Oddities, Weird Stuff, Strange Things in Our World.
Imagine you’re a satellite, fulfilling your sacred duty and delivering messages and such around the earth. You’re just sitting there, doing your job, minding your own business, when, WHAM! You’re exploded by a missile. Well, this poor satellite just had that happen to them… India made a move that Prime Minister Narendra Modi said …
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Scientists have dug up a mysterious creature. It used to stalk the sea 430 million years ago. It’s now fossilized and has been excavated. The Sollasina Cthulhu was found in volcanic ash the had built up in what is now Herefordshire, UK, which is famous for preserving both the soft as well as the hard …
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Photo Credit: OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff Mrs. Rose Marie Bentley lived a long life until dying of natural causes at the age of 99. She had five children, three girls, and two boys. “She volunteered during World War II for one of …
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Imagine your in the hospital, for you or a loved one, and the doctor tells you: “There could be a ninety-four percent chance you (or your loved one) could die.” How would you feel when you realized a robot decided that for them? That what we’re close to… How many more steps? A Google-based AI …
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China is pushing forward with cloning. Their goal is to replace police dogs with dogs cloned after the best and brightest dogs currently on the force. Reducing training time due to genetic traits passed on means less expensive police dogs. At least, in theory. The cost of cloning a dog is just as expensive …
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As our world edges closer to a dystopian Cyberpunk future, we mark the small steps it takes. Like digital religion. Can the ClickToPray app bring you closer to God? In January Pope Francis introduced the ClickToPray app. A social-media-esque style app that let you post prayers, click on posted prayers, or leave comments. Every month …
We all care about being healthy. Ok, well most of us do! There is so much information out there today though and you never know what to believe, what is true or fake news, or even what’s legit anymore. Here are a bunch of health myths that may surprise you. You Must Drink X Amount …
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When you work in a crematorium you expect a certain amount of occupational hazards. Excessive heat, exhaust, even mercury in the metals added to a person’s body. Maybe even the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. But what you might not think about as a hazard would be exposure to radiation. A 69-year-old Arizona man …
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Philip K. Dick wrote Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep. Which spawned the loose adaptation Blade Runner. In turn, he launched the Cyberpunk genre of a dystopian future. I wonder if he ever considered this might be the reality so soon. Japanese company Cyber Agent in collaboration with tech giant Sharp has developed tiny robots …
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People are weird, we all know that. But you know what’s more weird? The things we like to smell. Just this morning I was talking to my BFF and she told me that her newest babe, has the stinkiest poop. She told me she liked the smell of her first babe’s poop, but not her …