Synthetic Uncanny
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Weekly Doomscrolls
New Backrooms Trailer, Neighborhood Time Slips, and Trips Around the Moon
It’s April, and you know what that means: Trust no one, and go to the moon. Let’s check out some…
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3AM Finds
Sine-Wave Speech Sounds Like Nonsense…Until It Doesn’t
This stuff makes my head hurt. Sine-Wave speech or synthesis was first developed in the 1970s by Philip Rubin at…
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3AM Finds
3D Face Animations From 1974 Are A Touch Unsettling
Well that’s a bit haunting. 1974 was apparently a time of strange floating heads reciting poetry, but back then this…
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Movies & TV
The Mandela Effect (2019): Rebooting the Universe With Some Paranormal Nostalgia
Many of us have tumbled down that old internet rabbit hole, questioning reality over misremembered logos and movie lines. David…
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3AM Finds
A Furby Prepared With Ground Turkey And Duck Sauce, 2006
Do you ever go out for Black Friday? If you had a time machine, you could jet back to 1998…
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3AM Finds
Strange Inventions: The Anti-Earthquake Bed
Here’s a video of an anti-earthquake (or seismic safety) bed, a Russian invention from 2015. Its majestic 3D recreations let…
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Weekly Doomscrolls
[Weeklies] Do Robots Lucid Dream Of Running Marathons?
Have you ever had a lucid dream? You can have something close during a hypnagogic state – that period between…
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Weekly Doomscrolls
[Weeklies] Dolphin Communication, Dyson Spheres & Precognitive Dreams
Welcome to Weeklies, the only weekly news roundup found here at Stranger Dimensions (as far as I know)! This time,…
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Weekly Doomscrolls
[Weeklies] Boaty McBoatface and the Holographic Universe
Welcome to Weeklies, where I recap some of the weird science stories and tech news we’ve seen over the past…
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Weekly Doomscrolls
[Weeklies] Asteroid Cancellations and a Jazzy Bigfoot
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] Art Bell at the Movies and Asteroid 2024 YRA
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] Time Dilation and Pale Crawlers
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] Giant Spires and Tomorrow’s Robots
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] Person Witnessed Attending Taylor Swift Concert
Getting back into blogging is like trying to start a broken lawnmower. It begins with the idea that you’re going…
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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?…