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Help Brian Brushwood Launch Scam Stuff and Get Some Awesome Stuff!!!
Go to IndieGoGo and support this project Here’s Brian’s explanation of what it’s all about: What’s This All About Anyway? Hey all, Brian Brushwood here, host of Scam School on the Revision3 network. For the past four years, the Scam School...
Disturbingly Detailed 17th Century Wax Anatomy Models Go On Display!
Long before we were able to see inside people with x-rays, tiny cameras or accurate 3D models doctors still had to know what pieces we were made up and where they went. Students learning anatomy didn’t always have the luxury of a bunch of...
Interactive Look Inside Space X’s Dragon Capsule!
If you’ve been following WeirdThings for any length of time now, you know that every time space exploration is mentioned we grab our big, pointy-fingered, foam hand and start fist-pumping toward the heavens. Most of us are never going to...
“Transformers! Roll Out!” Life-Saving, Wind-Powered Landmine Destroyer!
The Mine Kafon (teaser) from Callum Cooper on Vimeo. Looking like a cross between a Transformer sea anemone robot and a giant 1960s-styled light fixture in some swank space-lounge of that era, this strange-looking object is set to save a...
Entrepreneur Continues Hunt for Sasquatch with Airship
William Barnes calls himself an “idea man” and this is one idea we enthusiastically endorse. Barnes is equipping an airship to hover over the Pacific Northwest in a hope to find the beast they call Sasquatch. His passion stems from a...
Podcast: No Stop Space Drop
Felix Baumgartner is amazing, but seriously, what comes next? The boys make their guesses. Killjoy scientists try and kill our dinosaur dreams. Because they hate joy. And want to kill it. But fear not! Andrew has a plan that can not only...
Elon Musk Hints at New Mystery Rocket
During interviews on SpaceX’s current and near-future plans for the company, both Elon Musk and SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell have made allusions to a much larger rocket than the Falcon Heavy they plan on launching next year. The Falcon...
Did a Trail Camera Capture a Passing Zombie?
We are pretty sure this picture from a trail camera in Luneberg County, VA is either not real or some kind of lighting trick. But also… HOLY SMOKES THAT’S A ZOMBIE! THE END IS NIGH! Thanks to reader J Lowder Jr. for sending this along....
A Whole New World [The Walking Dissection]
Imagine you have an alcoholic uncle. He and your dad were always close and even though he’d embarrass himself sometimes it was always funny and never tragic. But over the last few years things got worse. He borrowed money, burned through...
Possible Chinese Rage Virus? Man Chews Other Man’s Arm Over Subway Seat!
Here in the states, Bath-Salt Zombie activity has gone into a lull as everyone following the gruesome trend keeps a wary eye out for the next crazy-looking person who reeks of ‘Blossoming Garden Jasmine’ and keeps eyeballing your body like...
Multiple Yeti Sighted In Russia!
Russia has become a hotbed of Yeti activity over the last couple of weeks. And what’s more awesome than seeing a Yeti? Seeing a group of Yeti. In those last couple of weeks the sightings of Bigfoot’s Siberian cousin, two have included...
The Walking Dead Will Again Become the Best, Most Important, Genre Show on TV Tonight
This is the PRO half of PRO/CON pair of columns talking about expectations for the upcoming season of The Walking Dead beginning tonight at 9 p.m. on AMC. Unless you are on Dish Network. In that case you’re screwed. It has to be better....
The Walking Dead is a Disappointment and Will Continue to be a Disappointment
This is the CON half of PRO/CON pair of columns talking about expectations for the upcoming season of The Walking Dead beginning tonight at 9 p.m. on AMC. Unless you are on Dish Network. In that case you’re screwed. The Walking Dead is big...
Doctors Put Woman’s Skull In Her Belly!
Hell’s Canyon is a name where you actually expect weird stuff to happen on a regular basis. Knowing that Hell’s Canyon is in Idaho only makes it worse. For 36 year-old American beauty queen Jamie Hilton it got worse. During a fishing trip...
Podcast: SpaceX Launch Live!
Andrew is live in Cape Canaveral to watch SpaceX launch their first supply mission to the International Space Station and he is joined by CBS’ Molly Wood! Justin is live at TWiT’s studio in Petaluma, CA and is joined by Tom Merritt. Brian...
Fresh Giant Eyeball Found on Beach Still Bleeding!
[ UPDATE: Giant Eye Mystery Solved! ] Florida always seems like it’s sitting on some kind of undiscovered Hell-Mouth. Between Bath-Salt Zombies, giant snakes slithering through your lawn, Night Creepers and lizards eating humans there’s...
Farmer Killed and Eaten By His Own Pigs!
It was totally bound to happen. People have been enjoying the sweet nectar of pork we all afftectionately refer to as bacon on a overly indulgent basis for a long, long time. Forget the dead rising up to walk amongst us and gnaw on our...
Who Needs DNA to Bring Back the T-Rex?
New research from scientists presenting in Proceedings of the Royal Society has put a damper on getting viable DNA from samples older than 8.5 million years. In studying fossilized moa bones, they discovered a half-life for DNA of about...
Podcast: Mind Control the Old Fashioned Way
Has mysterious device that has a major city in a panic fallen into the wrong hands? The infection that affects millions of people every day and replicates every second could be permanently changing the brain of someone you love! Can we...
Woman Grows Ear on Her Arm to Replace Her Missing Ear!
We’ve seen tissues and body parts grown in petri dishes before. Nothing new, right? Now we’ve seen a human being’s own body used as a petri dish to grow a body part for her own body! Sherrie Walters, a woman from Baltimore, has become that...