The Japanese word kamikaze means “divine wind” and dates back to 1281 when Mongol hordes in ships were parked just off the Japanese coast and preparing to disembark. To be honest, their timing was awful and they clearly had not consulted the Weather Channel, which would have advised that it was a bad time to [...]

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If you type “dihydrogen monoxide” into Google you get 94,300 hits—an extraordinary number when you think about it. There are tons of sites out there that warn of the extraordinary and often unappreciated risks of dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO). There are also sites, which claim that the perils of DHMO are irresponsibly exaggerated by eco-Nazis. Just [...]

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There is no idea so stupid that you can’t get a collection of the gullible to believe it. Just Google “hollow Earth” and see what you get – 223,000 hits is what you get.
In times when we knew far less, some well known names speculated about the earth being hollow. They included both Edmund Halley [...]

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A wormhole is “a thin tube of space-time connecting distant regions of the universe.” It’s a theoretical deduction from Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity – one that invites astrophysicists to make unlikely pronouncements like: “You know, I think that unexpected pattern of radiation in the region of Alpha Centauri might just be a wormhole”.
UFO fanatics [...]

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