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Podcast: Father of the Year
The Reason We Will All Abandon Earth Before We Die [WeirdThingsTV]
Geologists To Drill Into Active Volcano To Save Village
How hardcore is this? Drilling into an active volcanic doesn’t sound like the safest idea, but a plan to do so along a volcano near Naples, Italy, could help protect the city from a potentially catastrophic eruption. Geologists will drill...
Ancient Remains Found Near Stonehenge Belonged To Tourist
Even back in the day, Stonehenge was a tourist trap. One of the oldest human remains found near the site was identified as having Mediterranean origins. The British Geological Survey’s Jane Evans said that the find, radiocarbon dated to...
What A Colony On Our New Earth Could Look Like
Those rascally scamps at io9 have issued this artists rendering of what a colony on the newly discovered Earth-like planet could look like. Since one side of the planet is constantly exposed to the sun and the other is frozen like year-old...
Life On Newly Discovered Earthesqe Planet? “Almost No Doubt”
Seriously, pack your bags. We found a new Earth and I am personally going to wait at Cape Canaveral until someone will sell me a ticket on the first Space Ark to Splitsville. Our new digs are right in the Goldilocks Zone and according the...
NOM NOM NOM: Picture Of Sperm Whale Eating Giant Squid
Holy crap! That is all. [Nat Geo]
A Spider/Scorpion That Is Actually Neither [Pictures]
Ladies and gentleman, the Tailless Whip Scorpion otherwise known as the Whip Spider which is actually neither a scorpion nor spider. Discuss… [Nat Geo]
During Release For Iron Man 2, Paramount Trots Out Real Iron Man Suit
Here is the XOS 2, a creation of Raytheon that is billed as the closest thing to an Iron Man suit but is really just a super sick exoskeleton that allows for increased strength without having to be tethered to a power source. Also,...
Does Methane On Mars = Sign Of Life?
Possibly. But probably not. [Pop Sci]
Were Hobbits Actually Humans?
There has been a long simmering debate in the scientific community over “the Hobbit” or Homo floresiensis by it’s fancy name. On one side is a cadre of folks who claim that the Hobbits (whose remains were first found inside a Indonesian...
Air Force Officers Speak Out About UFO Sightings Near Nuclear Missles
According to some retired Air Force officers, UFOs have a habit of hovering over military bases and shutting down nuclear missiles. Although they concede that the objects may not have been alien in origin, according to them, their memories...
Podcast: Cocaine Fueled Zombie Hysteria
2 New Dinosaurs Found In “Lost Continent” (A.K.A. Utah)
You may in your lifetime have thought Utah a bit odd, it’s okay, I’m writing this from Florida we all have our quirks. But if you thought the Beehive State was weird before, imagine when these two were farting around: Two remarkable new...
The Pope Put A Corpse On Trial [WeirdThingsTV]
The Ape That Taught The World To Sing
A new species of buffed-cheeked gibbon with a very distinctive call was identified by German researchers. Not only does this have implications on the heavily endangered gibbon in general, but the ape song could be the precursor to human...
By The Way, The Parting Of The Red Sea Could Have Really Happened
Okay, there is still no evidence that it actually happened but now science can explain a scenario in which the biblical parting of the Red Sea could have gone down. You know, without the power of a all-knowing God and stuff: A strong east...
Spider-man Strength Webbing Found In Wild
According to researchers, this stuff is the strong enough to swing-patrol the streets of New York City and durable enough to slam the Green Goblin into a midtown high rise, glider and all. [Nat Geo]
A Musical Tribute To The Fish That Walked
Is it Music Monday up in this piece or what? This little ditty comes from Weird Things reader Joatmon who worked with band The Indoorfins to sing about the Tiktaalik, a fish that walked on its fins. Read all about this awesome creature...
New Species Could Be Elephant Or Shrew
Elephant? Or shrew? Shrelephant? Elephew? The mystery rages on in wild Kenya. [Live Science]