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Whales Die From Bizarre Cause: Fish Stuck in Blowhole
2015-12-02 15:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A fish-versus-whale battle seems like no contest. But two whales learned otherwise when common soles became lodged either in or just below their blowholes, slowly suffocating them to death. Though observed before, the rare phenomenon has never been recorded in long-finned pilot whales, a new study says. The body of one animal washed up on the Dutch coast in late 2014, the other in early 2015. Making the deaths doubly strange, pilot whales normally dine on squid, not flatfish such as soles,...
New documentary recounts bizarre climate changes seen by Inuit elders
2015-11-22 05:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Even stranger is the fact that the sun now appears to set many kilometres off its usual point on the horizon, and the stars are no longer where they should be. Is the Earth shifting on its axis, causing the very look of the sun and stars to change? These are the drastic conditions Northern Canadians, whose lives depend from childhood on their knowledge of the most minute details of the Arctic land and skies, say they see all around them. These observations by Inuit elders are detailed in a groundbreaking...
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14 embarrassing or bizarre scandals to hit Whole Foods
2015-10-10 01:30:32| Grocery - Topix.net
In early August, a shopper posted a photo to Instagram of a fancy Whole Foods product: Three stalks of asparagus in a bottle of water. The cost for the thusly named "Asparagus Water": $5.99.
Bizarre Sony Wireless Speaker Doubles at TV Remote
2015-08-26 19:55:42| Wireless - Topix.net
Turn the device's giant knob, and hold it close to your ears for up to 16 hours of battery-powered entertainment. We all know someone who turns the TV volume so high that your brain rattles, but Sony has a solution: A wireless remote with built-in speaker.
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Bizarre Video Games That Really Shouldn't Have Been Made
2015-07-19 16:21:52| Beverages - Topix.net
Back in the 80s and 90s a slew of licensed video games were being made by big name studios simply to make a buck, and the apathy towards the franchises on which they were based really showed in the gameplay. Those were the days when console games based on TV shows and movies truly unworthy of a game adaptation were being made, and studios were paid to make games about any old thing, even Coca-Cola.
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