleash a series of events that led to a catastrophic plague that spread out of control. In a fascinating example of...
Robots Continue To Steal Jobs
While robots continue to take jobs from hard working humans, they still show a surprising lack of judgement in choosing which jobs to steal. Sign Dancer Pro is an outfit specializing in mechanical advertising, replacing those colorful...
The Octopus And The Beer Bottle
So many questions… [Geekologie]
Frankenstein Fail: Woman Burns Apartment Trying To Reanimate Corpse
In the Russian city of Ekaterinburg, a woman has burned up her apartment in an attempt to bring her dead sister’s mummified corpse back to life. Her sister died a year ago, but instead of reporting the death, she had been preserving the...
Podcast: Dead Shwood, Live Hitler
Brian is bent on forcing your digital remains to dance for eternity as the gang descend into a very curious cave. Justin travels back in time and attempts to hoodwink George Carlin into coming along for mad cap silliness. Andrew sets the...
Ghost In The Machine: Haunted Video Games
In his 2009 column entitled Ghost In The Machine: Batman & Midnight Society Tackle TV’s Toughest Demonic Electronics, Matt explored how popular culture interpretations of the fear of addictive escapism through video games were portrayed by...
UFO Conspiracy Killed John F. Kennedy & Marilyn Monroe?
[After Disclosure]
Birds Eat Leftover McDonalds, Leave Entire Upstate New York Neighborhood Covered In “Yellow Goo”
You wake up one morning and your Upstate New York house is covered in a thick yellow goo. What’s more? The same has happened to your neighbors. Intitial theories pinned the blame on a passing aircraft discharging the foul spread all over...
And Now: A Gorilla That Loves To Walk Upright
A Silverback gorilla called Ambam loves to walk around on his hind legs. Among other uses, he apparently uses this trick to be able to carry more food. [Geekologie] [The Telegraph]
Weird Wiki: How Much Would You Pay For The Corpse Of A Fairy?
In 2007, an illusion designer from the UK put up for auction what appeared to be the remains of a dead fairy. The winged creature was said to have been inspected by X-Ray and proved a biological organism. Although the bone structure seemed...
The Science Behind Software That IDs Dudes Who Flash Dongs On Chatroulette
You know, if we have a machine that can destroy legendary trivia heads at Jeopardy it’s high time we had a piece of software that could spot some creep trying to pull out their 4 Wood on sites like Chatroulette. But how? A new research...
Iceberg Mystery In The Antarctic
While it might not be as interesting as a skeleton melting out of an iceberg, a single wood block floating on top of an iceberg within the no compass region around the magnetic south pole has people scratching their heads. This lonely...
One Fingered Dinosaur Discovered
A new alvarezsauroid dinosaur (Linhenykus monodactylus) with a single finger has been discovered in Mongolia in about 80 million-year-old rock and was recently described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The earliest...
Convict Monkey Escapes
Officials in Mishima City, Japan have reported that a terrorist monkey, known as “Lucky”, has escaped during a cage cleaning and has left the government-run nature park where it was being held. Lucky is most widely known for biting nearly...
Are human brains too complex to replicate?
Over at his Bottom-up blog (safe for work) Cato scholar and CS PhD candidate Timothy B. Lee makes a case that we’ll *never* be able to copy the human brain in software. He argues that the human brain is too complex and living systems...
The Cave of Forgotten Dreams
The Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in France is the subject of a new documentary by Werner Herzog called Cave of Forgotten Dreams. The cave was discovered in 1994 and is filled with cave paintings that date back from 26,000 to 32,000 years ago....
Bull Sharks Swimming The Flooded Streets Of Australia
The recent floods in Australia have provided new hunting ground for bull sharks. Recently, two bull sharks have been spotted swimming past the McDonald’s restaurant in Goodna. “It’s definitely a first for Goodna, to have a shark in the...