Category: strangeness + randomness

Would you believe there a series of GIANT sized tunnels and control rooms behind the wall of water at Niagara falls? I wouldn’t have until I saw these photos. It…

Last week while driving down to the cottage late one night with Linda, I saw a large black bear sitting by the side of the road (Lac Nick road off…

Arrr… Best SNL skit in the past year… “(Opens with a shot of the Holiday Inn hotel. Cut to an activities board that reads: 1:00 Schwartz Bar Mitzvah 4:00 Real…

A second code superimposed onto the first … props if get the Contact reference. “Researchers believe they have found a second code in DNA in addition to the genetic code….

I can picture a couple very fun uses of a bigger version of this …. “Researchers at Akishima Laboratories (Mitsui Zosen), working in conjunction with professor Shigeru Naito of Osaka…

A few days ago, while in a normal state of mind at a normal part of my day while thinking normal thoughts — something different came to mind. It concerned…

Couple of quotes that I enjoy …. “More fearful demons live in our imagination than ever lived on earth.” — Brad Brown “We must develop and maintain the capacity to…

Found this lovely map compiling much of the info about the show so far. It includes an event timeline, a corporate directory of the Hanso foundation, a map of the…

A story of rogue waves with some nice science of how these giants are created … “The storm was nothing special. Its waves rocked the Norwegian Dawn just enough so…

Some nice photoshopping… “Not such a long time ago, in a galaxy south-east of Paris, there was a battle between myth and reality. The Empire really had struck back –…

“As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis’s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state…

Hell Explained By Chemistry Student “First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are…

“IMAGINE getting inside the mind of a shark: swimming silently through the ocean, sensing faint electrical fields, homing in on the trace of a scent, and navigating through the featureless…

“Researchers monitoring earthquakes in Antarctica have uncovered a surprising source for some mysterious rumblings – singing icebergs. “It’s like something from a horror film,” says Vera Schlindwein, a geophysicist at…

Well, seems this is the 200th post on this site since I’ve put wordpress to use. Amazing at what started as a simple test of WP for work ended up…