Category Archives: Weird Science

An ocean away from Stockholm where the real Nobel Prizes were announced this week, paper airplanes bombarded the stage of Harvard’s Sanders Theater Thursday night, as 10 of the world’s most hilarious achievements were honored — and heckled — at … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON — The ozone layer has stopped shrinking, but it will take decades to start recovering, US scientists reported yesterday. The specialists credited, at least in part, the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which was ratified by more than 180 nations and … Continue reading →

Ross Gelspan, in the Boston Globe, argues that not only Katrina but all the weird weather we’ve been experiencing, are by-products of global warming, and he’s not a crackpot… THE HURRICANE that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the … Continue reading →

Check out this synopis for a second-tier cable movie which appeared two months ago (how did we miss it!). Does anyone out there happen to have a copy? Oil Storm examines what happens when a Category 6 hurricane in the … Continue reading →

LOS ANGELES — Astronomers announced yesterday that they have discovered a new planet larger than Pluto in orbit around the sun. The unnamed planet would be the 10th in the solar system, although there are scientists who dispute the classification … Continue reading →

A sculpted and polished phallus found in a German cave is among the earliest representations of male sexuality ever uncovered, researchers say. The 20cm-long, 3cm-wide stone object, which is dated to be about 28,000 years old, was buried in the … Continue reading →

This past spring, in a secluded patch of forest in northwest Louisiana’s Caddo Parish, a singularly bizarre bit of evolution unfolded. There, amid the sun-dappled pines and flitting birds, a pair of 40-something chimpanzees named Rita and Teresa — lifetime … Continue reading →

BISMARCK, N.D. – The Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the deaths of thousands of young white pelicans at the Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge in central North Dakota, a year after thousands of adult birds abruptly left the refuge. … Continue reading →

PASADENA, California — It sounded like science fiction — NASA scientists used a space probe to chase down a speeding comet 83 million miles away and slammed it into the frozen ball of dirty ice and debris in a mission … Continue reading →

Our old college buddy and ethnobotanist Wade Davis wrote the book on Haitian Zombie Powder (The Serpent and the Rainbow). Now, scientists in Pittsburg, of all places, have peeled back the veil of death and refused to let dead dogs … Continue reading →

In the 1960’s John C. Lilly pioneered the concept of the human brain as an organic computer, executing set behavioral progrrams when presented with certain situations. In his seminal paper, "Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer", he asserted that … Continue reading →

Tomorrow, barring delay or mishap, a U.S. filmmaker, an international association of space buffs and Russian aerospace organizations will use a leftover Soviet ballistic missile to put the first "solar sail" into orbit. This unusual device, which looks like a … Continue reading →