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weird things

http://worldofweirdthings.com

A blog that explores the strange, unknown, technology, space and science with a skeptical and analytical eye.

• Added on: Oct 24th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Greg Fish
• Listed in: Science Cultural
• Tags: education science technology Evolution aliens conspiracy theories

Recent Posts

• when self-serving politics hijack good science

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 15:19 in politics, global warming, science, climate change, scientific research, environmentalism

  Today, even mentioning global warming seems to invite ire in the comment sections of any blog or news site as environmentalists and those who deny climate change duke it out with wild abandon. The actual science which found evidence of rapidly increa...

• alien abduction is harder than it looks

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 02:05 in entertainment, humor, cartoons, aliens, alien abduction

  Traveling quadrillions of miles in a flying saucer to kidnap a random human yokel, perform all sorts of grizzly, invasive and hideous experiments on him or her, then do a total memory wipe and restore everything back to its seemingly rightful order s...

• the unfortunate return of dennis sewell

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 03:32 in politics, Evolution, creationism, pundits, pseudoscience, punditry

  You might remember Dennis Sewell, the pundit who penned a hackneyed article about the evils of evolution in The Sunday Times, heavily relying on worn and tried creationist canards, and quoting Ann Coulter as some sort of authority on the theory of na...

• ok, so maybe it’s not exactly the cat’s meow…

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 05:10 in technology, computer science, computer models, cognitive computing

  While the blogosphere and news agencies have been discussing IBM’s claim of simulating the brainpower of a cat cortex and some of us have been discussing its potential use in artificial intelligence development, Dr. Henry Markram, the lead of a...

• strange matter, doomsday and you

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 17:32 in science, physics, particle physics, strange matter, particle colliders

  Good news everybody. The LHC is up and running and already started colliding particles, thought they’re not as powerful as the collider can do when its revved up to full speed, just a measly 900 GeV. Now, I say measly not to be funny but becaus...

• the rhodes trust squares off against wall street

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 03:14 in politics, education, money, business, Wall Street, economics

  Wall Street has three favorite activities. The first is making big, bold bets. The second is making a staggering amount of cash. The third is boasting how its banks employ only the best and the brightest, and they’re more than ready to shell ou...

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Uri Kalish

Amazing!!!

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