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Podcast: Double O Heaven
Justin and Andrew are riding as a power duo in this episode of the Weird Things podcast. Who is going to be the next Pope? We thumb through many surprising possibilities including a few super spies who would take the head Vatican role on...
Robot Begins Year-Long Mission: To Survive One Year of Elementary School Among Real Students!
We’re always making references to the ‘Robot Apocalypse’ or about all of us being enslaved by ‘our future overlords’ when it comes to our slowly evolving erector set-like counterparts. While 30 and 40-somethings stand around and make...
Famed English King’s Remains Discovered – Under a Parking Lot!
King Richard III’s body has been missing for several centuries now. Most historians figured the guy was buried near Leicester, England…somewhere. Nobody could figure out where the hell the body ended up after Henry VIII’s people lost the...
Podcast: Thunderwell
OG Lineup Reunited! A mystery that could rewrite cultural, space and political history is revealed. What is the future of television? How about a technology that draws on your flipping eye balls! This triggers Brian to imagine a beautiful...
Awesome 1970’s NASA Film on Space Colonization
Dream big kids as you check out this retrotastic video from NASA on building colonies in space. Besides the awesome music, my favorite part is NASA’s recommendation for getting a better growing season from your crops on the space station –...
Researchers Record the Moment of Inception…in a Hungry Zebrafish. We’re Next!
‘Squirrel!’ Ever wonder what it looked like at the inception point of a thought? Like when your watching ‘fail videos’ online and you do that mental cringe at the exact moment that you’re watching someone sledding down a hill on an oil-pan...
Need a Hand? Prosthetics Can Now Be Printed at Home!
Not sure about you…but pretty sure that having the ability to create our own bad-ass appendages like He-Man’s Trap-Jaw would take precedence over things like eating…sleeping…everything…well almost everything. Ivan Owen created a mechanical...
Dig In! Tokyo Restaurant Features Meals Made with Dirt!
Sometimes you go out for dinner and wonder whether or not the guys in the kitchen are fixing your meal based on your server’s impression of you and using questionable ingredients like forehead sweat just to teach you a lesson. At Ne...
Berserker Attacks Man, Makes Love to Floor, Gets Tased!
BAM! You’re chillin’ at home in front of the television. BAM! BAM! BAM! You hear some kind of resonating thud from outside. You assume it’s thunder or a neighbor and his anvil. BAM! You’re about to be REAL wrong! BAM! BAM! BAM! You hear...
Scotland Decides Ponies in Cardigans Will Boost Tourism: They’re Right
Sometimes towns and even countries have to stretch to lure potential tourist dollars. Occasionally the only thing are some strange promises of something unique about a particular area. We’ve all seen photos of the Giant Ball of (insert...
Crappy Little Beetle Helps Develop True-Color Nightvision!
For two decades Eric Warrant has literally had a pretty crappy job. As a student who specializes in optics at the University of Lund in Sweden, he has been passionately studying the last creature on earth that you’d think of when it came...
Podcast: Help! A Goblin Slept With My Wife!
Andrew is back. Brian is gone. And the one and only Veronica Belmont joins us. Goblins overrrun a Zimbabwe clinic, we take Veronica on quite a tour of our continuing goblin epidemic. We contemplate if a woman would have a neanderthal baby....
Son Takes Dad Home – From the Cemetery!
Clarence Bright passed away at 93 years of age and his corpse was being prepped for burial in his final resting place. Key word in that last sentence? ‘Was’. Just hours before being buried, the body of Clarence Bright went missing. After...
Chimp Gets Cable – Prefers Sexier Premium Channels
While we all wait for the scenes in Planet of the Apes to play out in real-life, a female chimp named Gina will give us all a glimmer of hope that at least a small percentage of our future primate overlords will need us for a little...
18 Severed Heads Discovered at O’ Hare International Airport!
Ever leave the house knowing you forgot…something? We’re wondering what it was like when the guy who was supposed to file paperwork for 18 human heads for medical study realized that he’d forgotten to file paperwork for 18 human heads for...
Disturbing Robot ‘Baby’ Makes Ultra-Realistic Faces – Smiles at the End of Mankind
In our article about the other new toddler robot called Roboy we mentioned Diego-san. Here’s your first look into the robotic wagon-train that’s leaving Uncanny Valley slowly but surely. When John Connor shows up and SkyNet goes live it...
Company Creates Robotic Toddler to Help Us Like Our Future Overlords
Across the globe from the uncanny valley that is Diego-san’s facial expressions, the University of Zurich’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory making another weird foray into the creation of a robot toddler. Roboy is being developing with...
Podcast: Unlimited Snake Murder
Tom Merritt is our substitute Mayne this week. A Brazilian prison is part of an elaborate escape plan with an unlikely partner in crime. A police department in Florida is ensconsed in a cloud of technological suffication to the detrimite...
Giant Squid Caught on Camera in the Wild For the First Time!
Giant squids are legendary. They’ve taken on Moby Dick, Captain Nemo’s Nautilus and even a bunch of Goonies. While giant squids have been captured in the past and alleged parts of them have surfaced here and there…seeing one in the wild...
Sacrificed Animals Wash Up at Luxury Resort in South Beach
We’ve all heard the expression ‘something old is new again’. Well that, and the fact that Florida was apparently created on top of an ancient Hell Mouth of some sort, brings this creepy discovery coming out of Miami. Residents of a...