Today on Strange Science News we’re featuring another weird scientific myth debunked by the good folks at Snopes.com. Drinking bleach will protect you from HIV and AIDS? (Can’t believe I have to say this) NO! The myth gained popularity when an Associated Press article about a sex-education bill in Florida mentioned that some Florida teens [...]
54 year old Jeff Peckman wants his city council to set up an 18-member commission for the purpose of dealing with the presence of space aliens on this planet. Peckman will make his proposal at next week’s “review and comment” meeting. He would then need to collect four thousand signatures in order to get his [...]
“How much does this s$#t cost?” Try $960, if it’s 130 million year-old dinosaur s$#t . 71-year-old Steve Tsengas, owner of a pet company specializing in dog and cat waste, bought the Jurassic turds at a New York auction. They basically look like rocks, it was reported, and inside they look like… mineral rock. Tsengas [...]
In a strange and slightly surreal tirade aired on a Christian TV network, Ben Stein, host of the game show Expelled, blasted scientists and science in general, claiming that scientists were responsible for gassing people, referring to WWII concentration camps. “Science leads you, ” Stein later added, “to killing people.”
So here’s what he did: On the set of the Oprah Winfrey Show, Blaine immersed himself into a sphere-shaped tank of water after inhaling pure oxygen. He then stayed underwater holding his breath for a recordbreaking 17 minutes and four seconds. And here’s how he did it: Training, willpower, and good hard science. Mental training [...]
It all began with a curious champion. World boomerang champion Yasuhiro Togai wanted to know if boomerangs worked in outer space, so he gave a bunch of paper boomerangs to Takao Doi, an astronaut with the Japanese equivalent of NASA. Doi took the paper boomerangs with him on his next trip to the International Space [...]