Continued from part one , this will be a second look at the many purveyors of woo in the math world. Fascinating though they are... Radi...

You wouldn't think that mathematics, as a field, would attract that many fringe-living crackpots - at least not as much as, say, medicin...

Well, as the video explains, the hippos - the original pair, anyway - were part of the menagerie of Pablo Escobar, famous Columbian drug l...

It appears to have been done entirely in MSPaint, to boot. What an artifact! Wonder how old this is? The domain shown at the end, www.barb...

Francis E. Dec was a New Yorker who had a relatively normal life as an Air Force radio operator, Bachelor of Arts graduate, and lawyer, unt...

What you're looking at was all built by one man, a humble civil servant with no architectural training working only with his hands an...

Hey kids! You, too, can protect yourself from dangerous mind-control wavey-ray-thingies with your AFDB (Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie) ....

"Subvertizing" is a kind of culture-jamming art with a political statement, in which a company's logo, mascot, or advertising...

Clearly, Joan was expecting the musicians to be themselves. But instead they rolled in wearing their costumes and did the whole show in c...

RIP Larry Hagman, the TV actor memorable for his iconic roles as "J.R. Ewing" in Dallas and "Tony Nelson" in I Dream o...

What, did you think we were joking? Boom! There, real-life Papa Smurf all up in yo' shizzle! And here's Smurfette: ...and...

You might have seen the story about the Canadian maple syrup thieves earlier, and thought "that's the weirdest crime story I'...

You probably don't have Surrealist Barbie yet. From The Zymoglyphic Museum Curator's Web Log .

It may be the real McCoy or it may be a clever parody (it's really, really hard to tell) but there is a Twitter account under the name ...

"Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown" - from the guy who later brought you all of The Simpsons . This exists. It even exists s...

A sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, which raised some controversy in Milan . Are we a mature enough society to deal with a...

In November of 2002, an English blue-collar worker by the name of Michael Carroll had what for many of us would be a dream come true: He wo...

The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory was a toy kit sold for one brief year in 1950, by Alfred Carlton Gilbert, who also invented the ...

This is "Bat Chain Puller" from a 1990 performance in France. At Lyric-Interpretations, I already wrote up The Weird,...