Category: W is for Weird

Airports are libraries. Sitting at a table eating overpriced Chili’s chips and making small talk. Walking from gate to gate with coworkers. Starting a shift at the TSA. Sorting bags. Each day thousands of stories check-in and checkout from the airport. But unlike your neighborhood library all of the books on the shelves at the airport are fiction.…

Randomly recommendation. Have you seen Born Free? Released in 1966 is shares the story of an absolutely insane woman and her infinitely patient and passive-aggressive husband. Instead of confronting her about replacing an actual child with a wild lion cub, he risks his life and career rehabilitating a lion for release to the wild. But…

It hasn’t snowed in San Diego since 1967. There’s never been a snow day called by the San Diego schools. Ever.  So it’s a little hard to imagine the vast amounts of snow and wintery wildness our friends on the east coast have been coping with. Around here? Well, up until yesterday it was unseasonably…

We’ve all gotten advice when we’re sick with the common cold. Drink lots of orange juice, cover your head, starve the flu, feed a cold. And we’ve all rolled our eyes. Which of it is good advice and which is just a placebo? That’s why I love these videos. They look at the science behind…

Note: For best results, view this in the highest quality 4k and full screen. The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic neighbor. Though the galaxy is over 2 million light-years away,…

A tourist who joined in the search after a member of her bus party went missing was able to help track the woman down – when she realised it was herself they were looking forward. — When the details of the missing person were issued, the woman reportedly didn’t recognise her own description and unwittingly…