Weird Science on Vice

  • Visions of L. Ron

    Based on the covers of six L. Ron Hubbard story compilations. Full story

    2012 Sep 22 Matthew Frost Fashion
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  • The Novelizer

    An Interview with Alan Dean Foster on the Art of Adapting Sci-Fi Movies into Books

    Sadly, the market for novelizations has begun to dry up. So I called Alan Dean Foster, author of novelizations for many films like 'Alien' and 'Star Wars,' to find out how the science-fiction fans of tomorrow will satisfy their appetite for transmedia literature. Full story

    2012 Sep 21 Hamilton Morris Stuff
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  • Criminal Chlorination

    An Interview with a Clandestine Chemist

    There exist gentlemen scientists, who seek to further the field of psychoactive-drug synthesis in the privacy of their own homes. Here I present an interview with a clandestine chemist whose curiosity of forbidden molecules left him locked in a cage. Full story

    2012 Sep 20 Hamilton Morris Stuff
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  • This Guy Bends Hard Rods with His Mind 

    Meet Jean-Pierre Girard, a Frenchman Who’ll Teach You About Psi Energy for Only $295

    Shit. I’ve been determinedly rubbing this metal skewer for more than 25 minutes and it still doesn’t want to bend. I’m doing everything my metal-bending teacher, Jean-Pierre Girard, has instructed me to: I’m wearing green, stroking the rod tenderly, and focusing all my mental ene… Full story

    2012 Sep 19 Sylla Saint-Guily Stuff
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  • Turtle Boys

    David Ohle completely vanished from the literary landscape after publishing his 1972 debut novel, 'Motorman.' 'Turtle Boys' is a hitherto unpublished investigation of the mutant anatomy of turtle boys. Full story

    2012 Sep 17 David Ohle Stuff
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  • The Cute Show Page!

    Kuppy-Cats!

    The room went silent as the scientist slowly opened the cage door and gently removed a two-week-old specimen of his own invention, plainly stating, “Behold the final frontier of cute: the kuppy-cat.” Full story

    2012 Sep 14 Ellis Jones Stuff
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  • Did This Teenage Brainiac Cure Cancer?

    Fifteen-year-old Jack Andraka invented a tool to diagnose cancer that is 160 times faster, 100 times less expensive, and 400 times more sensitive than previous cancer-testing procedures. We asked him how he got so smart. Full story

    2012 Sep 14 Allison Van Siclen Stuff
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  • Letter from the Guest Editor

    I looked deep and found things that palpate the tender abdomen of what we call science with a cold, ungloved finger. Inhale the alkyl nitrites of curiosity and penetrate the puckered sphincter of knowledge, scientia! Full story

    2012 Sep 7 Hamilton Morris Stuff
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