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Red Tide Bioluminescent Ocean

Red Tide Bioluminescent Ocean

Have you ever seen the ocean glow in the dark? San Diego Red Tide It glows, it flashes, it lights up the waves like something out of a science fiction film or a high-tech horror movie. It’s a natural coastal occurrence — yet it can be harmful as well as entertaining. The 2011 red tide in San Diego lit up the waves with an unusual blast of glow-in-the-dark color in advance of Halloween. All along San Diego’s...
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10 Theories for Bermuda Triangle

10 Theories for Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is a geographic area with it’s points being at Miami, Florida, the island of Bermuda, and San Juan Puerto Rico.  In this area, over the course of time, many different aircraft and boats have mysteriously disappeared without a trace, leading many to believe that the triangle has something unusual about it that is swallowing up people, planes, and boats. All of these incidences have relatively...
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Perfectly-Preserved 40,000 Year-Old Baby Mammoth Discovered in Russia

Perfectly-Preserved 40,000 Year-Old Baby Mammoth D...

A Russian man herding reindeer in the Arctic stumbled upon a perfectly-preserved, 40,000-year-old body of a baby woolly mammoth sticking out from the permafrost. The discovery came in the same area a mammoth calf dubbed Lyuba was found four years ago, officials told Reuters. An expedition team is being sent to the discovery site to examine the find and possibly recover it.   “If it is true what is said about how it...
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The Man In The Iron Mask

The Man In The Iron Mask

One Way to Get Popular with Ladies: Set out to Walk Around The World in an Iron Mask (images via Simon Bensley and Linda Culm) Roll up, roll up, roll up! You, sir, say that you dream of fame, and all the rewards it offers, but lack any talent whatsoever? And you, over there, wish beyond anything in this world to be the recipient of innumerable offers of marriage? And you, kind sir, desire to earn a considerable fortune but...
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Amazing Automatons: Ancient Robots & Victorian Androids

Amazing Automatons: Ancient Robots & Victoria...

Industrious Little Creatures, Full of Gears and Wonder When we say that today’s rapidly changing technology is set to transform the way we live in unimaginable ways, we should remember that people thought much the same thing in earlier centuries – whether in the time of the clockwork revolution in the eighteenth century or as a result of the scientific advances of the Industrial Revolution in the Victorian era. Here...
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Mysterious Non-Egyptian Pyramids

Mysterious Non-Egyptian Pyramids

James Gaussman and the Jewelled Pyramid of China Egyptian pyramids? Sure, everyone knows about the ones at Giza – and a few aficionados might know about the 138 others (!) scattered around them. Mesoamerican pyramids? Okay, a lot of folks know about them, too — or even that the great one at Cholula is considered to be the largest one in the world. But, unfortunately, not many people know that pyramids have come...
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