by | Sep 19, 2020 | Weirdness
from The New York Post Oregon woman holds suspected arsonist at gunpoint as wildfires rage By Natalie O’Neill An Oregon woman forced a suspected arsonist to the ground at gunpoint after she found him on her property with matches, dramatic video footage shows....
by | Sep 17, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from VICE This ‘Living’ Coffin Uses Mushrooms to Compost Dead Bodies The ‘Living Cocoon’ has already been used in one burial, at the Hague By Becky Ferreira HENDRIKX WITH THE ‘LIVING COCOON’ COFFINS. IMAGE: BOB HENDRIKX — LOOP BIOTECH For tens...
by | Sep 15, 2020 | Weirdness
from Futurism Physicist: The Entire Universe Might Be a Neural Network “The idea is definitely crazy, but if it is crazy enough to be true? That remains to be seen.” by VICTOR TANGERMANN It’s not every day that we come across a paper that attempts to...
by | Sep 14, 2020 | Weirdness
from Vanity Fair “It’s a Whole Other Level of Insanity”: How Pandemic Day Traders Are Turning Wall Street Upside Down Sudden spikes in the value of bankrupt Hertz and joke cryptocurrency Dogecoin are upending the market as hobbyist traders on Reddit and Robinhood go...
by | Sep 9, 2020 | Weirdness
from NAUTILUS Welcome to the Next Level of Bullshit The language algorithm GPT-3 continues our descent into a post-truth world. BY RAPHAËL MILLIÈRE One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.” These are the opening words of the...
by | Sep 8, 2020 | Weirdness
from BBC The weird space that lies outside our Solar System By Patchen Barss Voyager 1 crossed over into interstellar space in 2012 100 Astronomical Units from the Sun but it still has the vast Oort Cloud ahead of it (Credit: Nasa/JPL-Caltech) The mysterious dark...
