Category Archives: Weirdscifacts

Whenever I think I’m running out of weird science facts, I stumble across a set of bizarre things that refills my queue!  Anyway, here are this week’s Twitter #weirdscifacts! 410. Apr 27: S. Morse (1791-1872), an art professor, built the … Continue reading →

Here are the Twitter #weirdscifacts for the previous week! 403. Apr 20: 150 yrs ago today, the government gave muskets to the Smithsonian for protection against the Confederacy!  (h/t @smithsonian) 404. Apr 21: Largest genome belongs to plant Paris japonica — … Continue reading →

Here are the previous week’s Twitter #weirdscifacts!  A lot of interesting facts appeared on Twitter, and I didn’t have to do a lot of searching for once. 395. Apr 12: “Sex with wife leads to scientific breakthrough“ (via @stevesilberman)  This … Continue reading →

Here are the previous week’s Twitter #weirdscifacts! 389. Apr 06: Wasps airlift competitor ants away from food source. (h/t @katewong @BoraZ) 390. Apr 07: Actual medical condition: “The Jumping Frenchman of Maine Disorder“. 391. Apr 08: Common wombats have *cube-shaped* … Continue reading →

Whoops — forgot to post the week’s Twitter #weirdscifacts yesterday!  Here they are, in all their odd glory: 382. Mar 30: Ergotism — when eating grain can drive you insane! (and kill you!) The fungus Claviceps purpurea can infect the grain … Continue reading →

Here are the Twitter #weirdscifacts for the past week! 375. Mar 23: What do walruses use their tusks for?  Pulling their chubby selves out of the water onto ice, for one. 376. Mar 24: Non-Newtonian fluids — solid or liquid, … Continue reading →

I’m still going!  Here are the Twitter #weirdscifacts for March 16th to March 22nd. 368. Mar 16:  Elephants — coordinating their efforts and cheating at it, too! (Story by @rkrulwich at @npr) 369. Mar 17: Early treatment of Syphilis: cut … Continue reading →

This past Sunday, I officially reached my goal of doing a full year’s worth of #weirdscifacts on Twitter — 365 days in a row of posting weird science!!!!!!!!! I will probably wind down my facts sometime in the future — … Continue reading →

In less than a week, I’ll have done a #weirdscifacts a day for a full year!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here are the past week’s facts: 354. Mar 02: Physics Nobelist Shockley was troubled, and once attempted suicide with solo game of Russian roulette. … Continue reading →

I’m getting tantalizingly close to having posted a full 365 days of #weirdscifacts on Twitter!  Here are the past week’s facts: 347. Feb 23: Paleontologist C.D. Walcott (1850-1927) was inspired to study Cambrian strata when his wagon hit & split … Continue reading →