Science Codex | Science news, science articles, all day, every day 10 Mysterious Urban Legends Based on Video Footage Mysteries An urban legend is a term used to describe a tale that has been passed down over the years. It is usually presented as a true story and evolves over time. Urban legends follow modern trends and represent current anomalies, such as alien encounters, unexplained animals, botched medical producers, theft, murder, weird pictures, and bizarre videos. Urban legends usually present a cautionary tale and have a specific plot. The Grifter is an urban legend that began to circulate on the Internet in 2009. It has been said that the video was recorded in the 1930s and portrays a collection of strange pictures and sounds. A few years back a video surfaced on the Internet of a police chase in Garden City, Georgia that has been dubbed the ghost car. The driver was never captured and it was revealed that the area beyond the fence was wooded with no roads. The body language of Squidward is depressed. Chaplin Time Travel Video Cuero, Texas Chupacabra
MeCam $49 helicopter follows you and streams live video to your Android A company you've probably heard of before called Always Innovating is working on a pretty awesome little project for smartphones. It's called the MeCam and is essentially a mini helicopter they're calling a Nano-Copter complete with video recording and streaming capabilities. The MeCam is designed to follow you around and record every moment. You can stream that video right to your Android phone and even share it to your social site of preference or YouTube. This is instantly one of those "shut up and take my money" devices because it looks awesome. The best part about this quadcopter is Always Innovating hopes to eventually sell this unique device for just $49. The MeCam will be your own personal paparazzi, or your cheaper alternative for Google Glass - since that will be costing an arm and a leg. [via Liliputting]
20 Animals You Won't Believe Actually Exist. One of Them Will Haunt You Forever. Posted Apr 24, by Val Liarikos The Red-Lipped Batfish walks around the bottom of the ocean floor walking on its fins. Yes, these things can walk. The Peacock Mantis Shrimp can deliver a punch that is just as powerful as a gunshot. Okapis are closest related to the giraffe family. The Pacu Fish seems to have a set of human teeth. The Panda Ant is actually a species of wasp. The Narwhal is found in the Arctic. The Blind Snake might scare you for what it resembles, but have no fear, it has no eyes. The Umbonia Spinosa is believed to be related to the cicada. The Lowland Streaked Tenrec is found in Madagascar. The Hummingbird Hawk-Moth might look strange, but it's really just an insect that feeds on flowers. The Blue Dragon has a gas filled sac in its stomach. The Shoebill can be 110cm-152cm. The Venezuelan Poodle Moth remains fairly unstudied, but based on it's looks, you can't trust it. The Giant Isopod is so big because many of them expirience "deep sea gigantism." by Val Liarikos yesterday
11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks Science comes up with a lot of awesome stuff, and you don't need a Ph.D, a secret lab, or government funding to get your hands on some of the coolest discoveries. We've got a list of 11 mostly affordable gifts that are guaranteed to blow your mind, whether or not you're a science geek. Click on any image to see it enlarged. 1. Aerogel Also known as frozen smoke, Aerogel is the world's lowest density solid, clocking in at 96% air. Aerogel isn't just neat, it's useful. Price: $35 2. Inside these sealed glass balls live shrimp, algae, and bacteria, all swimming around in filtered seawater. EcoSpheres came out of research looking at ways to develop self-contained ecosystems for long duration space travel. Price: $80 3. NASA has been trying to figure out how to get a sample of rock back from Mars for a while now. Every once in a while, a meteorite smashes into Mars hard enough to eject some rocks out into orbit around the sun. Price: $70+ 4. Price: $150 5. Price: $110 6. Price: $80 7. Price: $15 8.
Voices - Therese J. Borchard - Beyond Blue “Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I” wrote US songwriter Lorenz Hart about the feeling of infatuation. It’s blissful and euphoric, as we all know. But it’s also addicting, messy and blinding. Click here to continue reading this post. When does reciting scripture become a symptom of neurosis? Click here to continue reading this post. One of my mom’s best pieces of advice: “Hang with the winners.” Click here to continue reading this post. For people prone to depression and anxiety – i.e. human beings – the holidays invite countless possibility to get sucked into negative and catastrophic thinking. Click here to continue reading this post. 10 Bizarre Events and Discoveries Many strange and unexplained events have been documented in modern history, events that raise important questions and baffle world populations. These events are often times initiated by a bizarre archeological discovery, strange recording, or unsolved murder. This article will be describing 10 strange and bizarre world events and discoveries. The humanzee is a hypothetical chimpanzee and human hybrid. The DNA sequence of a human is very similar to a chimpanzee. Research conducted by J. Many reports have indicated that Oliver prefers human females over chimps. Unexplained Geoglyph The Marree Man, or Stuart's Giant, is an enormous geoglyph discovered by air on June 26, 1998. In the weeks following the discovery, several anonymous press releases suggested that the Marree Man was created by people from the United States. The plaque was discovered in the suggested location. Unexplained Explosion Recorded On July 16, 1945 the first nuclear weapon was tested near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
300-million-year-old UFO tooth-wheel found in Russian city of Vladivostok Nowadays, finding a strange artifact in coal is a relatively frequent occurrence. The first discovery of this sort was made in 1851 when the workers in one of the Massachusetts mines extracted a zinc silver-incrusted vase from a block of unmined coal which dated all the way back to the Cambrian era which was approximately 500 million years ago. Sixty one years later, American scientists from Oklahoma discovered an iron pot which was pressed into a piece of coal aged 312 million years old. The metal detail which was recently found by Vladivostok resident is yet another discovery which perplexed the scientists. When geologists broke the piece of coal in which the metal object was pressed into and spot-treated in with special chemical agents, it turned out that the metal detail was unusually light and soft. Another question that interests Russian scientists is whether the aluminum alloy is of Earthly origin.
Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) Sources: All of the information in this essay came from A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, and Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James W. Loewen, both of which uses primary sources such as eyewitness accounts, journal entries, and letters from Christopher Columbus himself. A very important note about Bartolomé de las Casas and the African slave trade This issue keeps coming up and, despite my footnotes, I keep seeing commentary about it so I'm going to address it here. Initially, Bartolomé de las Casas advocated the use of African slaves instead of native labor. I soon repented and judged myself guilty of ignorance. I know that the discovery of the New World means a lot of different things to a lot of different cultures. But please, oh please do not call it Columbus Day. Less than a year after the publication of this comic, Columbus Day was renamed to Indigenous People's Day in Seattle.
4 Practical Philosophies That Will Empower You Philosophy is a fascinating branch of wisdom. However these esoteric ideas are sometimes difficult to translate into practical application. What are all of those thoughts, suppositions and theories actually good for? Today I want to examine with you four philosophical ideas that have influenced my life in a very positive way. 1) Friedrich Nietzsche – Eternal Recurrence The Idea Several times throughout his works, Nietzsche talks about the thought experiment of eternal recurrence. Does the idea of eternal recurrence – that every moment of your life will repeat itself into eternity – leave you shivering with fear or with joy; whether you are living life fully everyday or just waiting for better times to come. Heaven or hell, you decide Let’s also assume that the life you are currently living is not simply one of the repetitions but is actually your first time around. 2) Socrates – No One Does Wrong Willingly Socrates believed that we always do either what brings pleasure or diminished pain.
No Conflict: Transparency and Morals Consider this scenario: You have been sick for some time, more debilitated by the month, and doctors are scratching their heads. Finally, in pain and exhausted, you find a specialist who figures it out. Your ailment is very serious, but the good news is that it can be treated with a new drug. The doctor writes a prescription, but as he hands it to you, he says: “Just so you know, the company that makes this drug also funds a research project of mine.” This is a classic conflict-of-interest, and most people would applaud this physician for voluntarily disclosing his personal interest here. Or do you head to the pharmacy? Many would head to the pharmacy, despite knowing of their doctor’s conflict. Does that mean that mandatory disclosure of conflicts is a bad idea? You are involved in a complex legal case, and have already spent a lot of money on legal fees. This is a case of unavoidable conflict, whereas the medical case above is a case of avoidable conflict. Disclosure backfired.
Strange Artifacts, The Stone Spheres of Costa Rica Introduction One of the strangest mysteries in archaeology was discovered in the Diquis Delta of Costa Rica. Since the 1930s, hundreds of stone balls have been documented, ranging in size from a few centimetres to over two meters in diameter. Some weigh 16 tons. Balls in the Courtyard of National Museum, San José, Costa Rica. The spheres number over 300. The stones may have come from the bed of the , to where they were transported by natural processes from sources of parent material in the Talamanca mountains. Debunking the "Mystery" of the Stone Balls by John W. The stone balls of Costa Rica have been the object of pseudoscientific speculations since the publication of Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods in 1971. Although some of these authors are often represented as having "discovered" these objects, the fact is that they have been known to scientists since they first came to light during agricultural activities by the United Fruit Company in 1940. Frequently Asked Questions
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