by | Mar 7, 2021 | Weirdness
from LiveScience Meteor explodes over Vermont with the force of 440 pounds of TNT It was the size of a bowling ball but exploded like 440 pounds of TNT By Rafi Letzter A meteor streaked through the night sky over Vermont on Sunday (March 7), creating a spectacular...
by | Mar 5, 2021 | Weirdness
from CNBC A sand shortage? The world is running out of a crucial — but under-appreciated — commodity by Sam Meredith Dozens of trucks dump hundreds of thousands of tons of sand on Miami Beach as part of U.S. government measures to protect Florida’s tourist...
by | Mar 2, 2021 | Weirdness
from DNYUZ Did an Alien Life-Form Do a Drive-By of Our Solar System in 2017? By Avi Loeb On Nov. 12, 2018, Avi Loeb, then the chairman of the astronomy department at Harvard, and a young research associate, Shmuel Bialy, published a paper in the highly prestigious...
by | Feb 21, 2021 | Weirdness
from The Daily Beast Inside the World of Backstreet Castrators, Cutters and Eunuch-Makers The Daily Beast reports from the hidden world of backstreet castrations, where people desperate to have genitalia altered or removed undergo risky, illicit operations. by Mark...
by | Feb 1, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from GMA Network Dubai creates ‘space court’ for out-of-this-world disputes DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai announced Monday the creation of a “space court” to settle commercial disputes, as the UAE—which is also sending a probe to Mars—builds its...
by | Jan 31, 2021 | Weirdness
from WIRED What the Arab Spring Can Teach Us About GameStop Ten years ago, democracy protesters used social media to organize against an oppressor. But ultimately, the powerful came out ahead. by NOAM COHEN WHEN I FIRST learned of the campaign by folks on Reddit...
