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 slices. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Pondering what it would be like to live on a island in middle of nowhere? The approximately 270 inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha don’t see to mind living on the most remote island in the world. There are a handful of other extremely remote locations on earth but they are uninhabited. If you are shooting for as much space between [...]
A recent unexplained explosion has UFO experts and enthusiasts excited over the possibility of a crash and explosion Linchlnshire, England. However, new information from Ministery of Defense insiders said that a delta wing UAV Tanaris was making test flights along the costal bombing ranges of Donna Nook and North Coates in Lincolnshire. The crash and [...]
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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