About Us
Manufacturing, with a taste for the strange
All Weird News sits at an unusual intersection: a manufacturing journal that takes the strange seriously. Factories are full of stories that never make the trade press — the machining problem that took eleven attempts to solve, the material that behaves beautifully until it doesn't, the quality-control catch that saved an entire production run. That is the news we cover, and we cover it with the rigor of a technical publication and the appetite of a newsroom that loves a good oddity.
What we cover
- Precision-machining deep dives: tolerances, toolpaths, and the fixes engineers actually made, told with the numbers left in.
- Materials-science oddities: alloys, polymers, and composites whose behavior is too strange to leave in a lab notebook.
- Quality-control stories: the near-misses and catches from factory floors worldwide, written so process engineers and curious readers can both follow along.
How we work
Every story starts with a verifiable source: a technical paper, a manufacturer's statement, plant documentation, or an interview with someone who was on the floor. We name our sources, we date our articles, and when a story develops, we update it rather than quietly rewriting it. Speculation is labeled as speculation — even the weird deserves honest framing.
Who reads us
Machinists, process engineers, quality managers, and students — plus a large share of readers who simply enjoy learning how things are made and occasionally go wrong. All Weird News exists because manufacturing is genuinely full of the unexpected, and a journal willing to say so, precisely, makes the whole field more interesting to read about.