Celebrating quirky

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Quirky news links for the week of April 19th

You may have thought Cupid was a cherubic boy – turns out he’s a slug More odd animal pairings – horse with ducklings You know that thing you’ve always wanted to say to the most annoying person on your public commute?  Now it’s art A word that’s been missing is finally found  – recombobulate (after [...]

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Quirky news links for the week of February 8th

An original gnomer repents but probably too little too late in terms of the hobby “Thinking outside the box” is the most hated office jargon phrase A woman received a bequest of 3000 watering cans – 2999 more than the rest of have America’s longest married couple now on twitter dispensing advice(they got married sometime [...]

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Mocking birds have your number

Who  would have guessed that mocking birds are better at facial recognition than the Virginia DMV?  And why aren’t we trying to use this amazing skill to tell troublesome humans from benign ones by scoping out airport security or something? Seems like there ought to be more uses for it.

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Quirky current research grants from the National Science Foundation

Here are ten odd but interesting projects currently being funded by the National Science Foundation. To keep this funny instead of scary, I’m not listing the amount of money the government is giving each of these; however, they’re all linked to the grant profiles so you can check it out for yourself if you’re feeling [...]

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