Daniel Smith
@dantiberius.bsky.social
Interim Head of Operations - Content Hub & GAU at Reach Plc. Author of The Weird Science Drop
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Daniel Smith
@dantiberius.bsky.social
· May 15
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Science is weird, and here’s the proof. The Weird Science Drop newsletter brings you the overlooked, under-the-radar and, above all else, most madcap science news, views and research. Click to read Th...
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Back from the dead like Frankenstein's monster - The Weird Science Drop newsletter delivers crazy chemistry, bonkers biology, foolish physics and lots more straight to your inbox every week. Go sign up!
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This week's TWSD - find out why you'd be happier being faced by a hungry lion on the savannah than a mountain of paperwork theweirdsciencedrop.substack.com/p/were-not-b...
December 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This week's TWSD - find out why you'd be happier being faced by a hungry lion on the savannah than a mountain of paperwork theweirdsciencedrop.substack.com/p/were-not-b...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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We go looking for Bigfoot in this week's TWSD. Oh, and come up with a new theory of existence
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December 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
We go looking for Bigfoot in this week's TWSD. Oh, and come up with a new theory of existence
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The Dark Knight makes you a better person! Also in this week's TWSD - Everest dwarfed by new discovery, physicists create a 'time crystal' and where the devil is Atlantis?
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November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The Dark Knight makes you a better person! Also in this week's TWSD - Everest dwarfed by new discovery, physicists create a 'time crystal' and where the devil is Atlantis?
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This week's TWSD is not for the squeamish! You won't forget Stubbins Ffirth in a hurry 🤢
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Take a pill and live to 150 💊 The Weird Science Drop #31
Long Covid breakthrough, keeping an eye on the Atlantic's biggest shark, and how we know humans and Neanderthals locked lips
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November 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
This week's TWSD is not for the squeamish! You won't forget Stubbins Ffirth in a hurry 🤢
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First-ever The Weird Science Emergency Drop on NASA's breaking news. Includes this priceless pearl from Dr Matthew Genge of @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social: "If aliens are at the helm, then they sure are doing a bad job at driving."
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NASA spills the beans on interstellar visitor 🚨 The Weird Science Emergency Drop
'If aliens are at the helm, then they sure are doing a bad job at driving'
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November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
First-ever The Weird Science Emergency Drop on NASA's breaking news. Includes this priceless pearl from Dr Matthew Genge of @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social: "If aliens are at the helm, then they sure are doing a bad job at driving."
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There's no place to hide from the robots in this week's TWSD! Also, the fifth dimension could be a real thing, and who should talk to the aliens for us?
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AI can now read your mind and print out what you're thinking 🤖 The Weird Science Drop #30
You have a seventh sense, wolves help to save the planet, Google has plans for Crab Island, and the biggest spider web ever found
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November 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
There's no place to hide from the robots in this week's TWSD! Also, the fifth dimension could be a real thing, and who should talk to the aliens for us?
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This week's TWSD delves into the mind of a killer
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Psychopaths' brains unlocked 🧠 The Weird Science Drop #29
UFOs spotted in 1950s' photos, supersonic travel is coming back, Alzheimer’s reversed, plus the difference between diet and zero drinks
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November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This week's TWSD delves into the mind of a killer
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TWSD gets spooky with a terrifying tale sure to send shivers down your spine
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Do ghosts exist?🎃 The Weird Science Drop Halloween Special #28
Don't buy that new TV, mushroom computers, start-up wants to sell you sunlight, and what the Pope's astonomer has in mind for ET
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October 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
TWSD gets spooky with a terrifying tale sure to send shivers down your spine
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Ginger cat riddle solved on TWSD #27 - plus
aliens using AI to hide from us, coffee-infused concrete, ancient frozen viruses wake up, and - whoah, dude! - the mother of all waves spotted in the Pacific
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aliens using AI to hide from us, coffee-infused concrete, ancient frozen viruses wake up, and - whoah, dude! - the mother of all waves spotted in the Pacific
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Ginger cat riddle has been solved - The Weird Science Drop #27
Aliens using AI to hide from us, coffee-infused concrete, ancient frozen viruses wake up, plus - whoah, dude! - the mother of all waves spotted in the Pacific.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Ginger cat riddle solved on TWSD #27 - plus
aliens using AI to hide from us, coffee-infused concrete, ancient frozen viruses wake up, and - whoah, dude! - the mother of all waves spotted in the Pacific
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aliens using AI to hide from us, coffee-infused concrete, ancient frozen viruses wake up, and - whoah, dude! - the mother of all waves spotted in the Pacific
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This week's weird scientists liked nothing more than to fit electrodes to your brain and zap away. He also trained monkeys to smoke marijuana
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Dinosaur plant brought back to life by pensioners 🦖 The Weird Science Drop #25
Ernie Shacks' ship was doomed from the start, AI IDs a Nazi, evidence of a Neanderthal family's trip to the beach, plus NASA's Moon village plan
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October 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This week's weird scientists liked nothing more than to fit electrodes to your brain and zap away. He also trained monkeys to smoke marijuana
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Are we living in a simulated universe? One way of knowing is to create our own! This and lots more in this week's TWSD
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Heinz and his doomsday equation ☠️ The Weird Science Drop #24
Simulating our own universe, an underwater volcano is about to go pop, and the terrifying sound of the Earth's magnetic field flipping
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October 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Are we living in a simulated universe? One way of knowing is to create our own! This and lots more in this week's TWSD
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NASA is planning a 'kinetic disruption mission' - find out if it's as fun as it sounds in the latest TWSD!
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The MCU might be right - The Weird Science Drop #23
Evidence of multiverses, AI seen going rogue, the hunt for element 120, and really big hailstones
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September 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
NASA is planning a 'kinetic disruption mission' - find out if it's as fun as it sounds in the latest TWSD!
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This week's TWSD turned into a future tech special - with a focus on why the private sector is ready to conquer space
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Life here began out there 👾 The Weird Science Drop #22
DNA storage, super-fast hyperloops, reliable mobile reception, and corporations seeing dollar-signs in space
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September 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
This week's TWSD turned into a future tech special - with a focus on why the private sector is ready to conquer space
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Do you find yourself feeling sleepy as the nights start to draw in? Well, it turns out the reason might be because our ancestors had a great long snooze in the winter
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Humans used to hibernate over the winter 💤 The Weird Science Drop #21
The search for Planet Y, Enterprise seen in space, the Pale Blue Dot, plus the internet is creaking under the weight of AI slop.
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September 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Do you find yourself feeling sleepy as the nights start to draw in? Well, it turns out the reason might be because our ancestors had a great long snooze in the winter
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The real Frankenstein, the Earth's core has hit reverse, humans will one day live for 20,000 years, but AI will kill us all first (say AI developers) - all this and more in the latest TWSD!
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Infamous 'dark sorcerer' was the real Frankenstein 🧟♂️ The Weird Science Drop #20
The Earth's core has hit reverse, humans will one day live for 20,000 years, but AI will kill us all first (say AI developers), plus air passengers are in for a bumpy ride.
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September 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The real Frankenstein, the Earth's core has hit reverse, humans will one day live for 20,000 years, but AI will kill us all first (say AI developers) - all this and more in the latest TWSD!
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Missions to our (second) nearest star and a black hole in this week's TWSD. Also, a sunny day on Mars, strange ways to die, a real-life Patrick from SpongeBob Squarepants, and saying farewell to a legend
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The Weird Science Drop #17 ☠️ Playing Final Destination roulette
China's on course for the Moon, we're heading to the nearest star, and scientists have discovered a new colour of cat
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August 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Missions to our (second) nearest star and a black hole in this week's TWSD. Also, a sunny day on Mars, strange ways to die, a real-life Patrick from SpongeBob Squarepants, and saying farewell to a legend
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Turning back time, where potatoes came from, what's under Antarctica's ice sheet, and where to buy if you want to live longer. All this and more in this week's TWSD!
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The Weird Science Drop #16 ⏰ If you could turn back time
Where to live to extend your life, say goodbye to toilet paper, drugged-up cavemen, plus the secrets of Antarctica unlocked.
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August 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Turning back time, where potatoes came from, what's under Antarctica's ice sheet, and where to buy if you want to live longer. All this and more in this week's TWSD!
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Ozzy's DNA investigated by baffled docs, while AI bots whisper sweet evils to each other, the universe will end earlier than we thought, plus the ‘land of the white jaguar’ discovered - all this and more in TWSD#15!
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The Weird Science Drop #15 🧬 Ozzy's DNA investigated by baffled docs
AI bots whisper sweet evils to each other, the universe will end earlier than we thought, plus the ‘land of the white jaguar’ discovered
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July 31, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Ozzy's DNA investigated by baffled docs, while AI bots whisper sweet evils to each other, the universe will end earlier than we thought, plus the ‘land of the white jaguar’ discovered - all this and more in TWSD#15!
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There's no hiding from WhoFi! Plus, science cures ageing, the hunt for Planet X and why AI might be slowing you down. All this and more in the latest TWSD!
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The Weird Science Drop #14 👴 Let's all stop getting older
Titan's made of the right stuff, vaccine dental floss, Antartica findings, plus saying hello to aliens
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July 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
There's no hiding from WhoFi! Plus, science cures ageing, the hunt for Planet X and why AI might be slowing you down. All this and more in the latest TWSD!
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This week's TWSD has freaky sex magic for those suitably inclined. But also aliens, animals and Antarctica
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The Weird Science Drop #12 🚀 Sex magic and rockets don't mix
Humans are making a racket - but who is listening? Also, an extinct big bird is coming back, and what happens when you drop a dead cow into the ocean
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July 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This week's TWSD has freaky sex magic for those suitably inclined. But also aliens, animals and Antarctica
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We're in the age of 'kinda' AI, but we're close to the full-blown, run-for-the-hills-Skynet-is-here-to-kill-us thing. TWSD delves a little deeper and finds out if you manage to survive the upcoming robot uprising, you might live forever...
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The Weird Science Drop #12 🌎 Spin me right round, baby, right round
🚀 Space cannabis falls to Earth 💊 Live a little longer and you'll live forever 🐬 Dolphins not coming back 🐜 Plus, China invents Ant-Man spy drone
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July 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
We're in the age of 'kinda' AI, but we're close to the full-blown, run-for-the-hills-Skynet-is-here-to-kill-us thing. TWSD delves a little deeper and finds out if you manage to survive the upcoming robot uprising, you might live forever...
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Being cool will get you ahead in life. Luckily, it's the one skill that is truly transferable to any country and culture. Everyone in the world agrees on what makes someone frosty. And science has just unlocked what it takes...
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The Weird Science Drop #11 🧊 The secrets to being cool
👩 Get the Belgian Stone Age look 👴 Ancient boomarang only did half the job 🧠 Sugar in your brain 🩸 Plus, how to make your own homunculus
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July 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Being cool will get you ahead in life. Luckily, it's the one skill that is truly transferable to any country and culture. Everyone in the world agrees on what makes someone frosty. And science has just unlocked what it takes...
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TWSD #9 pinpoints the two ages when your body waves the little white flag
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The Weird Science Drop #9 🚢 Sunken ships bring in the chips 💰
👴 Exact age your body gives up 👷♀️ Working from home - the results are in 🤿Diving for treasure 👶 Plus, how to build a human
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June 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
TWSD #9 pinpoints the two ages when your body waves the little white flag
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