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Stephen Hawking’s Face Took Over Times Square with This Cryptic Message and No One Knows Why – CraveOnline

On: January 13, 2016

A photograph of Stephen Hawking appeared on a group of billboards in Times Square yesterday alongside a cryptic numerical code, and now the Internet is left to decipher what this all means. (source: Imgur) Assuming this is a genuine image (and not manipulated), it gives us a tantalizing puzzle. WhyContinue Reading

Bizarre News: 100 brains missing from University of Texas

By: Sharon

On: December 3, 2014

In: Neuroscience, Oddities, Science

[N]o, this isn’t a belated Halloween joke. There really are about a hundred human brains missing from a basement in University of Texas’ Animal Resources Center. It seems that several decades ago, the Austin State Hospital needed somewhere to house its collection of patient brains, so they offered them toContinue Reading

UN official for fighting Ebola in Guinea found dead in hotel room | GlobalPost

By: Sharon

On: November 19, 2014

In: Ebola, Oddities

[A] medical official from Rwanda has been found dead in his Guinea hotel room–under what is being described as ‘mysterious circumstances’. But he’s not the first, a few days before, the official from Cuba also died in his Guinea hotel room under mysterious circumstances. What’s going on in Guinea? BothContinue Reading