Just Plain WEIRD #2
Sixty-four-year-old lands in field after grabbing ejection handle to steady himself, French air investigators find. By Guardian staff – 2020 Apr 13 – A 64-year-old man accidentally pulled the ejection handle during a spin in a French fighter jet. Photograph: Dominic Favre/EPA – …
By Katie Hunt, CNN 2020 Apr 09 – Paleontologists crossing the Río Yurúa in Amazonian Perú, with the Santa Rosa fossil site in the background. – A crew of now-extinct monkeys made a treacherous transatlantic journey on a natural raft from …
By Ben Coxworth – An early version of the U-CAT sea turtle robot. Tallinn University of Technology. – Marine aquaculture pens have to be regularly checked for holes, plus the fish need to be inspected for disease or parasites. And although the job is …
Ski towns and luxury retreats report rising number of cases amid concern hospitals could be overwhelmed by coronavirus patients. Medical personnel take medical samples at a ‘drive-thru’ coronavirus testing lab in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images. By Amanda …
By Stephan Roget 2020 Mar 30 – Amid the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020, it shouldn’t come as news to anyone that markets will occasionally run short of something, and not just the staples like food, water, and toilet paper – sometimes it’s …
Crinolines, by design, made physical contact nearly impossible. Hulton Archive/Stringer via Getty Images. – By Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Visiting Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University – As the world grapples with the coronavirus outbreak, “social distancing” has become a buzzword of these strange times. …
In scary and uncertain times, having a stockpile can feel soothing. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren. By Stephanie Preston – Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan – The media is replete with COVID-19 stories about people clearing supermarket shelves – and the backlash …
OK is an editorial joke run wild. (Photo: ClassicStock/Corbis) – By Rachel Nuwer – SmithsonianMag.Com – “OK” is one of the most common words in the English language, but linguistically it’s a relative newbie. It’s just 150 years old, and traces its roots …
Depending on where you’re from, you say words like ‘basil’ a specific way. Leonie Broekstra/Shutterstock.com. By Christine Mallinson, Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture and Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Curious Kids is a …
A volcano in California is a hot spot for conspiracy theorists. By Paul Ratner – Lenticular cloud over Mount Shasta. February 12, 2020. Photo Credit: Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Unusual UFO-shaped formations were observed in the skies over Mount Shasta. These were actually lenticular …
