Just Plain WEIRD #2
Messerschmitt KR-202 Sport. Messerschmitt Werke – By C.C. Weiss 2021 May 03 – A few years back, a German team resurrected the adorable Messerschmitt microcar as an electric-assist two-man Velomobile. At the time, some people wondered why it didn’t just skip the pedals, drop …
The billion-year-old multicellular microfossil was found at Loch Torridon in the Scottish Highlands. grafxart/Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2021 May 02 – Scientists have discovered the fossil of what may be the earliest multicellular animal ever found. Dating back a billion years, the microscopic …
Deep in southwest Arkansas is a state park that charges visitors $10 to search for gems that can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Courtesy of Crater of Diamonds State Park – By Katherine LaGrave 2021 May 05 – Share this Article …
The UK’s Royal Marines put the Gravity jet suit to “very successful” use in ship boarding demo exercises. Gravity Industries – By Loz Blain 2021 May 04 – Jet suits, jetpacks, jetboards … The new range of crazy personal flight devices all share some …
The Puritans saw May Day celebrations as a test from God. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images – By Peter C. Mancall, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences 2021 Apr 29 – …
Financial bubbles are frequently depicted as manias. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images – By Gayle Rogers, Professor and chair of English, University of Pittsburgh 2021 Apr 30 – In the late 1990s, America experienced a dot-com mania. In the 2000s, the housing …
A novel lawsuit is taking advantage of a local ‘rights of nature’ measure passed in November in an effort to protect wetlands. The Florida lawsuit is part of a growing trend around the world of laws protecting rights of nature. Photograph: Jupiterimages/Getty Images …
Faster than light travel is the only way humans could ever get to other stars in a reasonable amount of time. Les Bossinas/NASA/Wikimedia Commons – By Mario Borunda, Associate Professor of Physics, Oklahoma State University 2021 Apr 23 – The closest star to …
A map of the Milky Way gathered from Gaia data. ESA/Gaia/DPAC – By Michael Irving 2021 Apr 28 – Antimatter is the strange, evil twin of regular matter, and it’s thought to have been mostly banished from our universe. But could it still be …
Companies could soon tailor what they try to sell you based on the mood conveyed by the sound of your voice. CSA-Printstock via Getty Images – By Joseph Turow, Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Media Systems & Industries, University of Pennsylvania 2021 Apr …
