Category Archives: Weirdscifacts

Here are the Twitter #weirdscifacts for December 8th through December 14th! 270. Dec 08: Amazing trip of Isabel Godin des Odonais c. 1769 through the Amazon in search of her naturalist husband! (via@DrBondar‘s interview w/ Dr. Frederickson.)  Isabel’s husband had traveled … Continue reading →

Here are the Twitter #weirdscifacts for December 1st through December 7th! 263. Dec 01: While developing the bubble chamber c. 1950, physicist Donald Glaser tested early prototypes filled with beer. Bubble chambers are used in high-energy physics to detect and … Continue reading →

Here are the Twitter #weirdscifacts for November 24 through November 30th! 256. Nov 24: Stubbins Ffirth (1784-1820) sought to prove yellow fever not contagious by drinking undiluted vomit from sufferers. Can I get an “eeeeew”?  He actually began his experiments … Continue reading →

I’ve been posting two weeks’ worth of #weirdscfacts every week to catch up with my rate of posting on twitter, and this week I finally did so!  The facts are below the fold; Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

I’m still spending my evenings furiously writing for National Novel Writing Month, but here’s the Twitter #weirdscifacts for October 24 through November 6!

The weird science blog posts are getting close to catching up with my weekly tweets! Another week and everything will be in sync. The twitter #weirdscifacts for October 10-October 23 are below the fold…

Posting will likely be rather quiet for the next few weeks, as I’m taking another shot at National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo!  In the meantime, I’ll be keeping up my usual features, such as my editor’s selections and my … Continue reading →

I’ve been at the OSA Frontiers in Optics meeting in Rochester this week, and haven’t had any time to get blogging done (the absence of wifi in the convention hall and the crappy wifi in the Hyatt didn’t help).  Nevertheless, … Continue reading →

Time for your weekly helping of #weirdscifacts, from August 29-September 11!

It’s that time of week again: the Twitter #weirdscifacts for August 15 to August 28 are below the fold!