Fragments
Digital folklore, cursed commercials, lost broadcasts, robot bands, and other things that show up when the rest of the world is asleep.
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The Bloop: Strange Noises In The Ocean Deep
Did you know that The Bloop’s origin lies only 950 nautical miles away from the lost city of R’lyeh, of…
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The Curiosity Rover Took A Picture Of A Rock On Mars, And People Think It Might Be Sasquatch
A recent image captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows us an oddly shaped rock in an official NASA photograph of…
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Time Travel “Evidence” Discovered In 1995 Boxing Footage
What did I say, time travelers? All those years ago? What’s the number one rule of time travel that every…
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Room 217 and the Strange Hauntings of The Stanley Hotel
As the location that inspired The Shining, the Stanley Hotel is notorious for bizarre and unexplained paranormal activity. Each of…
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Scientists Debate Whether Or Not We Live Inside A Computer Simulation
In 2016, the Hayden Planetarium hosted the 17th annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, with the topic focusing on one of…
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Bioshock Infinite: Truth from Legend, Fact from Myth
Here I am again, hunched over a laptop in the middle of the night, wondering how it’s already been three…
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Video: Crushed Between Two Portals Experiment (Portal 2)
The Portal series. Easily two of my favorite PC games, and mind-blowing when you really think about them. Maybe even…
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YouTube Compression Can Be Creepy
Feast your eyes on this digital abomination: the result of a single video uploaded, downloaded, then re-uploaded to YouTube 1,000…
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Edison’s Talking Dolls Speak Once More
In 1890, Thomas Edison unleashed his infamous talking dolls – the first of their kind, each containing a phonograph with…
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Is Every Electron in the Universe Actually the Same One?
What if every electron in the universe is actually the exact same electron? This idea, called the one-electron universe, came up during a…