Offbeat Studies
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3AM Finds
When Frogs Flew In 1997
The year is 1997. The first DVD players have just released in the U.S., Tamagotchis are flying off store shelves,…
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Weekly Doomscrolls
[Weeklies] Turtle Premonitions and Electronic Music
Welcome to Weeklies, where I recap some of the weird links I’ve shared on the homepage over the past week!…
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Weekly Doomscrolls
[Weeklies] Past Life Studies and More AI Nightmares
Welcome to Weeklies, where I recap my favorite links I’ve shared on the homepage over the past week! Check back…
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Video Games
Scientists Taught Mini-Brains How to Play Exactly Half Of Pong
What do you think was the first game the “mini-brains” living in petri dishes over in Melbourne, Australia ever played?…
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3AM Finds
25 Days of Mold Turning Jell-O Into an Alien Landscape
Are you a fan of spores, molds, and fungus? I knew it. Here’s a timelapse video of mold growing on…
What Are Doppelgangers? Your Mysterious, Ghostly Twins
Have you ever run into yourself? Ever had a friend claim they saw you somewhere you know you hadn’t been?…
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Ghosts
The Eyeless Sight of Rosa Kuleshova
Rosa Kuleshova may have lived an ordinary life in Nizhni Tagil in the Ural Mountains, but by the time she…
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3AM Finds
The Zoo Hypothesis: Are Aliens Watching Us from a Distance?
What if aliens are all around us, but we just don’t see them? What if they’re hidden, passively watching until…
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3AM Finds
Watch Memories Form in a Mouse Brain
Have you ever wondered what your brain looks like when it’s forming memories? The above video, which comes from the…
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Time Travel
Scientists Search for Proof of Time Travel Online, Find Nothing
Two physicists at Michigan Technological University, Robert Nemiroff and Teresa Wilson, submitted a paper to arXiv.org on Decemeber 26, 2013…
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Ghosts
Infrasound: The Fear Frequency
Infrasound is sound below 20 Hz, lower than humans can perceive. But just because we don’t consciously hear it, that…
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Video Games
The Apocalypse Hits World Of Warcraft
A few days ago, players in the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft began to mysteriously drop dead in the streets…
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3AM Finds
What Really Caused The Tunguska Event?
It began with a “bluish light,” a glowing object as bright as the sun. It swept across the skies of…
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Ghosts
The Philip Experiment: Conjuring Life From Nothing?
In September 1972, the Toronto Society for Psychical Research, along with poltergeist expert Dr. A.R.G. Owen, set out to accomplish…