Halloween is one of the few times of the year where you actually are encouraged to dress your kids up in outfits that may come back to embarrass them later in life.
But the costume that Royce Hutain, the owner of Glowy Zoey, a California LED costume company made for his daughter Zoey is pretty amazing and totally not embarrassing.
I mean seriously. Watch this:
“I had the idea in my head, a brainstorm if you will, and then went to a few stores to pick up what I needed,” Hutain told ABC News via email. “I was inspired to make an El Niño costume because that’s all we’ve been hearing about in California lately.”
Didn’t have enough?
Yeah. Maybe you should rethink that tinfoil hat astronaut costume and get out the PVC pipe and power tools parents.
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Contagious Cancer May Have Just Been Discovered In Tasmanian Devils
It’s rather strange to hear the words “cancer” and “contagious” in the same sentence; in humans, cancer is certainly not contagious, according to the American Cancer Society. A transmissible form of cancer does exist, however, even though it’s rarely found in nature — and so far only discovered in Tasmanian devils and dogs. Now, researchers from… Read More
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Yep. Katy Perry Is Totally Moving To Alabama
Sorry for the misleading headline, but this is important.
Please take a seat.
Can we get you something to drink?
Want a bottle of water? It’s all we got. Are you sure? Ok, suit yourself then.
We have all gathered here today because people keep believing stupid things they read on the Internet.
I don’t know what it means, but it ain’t good for society.
Hundreds of thousands of people have recently clicked on stories that claim that Leonardo Dicaprio was literally raped by a bear in the Revenant (talk about Oscar level commitment that would have been), claim that Miley Cyrus died and that Casey Anthony was murdered and found in the back of a pickup truck.
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None of them are at all true and yet they have made money for sleazy Internet mud purveyors who hide in the shadows of anonymity.
These fake stories are everywhere and by all accounts, people believe them.
In a world where anyone can create a website that looks legitimate with only a few hours of work, anything is possible.
But this faux story really takes the cake.
A BS news website called the McKenzie Post wrote a junky little fake news item titled “Katy Perry is Moving to Wetumpka, Alabama.” Within a week, the story had been shared hundreds of times on social media and has racked up nearly 150 comments of mostly excited people looking forward to meeting their new star neighbor.
But let’s be clear about one thing. Katy Perry is not moving to Wetumpka, Alabama. Because of course she isn’t!
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“Not a lot of people have heard of the small town of Wetumpka, Alabama, but superstar Katy Perry happens to be one of them,” the fake news item reads. “Located about 20 miles outside of Montgomery, Alabama, Wetumpka is a peaceful town filled with people who have almost no connection to the LA lifestyle that Katy Perry wants to escape and that’s exactly what she likes about it.”
Now to be fair, the piece is written in such a way that it could seem legit to a person who is not spending much time thinking about the context or basic reality.
“I want a farm, I want cattle, I want chickens!” a fake quote attributed to Katy Perry reads. “I’m not giving up my career, I just want to move to a place that feels so different than what I’ve been used to all my life. For me, that place is Wetumpka, Alabama.”
Nope.
Double nope.
But don’t feel bad Alabama.
The same website pulled a similar trick on the towns of Boerne, TX and Rock Hill, SC (a real radio station even got tricked into believing that last one.)
In both of those instances, hundreds of people also shared the nearly identical fake news item.
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Maybe we should teach students in class on how to better evaluate sources?
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Scientists May Have Found Evidence Of An Alternate Universe. Seriously
Scientists claim that they may have just found evidence of the existence of an alternate universe.
The discovery was made while mapping the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is the left over light from the early universe.
Ranga-Ram Chary, an astrophysicist at the European Space Agency’s Planck Space Telescope data center at Caltech, discovered while studying the CMB that certain light spots were glowing 4,500 times brighter than expected, as reported by Russia Today (RT).
According the International Business Times, Chary has said that while there is a 30% chance the fluctuations are nothing unusual, there is also the possibility they provide evidence of a collision of our Universe with an alternate Universe.
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This sort of collision should be possible, according to modern cosmological theories that suggest the universe we see is just one bubble among many, according to New Scientist.
“Our universe may simply be a region within an eternally inflating super-region,” Chary wrote in a recent study. “Many other regions beyond our observable universe would exist with each such region governed by a different set of physical parameters.”
The multiverse theory has been based on the widely accepted idea of cosmic inflation, which suggests that the early universe expanded exponentially in an instant following the explosion of the Big Bang. Theoretically the inflation would continue until multiple universes are ultimately created.
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Although the initial findings have proved promising, verification of the anomalies as evidence of an alternate universe could prove to be difficult.
Chary himself noted that, “Unusual claims like evidence for alternate universes require a very high burden of proof.”
Further analysis of the data collected will be required in order to prove or disprove Chary’s potential discovery.
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