Strange Claims Adjuster, Weird Naturalist, Spooky Geologist, Sharer of Interesting News
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Strange Claims Adjuster, Weird Naturalist, Spooky Geologist, Sharer of Interesting News
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It is so hot out that one Wichita man cooked cornbread outside. (www.ksn.com)
With a high of 108 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday, John Veesart headed outside with a cardboard box, some aluminum foil and a boxed cornbread mix poured into a vintage Griswold cast iron Aebleskiver skillet.
The Unbelievably Bonkers Conspiracy Theorist Running For Governor Of North Carolina (www.huffpost.com)
Family adopts abandoned babies, learns years later they’re biological siblings (www.washingtonpost.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3623277...
World's only spotless giraffe born at Tennessee zoo, public asked to help name her (wjla.com)
The Staffordshire Panther: is the British countryside really teeming with big cats? (www.theguardian.com)
The makers of Panthera Britannia Declassified, a new documentary on Amazon Prime, claim to have discovered the clearest ever photograph of a big cat in the British countryside: a panther-like creature lying in the long grass in Smallthorne, Staffordshire. It’s probably the best photo of a British big cat that exists....
LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery (www.nature.com)
A 13-Year-Old Girl Is Apparently the New Leader of the JFK-QAnon Cult (www.vice.com)
Wildlife Officials Find Dead "Salmon Shark" on the Banks of an Idaho River (www.fieldandstream.com)
IDFG fisheries biologist Joe DuPont shared photos of what appear to be a dead salmon shark—a saltwater species with a home range well over 1,000 miles from the Gem State.
Huge earth fissure forms in Cocotitlán, Mexico (lagazzettadf.com)
Earth fissures like this are common where the groundwater has been heavily withdrawn. This is not a “geological” fault as the article translation says. The crack is some 500 m long and 3 m deep. Source: lagazzettadf.com/…/enorme-grieta-se-forma-en-coco…
Blackout sparked by ‘mind-blowing’ decision to staple poster to power pole (www.theaustralian.com.au)
I always wondering if this was really so bad. Apparently so.
National Weather Service sent 'erroneous' tsunami alert to South Texas (lemmy.world)
‘Why would they scare us like that?’
Maui truthers using a Falcon 9 photo as wildfire evidence (arstechnica.com)
I don’t like that the original headline was “are so dumb”. Conspiracy believers aren’t dumb, they are failing at trying to make sense of a frightening event based on the bad information they’ve been given by their preferred social circle that feeds a messed-up worldview.
‘Flying aliens’ harassing village in Peru are actually illegal miners with jetpacks, cops say (www.vice.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3211938...
Woman attacked by 'vicious' otter: 'I did not think I was going to make it out of that river' (edition.cnn.com)
We Came from Outer Space (nautil.us)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3095482...
Weekly Weird News for 11 August 2023 (sharonahill.substack.com)
A wrapup and some commentary from the many strange stories I found this week.
Suburban Detroit woman says she found a live frog in a spinach container (apnews.com)
In California, wildfires are prevented by crews of unlikely firefighters: goats (www.npr.org)
Dog on golf cart runs over 4-year-old girl in Westland (www.wxyz.com)
Lewistown man charged after crashing into second-story of house, claiming he saw demons (wjactv.com)
Rome archaeologist says Travis Scott's Circus Maximus concert risked damaging ancient site (www.cnn.com)
Dog chases bear away from where Connecticut toddler was playing (www.upi.com)