Weird News Files

Some are speculating a link between the recent phenomenon of dead birds and fish, found in Louisiana and Arkansas, with the use of toxic dispersant chemicals by BP in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It has been less than 6 months since mass amounts of these chemicals were used, time enough for the chemicals to work their way through the environment.

A carnivorous plant that eats rats and insects has been discovered in the Philippines.

A school of robotic fish are being used to detect pollution in a Spanish port.

TEN people a week in Britain are hospitalized from playing Wii games.

Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor

Just like digital dating services that pair up people, digital databases are now used to find matches for animals held in captivity.