<img SRC="http://www.likelystories.com/images/Choc/choc01.jpg" Johnny Depp’s Michael Jackson impersonation in Willy Wonka is freaky; give us back our drug-addled Gene Wilder any day!

DARPA Advanced Technology Office – Unique Signatures Detection This is bloody fantastic and, also, terrifying. Was browsing the DARPA website (as you do) and found that the U.S. government is researching how to detect people uniquely in large areas or large crowds. This is of course designed for tactical strikes against enemy combatants, whereever they…

The Angler Fish………………………………….: “Another unusual adaptation in anglerfish is their sexual dimorphism. The males are very small in comparison with the females, and live as permanent parasites on the female. The male attaches himself, by biting, to the body of the female. His mouth fuses with her skin, and the bloodstreams of the two fishes…

What’s Special About This Number? Think of a four-digit number. Now find out why it’s special.

Language of Prairie Dogs Includes Words for Humans Via Jim. Fascinating that we can decode the Prairie dog language, but we still can’t decode Linear A, the Minoan (possibly) language from before the birth of Christ or Rongorongo (the fantastically named Easter Island language.) That’s because the Prairie dogs speak in a language that has…