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Nobel Prize meets Weird Science. Result: Award-winning papers like "Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts" and "Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans". Nylon-eating bacteria and creationism: The intersection of science and religion in a simple bacterium. 'Pataphysics: A parody of science that purports to study what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics.
The largest ever temporary United Nations territory, and the only one to be transferred to the country that was invading it to cause the U.N. takeover in the first place. United States involvement in regime change: Now, this is perhaps the most complicated and long article in this list. However, you'll find many surprises once you read it.
The 25-year-old Irish man became the only man ever lynched in Mapleton, Maine, [152] [verification needed] after he committed a robbery and beat two deputy sheriffs to death with an axe. [153] Unknown man 1875: A factory worker in Manchester found a mouse on her table and screamed. A man rushed over to her and tried to shoo it away, but it ...
Scientists thought that Lake Enigma was frozen from top to bottom. Then they discovered that water—and mysterious lifeforms—existed 11 meters below the surface.
Homochirality is an obvious characteristic of life on Earth, yet extraterrestrial samples contain largely racemic compounds. [7] It is not known whether homochirality existed before life, whether the building blocks of life must have this particular chirality, or whether life must be homochiral at all.
Instances of people submitting fake or nonsense scholarly articles to expose an academic journal as a predatory publisher. List of sexually active popes: A surprisingly long list for a supposedly celibate role. List of shoe-throwing incidents: The recurring trend of high-ranking people being attacked with shoes. List of wrong anthems incidents
Most things that implode are pretty much off the list too, with a few exceptions. Anything written under the influence of recreational substances or while tired and emotional. An article about another article, written after the use of aforementioned substances. A fork of an existing article for the sole purpose of adding some humor. The weather ...
We've taken our cues from a few spots: a bioengineering grad student named Kendra Nyberg, who co-taught a class at UCLA called Science and Food, and chef and cookbook author Tessa Arias, who ...