Americans love their coffee. The invention of a Harvard professor may be just the thing for a quick does of caffeine without the hazards associated with carrying around and consuming hot liquids. The coffee inhaler which might be better described as a a caffeine inhaler as that seems to be its primary function works by [...]
Monday, March 29, 2010
This interesting and some what sad story comes out of a Indiana dairy farm. The trouble started soon after farmer noticed that there was a bubble poking through the water of his manure lagoon. These lagoons are used as a safe way to store the many tons of cow manure until it can be used [...]
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Tragedy strikes. Due to a freak accident with a pizza cutter a pizza lays cut off center. Math to the rescue! The age old question of who gets the most pizza is finally answered. The Pizza conjecture asks who will get the bigger portion of pizza if cuts are made off center. Assuming eaters alternate [...]
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Firsthand photos of the start of a flash flood taken in Bohol, Philippines. It is not often you get to see the quickness and destructive power of something like this actually happen. The images are amazing and very sobering. Be sure to read along with his descriptions and check out the video at the end. [...]
Monday, August 10, 2009
It is safe to say that the Internet has always loved things it can’t explain. There is nothing like a good rumor or random picture to whip various portions of the web into a frenzy. This site has reported on several of them. Cracked as taken a shot, as only they can to debunk some [...]
Monday, March 16, 2009
After being confied to a wheel chair for 20 years, a California man is walking again. According to the report the man was bitten by a Brown Recluse and as a result needed to be hospitalized. After being admitted a nurse noticed a spasm in his leg, upon further testing it was reviled that he had regained some feeling [...]
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Will We Clone a Dinosaur?: Time.com ponders the question. The idea of using old DNA found in ancient blood to rebuild a dinosaur has been around awhile. However, with this new theory would use “pseudogenes”, copies of old discarded genes to effectively step back in time. This concept combined with several others could prove to key to recreating a long extinct [...]
Friday, February 6, 2009
Gentleman, behold! A new feature arrives for icftw! I’ve realized for awhile I’m only capable of seeing a tiny fraction of the weird stories that appear on the web. In an effort to help remedy this we’ve added a link submission feature. If you would like to submit a weird news story or picture simply [...]
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
A recent discovery by an under sea treasure hunters is believed to be The HMS Victory, which at the time it was lost at see, the mightiest and most technically advanced warships. The HMS Victory was lost in 1744. The ship was found far from where historians originally believed it to have sank.
Friday, January 16, 2009
An amazing series of natural fractal photographs by Hector Garrido. I’m always floored by some of these discoveries. Just like computer generated fractals the are all similar, but with striking differences. All it takes is a little luck and often times a different view point. A birds eye view makes all the difference. The fractals are apparently quite common once [...]
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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