by | Sep 28, 2016 | Weirdness
from Atlas Obscura This 84-Year-Old Retiree Wants ‘the Internet’ to See a Massive Mushroom He Found Don Smith is proud. By Erik Shilling You may not be able to tell from the photo, but, as his granddaughter wrote on Facebook, Don Smith is a very happy man....
by | Sep 17, 2016 | Weirdness
by | Sep 13, 2016 | Weirdness
from Atlas Obscura The Pitch Drop Experiment Begun 82 years ago, this science experiment keeps on going, ever so slowly. University of Queensland Physics Museum Begun in 1927 by Professor Thomas Parnell, this experiment was meant to reveal the surprising properties...
by | Sep 11, 2016 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Nautilus The Brief, Mystical Reign of the Wax Cadaver Early medical models of human anatomy shrouded death in feminine beauty. BY JOANNA EBENSTEIN Image courtesy of Museo Della Specola, Florence, Italy / Bridgeman Images Toward the end of the 18th century, in a...
by | Sep 9, 2016 | Weirdness
from New Scientist Ocean worlds: The search for life in the solar system’s other seas Our best chance to find alien life lies in the vast oceans inside the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter – and we don’t have to leave Earth to start looking By Joshua Sokol Valerii...
by | Sep 8, 2016 | Weirdness
from Real Clear Science The Math Behind Never-Repeating Patterns By Priya Subramanian Penrose tiling. PrzemekMajewski, CC BY-SA Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians...
