Andrew’s Shark Week special “Andrew Mayne: Ghost Diver” premieres August 2nd at 9pmET/PT on Discovery. Breaking down the brain-interface technology, Neuralink, which was presented two weeks ago. See the full presentation here. A fiery update on the prototype Starhopper platform. Prison Quest?! Got something weird? Email [email protected], subject line “Weird Things.” Picks: Andrew: Gun Club […]

Andrew’s Shark Week special “Andrew Mayne: Ghost Diver” premieres August 2nd at 9pm on Discovery. What’s some of the skinny on trying to do magic for sharks? An old TV pitch that the Weird Things boys almost got made. 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission. Update on the SpaceX Dragon crew capsule explosion. OpenAI […]

Weird news of the week with Bryce, Justin, and Brian–just like it always is! Neuralink is about to finally announce what they do. An infestation in Florida. Naruto running to save ET. A remote island about to lose something small, but interesting. Got something weird? Email [email protected], subject line “Weird Things.” Picks: Justin: Euphoria Brian: […]

The Earth shook–twice!! What’s more dangerous: earthquakes or tornados? How dangerous would an extended solar flare be today? SpaceX updates: Raptor engine test and a caught fairing. How much is acceptable cell phone camera image processing? Another deepfakes Pandora’s Box is opened. Unsupervised machine learning (Word2vec) may find science discoveries just from reading other research […]

NASA’s going after Thanos with nuclear power. Electric aviation? Could you get a podcast on a floppy disc? Got something weird? Email [email protected], subject line “Weird Things.” Picks: Andrew: Moss (Oculus Quest) and Strange Angel Justin: Brian and Justin are going to be on Andrew Heaton’s new podcast Brian: Documentary Now! season 3 Bryce: Super […]

World’s greatest rocket launch again…yawn! How much will the world’s biggest airplane sell for? Throw out your clocks! Get scared!!! Why so many UFO sightings lately? The certainty of conspiracy theories. Got something weird? Email [email protected], subject line “Weird Things.” Picks: Andrew: Isaac Arthur on YouTube and Justin: Documentary Now! Season 3 and Brian: Defunctland […]

Magic tragedy in India. How can you do “risky” things while being appropriately safe and practiced? Preserved and discovered after 40,000 years. Andrew’s got a confession. Got something weird? Email [email protected], subject line “Weird Things.” Picks: Andrew: Star Trek: Discovery Justin: Black Mirror Brian: 12 Angry Men Bryce: Aggretsuko Support Weird Things on Patreon Subscribe […]

“Listener” “Arthur” wants to know how to get over anxiety to finish projects, not just start them. How do you monetize a service that gets more expensive as it gets more popular? Fleshing out what Andrew can do with Audiomatic. Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.” Picks: Andrew: Veep Justin: The […]

A big loss in aerospace. Protests at Tesla over price shifting. Tourism at the ISS. Space crime in space. A heart-warming story of amputation. With E3 this week, what are gaming trends we can expect? Got something weird? Email [email protected], subject line “Weird Things.” Picks: Andrew: Oculus Quest and Google Live Transcribe Justin: Game of […]

See that glimmer in the sky? That’s data! Would you give up a view for better internet? Does Brian want to walk away from his achievements or just other people? What does a world of cordless VR mean for outdoor spaces and grouped VR experiences? Got something weird? Email [email protected], subject line “Weird Things.” Picks: […]