Big wonder.
Small print included.

From forty posts to a place to explore.

This site grows out of the original Strange Science launch kit: forty topics, a mixed-category 40-day calendar, platform captions and a library of social graphics. The website keeps that broad curiosity and dark-space, radium-green identity while adapting the material for reading, searching and checking sources.

A good hook should survive its explanation.

We like punchy writing. We do not want a punchline to turn a model into a measurement. The website's editorial pass distinguishes direct observation from inference, keeps uncertainty ranges, and tones down claims the original short-form hooks overstated.

• Follow the evidence. Every story links to the publication or institution behind it.
• Keep the caveats. Estimates, historical accounts and laboratory findings are labelled in the explanation.
• Do not turn history into instructions. Medical self-experiments are historical stories, not challenges to repeat.
• Illustrations are not proof. The atmospheric artwork is conceptual and AI-generated, not a record of an experiment.

Sources were reviewed for this website on 6 October 2026 UTC. Linked articles have their own publication dates; this collection is not presented as breaking news. Where evidence changes, the story should change with it.

VSL Info Mode, outside this website.

The standalone browser extension offers a floating information panel for selected or pointed-at page content. Download the ZIP, extract it, open your browser's Extensions page, enable Developer mode and choose Load unpacked. Select the folder containing manifest.json, then pin the flask icon.

This is an unpacked developer preview, not a browser-store listing. The current name inside the package may read “VSL Info Mode for Comet.” Browser-specific installation tests are pending; Firefox and Safari packages are not included.

When enabled, extension lookups can send the pointed-at subject and a little surrounding context to Wikipedia. Optional Ask AI uses your own provider key. Avoid enabling it on confidential pages. Downloading the ZIP does not install or activate it.

A website, not a mailing-list trap.

This static site has no newsletter form, account system, advertising tracker or social-publishing integration. Search and Reality check answers operate in page memory. Read marks, theme choice and the optional start date travel in the URL fragment when you follow this site’s links. Opening a fresh address starts fresh. Use Save progress file on the trail page for a reliable backup, then Restore progress file to load it; preview links may expire. Restoring replaces the current marks, date and theme, and the file is processed in your browser, not uploaded. There is no account or browser-storage database. The reading-plan CSV includes your current read marks. Anyone with a copied trail link or progress file can see the marks and date it contains. Fonts are requested from Google Fonts. Opening an external source takes you to that publisher's site and privacy policy.

Instagram, Facebook and TikTok were the original launch kit's intended formats. No account handles or links have been added here without confirmation.