Fragments
Digital folklore, cursed commercials, lost broadcasts, robot bands, and other things that show up when the rest of the world is asleep.
Cordyceps: The Most Terrifying Fungus You’ve Ever Seen
Think zombie apocalypses are impossible? Wrong! They happen all the time. To insects. Meet Cordyceps. This is a fungus that…
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A Different Kind of Time Travel: The Music of Today, Yesterday!
I don’t want to spoil the pure awesome that is Bioshock Infinite, but one of the coolest things about the…
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Top 5 Minecraft Science Experiments
Sure, the world of Minecraft can be a pretty dark place. Old, abandoned fortresses, strange urban legends, maybe even a…
The Arecibo Message: Humanity’s Attempt At Reaching Out to Other Worlds
On November 16, 1974, SETI researchers at the Arecibo radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, beamed a message into space.…
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The World’s Earliest Surviving Photograph
There’s something haunting about the world’s earliest surviving photograph. It was created by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce around 1826, titled View…
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Spirit Photography (Or, Ghosts On Film)
In the 1860s, William H. Mumler found something strange in one of his photographs: the ghostly image of someone who…
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The Shag Harbour Incident Of 1967
On the evening of October 4, 1967, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police received several phone calls regarding a possible airplane…
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HDR: The “Real” Time Machine
This is a [crude drawing of a] Hyper Dimensional Resonator, also known as an HDR. Invented in 1985, this device…
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Woman Tries (And Fails) To Shut Down Large Hadron Collider
A German woman has failed to successfully shut down CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), after taking her case to court…
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Stephen Hawking’s Time Traveler Party
On June 28th 2009, Stephen Hawking threw a party, but no one came. He’d set the table, threw up some…