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Weekly Weird News Roundup: Feeding Coyote Skulls, Cow-Dung Toothpaste, and More

Discoblog | July 30th, 2010 in Blog Roundup | No comments

Today’s Demonstration: How to Hack an ATM—With Video!

Discoblog | July 30th, 2010 in Crime & Punishment, Technology Attacks! | 3 Comments

Are Eyes From Flies the Future of Solar Technology?

Discoblog | July 29th, 2010 in Pollution Solutions (& Disasters), Technology Attacks!, The Wide (& Strange) World of Animals | 2 Comments

Isolated in the Farallons, Biologists Have Bizarre “Island Invasion Dreams”

Discoblog | July 29th, 2010 in The Wide (& Strange) World of Animals, What’s Inside Your Brain? | 3 Comments

You Think You (And Your Parents) Are Hot

Discoblog | July 28th, 2010 in What’s Inside Your Brain?, Where We Came From & Where We're Going | 5 Comments

Video: San Francisco’s Buses as the Pulse of the City

Discoblog | July 28th, 2010 in Technology Attacks! | 1 Comment

Wacky Theory: Bed Springs Reflect Radio Waves and Prevent Some Cancers

Discoblog | July 28th, 2010 in Diseases, Injuries, & Other Ailments, Physics & Math. ’Nuff Said. | 17 Comments

Video: A Hairy Carpet of Daddy Longlegs Fends off Predators

Discoblog | July 27th, 2010 in The Wide (& Strange) World of Animals | 5 Comments

Finally! A Self-Sustaining, Sewage-Processing, Poop-Powered Rocket

Discoblog | July 27th, 2010 in Pollution Solutions (& Disasters), Scat-egory | 5 Comments

Scientists Find Giant, 15-Pound Rat. (Don’t Worry, It’s Extinct.)

Discoblog | July 26th, 2010 in The Wide (& Strange) World of Animals, The World According to Darwin | 5 Comments

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Discoblog also includes the daily feature NCBI ROFL, in which two prone-to-distraction grad students post real scientific articles with funny subjects. Email your tips to ncbirofl [at] gmail.com. Follow the ROFL feed here.
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