• Nuclear bomb tests help to identify fake whisky
  Scientists have found that minute levels of radioactive carbon absorbed by the barley as it grew before it was harvested to make the whisky can betray – accurately – how old it is.
  (tags: bizarrenews consumer)
• Artist creates invisible car
  Art student Sara Watson, 22, has created a great piece of art by spray-painting a battered Skoda Fabia to match the car park and entrance to her art studio. Her work, created as part of her drawing and image-making course at the University of Central Lancashire, creates the illusion that the car is see-through. Hang on – you mean real-world objects don't come with a transparency setting like the ones in Second Life…?
  (tags: virtualworlds art creativity)
• Dinosaurs 'survived in a remote 'lost world' for half a million years …
  In a disputed development with a remarkable resemblance to the plot of 'Lost World,' new evidence suggests an "isolated community" of dinosaurs might escaped annihilation and lived on atop a rocky, desert plateau in North America. But they *still* didn't co-exist with humans!
  (tags: archaeology discoveries geology science)
• The Telegraph: Five 'critical' from poisoned drinks in Austrian bar
  A bizarre news story that raises far more questions than it answers, questions that will almost certainly never be resolved.
  (tags: bizarrenews)

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