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Gerard Richardson: Opposites attract for weird wines

I TOOK a bottle of Cot home the other day to share with a friend and his reaction got me thinking about the subject matter for this week's column, so here’s to wines and blends you may not have come across.




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Charmin's Toilet Tech in the Running for Weirdest CES Gadgets

It's probably a joke, but at CES, you never know. The Charmin GoLab features a Bluetooth-enabled toilet paper delivery robot, a porta-potty VR headset, and a smell sensor that tells you when it's safe to enter the bathroom.




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X A-12 To Diva Thin Muffin: Celebs Sure Do Like Weird Baby Names

Elon Musk and Grimes would not be the only celebrity couple to pick an unusual name for their child. Here are some other unusual celebrity baby names.




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Golden Week takes a turn for the weird online amid pandemic

The current environment surrounding the emergence of COVID-19 has forced people to come up with brand new ways of enjoying time away from work.




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Quantum weirdness isn't real – we've just got space and time all wrong

A radical new idea erases quantum theory's weird uncertainties – by ripping up all we thought we knew about how the universe works, says physicist Lee Smolin




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Big bang retold: The weird twists in the story of the universe's birth

It certainly wasn’t big, and probably didn’t bang – and the surprises in the conventional story of the universe's origins don’t end there




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Cretaceous insect discovered with extremely weird antennae

Amber from the Cretaceous period trapped a leaf-footed bug with extremely long and wide antennae, which may have helped disguise the insect or confuse predators




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Weird worm is earliest known animal to evolve away body parts

A worm-like creature from 518 million years ago evolved to lose its back legs, the earliest known example of an animal losing body parts it no longer needed




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Weird rocks in Australia are a missing piece of the Grand Canyon

Some rocks in Tasmania, Australia, look out of place. Now an analysis suggests they were once part of the rocks that form the Grand Canyon in the US




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Big bang retold: The weird twists in the story of the universe's birth

It certainly wasn’t big, and probably didn’t bang – and the surprises in the conventional story of the universe's origins don’t end there




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Alien life could be weirder than our Earthling brains can ever imagine

Our conceptions of alien life are based on a sample of one: Earth’s life. That means even our wildest imaginings are likely to be completely off beam




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Weird magnetic threads in sun's corona seen for the first time

New images reveal threads of ultra-hot gas woven throughout the sun's corona, in the most detailed look at previously unseen parts of the atmosphere of our closest star




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Weird radio signals spotted in our galaxy could solve a space mystery

Weird blasts of radio waves from space called fast radio bursts have been baffling astronomers since they were discovered, but after finding one in our galaxy we may finally know what creates them




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10 Weird Star Wars Facts You Probably Never Knew About

With the three Skywalker trilogies over and done with for now, what better than to celebrate the made-up Star Wars holiday than to re-examine some weird facts we all glossed over. Here's 10 strange (and some downright freaky) facts you probably didn't know about to celebrate. More »
    




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Weird dust balls seen impossibly close to our galaxy’s huge black hole

At the centre of our galaxy, six strange clouds that look like dust and gas orbit a black hole so closely that if they were really just clouds they should have been sucked in by now




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A star exploded into a supernova but it weirdly isn't very bright

Astronomers have spotted a star that is exploding with a brightness 100 times less than expected – and it’s a mystery exactly why the explosion is so dim




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Weird clumps of air that disrupt radio signals found on Mars

In our atmosphere, strange dense patches of charged air sometimes bounce radio waves around and disrupt radar – and now they have been spotted on Mars




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A wobbling star may explain pattern of weird radio signals from space

We’ve spotted strange blasts of radio waves from space in a pattern that may be produced by a magnetised neutron star wobbling as it spins




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Weird star was born when two white dwarfs merged instead of blowing up

White dwarf stars are common in the galaxy, but astronomers have found one that doesn't seem to obey the rules. They think it was born when two smaller white dwarfs merged together




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Weird magnetic threads in sun's corona seen for the first time

New images reveal threads of ultra-hot gas woven throughout the sun's corona, in the most detailed look at previously unseen parts of the atmosphere of our closest star




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Weird radio signals spotted in our galaxy could solve a space mystery

Weird blasts of radio waves from space called fast radio bursts have been baffling astronomers since they were discovered, but after finding one in our galaxy we may finally know what creates them




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Harvard's UrchinBot Is One of the Weirdest Looking Robots We've Ever Seen

The unique body and locomotion strategies of echinoderms inspired this robot that emulates a juvenile sea urchin




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The Blogger Behind "AI Weirdness" Thinks Today's AI Is Dumb and Dangerous

Janelle Shane talks about the absurdity, perils, and limits of AI



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RPGCast – Episode 410: “Birds Are Weird”

We send some Fire Emblem info DIRECTLY to you. Then Alice gets Chris up to speed on the latest in Final Fantasy MMOs. Finally we...




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'Weird' exoplanet 800 light-years from Earth has yellow skies and iron rain

Researchers have found the weird exoplanet WASP-79b, nearly 800 light-years from Earth, does not have a blue sky as our planet does. Instead, its skies are yellow.





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'Alien comet' visitor has weird composition

The first known comet to visit us from another star system has an unusual make-up.





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Love: Being back at Cavs' facility 'weird, uplifting'

Kevin Love's Cavs became one of the first teams in the NBA to reopen their practice facility for voluntary individual workouts, a process that Love described as "weird" but also "pretty uplifting."




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Tiger King: Joel McHale responds to 'weird' backlash over Joe Exotic question in Netflix special

Comedian said he got 'such s***' for suggesting tiger trader deserves his prison sentence




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'It's a really weird realisation': when cancelled holidays come with silver linings

From accidentally making money due to currency fluctuations, to paying down debt, for some Australians cancelled overseas trips have had surprising windfalls

From June 2018 to June 2019, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says Australians made a record 11.3 million trips overseas – double the number of trips just 10 years ago. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of Australians have been forced to cancel or alter their international travel plans.

This has left many Australians struggling to get refunds from travel providers. Flight Centre was charging $300 in processing fees per person, in some cases leading to fees that cost more than the value of the refund, until the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission stepped in and threatened legal action, causing the company to waive fees for trips cancelled by travel providers. The ACCC also warned travel providers against retroactively changing their cancellation policies after tour companies including Topdeck and Intrepid attempted to retrospectively apply updated refund policies that would force customers to take credit rather than cash for cancelled trips.

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Footage of 'weird' empty JFK airport as Leicester City's Christian Fuchs heads back for Preimer League return

Leicester City player Christian Fuchs has recorded an empty JFK airport as he heads back to England ahead of an expected return to training.




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Stacey Solomon 'weirded out' as people thought her and Joe Swash were siblings

The Loose Women panelist admitted on today's show that some people thought they looked like brother and sister




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We Now Know How To Pronounce Elon Musk's Son's Name & It's (X Æ A-)12 Different Types Of Weird




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MAGA Babe, Hillary Toilet Paper and Al Gore: The Weird World of the Virtual 2020 Campaign

The Trump-Biden fight is already underway, and it's totally online. What it's like to spend seven days following their whirlwind all-digital faceoff.




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Axl Rose called Steven Mnuchin an expletive on Twitter, sparking 2020's weirdest feud

Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose criticized Steven Mnuchin and Trump's coronavirus response, which irked the Treasury secretary and started a Twitter spat.




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Weird Japanese house of the week is totally transparent

Yuusuke Karasawa designs a house in Tokyo with 5 levels, a dozen stairs and almost no walls inside or out.




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The weirdest trash found on beaches last year

This series of infographics reveals the bizarre discoveries made by volunteers during the 2017 International Coastal Cleanup.




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Vancouver’s Mobi bike share system is just weird

I wish them luck but there are a lot of complications.




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Weird and Wonderful Galapagos Wildlife Worth Saving

Darwin made a smart choice when he picked Galapagos as the place to develop his theory of natural selection: This group of islands has some of the most incredible species in the world. Earlier this month, a star-studded group of adventurers with the Missi




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Weird and Wonderful Galapagos Wildlife Worth Saving (Slideshow)

A star-studded group of adventurers with the Mission Blue oceans conservation group went on a trip to the Galapagos earlier this month. But the true stars of the show were the incredible species endemic to the islands: many




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Coming soon: weird but maybe wonderful alternative electric vehicles

BRB introduces a bunch of concept vehicles that look like a lot of fun without fossil fuels




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Weird science: Dogs have internal magnetic compass to guide pooping orientation

Researchers gathered data over two years by following 70 different dogs, from 37 different breeds, as they... defecated and urinated.




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Water gets weirder as new properties come to light

This ubiquitous liquid, water, continues to amaze us with its just plain weirdness




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4 weird ways climate change could end civilization

Don't read this if you are in a bad mood. Or a good mood, really.




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Paris zoo exhibits the world's weirdest living thing

The mysterious organism looks like a mushroom but acts like an animal, and it's one of my favorite beings ever.




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It's National Bike Month - Three Weird Ways to Celebrate

Yes, it's National Bike Month. What's even better - it's National Bike Year, and Maybe National Bike Decade. Here's Three Ways to Up Your Cycling Enjoyment




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Awfully Weird Tales #1

The SA forums goons make a pulp scifi/fantasy 'zine that puts old William Gaines to shame! I mean, additional shame, on top of the misogyny and functional illiteracy.




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stream of weirdos

Today on Toothpaste For Dinner: stream of weirdos