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29 Completely Unexplainable Russian Dating Site Pictures

Internet dating in Russia is somewhat scary, creepy and bizarre.

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6 Celebrities Who Were Caught Getting High On Camera

Like it or not celebrities have an enormous bearing on what we find acceptable and what we find unacceptable. It is this very fact that leads us to wanting to replicate celebrities in every way imaginable. We want to wear the clothes they wear, drive the cars they drive and do exactly what they do. When you think about things this way it is very easy to see why there is such a massive uproar when a celebrity is caught doing something that they should not such as getting high. In many cases a celebrity could have the careers ruined by such a discovery but there are plenty celebrities who are just so massive and so successful that they and their careers are close to bomb proof even if they are caught smoking something that they should not be.

1 – Harry Potter Gets High Without His Broomstick

There are plenty of superstar celebrities that we, especially the parents among us, hope with all our hearts never put a foot wrong and one of those such celebrities is Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe. You can imagine the horror that was felt across the globe when British tabloid newspaper printed photographs of Harry Potter himself smoking what appeared to be a rather dubious looking cigarette. I mean, Harry Potter of all people is not someone who should be engaging in any form of smoking experiment legal or otherwise.

Like all celebrities caught in a compromising position Radcliffe had a wonderful explanation regarding the events which led to the incriminating photos appearing in the press. Apparently, according to Radcliffe and his media advisors, what happened was he was attending a social occasion when a hot girl decided to start drawing all over the international superstars face.

What happened next was that people began passing the dubious looking cigarette around and each time Radcliffe took a hit someone managed to snap a photo on their cell phone.

Obviously Radcliffe vehemently denies that the cigarette was anything other than a home rolled tobacco cigarette. Radcliffe’s personal rep has insisted ever since that his superstar wizard of a client often enjoys a roll-up cigarette but never has and never will smoke marijuana.

Yeah, right!! Like we all just got off the last banana boat.

2 – Miley Cyrus Smoking Salvia

Say what  you will about Miley Cyrus but you have to give her credit for managing to get her face and music plastered nearly everywhere you care to look. Sure, some of the methods that have been used to get such global exposure are considered a little questionable but as we all know sex sells so you have to give her credit for using each and every gift the good lord gave her.

Away from her new adult and sexual image that she is creating Miley is no stranger to shocking her fans. Only five days after her 18th birthday party and still riding her Disney’s Hannah Montana fame she was filmed smoking salvia from a bong. Salvia, in case you did not know, is a legal herb in California with psychedelic properties.

The video itself was filmed at Miley’s Los Angeles home when she was hanging out with some of her friends which is hardly of any surprise because if you were 18 years old with that sort of money you would have people over you house partying all the time as well.

During the incriminating video Miley confesses that she is “having a little bit of a bad trip,” and then she starts to completely freak out because she is sure she sees someone who looks like they could be her ex-boyfriend, Liam Hemsworth.

Her country singer father, Billy Ray Cyrus, said that the incident “made him sad.”

3 – Kristen Stewart Doesn’t Give a Monkeys

Most people know Kristen Stewart for her role in those gay vampire movies while others know her as the girl who managed to score a successful acting career because of her famous father. Then there are the people who know her as the girl who cheated on her boyfriend Robert Pattinson with a film director who just so happened to be a married man with children. Yes, this is one classy girl we are talking about here full of morals, ambition and talent.

If you hadn’t guess we are being sarcastic here not that this will bother Kristen Stewart who quite literally seems not to care about anything or anyone. Well, who would if they had famous parents like her?

Back in 2008 Kristen Stewart appeared to be looking for each and every way possible to show everyone concerned just how little she cared. How did she go about this? Well, she decided that she would spend all day, every day smoking as much pot as possible. To make matters even worse she chose to smoke weed outside on her doorstep knowing fine well that the press would be outside ready to capture sly photographs.

This is how much Kristen Stewart cares about her fans, many of whom are young teenagers who are fixated with her movies about the gay vampires fighting with gay werewolves while she stands around looking like someone just pissed all over her face.

4 – Charlize Theron and Her Apple Pipe

It is hard to imagine that a woman as beautiful, sexy and successful as Charlize Theron would ever put a foot wrong but that is exactly what happened back in 2002 when she was caught puffing away on a special homemade apple pipe.

It was the world famous National Enquirer that first revealed the photos of the Oscar-winning actress chilling out at her Los Angeles home wearing a tiny bikini and enjoying a relaxing and flavoured puff on her special pipe.

For those of you unsure as to what exactly an apple pipe is the answer is simple. An apple pipe is basically an everyday apple that has been made into a pipe for the purpose of smoking exotic substances. The idea is that whatever it is you happen to be smoking will have a certain apple taste to it when you are inhaling the smoke.

We all know Charlize Theron is a peach but we never would have imagined that she was a lover of apples. How do you like those apples?

5 – Kate Moss Blows Her Career

It has never been much of a secret that supermodel Kate Moss enjoys a line of coke or ten. This was made even more obvious when she began dating Libertines singer and heroin junkie, Pete Doherty.

Kate and her drug fuelled lifestyle was made very public in 2005 when a secret video was taken of her snorting cocaine in a recording studio. The fallout had major brands all over the world dropping Kate Moss from their advertising campaigns meaning she lost millions of dollar’s worth of modelling contracts overnight.

The video, allegedly filmed and sold to a newspaper by Pete Doherty’s former manager James Mullord. It clearly showed Kate Moss, wearing a short skirt and knee high boots, arranging lines of coke on a coffee table and then snorting them.

Although she initially lost millions of dollar’s worth of modelling contracts there were still plenty of brands keen to work with her. It is thought that the brands eager to work with her realised that there was a lot of truth in the old saying – there is no such thing as bad publicity. Richard Branson’s Virgin Mobile brand was one of the first to use Moss in a television commercial advertising it’s cell phone contracts using the slogan – This is one contract you will want to keep.

6 – Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore Rolling in the Sand

Anyone who knows of Drew Barrymore’s childhood will hardly be surprised to hear of her indulging in something considered a little euphoric. If you heard the same thing about actress Cameron Diaz you may raise an eyebrow but if you heard of both women sitting on a beach together wearing bikini’s and smoking a little grass you might be a little shocked (or excited depending on how dirty your mind is).

As you probably guessed this is exactly what happened in 2007 when the sexy pair were photographed puffing the magic dragon on a beach in California and looking a little disconnected from the reality. You may well argue that it is nothing unusual to see Hollywood A-listers looking a little disconnected from the world around them but the bloodshot eyes of both women in the photographs was a huge giveaway.

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6 People Who Married Strange Inanimate Objects

Love can be, as we all know, a strange, wonderful, funny and sometimes cruel thing. In most cases we can’t control who we love or who we fall in love and that can cause us all sorts of heartache. Thankfully for most of us we only have to deal with who we fall in love with and not what we fall in love with.

There are a growing number of people in the world who have a strange syndrome named object sexuality. This syndrome means that they fall in love with random inanimate objects because they actually identify them as a gender, give them a name and have what they believe is a fulfilling and loving relationship with these various objects.

If you look up ‘Object Sexuality’ it is defined as “a pronounced emotional and often romantic desire towards developing significant relationships with particular inanimate objects. Those individuals with this expressed preference may feel strong feelings of attraction, love, and commitment to certain items or structures of their fixation. For some, sexual or even close emotional relationships with humans are incomprehensible. Object-sexual individuals also often believe in animism, and sense reciprocation based on the belief that objects have souls, intelligence, feelings, and are able to communicate.”

Maybe the list below of real people who fell in love with and married inanimate objects will help you feel grateful for the partner you have in your life even if they do occasionally leave the toilet seat up or borrow your razor to shave their legs.

1 – The Woman Who Married a Rollercoaster

Syndromes such as this an actually happen to anyone even good standing members of the community and church organists like Amy Wolfe Weber. Amy is from Pennsylvania and fell in love with and married a 80ft high rollercoaster called 1001 Nachts. She claims that she fell in love with fairground ride when she was only 13 years old and has said: “I was instantly attracted to him sexually and mentally. I wasn’t freaked out, as it just felt so natural, but I didn’t tell anyone about it because I knew it wasn’t ‘normal’ to have feelings for a fairground ride.”

Not one to rush in to marriage Amy made sure she rode the rollercoaster more than 3,000 times before the unlikely pair were married and now she sleeps with a photo of her husband beneath her pillow and another on her bedroom ceiling. She even carries spare nuts and bolts from the ride so that they are always together. Hopefully these are just extra parts and not parts she has stolen from the ride itself.

Amy also claims that her relationship with the rollercoaster leaves her physically fulfilled and spiritually fulfilled. She does not even get jealous when other people ride her husband.

Let us all hope that she only gets physical with the rollercoaster once the fairground closes because something’s you really don’t need to ever see.

2 – The Man Who Married a Steam Engine

Joachim is a man unlike most others. He has a major thing for the inner workings of technical objects, which itself is not that strange, but he has managed to take that thing to a whole other level. Not only does Joachim work as a repairman he is also married to a very pretty steam engine.

Joachim says that he has had many love affairs with mechanical objects over the years and many of his repair jobs have led to physical infidelities but somehow his steam locomotive wife always finds it in her heart to forgive him.

Joachim is keen to point out to people who don’t understand his condition that he, and other people like him, are not just fetishists. He says: “For some people, their car becomes a fetish which they use to put themselves in the limelight. For the objectum-sexual, on the other hand, the car itself — and nothing else — is the desired sexual partner, and all sexual fantasies and emotions are focused on it.”

As you can imagine this man is a man who loves to fix things. While the average man is happy to take sly and sneaky glimpses of women as they walk down the street Joachim finds himself taking sneaky peaks at anything mechanical. He claims that he was first aroused by technical things at the age of 12, he is now over 45.

He claims that he is able to share intimate emotions, feelings and thoughts to his steam train but would never dream of doing so with a real person. He even claims to enjoy getting physical with his train on a regular basis. However that might work!!!

3 – The Woman Who Married the Berlin Wall

Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer is a woman whose surname quite literally means Berlin Wall in German. If you are wondering how a person would acquire such a name the answer is that you marry the Berlin Wall itself and that is exactly what this woman did in 1979.

Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer claims that she was only 7 years old when she saw the Berlin Wall on television and instantly fell in love with the structure although she refers to the structure as “he”. She had spent most of her life collecting photos of the wall before she finally managed to save up enough money to visit it in person. It was on her sixth visit in 1979 that she finally tied the knot with the famous wall and she did so in front of a handful of guests. Technically she remains a virgin but she insists, even gives detailed descriptions, of how she makes love to the wall and even claims that her relationship with the wall is filled with love, joy and happiness.

You can only begin to imagine this woman’s trauma when in 1989 she witnessed live on television her husband being knocked down. Not only that she got to see David Hasselhoff dancing and singing on top of him. Since her husband was knocked down Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer has not revisited the site where her husband once stood and now spends her time collecting models depicting “his” former glory.

During an interview she said “What they did was awful. They mutilated my husband.” In the same interview she also spoke of how she was coping with the loss of her husband and that she was now in love with a small section of garden fencing. She even revealed that the lucky section of garden fence had the pleasure of sharing intimate experiences with her especially when she rubbed herself with small sections of it.

One would have thought walls such as the Great Wall of China would have been the obvious choice for this woman to fall in love rather than a normal piece of garden fence but she said “I find long, slim things with horizontal lines very sexy. The Great Wall of China’s attractive, but he’s too thick – my husband is sexier.”

And that, ladies and gentlemen, pretty much says it all.

4 – The Woman Who Married the Eiffel Tower

When you are reading an article like this and we tell you of a woman named Erika Eiffel you just know that this woman is madly in love with the Eiffel Tower.

Erika says that she has had an insane love for objects dating back as far as she can remember. At first she says that she honestly thought everyone had some sort of connection with objects. It was not until she saw people dating each other while she was in a steady relationship with a bridge that she realised she was different from everyone else.

People who suffer from this syndrome don’t have lives that are all doom and gloom though. Erika’s intense love of objects led her to becoming a world-class archer which helped her win a $250,000 scholarship to the United States Air Force Academy. This was, so she claims, all down to her love and passion for a F-15 fighter jet. The very first time Erika laid eyes on the F-15 jet she said “I’d like to get to know this jet. Kind of like a guy goes to a bar and he sees a really nice-looking girl and he, he wants to go sit next to her, buy her a drink and get to know her more. Well, I kind of felt that way about the F-15.”

Unfortunately for Erika (and the fighter jet of course) this strange syndrome led to her discharge from the Air Force, much ridicule from her peers and total abandonment by her entire family.

It was at this moment, feeling totally humiliated and alone, that she fell in love with the Eiffel Tower. “Her structure is just amazing. You know, she’s got subtle, subtle curves, you know,” that’s how Eiffel describes her wife. Erika Eiffel participated in a commitment ceremony with the Eiffel Tower. “I will tell you that I know love is being reciprocated,” Eiffel said. “I’m happy, I’m not hurting anyone, I’m not hurting myself, I’m not being held back. I love my life.”

5 – The Man Who Married a Photo of Himself

If you are going to have some sort of strange fetish or syndrome then why not have a syndrome that makes you so vain that you must marry a photo of yourself. After all the devil always claims that vanity is his very favourite sin and it is always nice to have a little self-confidence.

As you have probably guessed there is a guy out there who did this very thing and went out and married a photograph of himself. Liu Ye, a 39 year old Chinese man actually married a life sized cut out photo of himself wearing a red bridal gown. The weird wedding took place in the square of Guanzhou Village in front of family, friends and local villagers who were left scratching their heads.

Despite the bride and groom being anything but traditional the ceremony followed ancient Chinese traditions including the bride kowtowing to heaven and earth, each ancestor and to all the elderly people who were aged 90 years or over. The bride and groom even made the traditional rounds of toasting guests during the wedding banquet. We must admit that we are not quite sure how this man managed to get his bride, a life sized cardboard photo, to speak or toast the guests but we are intrigued.

Liu Ye has always denied that he is gay although he does admit that he is a little narcissistic but only a little. Liu Ye said , “marrying myself is a process of deconstructing and reconstructing myself. I make use of the wedding to reconsider opposite-sex marriage. My behaviour seems ridiculous, but I am traditional and conservative in heart so the wedding ceremony is traditional.”

If this is what is traditional and conservative in China then we think we might just scratch that country off our list of holiday destinations.

6 – The Man Who Married A Barbie Doll

If you ever need an excuse for doing something weird then Chang His-hsum, a 46 year old Taiwanese man, might be able to help you out. He married a Barbie doll claiming that he needed to do so in order to appease the restless spirit of his deceased wife.

The wedding ceremony between this man and his 28cm plastic Barbie doll was apparently quite elaborate and expensive. Apparently Chang His-hsum felt that since Barbie was spoilt rotten with her own dream house, private yacht and a variety of other luxuries he was going to have to show her a much better way to live and he did this by having their wedding take place at a Buddhist temple.

Just like in the horror movie Childs Play this man believes that the Barbie doll that he married is actually possessed by the spirit of his late wife who sadly committed suicide more than 20 years ago.

For the wedding ceremony the blushing plastic bride wore a wedding dress with real gold jewellery including a gold necklace and bracelets which had belonged to Tsai. Tsai’s dowry was also included in the ceremony represented by a paper model of a red Mercedes car, it was then burnt so she could use it in the afterlife. 20 years later, how had she been getting around all this time?!

After the wedding, Chang and his new bride returned to their home, together with an urn which contained Tsai’s ashes. He clearly carried her over the threshold.

The urn will be placed at their home and from now on Tsai will be regarded as a member of their family. The groom’s family have asked for Tsai’s forgiveness by giving their blessing to the marriage, thus placating her spirit.

Chang Hsi-hsun said: “I have waited for this day for 20 years. Even after all this time, I feel in love with her. Now I will marry her spirit and take her home. We will be finally together and able to live in peace.”

But before you get all sentimental, Chang did not spend 20 years alone, he remarried after Tsai’s death and this ceremony was carried out with his current wife’s blessing. Yes, current wife. He is still married.

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6 Ridiculously Creepy Crimes (That Totally Are Unsolved)

There are plenty of crimes in the world that go unsolved for one reason or another and that is fine but every so often there is a crime that takes place which is beyond creepy. To make things even creepier there is a wide variety of creepy crimes that will remain unsolved forever. The crimes of Jack the Ripper are one such collection of crimes that are both creepy and unsolved. The crimes of Jack the Ripper are only the very tip of the iceberg when it comes to unsolved crimes that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

1 – Feet on the Beach

Over the years there have been many thousands of weird and strange items washed up on shorelines all over the world but not many of them are as creepy as the thirteen human feet which were washed up on the Salish Sea coast in British Columbia, Canada and Washington State, USA. To this very day only five of the thirteen feet have been connected to four different people leaving the rest as totally unsolved cases.

As you can imagine human remains getting washed up on beaches is nothing new but what makes these particular cases unique is the fact that no other body parts have ever been discovered. There have been plenty of theories surrounding the washed up feet, including bridge-jumpers (two of the feet were discovered to belong to suicide victims) and foul play. It has been explained by forensic scientists and coroners that as a human body decomposes in water extremities such as hands, feet and even the head can easily become detached from the rest of the corpse. While this is indeed true it does nothing to explain why only feet are ever washed up and discovered.

Anyone with any suggestions as to where the other body parts may be are welcome to comment below.

2 – The Mystery of the Somerton Man

Every now and again a human body is discovered washed up on a beach but in 1948 when police were called to a beach in Adelaide, Australia things were anything but normal. The body that had been discovered was that of a man who had in his pockets a rail ticket, a bus ticket, cigarettes, matches, chewing gum and a comb. The deceased man was carrying no identification and when his dental records were examined no match was found. The man was also found to have a secret pocket in his trousers and in that pocket police found a piece of scrap paper with the words “Taman Shud” (literally: ‘finished’ in Persian) printed on it. This I the reason that you may have heard of this case referred to as the “Taman Shud” case.

When authorities released full and detailed information about this case a man came forward with a very rare copy of a book named the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam , the book where the mysterious words had come from. To add even more strangeness to things the book that the man had in his possession was actually missing the words “Taman Shud” from the end of the book. Police left no stone unturned when examining the book and also found that the book contained a strange code which has not remains unsolved to this very day.

3 – The Toynbee Tiles

Back in the latter part of the 1980’s the streets in cities across the United States and South America were witness to a strange occurrence. Brightly colored tiles began to appear bearing a message which referenced the Stanley Kubrick movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The titles continuously showed up, each with the same style and manufacturer and each making a reference to someone named Toynbee and a strange idea about resurrecting people on Jupiter.

If this whole thing does not seem strange consider this. Unless there is one individual out there with enough money and enough time to constantly plant these tiles for 30 years then they cannot be the work of just one man. If you are even the slightest bit curious about the mystery behind these tiles then you could do a lot worse than heading to Philadelphia where over 60 tiles are located. Not only that Philadelphia has four of these tiles all bunched together which posit some kind of strange media-Jewish-mafia-FBI conspiracy.

4 – The Lead Masks of Brazil

A boy named Jorge da Costa Alves was flying a kite on Vintem Hill in Rio de Janeiro during 1966 when he discovered two dead bodies, each dressed in suits and wearing lad masks the same as those used to protect against radiation poisoning.

The police were initially completely baffled by the masks and the two bodies but when they began to investigate and reconstruct what led the men to their deaths they discovered a variety of facts. Both of the men were seen buying bottled water on the previous afternoon which would perfectly explained the written notebook which was found with the bodies. In the notebook was written: “18:30 swallow capsules, after effect protect metals wait for the mask sign”.

Because of delays preserving the dead bodies an autopsy was unable to be performed but it was assumed that because of the words written in the notebook the capsules in question contained some form of poison although it was possible the two men did not realise this.

To this very day no one knows for definite what the capsules contained, what the men’s motives were or whether there was anyone else involved.

5 – The Zodiac Killer

If you are ever on the lookout for the ideal movie villain then you could do a whole lot worse than looking at the Zodiac Killer. The Zodiac Killer has 5 confirmed murders to his name along with 2 grievous injuries and claims to have murdered at least 37 people. He operated in California during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s and he achieved notoriety for the various letters and cryptograms he sent to the media. In each of his letters he demanded that newspapers publish his letters otherwise he would commit even more murders.

If you are ever on the lookout for the ideal movie villain then you could do a whole lot worse than looking at the Zodiac Killer. The Zodiac Killer has 5 confirmed murders to his name along with 2 grievous injuries and claims to have murdered at least 37 people. He operated in California during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s and he achieved notoriety for the various letters and cryptograms he sent to the media. In each of his letters he demanded that newspapers publish his letters otherwise he would commit even more murders.

To this very date authorities have only ever managed to decode one of the cyphers in which the Zodiac Killer stated that “I LIKE KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS SO MUICH FUN… THE BEST PART OF IT IS THAE [sic] WHEN I DIE I WILL BE REBORN IN PARADICE AND THEI HAVE KILLED WILL BECOME MY SLAVES”.

There have been several suspects investigated over the years but the Zodiac Killer, who mostly wore a black executioner’s hood when attacking his victims, still remains unidentified and at large.

6 – Kasper Hauser

Kaspar Hauser was a teenager who in 1828 was found wandering around the streets of Nuremberg, Germany whilst carrying a letter which he claimed was written by his adoptive father. The letter explained how the young boy was taken as a young child and then taught how to write and read but never permitted to leave his house. The letter also went on to offer the teenage boy to the military so he could be trained as a cavalryman or hang as they saw fit.

In the time that followed Kaspar Hauser described to officials that for as long as he could remember he had lived in a two meter long cell, sleeping on a make shift straw bed and waking each morning to find bread and water which had been left for him. He also claimed that he very first human being had ever came into contact with taught him how to read and write but never revealed his face or his name.

The death of Kaspar Hauser was just as strange as his life. He died in 1833 when he returned to his home in Ansbach with a stab wound to the chest, Just before he died he claimed to have been lured to a nearby garden and stabbed by a complete stranger who had initially offered him a bag. When police later investigated the garden where Hauser claimed to have been stabbed they found a note written in mirrored writing which read “Hauser will be able to tell you precisely how I look and from where I am”.

Unfortunately Hauser died three days after he was stabbed and his true identity and the identity of his attacker remain a complete mystery nearly 200 years after.

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5 Most Bizarre Things That Have Ever Happened (At Walmart)

Walmart is a massive one of the largest multinational retail corporations in the world today. The company has quite literally thousands and thousands of large supermarkets, large discount department stores and warehouse stores across the globe with millions of customers shopping there each and every week. When you think of the sheer number of stores and customers in the Walmart family it is hardly surprising that some of the most bizarre things that ever happen actually happen at Walmart.

1 – Couple Caught Having Sex

Walmart is well known for selling anything imaginable al in the one single store. In some Walmart stores it is actually possible to do you grocery shopping, buy a shotgun and pick up a petrol driven leave blower all at the same time. What Walmart is not commonly known for is people going to the store to have sexual intercourse but this is exactly what happened in a Walmart store located in Kansas.

It is unclear as to exactly why the young couple decided to start having sex in the store but it is possible that they either could not afford a motel room or the bottle of lubricant they went into shoplift was on special and the excitement just became too much. Whatever the reason behind this act of passion young couple were, Justin Call and Tina Gianakon, were anything but shy and they demonstrated this by not only have full blown sex in Walmart they actually did the full on dirty deed right in the middle of a shopping isle in front of staff and customers.

What is even more amazing is that eye witnesses claim that the couple actually appeared to be shocked when police turned up and arrested them.

2 – Woman Gives Birth in Walmart

There are plenty of stories about women who give birth in the strangest of places. In fact there are so many of these stories that there are television shows based on them. Some people think that such stories of women giving birth in strange places are over exaggerated but they do actually happen from time to time.

In July of 2013 a young 16 year old girl was shopping at a Walmart store with her mother when her water broke and she gave birth to a baby boy right there in the isle. What is even stranger is that the 16 year old girl claimed she had absolutely no idea that she was pregnant until her water broke. When the baby boy was born it was discovered that he was not breathing but thankfully staff at the Walmart store were able to successfully perform CPR on the new-born.

3 – Man Finds Human Teeth in a Wallet

In 2009 a man went into a Massachusetts Walmart in the hope of finding a new wallet. There is nothing unusual about this as thousands of people buy wallets from Walmart each and every day. What was strange about this shopping trip is that the gentleman in question bought his wallet and then found ten human teeth inside his purchase.

As you can imagine the man was quick to inform Walmart staff of his grizzly find and police were called in to investigate the discovery. The police investigation confirmed that the teeth were real human teeth but it is still a complete mystery as to who the teeth belonged to or how they got in the wallet.

4 – Murder at Walmart

We all know that sometimes shopping can be a stressful experience which occasionally results in married couples having the mother of all arguments. This is exactly what happened to Lilia Blandin who worked at a bank which was located in a Walmart store.

On one particular day Lilia and her husband found themselves in the bank where she worked and in the mother of all heated arguments. So intense was the argument her husband pulled out a knife and stabbed her to death in front of staff and bank customers. By the time security guards arrived on the scene the husband had managed to escape only to be arrested later by police.

What is particularly strange about these events is that Walmart actually kept the store open for customers even though there the dead body of a woman in the corner of the store. It was only when police arrived that the area was made into a crime scene.

5 – Couple Get Married at Walmart

It is indeed true that you can find love in the strangest of places and this is something Wayne Brandenburg, a regular customer of Walmart, knows very well. He fell in love with a young cashier working at a North Carolina Walmart and ended up taking her out for an all you can eat Chinese buffet before starting to date her on a regular basis.

It wasn’t long before the couple decided they wanted to tie the knot and Walmart was the obvious location for them to do just that. The local Walmart management allowed the couple to have their wedding inside the store where they met. Not only did the couple use Walmart as the location for their wedding they also arranged everything from that very store including the wedding cake which was made in the stores bakery.

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5 Bizarre Science Questions (That We Actually Know the Answer)

It is part of human nature to be curious and ask questions about things that we find interesting. Many of the things that we are curious about happen to be simple things that fit neatly into our everyday lives but every now and again we feel the need to ponder about something strange, weird and bizarre. Thankfully we live in a world where science professionals are not content with seeking a cure for cancer or ways to end word hunger. We live in a world where plenty of people choose to spend huge sums of money and devote their entire lives to answering the strangest of the strange questions that you could ever imagine.

1 – Can You Really Survive By Drinking Your Own Urine?

Over the years we have heard of many stories about people finding themselves stranded in the desert and having to resort to drinking their own urine to survive.

If you think logically about such claims it is easy to see why people believe it possible to survive by drinking their own urine. After all urine is a liquid and it is a shortness of liquid that causes dehydration which in turn can lead to death. Unfortunately if you happen to find yourself stuck in the middle of a desert with nothing to drink then the last thing you want to be doing is drinking your own urine. A person’s urine contains countless numbers of waste chemicals such as ammonia, sodium and urea. If you consume any of these in large quantities the results can be fatal. If you were to start drinking your own urine in even the smallest of quantities you would find that urea would start to quickly deposit within your blood and this acts like a lethal poison.

Drinking your own urine in any situation should always be an absolute last resort and if you want to stand the best chance of survival then you should do everything possible to find a natural and fresh source of water.

2 – How Do Sprouts of Beans Make You Fart?

Anyone who has accidently let out the mother of all farts in a crowded room will be well aware of just how embarrassing it can be and in some cases how amusing it can be. For some strange reason the subject of people passing wind seems to be a topic that many of us find secretly interesting and this leads to some rather weird questions. One such question people seem to ask is – why do we fart after eating foods such as beans or sprouts?

It is indeed true that certain foods cause more gas to be expelled from your backside than others. Things such as beans or sprouts are somewhat hard to digest in the stomach and small intestine because they are made up of chemical compounds that are difficult for the digestive enzymes to break down. When food is not broken down properly it ends up in your bowels only half digested.. It is at this point special bacteria begins to attack it to break it down further and this is what leads to excess gas and those embarrassing farts we occasionally let slip out.

3 – Can We Power A Country Using The Power of Poo?

There are a huge and growing number of people in the world who believe that the world has its own sustainable energy cycle. In layman terms this means that humans should be able to generate energy from their body’s own waste products.

The idea that we can generate energy from waste products such as human faeces and biogas may seem like something out of a science fiction story but it is actually very possible and is actually been used in the United Kingdom. Located in London there is a special energy conversion plant on the Thames River and it has been there for more than a decade. This special plant utilizes methane that is derived from the waste of more than 13 million London residents. This involves a process known as thermal hydrolysis which converts the energy. Basically we are talking about electricity generated from the power of turds and it is very much something you can expect to see more of in the near future.

4 – How Do You Survive Being Struck by Lightning?

Most of us find lightning either a terrifying or a fascinating phenomenon. After all lightning has the power to light up the night sky and can even strike objects on earth setting them on fire or turning them into ashes. According to those clever people we call scientists a bolt of lightning can actually be hotter than the surface of the sun. Think about how awesome that is for a second.

When you think about this it is easy to see why people are always looking for the safest place during a thunder storm. There are very few people who are not aware of the fact that the safest place during a thunderstorm is in a car. The reason behind this is because the car acts as a ‘Faraday Cage’ which equally distributes the charge through the metal frame of the car before it is grounded. So, if you find yourself stuck in a thunderstorm and looking for a safe place to hide out just jump into the nearest car you can find and you are sure to have no problems.

5 – Can Dropping a Coin From the Empire State Building Kill You?

Whenever a school takes students to visit the Empire State Building there will be at least one child who will bring up the idea that dropping a penny from the top floor would kill a person should it land on someone’s head.

If you have ever found yourself wondering if this is true and then running past any tall building you can finally relax. There is very little chance that a coin falling from the top of the Empire State Building killing you. It is actually nearly impossible for a coin to even penetrate the skin of a person even when falling from such heights. Science has taught us a lot about the world we live in and one thing we are certain of is that a coin would be unable to attain such a high velocity to cause a fatal blow to the head. If you do the maths behind this you will find that any coin weighing 1 gram would only ever be able to reach a speed of 67mph which might hurt if it hit you but it would not kill you.

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6 Famous Bizarre Mysteries (That Have Only Just Been Solved)

There are certain mysteries that have kept the human race baffled for hundreds and hundreds of years. These mysteries have had us scratching our heads for so long that the majority of us will find it difficult to accept when they are finally solved. Because of that very reason most of us don’t even realise that most of our much loved mysteries of the world have actually already been solved.

1 – Stonehenge, UK

Stonehenge is arguably the most famous of ancient stone circles in the entire world. Located in the English county of Wiltshire, Stonehenge is a circle of enormous stones, some of which stand 7.5 meters high, positioned there sometime around 2,600 BC. Other than a very approximate date of construction we know very little about Stonehenge. No one seems able to agree on its purpose, who built it or how it was ever built without the use of modern day technology.

There have been many theories and ideas put forward over the years to explain all of this, some of them very simple while others are far-fetched and just plain silly. Some people simply believe that the stones, some weighing several tonne, were positioned by an army of thousands of workers while other people suggest that the giant stones were positioned with the help of alien intervention.  Some people even think that they could have been put there by a strange wizard.

The theories as to how Stonehenge was constructed go on forever and ever but the most plausible of all came in 2004 when a Michigan based man named Wally Wallington (Yes, that is the dudes real name) managed to demonstrate techniques that allowed a single man, working alone, could actually move huge stones and actually build a full sized Stonehenge replica. He did this by using simple old school techniques that required the use of levers, pivots and counterweights. On top of this in March of 2013 it was proven that the stones used to construct Stonehenge were transported from Pembrokeshire which is located 150 miles north of Stonehenge.

Although we now know where the stones came from and how they were transported the actual purpose of Stonehenge remains a complete mystery. Some people think that it was a worshipping ground used during the summer and winter solstice and others think that it was merely a burial ground for the dead. Maybe we will never know the exact purpose behind Stonehenge but if you ever visit the area on a spring morning as the sun is just coming up you might get a little surprise by some of the strange and wonderful people  who are said to dance naked around the stones. If it makes you happy, is all we can say.

2 – Fairy Circles, Namibia

In the desert plains of Namibia in South-West Africa there are quite literally thousands and thousands of these strange circular formations. They vary in size from 2 meters up to around 20 meters and are often surrounded with lust vegetation (very strange in the desert) and extend for 2,000 kilometres across the desert. Tales that explain these formations have been handed on down through the generations for thousands of years with the most popular tale suggesting that they are caused by a bad tempered dragon that lived under the desert sand and occasionally let slip a fiery bubble of breath. This scorching breath would then rise up through the surface of the earth and appear on land in a strange formation burning the area in the process.

Just like any other unexplained phenomena there are those out there who believe that these Fairy Circles are the work of aliens who secretly visit earth but thanks to modern science and research we now have a sensible explanation. Biology professor Norbert Jurgens from the University of Hamburg has discovered that the Fairy Circles are actually an ecological habitat of the sand termite Psammotermes allocerus. These strange termites actually feed on the roots of the grasses and vegetation that grows within the circle formations. This would depreciate transpiration (evaporation through plants) in the circle and lead to more water underground, sustaining the termites and promoting growth around the perimeter of the circle. As the termite colonies grow the circles then grow at the same rate and also attract other life which increases the biodiversity of the area.

Sure, this might not be as exciting as a mythical creature living under the desert but at least we know it is a scientific fact rather than an old wives tale.

3 – Lava Pillars, Iceland

Stonehenge is certainly not the only bizarre mystery regarding huge chunks of stone stuck into the ground. The Lava Pillars in the Skaelinger Valley, Iceland have had locals and scientists baffled and confused for many years. While that might not be amazing in itself what is amazing is that the official and best explanation behind these huge rocks is that they were the end result of a giant troll fight where the huge creatures used the rocks as projectiles.

If you don’t happen to be a scientist and are actually a sensible person it is easy to see that the idea of giant trolls creating this site is simply ridiculous and nothing more than a local legend. It was not until 2010 that anyone carried out any proper research into the Lava Pillars. Top American geologist, Stacy Gregg was the man behind the project and research and she was the first to suggest that behaviour of underwater lava flows which were cooled by the surrounding water then solidified into rock spirals bared a striking similarity to what is found in the Skaelinger Valley.

Until Gregg put this theory forward no one had ever seen such examples on land but she managed to show these formations from underwater lave flows came about in the same manner found at Skaelinger Valley, in this case most likely a result from the Laki Eruption which occurred in 1783. The Laki Eruption was so powerful and big that it managed to kill at least half of Iceland’s livestock and well over quarter of the countries human population.

4 – St Louis Light, Canada

If you were to travel to near Saskatchewan in Canada you might encounter a paranormal phenomenon that has not only been scaring the hell out of locals for decades but keeping them baffled for just as long. What happens here is described as a ridiculously bright and piercing light similar to a light on the front of a train appears in the distance but always appears in the exact same spot. To make things even more mysterious and even scary the light appears at the very point where a disused rail track once lay but has since been torn up. As you can imagine this has led to locals and visitors to the area believing that the light is that of a ghost train which is haunting and terrorizing the area. The superstitious locals along with those who love a good ghost story have also, over the decades, added their own little details to the story of the ghost train but none of them appear to have any proof that they are true. All that is known is that the phenomenon of the strange and distant light appearing at the exact same point really does happen.

Amazingly not even the locals are aware that science has been hard at work and has actually managed to explain this strange light. This was done by having someone drive their car to a location at least five miles away and then flash their lights at them. What happens is a scientific phenomenon of diffraction which is the magnification of light die to their being bordered by something impenetrable, such as trees. Diffraction is said to account for the brightness of the lights at such a vast distance and this is said to prove that the light which has spooked locals for decades is nothing more than car headlights or car brake lights.

5 – Princess Anastasia, Russia

For a very long time people have spent many hours debating as to whether or not the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II managed to escape the horrific and brutal execution that were inflicted on the rest of her family. No skeleton or remains were ever found for the young women and over the many years that have followed many claimants have come forward claiming to be Princess Anastasia. As you can imagine every single one of these claimants have been proven to be completely crazy or simply liars hoping for a quick payday.

While the mystery surrounding Princess Anastasia provides countless hours of drunken conversation the truth is far less glamorous than any theory put forward to explain what happened to her. In 2008 excavations of the Romanov burial site where her family were buried led to the discovery of the real Princess Anastasia’s body which was located a mere 200 meters away from the rest of her family.

The burial site had, for many years, been inaccessible because of the cold war which leaves you to only make the statement that they should have done a proper search in the first place and none of the bizarre rumours or speculation would have ever occurred.

6 – Darwin’s Dilemma, Earth

Darwin’s Dilemma is occasionally referred to as the Cambrian Explosion which is a period of time in the Earth’s history occurring half a billion years ago. It was at this point that the rate of evolution suddenly and unexplainably accelerated to an alarming rate. The end result was a huge increase in the number of and wide range of new species of animals. All of which seem to have appeared out of absolutely nowhere. Not even Darwin himself could explain what happened here and it left him completely baffled until the day he died.

Thankfully, with thanks to modern science, a valid explanation now exists. During the August of 2013 Australian scientist took another look at the maths behind this period of time and discovered that the rate of growth was not actually so strange and was indeed consistent with the rest of Darwin’s theories. What this means is that Darwin may well have been a brilliant man who gave the world some fantastic discoveries but when it came to maths he totally dropped the ball and got it all wrong. Similarly, such mathematical blunders regarding the origins of the Falkland Islands wolf also serve to explain its existence. Contemporary scientists, Darwin among them, believed the wolf had appeared on the islands as early as 330,000 years ago. Once again, re-checking the sums found someone had forgot to carry a one or something, and that in fact the dog only appeared there 16,000 years ago, during a glacial era when ice bridges would have allowed it to cross to the Falklands.

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5 Gadgets You Can Control With Your Mind

Most people think that mind control is something that only exists in the movies yet it is an ability that nearly everyone would love to have. With many thanks to advancements in technology and our understanding of the human mind we are starting to learn that mind control is indeed a reality and to prove that there are a variety of gadgets popping up on the market that you can control using only your mind.

1 – Star Wars Science Force Trainer

There are plenty of grown adults who will tell you that ever since they saw the first Star Wars movie back in 1977 they have dreamt of controlling things with the power of their mind. In fact it is fair to say that the majority of people who grew up watching Star Wars still dream to this day of wielding a lightsaber around and using the force to throw objects across the room.

If this sounds like something you can relate to then you will no doubt be overjoyed to learn that toy companies have managed to give you the chance to fulfil one side of your childhood dream. It is unlikely that you will get to use a real lightsaber anytime soon but you can control things with the power of your mind by using the Star Wars Science Force Trainer. The main goal with this gadget is to lift and keep aloft a ping pong ball by concentrating your brain power via a wireless headset. This may seem impossible or make you think there has to be some trick to lifting the ball up with your mind but there are plenty of people out there who claim to have been able to use the power of the force with this gadget.

Amazon sells the Star Wars Science Force Trainer for $47.99

2 – Mindflex Duel

Have you ever heard someone say that something is a battle of the minds? Well, this gadget gives that saying a whole new meaning by asking you to battle with your friends using nothing but your powers of concentration and your mind to push a fan across a line. Even if you can never get the fan to move using only the power of your mind anyone who is watching you play will have a great laugh watching the ridiculous faces you pull in an attempt to focus your brainwaves.

Amazon sells Mindflex Duel for $39.00

3 – Neural Impulse Actuator

If you have ever dreamt of sitting back in your chair and being able to get through mountains of work just by thinking about it then the Neural Impulse Actuator could be the answer to all of your prayers. The Neural Impulse Actuator simply lets you assign “left-click” triggers to your thought impulse and make your work flow so much easier.

Amazon sells the Neural Impulse Actuator for $115.00

4 – MindSet

The MindSet is NeuroSky’s flagship headset. It has the double duty of being used as a Bluetooth headset, as well as keeping tracks of brainwaves during the menial task you complete about the day or night. It comes with software that enables the user to see a visual display of this data and, with the developer kit, make some pretty amazing software to compliment it.

Amazon sells Mindset for $199.95

5 – EPOC

This the most advance consumer device for those serious about measuring and tracking their thoughts for business or pleasure. It also includes a software developer kit to create incredible programs that take advantage of the device’s 14 contact sensors for precise brainwave data collection. There have been a few programs made already for controlling computer functions or playing games but there is so much more potential for this type of technology. What could you see it being used for in the future?

Amazon sells EPOC for $299.00

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6 Freaky Cases of People Vanishing Without a Trace

The only thing that is worse than knowing is not knowing. Whenever someone disappears and later turns up dead at least everyone involved gains some kind of closure but every so often something really freaky happens and people disappear without a trace. These people just vanish into thin air and are never heard from ever again. The idea that someone can quite literally drop off the face of the earth, for many people, can be the freakiest thing that could ever happen.

1 – Jimmy Hoffa

It is certainly no secret that Jimmy Hoffa lived his live inside some pretty dangerous circles or that he was most probably murdered to keep him quiet. At the time of his death Jimmy Hoffa was the leader of the incredibly powerful Teamsters union (the same Teamsters union in the movie, Casino) having started the job in 1958. The man who was in charge of the Teamsters union prior to Hoffa had appeared before a Senate committee on charges of union corruption and opted to take the Fifth Amendment a whopping 140 times throughout the entire process. Within a year of his appearance before the Senate committee he was convicted of fraud.

For a long time leading up to his death Jimmy Hoffa had been of huge interest to various law enforcement agencies. When Kennedy was elected President he appointed his brother as Attorney General and the pair began waging war on organised crime which really turned the heat up on Hoffa.

Hoffa was convicted and sent to jail in 1967 for jury tampering and for lending large sums of money from the Teamsters pension fund to his friends in the mafia. Hoffa was sentenced to 13 years in jail for his crimes but was released after only five years when President Nixon gave him a pardon. It is therefore hardly any surprise that the Teamsters supported Nixon during the next election.

Jimmy Hoffa went missing from the car park of a local Detroit restaurant on July 30, 1975. The best idea that anyone has to what happened to Hoffa suggests that he met with two Mafiosi in the car park and they were ultimately responsible for his still unknown fate. The two mobsters in question were later able to prove that they were never actually at the restaurant and even denied ever meeting Hoffa.

Jimmy Hoffa was officially declared dead seven years after his disappearance although most people believe that he was killed shortly after his meeting with the two Mafiosi. His body has never been found.

2 – Albert Victor Grayson

Whenever a person takes it upon themselves to share a government’s secrets with the world they are quite literally taking a massive risk with their lives. If they don’t end up dying under suspicious circumstance they will certainly find themselves facing some lengthy time behind bars.

Albert Grayson, who was a socialist between 1907 and 1910, was all set to reveal hard evidence of high level government corruption when he vanished without a trace in London during the year of 1920.

Albert Grayson had once been a somewhat well-known and successful orator but was also known to be very troubled man who drank too much and had suffered a nervous breakdown. After his service during the First World War Grayson had hopes of resuming his political career but the British Special Branch had very different ideas about this. The Special Branch used a special agent called Maundy Gregory to keep Grayson under constant surveillance as it was suspected he was working with either the Soviet Union or the IRA.

The main problem with this situation was that Gregory had his own big dirty secret and is now known as the man who sold honours on behalf of Prime Minster David Lloyd George. To make matters even worse Grayson was well aware of Gregory’s secret and sometime in September of 1920 had told friends that he was about to reveal all the information he knew exposing all who were involved.

On September 28th of 1920 Grayson was out with his friends when a phone called summoned him to a hotel in Leicester Square. He explained to his friends that he would return soon only he never came back. Witnesses claim to have seen Grayson entering a house that later investigations revealed was owned by Gregory but after that no one has seen or heard from him since.

It is widely assumed and accepted that Grayson was most certainly killed to make sure he never had the chance to expose what he knew.

3 – Lord Lucan

The vanishing case of Lord Lucan who disappeared without a trace the night his children’s nanny was murdered is probably one of the greatest vanishing mysteries of all time. Police quickly arranged a huge manhunt to find Lucan but he was somehow able to completely evade British authorities and his actual whereabouts have been the subject are still a mystery to this very day. Lord Lucan was said to be a flamboyant man who actually turned down the chance to audition and screen test for the part of James Bond in a 007 movie. He had also work for a short period of time in a bank but gave up on that career path in favour of pursuing a career as a professional gambler.

Lord Lucan’s marriage to wife Veronica had always been strained and by 1972 the couple were separated and involved in a bitter custody battle over their children. Veronica had even told the children’s nanny that her husband was an angry and aggressive man who would probably kill her one day. On the night that Lord Lucan killed his children’s nanny and attacked his wife he had lost the custody battle and it was widely publicised that his gambling was going badly. After the attack and murder Lucan had phoned his mother and told her there had been a ‘terrible catastrophe’ at his wife’s house before he jumped in a car and driving to the home of a friend in the south of London.

In the hours and says that followed police widely circulated descriptions of Lord Lucan but he was never apprehended or seen again despite having the time to write letters to friends and attempt to explain what had happened in his wife’s home. In the end all that was found was Lord Lucan’s car which had the suspected murder weapon in the boot. Warrant’s for murder and attempted murder were issued by police and the police even asked for international assistance. Some police complained that Lucan’s high society and wealthy friends were not fully co-operating with the on-going investigation and the media was quick to jump on stories about the ‘Eton Mafia’.

During an inquest into the death of the Nanny Lord Lucan was named as her killer and his parlous financial affairs all became public knowledge. Some people close to Lucan claim that he killed himself while others say he was smuggled out of the country to South Africa. The very last person to see Lord Lucan, a close friend, has stated that Lucan was smuggled out of the UK and was later killed in Switzerland.

In the years that have followed Lord Lucan’s disappearance he has become one of the most spotted men in the world. In fact he is even more spotted than Elvis Presley. Reports have located him in Colombia, France and Goa with one report made in 2007 had him living homeless in New Zealand.

4 – Dorothy Arnold

Dorothy Arnold was the daughter of a wealthy perfume importer who lived a very privileged life. She vanished in December 1912 after setting out to walk home through Central Park in New York.

Dorothy Arnold was a well-known socialite who on the morning of December 12 spent some time with friends and went out shopping. She then told her friend that she was going to head home through Central Park and vanished in to thin air. Upon thinking that something was not quite right her family decided to hold off from calling the police. The reason for this was that Dorothy had recently eloped and her family feared they could be further embarrassed so they called in friends and private investigators to search for her. No one managed to find any trace of her and it was six weeks before an official police press conference was called.

The media was quick to jump on the trail of George Griscom since he was the man that she had recently ran away with although he always denied any knowledge of her disappearance. Griscom even spent thousands of dollars of his own money in an attempt to track her down.

There have been many suggestions and rumours thrown around since her disappearance. Some people think she ended up hospitalized with amnesia while others think she probably died during a botched abortion. There are also rumours that she took her own life after Griscom refused to marry her and also rumours that her family staged the disappearance and sent her to live in Switzerland.

When police searched her bedroom a lot of material was  found regarding steamships travelling to Europe which led to the search for her to be widened. Even though the search did indeed spread over much of Europe no trace of her has ever been found.

Like most people who vanish without a trace there is plenty or supposed sightings of her. One sighting came from a man who claimed to have dug a grave for her. The most strangest of all came from the Bureau of Missing Persons who is reported to have said that his organisation knew exactly what happened to her but then declined to say what that was.

5 – Louis Le Prince

Not many people realise that Louis Le Prince is the man who invented cinema. He is credited with taking the very first moving pictures that he recorded on paper film with a single lens camera. Louis Le Prince mysteriously vanished without a trace on September 16, 1890 while taking the train from Paris to Dijon. His disappearance has inspired a wide variety of theories to what actually happened. When Le Prince disappeared he was said to have plans to travel to America and the fact that he disappeared is the main reason why Thomas Edison is the man who everyone thinks invented cinema.

Le Prince won an American patent in 1888 for his combined camera and projector, his application for a patent for a single lens version was turned down because someone else held an interfering patent. Edison made almost exactly the same application a few years later and was granted a patent. On September 16, 1890, with a UK patent on the way and a trip to America planned, Le Prince would have seemed to have everything to live for. He was due to return to England – he was married to an English woman – when he decided to take a trip to see his family in Dijon. He apparently boarded the train back to Paris but was never seen again. His luggage was gone and nobody was ever found, no-one on the train reported anything suspicious.

It’s been suggested that Le Prince committed suicide, planning – for reasons no-one can fathom – to leave neither his body nor belongings behind. Others say he was killed by rivals in the moving picture business. Edison has been accused of some shady dealings over some of his inventions, but would he have assassinated a rival in Europe? Le Prince’s son also died in slightly suspicious circumstances while Edison’s achievements were still being disputed by the Le Prince family. A third theory is that his family arranged his disappearance to hide his homosexuality – for which there is no evidence. Finally, some claim that the last man to see Le Prince – his brother – killed him. Again, the claim has little evidence to back it.

6 – Ray Gricar

Lawyer Ray Gricar called his partner from his car on April 15, 2005 and was never heard from again. He had been district attorney for a county in the state of Pennsylvania and a popular one too, winning five elections before announcing that he wouldn’t run again in 2005.

Undoubtedly, being a public lawyer can bring you notoriety and unpopularity. Gricar had refused to prosecute a sports coach who was subsequently found guilty of major child abuse. He had been divorced twice and his brother had also disappeared in 1996 – his body was found in a river, but the authorities said it wasn’t a suicide.

On that April day he called home but 12 hours later when he hadn’t returned, his partner called the police. His car was found in the car park of an antiques shop. His computer, keys and wallet were gone, but police could see nothing suspicious.

Rivers were searched and bank accounts opened, but nothing turned up. Finally, Gricar’s computer was found in the river, then its hard drive, but nothing could be recovered. The fact that someone at Gricar’s address had searched online for methods of destroying computer data have suggested foul play to some.

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6 Utterly Bizarre Phenomena in Physics

In its simplest of forms physics is the natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.

Every so often someone naively states that we know everything there is to know about physics but this may never be the case. With every day that goes by we learn something new about physics and every so often there is an extraordinary ‘WOW’ moment, let us use Albert Einstein’s landmark articles establishing the theory of special relativity as a perfect example.

Not only does the study of physics provide us with countless ‘WOW’ moments the science also never ceases to amaze us with some bizarre, strange and weird phenomenon that make your jaw hit the floor at its complexity and simplicity in the same breath.

1 – The Muesli Effect

The muesli effect is a phenomenon that is perfectly made for demonstrating over your family breakfast table. If you pick up your bowl of muesli and gently shake it up and down common sense would make you expect to see the heavier and larger objects such as nuts sink towards the bottom. This is an obvious effect of gravity and we all know that gravity operates in a very simple manner. Of course in this case the exact opposite happens and the larger and heavier bits in your bowl of muesli start floating to the top.

You could even try this experiment with a bowl of mixed nuts and you will get the exact same result only this experiment would perhaps be named the Brazil Nut Effect.

TO understand what is happening here we must look at something called the granular flow which is a somewhat touchy subject for many physicists. What is happening when you shake the bowl of mixed nuts or muesli up and down is the granules begin to travel up and down the inside you bowl which creates flow cycles from the top to the bottom and then back again. For some reason the larger granules appear to reach the top surface and then get stuck, unable to flow back down to the bottom of the bowl. This leaves a juicy collection of the largest fruit, nuts or muesli on top of your bowl.

What are we to learn from the muesli effect? Well ,for starters we know that playing around with your food may not be polite but it sure is fun and educational

2 – The Cheerio’s Effect

Cheerio’s, much like most cereals floating in a bowl of milk, always clump together and cling around the sides. This is something that we see so much of and on such a regular basis we tend not to notice it as anything strange or unusual but if you think about it there is a lot of freaky shit at work here. In fact Cheerio’s clumping together at the side of your bowl has taken the last 20 years for scientists to understand it.

The main thing you must look at here is the buoyancy of the Cheerio’s and the surface tension of the milk in the bowl. Whenever an object is on the surface of a fluid the floating object causes it to deform up if it is buoyant or deform down it down if they are not. We would expect a non-buoyant object to sink from the surface but it is actually supported in place by the surface tension of the fluid. Another thing that happens with the surface of the fluid is that it deforms upwards around the edges of the bowl. There are different objects that will then appear to attract or repel each other or the side of the bowl as they try to reach either the highest or lowest point they can.

Fascinating stuff, eh? Who would have thought physic worked so hard in a bowl of Cheerio’s.

3 – Prince Rupert’s Drop

Prince Rupert’s drop is a relatively simple object that has some pretty amazing properties. If you are to drop molten glass into cold water it will quickly solidify into a tadpole shaped lump complete with a fat head and a long tail. Surprisingly the head can withstand heavy blows from a hammer and will not break due to the extreme stresses that were created the very rapid cooling process. It actually is behaving very much like toughened glass.

If you then went and broke off the tail of the tadpole shaped glass the internal stresses are suddenly released and the thing will just explode leaving nothing but a very fine powder.

4 – Dark Matter and Dark Energy

We now know that galaxies in the shape of a disc spin so fast in space that they should actually fly apart in the same manner your fruit smoothie does when you forget to fix the lid on the blender. Even if we take into account the extreme gravitational forces produced by all of the stars, planets and fine dust there would still not be enough energy there to hold a disc galaxy together.

You may well shrug your shoulders at this but it actually presents us with a huge problem. Simply put either our best theories about gravity are totally wrong or there is something out there such as “dark” matter. If this dark matter really does exist then it may well explain how galaxies don’t spin apart but unfortunately we are unable to see, hear, smell or even detect dark matter. To put this problem into perspective try considering that scientists believe dark matter probably makes up around 90% of our universe. Take a look around the room you are in and imagine that 90% of that room is totally undetectable. You know it is there you just can’t detect it. Mind blowing isn’t it.

If you think dark matter is mind blowing then you will find dark energy even stranger. We are pretty sure that the universe is constantly and mysteriously expanding. To date the best idea that we have is that there is some form of undetectable energy field filling up any empty space and pushing everything apart. Once again dark energy is totally undetectable yet it makes up around 70% of our known universe.

The really, really scary thing here is that based on these numbers the universe and the very planet we live on is 160% theoretical. You might not even exist given those type of odds.

5 – Time Dilation

According to everything that we know and understand about the laws of physics it is impossible for anything to travel faster than light. Even if we had some remarkable method to reach the speed of light we would find that regardless of how fast we travelled light would always travel at the same speed relative to us.

This is probably more confusing than bizarre except for one consequence of special relativity: moving clocks run slow.

Imagine if you will that you are running late for an appointment so you grab the keys to your super powerful and super-fast car and decide that you will travel close to the speed of light so that you can be on time. When you pull up at your appointment your watch says 10:59am and you think to yourself you have made your appointment with a minute to spare. Unfortunately you have actually failed to make your appointment on time and the reason behind this is that you were moving so fast that your watch was running slow compared all of the stationary clocks outside your car. To you the time may well be 10:59am but to everyone else who was not in your car the time could be anything from one minute in the future to many years in the future depending on the length of your journey.

This phenomenon is what is known as time dilation and its effects are very real, although they are nearly undetectable when travelling at the speed of sound. The clocks on board Global Positioning Satellites are deliberately made to run slow so that they remain in step with the clocks on earth while they’re in orbit. Failure to do this would result in a positioning error of 10km accumulating each day.

6 – Time, the Strangest of the Them All

Anyone who thinks the idea of time dilation is weird is about to find that there is something even stranger and that is time itself. Time is actually one of the strangest things in the entire universe and even though we know that time has a direction of forwards we can’t see beyond that. Yes, we travel forward through time but we are unable to explain what or see what time is beyond present time and therefore we cannot explain why everything does not just happen all at once.

The only thing that we think we might know is that time has a forward direction because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This law states that the amount of disorder in a closed system increases with time.

Imagine smashing a glass. There is no physical reason why that couldn’t have happened backwards, with all the pieces flying in the opposite direction and spontaneously forming a complete glass. But that’s a highly ordered, low entropy condition. Common sense and the second law tell us that the chances of that happening are so small compared to the alternative that it just won’t happen.

Put another way, time moves forwards because it’s more statistically likely than moving backwards, which basically proves the point that we don’t understand time at all.  It’s also why Doctor Who is the only person who can build a perpetual motion machine.

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5 Overused Myths About Evolution

In the age of the internet conspiracy theories are certainly nothing new with even the most concrete of facts and scientific theories being questioned, mocked and ridiculed. One classic example of this involves Darwin’s theory of evolution. Despite being published more than 150 years ago, and over the years widely supported and proven, there are still people alive today who challenge the idea of natural selection. What is most bizarre about people who refuse to accept evolution as fact appear to be using some very over used myths to support their claims.

Here are 5 of the most overused myths about the theory of evolution and the process of natural selection.

1 – It Does Not Matter What You Believe

Whatever your personal believes happen to be I firmly believe that you have every right to them and therefore people such as creationists should be free to reject the theory of evolution should the chose to do so. When all is said and done does it really matter whether God made us or if we evolved from something that looks like King Kong?

Well, the short answer to this is that it really does matter a lot. Sure, you have every right to reject the idea of evolution but it is always going to be somewhat difficult to reject the scientific facts or the very real effects they have on our everyday lives. Over a very short period time the virus that causes the common cold is evolving into a more deadly strain as is the bacteria MRSA which is quickly becoming resistance to our best and most effective drugs. Regardless of your personal believes it is impossible to explain or conceive such notions without including and understanding evolution.

2 – Macroevolution and Microevolution Are Two Different Things

I could easily imagine that a creationist who reads the above text could make the argument that bacteria becoming drug-resistant or viruses evolving to become more deadly are nothing more than examples of what is known as microevolution. Basically this argument makes the claim that changes in microscopic organisms are so small they cannot produce a  new species of animal because that is something known as macroevolution.

The problem with using this as a counter argument is that scientifically there is no difference whatsoever between microevolution and macroevolution. Both are forms of evolution, the only difference is that they go through the process of evolution over different timescales. It is a proven scientific fact that you can take any species on the planet and given enough time and enough small changes then sooner r later you will inevitably have a new species at some point.

The idea that there is a difference between microevolution and macroevolution was last popular during the 1940’s but it is now known that you cannot dismiss microevolution without rejecting every other part of the theory of evolution.

3 – Evolution Does Not Explain Homosexuality

Whenever someone is trying to attack the theory of evolution there is a tendency to go after the few things that the theory supposedly cannot explain. This leads creationists to suggest that the biggest problem surrounding evolution is sexual reproduction, homosexuality and what is known as the ‘gay gene’. What purpose would there be in a parent passing that ‘gay gene’ on to their offspring?

It is worth knowing that there is no evidence that there is anything like a ‘gay gene.’ As far as scientific explanations go it appears that homosexuality appears to be nothing more than a direct consequence of developmental, social and genetic factors. This very fact quickly rules out any suggestion that homosexuality would be quickly bred out of a population as a result of evolution.

4 – Evolution is Immoral and Wrong

Survival of the fittest is a phrase often connected to the theory of evolution and this leads to a somewhat depressing argument to justify the actions of Hitler and the Nazi’s during World War II. After all the Nazi’s were at the very top of the food chain and they honestly believed that any Jew was unfit. Sure, this argument is complete and utter nonsense but there are people who do indeed use it.

We all know that there was certainly nothing natural about the Holocaust and the idea of survival of the fittest is not the same as the person with the most advanced weapons always winning. The massive problem with describing evolution as immoral and justifying that using Hitler as an example is that evolutions merely describes nature and does not have anything to do with morality.

The very idea of evolution came from an observation and describes how life came to exist in the forms that it does. It is certainly your own decision if you feel that the natural progression of life is immoral but nothing change the fact that evolution is a scientific and proven observation of how life and the world works.

Evolution has nothing to do with teaching or telling someone how to act, behave and live out there life. The decision to murder someone you feel is not fit enough to survive then that is your choice and is no way the result of evolution. Evolution is nothing more than knowledge not a set of morals to live your life by.

5 – Evolution Proves God Does Not Exist

One of the most damaging myths out there happens to be the idea that everyone on the planet is faced with making the decision of either believing in God and religion or believing in evolution and science. Any choice such as this is always going to create two groups which are the exact polar opposites of each other.

There are indeed various scientific facts that contradict specific religious matters and even occasionally prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they are simply not true. This does not mean that religion fails to exist just the same way it continued to exist when we finally learned the Earth was not flat or the Earth goes around the sun.

The biggest wedge you can drive between evolution and Christianity is insisting that Genesis is a very literal account of creation. Most of us can take an honest and open minded look at the world to see that the world is not exactly like it is described in Genesis. This certainly does not prove that Genesis is wrong it might just mean that if there is a God he is a little smarter than people seem to realise.

As far back as 1950 the Catholic Church pronounced that evolution doesn’t conflict with Church Authority since it is the soul, not the body, which matters. In 1996, Pope John Paul II accepted human evolution as fact and observed that “Truth cannot contradict Truth”. Both religion and science should be constantly open to reassessing what is True based on new information.

The final word on this matter should go to the extraordinarily wise Stephen Jay Gould: “The lack of conflict between science and religion arises from a lack of overlap between their respective domains of professional expertise—science in the empirical constitution of the universe, and religion in the search for proper ethical values and the spiritual meaning of our lives. The attainment of wisdom in a full life requires extensive attention to both domains—for a great book tells us that the truth can make us free and that we will live in optimal harmony with our fellows when we learn to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.”

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7 Out of this World Facts About the Moon

Ever since humans first looked towards the night sky, the moon has being a source of wonder and amazement. It is that very wonder which led to one of mankind’s greatest achievements of putting a man on the moon.

As technologically has advanced over the years the many mysteries of the moon have started to surrender themselves and replace themselves with facts, some of them true and some of them false. It may come as a surprise but as recently as 1988 a survey discovered that 13%% of American’s believed that the moon was made out of cheese. In case you hadn’t guessed the moon is actually not made out of cheese but there are plenty of other things you know about the moon which are actually true. Here are 7 out of this world facts about the moon.

1 – The Moon is Actually a Bit of the Earth That Broke Off

There has being a variety of theories as to how the earth acquired it’s moon but most scientists believe that the moon is actually a massive chunk of the Earth which broke off and got trapped in orbit.

It is estimated that around 4.5 billion years ago the Earth was hit by a ridiculously large asteroid. When most of us think about a really big asteroid we usually think about the one that wiped out the dinosaurs but the asteroid in this case was actually the same size as the planet Mars. The force of the impact from this Mars size asteroid was so great that it managed to dislodge a huge chunk of the Earth which ended up stuck in its orbit and condensing itself over many millions of years.

Scientists have named this possible event as the Giant Impact or the Big Whack and strongly believe it to be true because the Moon is nowhere near as dense as the Earth. This is an indication that the Moon is actually made up of the upper crust material of our planet which consists of much less iron than towards the Earth’s core.

2 – The Moon is Not Perfectly Round and Has No Atmosphere

You can be forgiven for thinking that the moon is a perfect sphere. After all when we look at it in the sky it does appear to be a perfect sphere but this is only because the Earth is facing one of the Moons priority ends. If you were able to look closely at the moon from its side then you would see that the it is actually the same shape as an everyday egg.

Unlike the Earth, the Moon has no atmosphere at all which means that it is very much at the unforgiving mercy of the sun, meteorites and asteroids. The footprints that were left by astronaut’s way back in 1969 will actually remain there for billions of years unless humans or aliens mess them up.

Because of the lack of an atmosphere the Moon’s temperature varies dramatically across its surface. At any one time you can find temperatures from +260 degrees fahrenheit all the way down to -400 degrees fahrenheit. No atmosphere also means the sky will always appear to be black and no sound can be heard at all.

3 – The Moon’s Gravity is Only 17% the Strength of the Earths

The moon may have no atmosphere but it does have a little gravity – 17% the strength of the gravity felt here on Earth. This is because the moon is somewhat smaller than the Earth so the force of gravity it exerts when spinning is six times less than that of Earth.

If you happen to be struggling to lose weight the answer to your problem may be a trip to the moon where you would be six times lighter than your weight on Earth. You would also be able to jump six times higher than you can on Earth.

4 – The Moon Does Not Have a Dark Side

We often hear about the dark side of the moon but there is actually no dark side of the moon. When we look at the moon from Earth we can only see around 59% of its surface since it rotates on its own axis at the same pace it rotates around the Earth.

Yes, it is true that we only ever see one side of the moon but even the side we cannot see gets its fair share of sunlight. In fact the entire surface of the moon is subjected to the same amount of sunlight overall.

5 – There is a Man Buried in the Moon

When we are children we all learn about the man in the moon but there is actually a certain degree of truth in the story. A famous geologist by the name of Dr, Eugene Shoemaker who worked very closely with NASA helping them train astronauts always had a dream of visiting the moon himself. At one point his dream was very nearly recognised when NASA considered him for an Apollo mission but due to a lifelong medical condition his feet remained firmly planted to the surface of the Earth.

Well, that was until he died in 1997 and NASA flew and deposited his ashes on the moon by a space probe in accordance with his wishes.

6 – Our Moon is Not The Only Moon In The Solar System

It is hardly surprising that the Earth is not the only planet in our solar system that has a moon. Other moons in our solar system have being given name but our moon is simply called Moon with a capital M.

Our moon is actually the fifth largest satellite in our solar system with Ganymede (a moon of Jupiter) being the largest with a diameter of 5263km. Saturn’s moon, Titan comes in second closely followed by another moon of Jupiter named Calisto and then Io another moon of Jupiter.

Moons such as Jupiter’s Ganymede are so big they are even bigger than planets such as Mercury and Pluto. In fact if this moon was not glued to Jupiter it could be considered a planet in its own right.

7 – The Moon is Falling Away From Earth

With every single second that passes by our moon drifts a little further away from the Earth. Sure, it is moving away from us at a very slow pace but it is indeed getting further and further away and one day it could, however unlikely, completely break free from the Earth’s gravitational hold.

It is calculated that the Moon manages to fall around 4cm away from the Earth each and every year and in around 50 billion years it will finally settle into a stable maintainable orbit around the Earth. At this point in time it will take the Moon 47 days to fully orbit the Earth while today it only takes 27 days.

If you are worried about the effects this may have the Earth I would urge you not to worry too much since the Sun is expected to consu

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