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The Popsicle Responsible for Miracles & Hallucinations All Over London
If you’ve never heard of ‘The Icecreamists’, a cutting edge ice cream lab/shop/parlor in Covent, London where owner Mark O’ Connor came under fire last year for his breastmilk ice cream. But breastmillk was SO last year. This year, O’...
70-Foot Japanese Dock Makes Landfall… in Oregon
Japan suffered a devastating tsunami in March of 2011. Typically after something like that occurs, an occasional piece of debris will wash up on the shores of other continents following the currents and tides. In the Pacific Northwest an...
This Ugly Blob is the Future of New Materials
That thing pictured over there to the right? That thing that looks like hair from your shower drain or a Giger-inspired coffee mug? It’s a living organism that just might be the future of how we harvest material for all of our tech needs....
Aww…Hail No! Insane Pictures of Hail Swamping Denver
Mama Nature is not happy lately…at all. On June 7th in Denver, Colorado a storm system moving through the area brought hail…a friggin’ massive, omg-worthy amount of hail. Weather Channel reporter Jim Cantore’s Twitter feed exploded with...
Robot Doctor Comforts You Until Your Last Breath in Creepy Art Installation
You’ve had a long life. It’s time to check out. It’s a peaceful time and you know it’s about to come to a quiet conclusion. Everything’s cool and right. You hear a calming voice, “Don’t be afraid. I am here to comfort you.” You sigh. “I am...
Lab Experiment Gone Wrong? Chinese Pig Dog Baffles Chinese Residents
Is this curious pig/dog hybrid creature a runaway from a lab experiment? A new cryptid? A beast of myth and fable? No to the first, probably to the second and hopefully to the third. As it turns out, this little fella is actually a very...
Bite a Face Off Guilt Free with These Bread Heads!
Ever want to experience what it might be to lash out and just bite into another person’s face without taking bath salts or actually biting another person’s face? Well now you can. But you’ll have to travel to Kittiwat Anarrom’s bakery in...
Boy Sits Up at Own Funeral, Asks for Water, Immediately Dies Again
No really…how many of you have been shopping the tool sections of your local hardware stores or hitting up your local big box store for supplies to combat the impending undead parade across the face of the earth? We’re right there with...
Can a Jumping Spider Hunt in Space?
The zebra spider is unique in that it jumps to kill prey instead of spinning a web. But what happens when you remove gravity. How will the spider adapt. Will it realize it now has amazing John Carter of Mars powers and jump all over the...
Insane High Definition Video of Venus Transit
Space seems to be the buzz word right now and if you’ve been following this site or its individual members for any length of time, you’ll know how much weight that word has around this place. On June 5th, the Solar Dynamic Observatory...
Video: Humanoid Robot Swims
Robots. They’re already everywhere just waiting for SkyNet to give the word. Up until now they’ve all been land-based future threats to humanity…up until now. Besides Bruce, the shark from the original Jaws movie, robots that take to water...
Zombie Attacks Continue!
Every time we laugh about a zombie apocalypse another incident bites our lips right off our smiles and reminds us that we should probably stop laughing and start grabbing shovels. This time around what began as a domestic disturbance call...
440 lb. Corpse Proves Too Fatty, Sets Crematorium Ablaze
Ever grill during the summer? Ever notice how much more the flames rage when they hit a nice piece of fat? It’s no different for human beings. A crematorium in Austria caught fire recently not because of an arsonist, not because of some...
African Lake Turns Hot Pink, Is Super, Thanks For Asking
While not quite a fashionable ‘Apocalyptic Red’ color, Lake Retba in Senegal, West Africa does something flamboyantly cool… it turns pink… like awesome strawberry-milk pink. Lake Retba and the Dead Sea were given those names because it...
Insane, Hand Carved Alien Guitar!
With Prometheus landing in practically every cinema this weekend and all the renewed interest in the franchise, it’s not surprising that THIS thing popped up. Gig Goldstein, the artist behind this piece of work, took up carving about 12...
Man Applies Aerosol Sunscreen, Catches Fire in Front of Grill
How many times when you were a kid did you have to listen to some grown-up telling you, “You better put on sunscreen or you’re gonna get burned out there.” Now you have some ammunition explaining why you shouldn’t be smothering your body...
Podcast: Nothing Is Certain Except Death And Tanning
Spiro and The Fudge are back on the case! This time they have to solve a mystery involving a dead murderer who might have been killed by a vigilante. Will they be able to crack the grisly case? Or will Spiro be too busy full body tanning...
Suspected Vampire Skeletons Recovered in Bulgaria
How do you stop a dead man from becoming a vampire? Well, if you lived in Bulgaria during the Middle Ages the easy way to prevent it is to hammer an iron rod through the heart of every corpse before you lay them to their final rest. Two...
Most Morbid Piggy Bank Ever!
Automata have been around for a couple of centuries now. Most of the time they’re enjoyably amazing pieces of craftsmanship that cause people to smile. There’s been a chess-playing automata, an acrobatic automata that does a trapeze act...
Video: Dead Cat Gets Second Life as Helicopter
Cats. They power the internet. They’re always chasing birds and most of the time they fail at it. Birds. They make a lot of noise and mimic/mock everybody including cats that chase them. They have the advantage of flight. That’s all about...