Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between solar activity and Earth’s magnetic field. When we first got together, we wondered whether our unconventional project, linking space weather and human behavior, could actually bridge such a vast …
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MLB All-Star Game Weird & Wild, from Paul Skenes to ABS to home run swing-off Schwarbombs
ATLANTA — What if you went to an All-Star Game and a penalty-kick home-run shootout broke out? Welcome to the 2025 MLB All-Star Game — a game in which the world turned upside-down, the guy who threw the last pitch was a coach, the hitter who took the last swing wasn’t even wearing a cap and the MVP was a …
Read More »Weird Al Is Enjoying His Rock-Star Moment
At 65, Weird Al still commands the stage like a natural-born rocker, with high kicks and the panache to pull off what few other artists can (including a fat suit). During “Eat It,” a riff on Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” audience members — many in Hawaiian shirts and sporting curly locks — were on their feet. Even a seen-it-all security …
Read More »Surgeons Share Weird Body Facts
6. “During a knee replacement, the medical team completely dislocates your knee, puts the knee cap to the side, and starts measuring and cutting. During tibia replacement, this part assists in pushing the tibia forward so you can apply components accurately.” “During hip replacement, the entire hip is dislocated, and if it’s an old posterior approach, your femoral head is …
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