The OGBoards Wikipedia Thread

ipitytheblue · Mar 25, 2011

just to see if anyone else has found anything interesting lately

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsinkable_Sam

SalemDeac · Mar 25, 2011

Oh no!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_a_Peanut

TWDeac · Mar 25, 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76

It's been posted before but they are intriguing.

myDeaconmyhand · Mar 25, 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogart–Bacall_syndrome

Bogart-Bacall Syndrome

Deac2010 · Mar 25, 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

an even cooler radio signal

myDeaconmyhand · Mar 25, 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Org

Scientology has a Navy. Weird.

KickballDeac · Mar 25, 2011

Various scientists and thinkers who I admire...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaas_Tinbergen

And many others, which I'll share later.

bmoneydeac · Mar 25, 2011

this was a sweet thread on the old quad...i look forward to reading some of these.

HailToTheDeacons · Jun 17, 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha

Most remote inhabited place on Earth.

94Deac · Jun 17, 2013

Over two years later... it's gone from bewilderment and uneasiness to explicit pain and borderline psychosis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bzdelik

ChicdeaC · Jun 18, 2013

KickballDeac said:
Various scientists and thinkers who I admire...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaas_Tinbergen

And many others, which I'll share later.

An awesome man. One of his students was one of my profs at SLU, got to hear cool stories. Also this book (edited by one of my committee members and a colleague) has a fascinating first chapter written by Dr. Wilson about how he and MacArthur worked and some philosophy of science that is so right on.

ToughLoveDeac · Jun 18, 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

"The Dyatlov Pass incident was a mysterious event which resulted in the deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959."

ipitytheblue · Jun 18, 2013

ToughLoveDeac said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

"The Dyatlov Pass incident was a mysterious event which resulted in the deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959."

one of my favorite articles

inspectah · Jun 18, 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

RicoSuave · Jun 19, 2013

Some of those articles are fascinating.

bmoneydeac · Jun 19, 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act

Someone posted this one on the old boards. Pretty interesting stuff.

TWDeac · Jun 19, 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Incident

ipitytheblue · Jun 19, 2013

on my phone but someone look up the Lost Cosmonaut

HailToTheDeacons · Jun 19, 2013

ipitytheblue said:
on my phone but someone look up the Lost Cosmonaut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts

KickballDeac · Jun 19, 2013

Apparently this is a thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_panic

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