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3AM Finds
Two Ghost Stories Recorded On A Brown Wax Cylinder
Here’s a wax cylinder recording circa 1908, straight from the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive (and shared on YouTube by The…
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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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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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Weekly Doomscrolls
Disclosure Day, Sine-Wave Speech, and Site Updates
Welcome to Stranger Dimensions Weeklies, the only weekly roundup on the Internet that takes 31 weeks and two days to…
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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…
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Arecibo Telescope Collapses After Weeks Of Uncertainty
The Arecibo Observatory’s radio telescope finally crumbled on December 1, 2020, and the event was captured on camera. The telescope’s…
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3AM Finds
Robot Dinosaurs Manage Front Desk At Japanese Hotel
There’s a hotel in Japan staffed by robot dinosaurs. I just thought you should know that. Don’t worry; they’re wearing…
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3AM Finds
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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3AM Finds
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…
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3AM Finds
What Color is the Universe?
What color is the universe? A cursory glance at the night sky would tell you it’s black or, at least,…
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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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3AM Finds
Anatoli Bugorski: The Man Who Survived the Proton Beam
When the proton beam shot through Anatoli Bugorski’s skull, he saw a flash “brighter than a thousand suns,” but felt…
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3AM Finds
Listen to the Sound of the Big Bang
There’s an echo throughout the cosmos, a lingering remnant from the time our universe was born, called the Cosmic Microwave…
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Researchers Photograph An Atom’s Shadow
I feel like I’m looking at portals, but no — this is the first photograph ever of a single atom’s…
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3AM Finds
Video: Non-Newtonian Fluids
It looks like something out of a horror movie: An animated ooze stirring to life, climbing out of a bowl…