A collector noticed something strange in his collection of 11,000 vintage postcards: Many of them all had the exact same sky.
True Philippine Ghost Stories
Romano Santos (Vice, 10/27/2021), “Remembering the Thrill of Reading ‘True Philippine Ghost Stories'”: “‘Very chilling stories, indeed. I can’t imagine ever seeing someone’s doppelgänger. But for sure, I am not looking forward to seeing mine,’ Mendoza …
Talking about your feelings? Weird.
The term lexithymia describes a dimensional personality trait characterised, at the high end, by an extreme and potentially problematic tendency to think about one’s own emotional state and to describe these states to others … Lexithymic patients oft…
Increasingly Strange Stories for an Increasingly Strange Year
It’s late summer 2021, and here’s another roundup of weird audio dramas! Since many of us are facing new isolation restrictions, here’s something disturbing to raise your spirits. Most of the series are audio dramas with paranormal elements, but anthol…
“We are all Martians”
Natalija Majsova (06/09/2020, Strelka Mag; also in a video lecture for the Canadian Centre for Architecture), “Soviet Sci-Fi Film and Different Modalities of Future Ecosystems”: “Irina Povolotskaia’s 1967 debut The Mysterious Wall [75 mins.] pioneered …
When a family meal means something else
Baby sea stars may look innocent and adorable, but they’re teensy little cannibals and eat their own siblings for their own survival, according to a new study. Two researchers discovered this behavior among baby Forbes’ sea stars (Asterias forbesi) by …
Theme Week
⁉️ We’re having theme weeks as part of our fundraising month, and the theme for this week is WEIRD SCIENCE! Also currently in Metatalk, Show Us Your View!
Give Me Your Glabrous, Your Rugose, Your Shambling Masses …
Statue of Liberty by Stina Stockholm (cc by-nc-nd)Halloween Jack on the Statue, amid many other unsettling thread remarks (brrrr!) in signsofrain’s post reminiscing about how we worshipped the husk.Enjoy! Or dip in as a palate cleanser between y2karl’s…