Those pesky plants — they’ll even grow inside humans:
A Massachusetts man who was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung came home with an unusual diagnosis: a pea plant was growing in his lung.
Ron Sveden had been battling emphysema for months when his condition deteriorated.
He was steeling himself for a cancer diagnosis when X-rays revealed [...]
Two scientists are arguing that dinosaurs were shape-shifters and that triceratops were just a young version of another dinosaur:
DINOSAURS were shape-shifters. Their skulls underwent extreme changes throughout their lives, growing larger, sprouting horns then reabsorbing them, and changing shape so radically that different stages look to us like different species.
This discovery comes from a study [...]
Yes, there are actually many people who think we never landed on the moon.
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by VorJack
I really don’t want to be the one to rain on Custador’s “UK, F%@# Yeah!” parade, but … well, OK, yes I do.
Yesterday, Martin Robbins had an editorial on The Guardian, the title of which challenges the notion that the Brits are always more subtle than us yanks:
‘Choice’ fetish spawns mind-meltingly stupid homeopathy [...]
I normally wouldn’t rip a headline (or even a story) straight from the Micro$haft Network, but this one was such a doozie that I thought it would be fun to share anyway:
A Bosnian man insists he is being targeted by extra-terrestrials after his house was hit by meteorites six times in three years.
Radivoje Lajic, [...]
by VorJack
The Boston Globe has an interesting and disheartening article about the relationship between facts and belief:
Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone with faith in the power of information. It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the [...]
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