Weird Universe

A critique of Chesebrough's idea, published in the Cleveland Leader (Oct 22, 1873):

A Warm Water Canal

It has been already briefly stated by the LEADER that a Mr. Robert A. Chesebrough of New York, had published a pamphlet demonstrating that the Erie Canal might, by means of artificial heat, be kept open for the pur...

We posted about the Utah-based Summum religious movement back in 2008, when they had a case before the Supreme Court arguing that the city of Pleasant Grove was obliged to erect...

Details below about a Soviet effort during the 1960s to sell their perfumes in the west. What I found interesting (beyond the odd perfume names, such as "Black Casket" and "Tale About the Fisherman") was the statement that "Russia is third in the world's production of perfumes, following France and the United States in that order."

I hadn't realized that the Soviet perf...

You might know that if you cut a flatworm (planarian) in half, the two halves will each regrow a head and tail. That's weird enough, but it gets weirder. If exposed to a nerve-blocking anesthesia and then cut in half, a flatworm might regrow the head of a different species of flatworm.

Text from We Are Electric by science journalist Sally Adee:

We actu...