![]() Book: Kundalini experience: Psychosis or Transcendence.Get help at Spiritual Emergence Network.Have you experienced a bizarre and inexplicable event? Well, you're notĪlone! Check out our large collection of unusual phenomena reports below. These birds are some of the most efficient fliers in the world, with a small weight and huge wingspan.The WEIRD SCIENCE database of ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA A frigatebird can stay in the air for two months without needing to land. It looks more like modern art than a living creature.ġ81. (June 29). The carnivorous harp sponge! Be sure to click the link to see what this thing looks like. This is one of my favorite science stories! I have the original paper written by John Scott Russell, and need to blog about it in detail in the near future.ġ80. Solitons: the physics discovery that was literally chased down on horseback. Alvarez had an amazing, diverse, and productive scientific career it’s worth looking at his entire wikipedia history.ġ79. (June 27). In 1966, physicist Luis Alvarez performed a photo analysis of the Kennedy assassination, improving on the FBI analysis. Below is the first set of images formed in a chamber in 1954.ġ78. ![]() Bubble chambers are liquid-filled chambers that form bubbles along the paths of high-energy particles, allowing them to be observed and analyzed. 1950, physicist Donald Glaser tested early prototypes filled with beer. (June 26). While developing the bubble chamber c. He also practiced zoöphagy - eating his way through the animal kingdom.ġ77. Buckland was one of the true eccentrics of science. (June 25). Geologist William Buckland (1784-1856) would wear his academic gown to do field work. The poor engineer couldn’t escape that recognition even in war.ġ76. The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, due to a phenomenon known as aeroelastic flutter, is one of the most infamous engineering failures in history. (June 24). The infamy of the Tacoma Narrows bridge followed one engineer even as a Japanese POW. Scientists even made a perfume out of it, not that you’d want to wear it.ġ75. Now that we know the chemical composition of comets, we can recreate their odor. ![]() Comets smell like cat piss, science confirms. (June 22). A weird creepy sound is coming from the depths of the Caribbean! It fortunately turns out to be due to an undersea wave, not a giant monster, but it is still pretty cool.ġ74. A reminder that very different animals can take advantage of the same evolutionary strategies.ġ73. We’re used to the idea of vampire bats, but vampire birds are less well-known. (June 21). The vampire finch: a bird that (occasionally) drinks the blood of other birds. (But it can be dangerous, as it sits in the lungs and can suffocate a person.)ġ72. ![]() Seeing is believing, so watch the video below! Also, Sulfur hexafluoride has the opposite effect of helium when inhaled - it makes your voice lower. (June 20). Sulfur hexafluoride is a gas heavy enough to hold in a tank and float a foil “boat” in. Welcome to the 10th volume of Twitter Weird Science Facts! Read below to discover the sinister secret of this otherwise adorable bird.ġ71. Hopefully will be back and active in a month in the meantime, I will continue updating my weirdscifacts. On a personal note: still going through a rough patch of life, and so I’m still on a sort of unofficial hiatus from writing substantial posts - though I may write one here or there. ![]()
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