Just Plain WEIRD #2
Recognition as ‘interested persons’ is a legal first in the US, allowing animals to have their interests heard in court. Hippos in the lake on the former private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. Photograph: Fernando Vergara/AP – Associated Press First published on …
A curator at the British Museum details the spooky find in a new book. The tablet depicts a male ghost being led back to the afterlife, curator Irving Finkel says. Photo: British Museum / Line drawing: James Fraser and Chris Cobb for The …
The Spiritus is a two-seater that Daymak plans to offer in two very different specs – Daymak. View 2 Images – By C.C. Weiss 2021 Oct 20 – Canada’s Daymak launched a crowdfunding campaign back in March to get its ambitious Spiritus high-performance electric …
Analysis of wood from timber-framed buildings in Newfoundland shows Norse-built settlement 471 years before Columbus. The Icelandic sagas depict a Viking presence in North America, led by Leif Erikson in a place called Vinland. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo – Reuters Last modified on …
Every particle of normal matter has an antimatter equivalent. Flashmovie/Depositphotos View 7 Images – By Michael Irving 2021 Oct 15 – It sounds like sci-fi: normal matter has an “evil twin” that annihilates as soon as the two come into contact. But this antimatter is …
Meter-long relic, encrusted with marine organisms, is believed to be about 900 years old. – Reuters in Caesarea Last modified on 2021 Oct 18 – A sword believed to have belonged to a crusader who sailed to the Holy Land almost a millennium …
“There’s nothing in the taste that tells you what you are eating is about to kill you.” By Craig Childs, The Atlantic – Between a sidewalk and a cinder-block wall grew seven mushrooms, each half the size of a doorknob. Their silver-green caps …
Computer Space was innovative, but how was it to play? Ed Fries, CC BY-ND – By Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Professor of Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz 2021 Oct 11 – Before Pong there was Computer Space, the first commercial video game. The …
Cordycepin in its natural form. cendeced/Depositphotos – By Nick Lavars 2021 Oct 10 – By using a compound derived from a Himalayan fungus and used for centuries in Chinese medicine as a jumping off point, scientists have developed a new chemotherapy drug with powerful …
By Edward Helmore Last modified on 2021 Oct 10 – Zachary Horwitz ran a five-year scam that defrauded wealthy investors of at least $227m by claiming to be in licensing deals with Netflix and HBO. It’s a tale about a Hollywood grifter that …
