Tag Archives: Weird

Milwaukee Brewers Weird (Nerd Version)

Milwaukee Brewers Weird (Nerd Version)

When Ray Ratto told you that you could get “hard mathematical reasons” for the Milwaukee Brewers’ inexplicable win streak “wherever Nerd Stuff is sold,” he was referring to me. At the same time I must necessarily acknowledge that for whatever hard mathematical explanations apply to the Brewers’ debatably sustainable success, they still obey the critical law of baseball: There is …

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What’s Up With the Weird Exhaust on Pebble Beach’s Best of Show Car?

What’s Up With the Weird Exhaust on Pebble Beach’s Best of Show Car?

Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. The 2025 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Best of Show award was given to this 1924 Hispano-Suiza H6C Nieuport-Astra Torpedo on Sunday. The car certainly looks unusual compared to any remotely modern vehicle, but its particularly bizarre exhaust caught my eye immediately. I did a little research and figured …

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Raspberry Pi intros new 5-inch $40 touchscreen for your next weird project

Raspberry Pi intros new 5-inch  touchscreen for your next weird project

Like the 7-inch screen, the 5-inch version can detect up to five touchscreen inputs at once, and it doesn’t require a separate power supply when attached to the Pi board. Raspberry Pi OS can automatically detect when one of the touchscreens is installed and offers the Squeekboard onscreen keyboard to allow input without external accessories. Full-size Pi boards from 2014’s …

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Australian Paleontologists Discover Weird ‘Pokémon’ Ancestor of Modern Whales

Australian Paleontologists Discover Weird ‘Pokémon’ Ancestor of Modern Whales

Researchers have named a bizarre, prehistoric species of whale discovered on a beach in Australia. Janjucetus dullardi “might have looked for all the world like some weird kind of mash-up between a whale, a seal, and a Pokémon,” according to Erich Fitzgerald, a senior paleontologist at Museums Victoria Research Institute who co-authored the paper on the discovery. Measuring less than …

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Scientists Baffled by “Alien Mineral” That Acts in a Weird Way When Heated Up

Scientists Baffled by “Alien Mineral” That Acts in a Weird Way When Heated Up

There is quite literally nothing like this on Earth. Alien Crystals A strange mineral found in a meteorite does not behave like anything on Earth when it’s heated. In a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of researchers detailed the incredible properties of their sample of silica tridymite, an extraterrestrial form of …

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Congressperson Urges NASA to Send Its Jupiter Probe Chasing in Pursuit of the Weird Visitor Coming From Interstellar Space

Congressperson Urges NASA to Send Its Jupiter Probe Chasing in Pursuit of the Weird Visitor Coming From Interstellar Space

Earlier this year, astronomers spotted a mysterious interstellar object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, hurtling through the solar system at a blistering speed. It’s only the third confirmed interstellar object to have ventured into our solar system — all over the past few years, owing to more sophisticated space-observing technology — and scientists are eager to have a closer look. Besides detailed observations …

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Congressperson Urges NASA to Send Its Jupiter Probe Chasing in Pursuit of the Weird Visitor Coming From Interstellar Space

Congressperson Urges NASA to Send Its Jupiter Probe Chasing in Pursuit of the Weird Visitor Coming From Interstellar Space

Earlier this year, astronomers spotted a mysterious interstellar object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, hurtling through the solar system at a blistering speed. It’s only the third confirmed interstellar object to have ventured into our solar system — all over the past few years, owing to more sophisticated space-observing technology — and scientists are eager to have a closer look. Besides detailed observations …

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Congressperson Urges NASA to Send Its Jupiter Probe Chasing in Pursuit of the Weird Visitor Coming From Interstellar Space

Congressperson Urges NASA to Send Its Jupiter Probe Chasing in Pursuit of the Weird Visitor Coming From Interstellar Space

Earlier this year, astronomers spotted a mysterious interstellar object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, hurtling through the solar system at a blistering speed. It’s only the third confirmed interstellar object to have ventured into our solar system — all over the past few years, owing to more sophisticated space-observing technology — and scientists are eager to have a closer look. Besides detailed observations …

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