After you look over chapter one of our course text "How to Think About Weird Things," you'll notice a number of examples towards the second half of the chapter of what the authors consider to be "weird". To quote their own sense of this term, weird is "all the unusual, awesome, wonderful, bizarre, and antic happenings, real or alleged, that bubble up out of science, pseudoscience, the occult, the paranormal, the mystic, and the miraculous"(2).
To supplement those accounts, here is another weird account - in the sense of "unusual" - as found in a segment of the show Radiolab: "The Day My Mother's Head Exploded," by Hannah Palin.
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