Movie popcorn will make you fat The Center for Science in The Public Interest (CSPI) has completed a new nutritional report on movie theater popcorn. While the findings are not completely surprising, it’s shocking how much fat and calories are packed into those pricey buckets of popcorn. “It’s hard to picture someone mindlessly ingesting three McDonald’s Quarter Pounders with 12 pats of butter while watching a movie. But according to new laboratory analyses commissioned by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, that food is nutritionally comparable to what you’d find in a medium popcorn and soda combo at Regal, the country’s biggest movie theater chain: 1,610 calories and three days’ worth—60 grams—of saturated fat. (Nutrition aside, that combo costs $12—for raw ingredients that must cost Regal pennies.) “(via:cspinet.org) The full report, which will be published in Nutrition Action can be read here as a PDF.

Movie popcorn will make you fat

The Center for Science in The Public Interest (CSPI) has completed a new nutritional report on movie theater popcorn. While the findings are not completely surprising, it’s shocking how much fat and calories are packed into those pricey buckets of popcorn.

“It’s hard to picture someone mindlessly ingesting three McDonald’s Quarter Pounders with 12 pats of butter while watching a movie. But according to new laboratory analyses commissioned by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, that food is nutritionally comparable to what you’d find in a medium popcorn and soda combo at Regal, the country’s biggest movie theater chain: 1,610 calories and three days’ worth—60 grams—of saturated fat. (Nutrition aside, that combo costs $12—for raw ingredients that must cost Regal pennies.) “
(via:cspinet.org)

The full report, which will be published in Nutrition Action can be read here as a PDF.


25 of the Scariest Science Experiments Ever Conducted

If you want to be shocked, appalled and fascinated by what real life mad scientists are up to, you really should read this.

NASA's official FAQ guide to 2012 and the planet Nibiru

I started looking into the rumored 2012 doomsday event after being bombarded by the action-packed trailers for the upcoming disaster flick ‘2012’. Little did I know NASA has already set up a helpful FAQ guide to 2012 and the conspiracy theorist secret planet Nibiru.

More importantly NASA’s FAQ guide to 2012 is about how it will impact “You” and spoilers… sounds like nothing is going to happen. Surprise, surprise… God damn Mayans and Roland Emmerich.

If you have some time to kill, I do recommend reading over NASA’s stance on 2012 and the planet Nibiru. It’s fascinating to read their official response to all of the conspiracy theorists out there.

Bizarre ‘Independence Day’ cloud spotted over Moscow

“The pale halo has social networkers speculating that it could be either a UFO or a sign from God. But experts say it is simply a natural phenomenon.

a spokesman from Moscow’s weather forecasting service said: “Several fronts have been passing through Moscow recently, there was an intrusion of the Arctic air too, the sun was shining from the west – this is how the effect was produced.

(via:telegraph.UK)

Every time I see something weird like this I always cross my fingers and hope for aliens. Sadly, that never happens.

New ‘Montauk Monster’ spotted in Panama “A mystery creature reportedly beaten to death by a group of teenagers in Panama is the subject of much speculation on the web. he beast’s hairless, rubbery body and revolting features have drawn comparisons with the Montauk Monster, the still-unidentified animal photographed on a New York beach last year. According to reports in Panama, the teenagers spotted the creature crawling out of a cave while playing in the town of Cerro Azul north of Panama City. Fearing for the safety as it moved towards them, the youths claim they attacked the beast with sticks before throwing its lifeless body into a pool of water. They returned later to take pictures of the corpse which were then posted on the website of the Central American country’s Telemetro television station. The images have since bounced around various cryptozoology blogs, with several explanations suggested for what it might have been. A hooked claw visible in one of the photos has been cited as evidence for the popular theory that the creature was a sloth that somehow lost its hair. The so-called Montauk Monster provoked intense speculation when photos allegedly taken at the Long Island resort where it was washed up were posted on Gawker, the US gossip website. It was variously identified as a dead dog, a disused film prop and a marketing stunt, but its remains have never been found.” [via:telegraph.uk] And there’s your daily dose of weird.

New ‘Montauk Monster’ spotted in Panama

“A mystery creature reportedly beaten to death by a group of teenagers in Panama is the subject of much speculation on the web.

he beast’s hairless, rubbery body and revolting features have drawn comparisons with the Montauk Monster, the still-unidentified animal photographed on a New York beach last year. According to reports in Panama, the teenagers spotted the creature crawling out of a cave while playing in the town of Cerro Azul north of Panama City.

Fearing for the safety as it moved towards them, the youths claim they attacked the beast with sticks before throwing its lifeless body into a pool of water. They returned later to take pictures of the corpse which were then posted on the website of the Central American country’s Telemetro television station.

The images have since bounced around various cryptozoology blogs, with several explanations suggested for what it might have been. A hooked claw visible in one of the photos has been cited as evidence for the popular theory that the creature was a sloth that somehow lost its hair.

The so-called Montauk Monster provoked intense speculation when photos allegedly taken at the Long Island resort where it was washed up were posted on Gawker, the US gossip website. It was variously identified as a dead dog, a disused film prop and a marketing stunt, but its remains have never been found.”

[via:telegraph.uk]

And there’s your daily dose of weird.

Astronomy Picture of the Day: The Milky Way Over Devils Tower photographed by Wally Pacholka (via:nasa)

Astronomy Picture of the Day: The Milky Way Over Devils Tower photographed by Wally Pacholka


(via:nasa)

Update on those hideous blob creatures in the sewers of Raleigh, NC - THEY ARE REAL!

Those alien-like blob creatures growing in the sewers of Raleigh, NC that I posted about yesterday, they are in fact real. Scary, right?

DeepSeaNews.com sent the video to Dr. Timothy S. Wood, an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the International Bryozoology Association  and he had this to say about it:

“Thanks for the video – I had not see it before. No, these are not bryozoans! They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video.”

(via:gizmodo)

The blobs are real, and sadly they are not of alien origin. They are however one of the most repulsive things I’ve ever seen outside of a Sci-fi movie. Good thing someone else discovered these, because my first reaction would be to kill them before they could destroy humanity as we know it. The fact these things are real and inhabiting the Raleigh, NC sewer system makes them even more disgusting. Time to filter that tap water people.

Unknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewers in Raleigh at Cameron Village

From what I’ve been reading no one has yet to figure out what these disgusting blob-like creatures are. They are apparently covering the walls of the sewers underneath the Cameron Village shopping center in Raleigh. This could easily be a viral marketing hoax but they look very convincing. Supposedly they might be a form of bryozoans. Either way, they are gross and let’s hope they don’t hatch and kill us all.

Fox News: Russian Scientist: UFO Crashed Into Meteorite to Save Earth

“Did a UFO deliberately crash into a meteor to save Earth 100 years ago? That’s what one Russian scientist is claiming.

Dr. Yuri Labvin, president of the Tunguska Spatial Phenomenon Foundation, insists that an alien spacecraft sacrificed itself to prevent a gigantic meteor from slamming into the planet above Siberia on June 30, 1908.

The result was was the Tunguska event, a massive blast estimated at 15 megatons that downed 80 million trees over nearly 100 square miles. Eyewitnesses reported a bright light and a huge shock wave, but the area was so sparsely populated no one was killed.

Most scientists think the blast was caused by a meteorite exploding several miles above the surface. But Labvin thinks quartz slabs with strange markings found at the site are remnants of an alien control panel, which fell to the ground after the UFO slammed into the giant rock.

“We don’t have any technologies that can print such kind of drawings on crystals,” Labvin told the Macedonian International News Agency. “We also found ferrum silicate that can not be produced anywhere, except in space.”

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