Weird News Files

Wisconsin Assembly leader Bill Kramer said he’s been carrying a concealed weapon during floor sessions, the AP reports. Kramer, a Republican from Waukesha, said Friday the intense atmosphere of the Wisconsin Capitol made him feel he needed a weapon on the floor. “Have you been in the Capitol lately?” Kramer said. “The saying is you [...]

In Australia this week, flooding forced four Queensland coal mines to close and a northern New South Wales town was split in half. One resident told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, “We woke up this morning with wallabies, kangaroos, an echidna and a koala sitting in the trees, so I think everything is headed to any [...]

Football fan raps are the purest form of glorifying our gridiron heroes. It’s the extension of an oral tradition of celebrating the exploits of great warriors that dates back to, like, Hercules or something. No one is immune to the pull of dramatizing the greatness of favorite athletes through verse – not the 1985 Chicago [...]

It takes a lot to make the circus of the Republican presidential nomination campaign look civil, democratic and enlightened. But if there’s anything that can be counted upon to reliably do so, it’s reading about Russian politics, which are even more of a mess. The country is gearing up for presidential elections, which will be [...]

Looking for a baby gift that verges on the inappropriate? How about a pair of baby mittens that are actually metal balls. According to Evan Michelson, star of the Science Channel series, “Oddities,” the strange sounding devices were actually common in the early 20th centry. “They would go over the hands and the lower part [...]

In her Huffington Post blog post on Wednesday, Vicki Larson looked at the science of love and questioned whether infidelity might be genetic. “When it comes to matters of the heart,” she wrote, “love has less to do with the heart and more to do with the brain.” Indeed, researchers at the State University of [...]