And here’s the weekly roundup of weird news and links.

Science

Scientists solve unpopped popcorn: Finally, science doing something that impacts me directly.
Shortest-Lived Vertebrate Lives on Reefs

Pseudo-Science

The Shadowlands: One of those weird UFO, Bigfoot, Conspiracy with a capital “C” sites.
Controversy continues over ‘Bigfoot’ tape: Looks like we’ll be seeing this on A Current Affair at [...]

Show me a blog without a Star Trek/Star Wars entry, and I’ll show you… uh, yeah, I know, there’s probably a lot of blogs without references to those franchises. This is not one of them.

Seems that in Toronto, nearly all the pedophiles arrested by the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit in the last four years have [...]

An older site, in disrepair, but still rather amusing: the Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Clichés. I especially like this: “The Starfleet logo marks those items for which Star Trek has been an offender.”

I tend to visit a few news sites and blogs about science fiction:

Gene Expression
Sci Fi Wire
Locus Online
Solar Flare
SyFy Portal

Ah, another fun issue of JLA: Classified. At the end of the last issue, Booster Gold had wished the team into Hell. This issue, the team gets acquainted with their new surroundings and their new jobs (Hell has a burger joint!), while Guy Gardner and Power Girl mount a rescue.

We get a couple of interesting [...]

Here’s this week’s weird oddities. Or odd weirdities.

Science

Abu Ghraib for Insects
Crammed Into a Steel Ball, Headed Into the Inky Dark: A review of the book Descent, about the creation of the bathysphere.
William Beebe: Going Deeper: more about William Beebe (one of the subjects of the above story).
‘Obsessive’ Birds Egg Collector Jailed : this guy [...]

There are reports that some new Bigfoot video footage has been shot in Manitoba, Canada.

‘Bigfoot’ tape thrills northern community
Footage shot in Manitoba shows Bigfoot, viewers say

However, the apparent owners of the footage aren’t allowing stills or copies to be made, so if you want to see it, you’ll have to wait.

I forget what show on the Food Network I was watching for this particular artery-hardening recipe. It’s a great snack, though, and should help you more quickly discover if there is life after death.

Bacon-Wrapped Breadsticks
Ingredients

Package of pre-made breadsticks (ones with a sesame seed coating are ideal for this)
Package of bacon (the real stuff, not anything [...]

Here’s some of the weird science and psuedo-science related news for the week, along with some other weird links:
Science

Headless Flies Controlled By Lasers: You know, a tinfoil beanie would have helped those flies.
MIT makes plastic that changes shape in light: There must be some super-heroic use for this.
Whale-dolphin mix baby born: Wow.

Pseudo-Science: All [...]