WTF Wednesday - Round 91
I'm afraid this one's getting posted a little late, since I was also late with last week's. If you're viewing this, you can also access week 90, which has some glorious stuff in it. Before I begin, I just want to say that NEXT week will be Halloween week! So I'll have plenty of weird goodies for you, but if you have any links of your own you want to share, please pass them my way... let's begin:
Let's start off with a sparkly ray of WTF. Here are 10 divorce stories too strange to make up. They start off epic (with the LITERAL splitting of assets, right down to sawing the house in half) and keep on going.
Atlantis found? Well... maybe. Seems that scientists have found a long since sunk city and the years match up to when Plato said the big one went down. The article goes on to list other prime pieces of realty where Atlantis might be hiding, if this is bupkiss.
HALO, THE POOL PLAYING DOG. Love him. It's funny... because if you watch long enough, he's apparently lining up his shots.
In other strides for science this past week, algae and light help injured mice walk again. I kinda love how the article starts: "In the summer of 2007, a team of Stanford graduate students dropped a mouse into a plastic basin. The mouse sniffed the floor curiously. It didn’t seem to care that a fiber-optic cable was threaded through its skull. Nor did it seem to mind that the right half of its motor cortex had been reprogrammed. One of the students flipped a switch and intense blue light shone through the cable into the mouse’s brain, illuminating it with an eerie glow. Instantly, the mouse began running in counterclockwise circles as though hell-bent on winning a murine Olympics. Then the light went off, and the mouse stopped. Sniffed. Stood up on its hind legs and looked directly at the students as if to ask, “Why the hell did I just do that?” And the students whooped and cheered like this was the most important thing they’d ever seen." Some heavier science reading in this one, but ain't science a doll?
EDIT: WHOOPS. MAYBE SHOULD HAVE SAVED THIS FOR NEXT WEEK. Changed my mind, knocking this one out. If you saw it, pretend you didn't next week.
WHAT IS THIS, SPEED RACER??
Loving this study: Violent movies reduce real-life violence: "Simply, this is because the more violent of us, those who would be more likely to commit assault, are in the cinemas watching the film instead of on the streets looking for trouble!"
This video pretty much sums up some of the prime examples why hispanic television is some of the weirdest in the world. I offer you no explanations for "mister T por athclon"... especially since he's talking in Portuguese, so I understand even less than usual.
D'awww... I want to shake my fist and laugh at the same time. Meanest driver in the world makes me worried as a pedestrian... but also apparently caused this dude to lose his job, so it all comes out to even in the end.
OH HAY WOW DISNEY. So I think you've all heard of that lemmings will jump off cliffs, either to the desire to find food, or a mating thing, or random suicide, or any other bunches of reasons. And you've heard the phrase that when someone is a lemming, they're basically a dumb ass who follows the crowd. You may or may not have heard that lemmings aren't really suicidal and you PROBABLY didn't know that Disney were the ones who propagated the myth... by throwing lemmings off a cliff in a 1958 documentary, to show their "suicidal" behavior... OH SHI-. WHAT MIGHT THEY HAVE DONE IN MARCH OF THE PENGUINS?!?
Dog thinks he's a rabbi. 'Nuff said. XD
ONE LAST HURRAH FOR SCIENCE TODAY. Here are 6 most badass stunts ever pulled in the name of science. I hope at LEAST one guy was shrieking, "FOR SCIIIIENCE!" as they did their respective acts.
I'M SURE YOU ALL WANTED TO KNOW WHAT JAPANESE SPIDERMAN WAS LIKE. And now you know. First of all: baller theme song. Secondly... it's not complete without the random mecha!
Man, this is almost as good as the Batman music I posted up about this time last year. Matrix the musical. Admit it, you dig it.
7 man-made substances that laugh in the face of physics. YEAH. FUCK YOU PHYSICS. I hope I typed that loud enough that my undergrad Physics' professor heard me. D<
And to end, it's an article from serke... despite the disappoint of last week's fake big animal, here's a real one. Some of you may remember the super muscular cows from waaay early in the linkies. Those cows have nothing on this one. Holy hell, I would be a little scared to stand next to him.