by | May 17, 2014 | Literary News, Weirdness
from The New York Times Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm By JENNIFER MEDINA A sophomore at the university, Bailey Loverin, and others have formally called for “trigger warnings” on class syllabuses that would flag potentially traumatic subject...
by | May 16, 2014 | Weirdness
from The Daily Mail Are these mystery radio bursts messages from ALIENS? Freak frequency from outside the Milky Way baffles astronomers By JONATHAN O’CALLAGHAN In 1967 British astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell was left stunned by mysterious pulsing signals she...
by | May 8, 2014 | Weirdness
from CBS DC Psychologist: YouTube Has Become Tutorial For Kids On How To Act Violent by Regina F. Graham WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – Researchers and psychologists have long questioned what kind of effects violent television shows, song lyrics and video games have had on...
by | Apr 30, 2014 | Mirth, Weirdness
from The Guardian Rotting dead whale washes up in Canadian town – video A dead blue whale washed into the Trout river in Newfoundland, Canada, is expanding and causing a stench as it slowly rots. Locals are concerned the 25-metre mammal may explode, as can happen when...
by | Apr 29, 2014 | Weirdness
from The New York Times Museumgoers Wonder: Why Doesn’t the Whale Fall? By STUART MILLER From right, Roman Pacheco and his cousins visiting from Ecuador, Nancy and Marco Pacheco, look up at the massive blue whale suspended from the ceiling of the Hall of Ocean Life at...
by | Apr 15, 2014 | Weirdness
from Breitbart KFC CHICKEN CORSAGE BEING SOLD JUST IN TIME FOR PROM SEASON by BREITBART NEWS LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 14 (UPI) — As part of a partnership between KFC and Nanz and Kraft Florists, prom-goers who want to bring their date something special now have...
