How far would you go to feed your children? For the mother worm Boulengerula taitanus, the answer is: pretty darn far - they would let the baby worm eat their flesh! ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/19/mother-worm-lets-baby-worms-eat-her-flesh/Weird and wacky tales from the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake: One man, long paralyzed from the neck down before the earthquake, regained the ability to move when a looter tried st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/19/tales-from-the-1906-san-francisco-earthquake/Art Not Oil: A True Portrait of an Oil Company has some thought-provoking artworks on -what else - oil and car companies, and war.Don't miss the works of an anonymous "sub...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/19/mini-adventure/Would you believe that there were over 400 submissions to this year's Pioneer Press Marshmallow Peeps Diorama contest? Contestants expressed pathetic thanks to the Pioneer Pre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/19/marshmallow-peeps-diorama/What do you see living inside of Good? Found at Optical Illusions Etc. (Thanks Walt!) Update 8/13/08 - The original creator is Punya Mishra: L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/19/inside-of-good-is/A while ago, Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing and Make tagged me with a "To Live & Meme in L.A.", a four things meme (see Mark's entry with precious nuggets of info such as he likes to watch Pee Wee's Big Adventure a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/18/four-neat-things-about-los-angeles/From the website: This tiny device laser-projects a keyboard on any flat surface... you can then type away accompanied by simulated key click sounds. It really is true future...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/17/bluetooth-laser-virtual-keyboard/For more of Krista's paintings, see: Link (Thanks Rob Nelson!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/17/krista-lynn-browns-mandala-calling/In 1951, British explorer Eric Shipton took this photo of Yeti footprint in the Himalayas. The prints were 13 inches long and 8 inches wide. Shipton said that the prints were...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/17/shipton-yeti-footprint/This is the latest art installation of the infamous British guerilla artist Banksy. Link (via Collision Detection).Previously on Neatorama: Banksy's Banksus Militus Ratus | Grafitti Art...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/17/banksys-telephone-booth/Dubbed "the world's coolest marathon", this 26.2-mile race took place in the chilly (-23 °C!!!) North Pole. Who won? In the men’s division, Collins and Carsten Kolle (G...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/17/north-pole-marathon/Check out these cute sculptures made with Oreo by elementary school kids: Link (Thanks Yayo!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/17/oreo-sculptures/From Earth Picture of the Day archive: This nearly circular rainbow was observed from atop of Wendelstein Mountain (1.835 m or 6,020 ft) in Germany in March of 2000. Because we're used to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/17/circular-rainbow-on-wendelstein-mountain/See more of Gil's fantastic photos at: LinkUsing cormorant to fish is an ancient practice in Japan and China. In Japan, cormorant fishermen puts a tethered steel ring around the bird's neck (t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/17/gil-azouris-li-river-cormorant-fisherman/See other funny cartoons at Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/16/happy-easter-everyone/Toad with Lizard Tail. This toad with a 16-inch lizard-like tail was caught in Kampung Bekoh, Malaysia. Chiew Ah Chan said she was cleaning the house at about 8.30am yesterday when she sa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/15/weird-animals-toad-with-tail-and-lizard-with-two-tails/A fantastic resource for those who are looking to (or are forced to) use the power of the sun to cook their food. From the website: Where are solar ovens being used the most?*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/15/solar-cooking/Molly, the cat who was trapped for 2 weeks inside a 19th century building in New York, was finally found and freed!Rescuers finally drilled a hole in the wall of the 157-year-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/15/molly-the-cat-freed-after-being-trapped-for-two-weeks-inside-building-wall/Why be buried in a boring coffin, when you can get handmade coffins that look like a Mercedes Benz, lobster, onion, shoe, beer bottle, even a cigarette?From the website: For the Ga tribe i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/15/fantasy-coffins-from-ghana/From the website: There’s little doubt that this car is one of a kind. Nickel got the idea to build a wooden car from an article in a 1955 issue of Hot Rod magazine....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/15/jerry-nickels-wooden-cadillac/Les Stewart from Mudjimba, Australia, holds the world's record of typing all numbers from one to one million in words (not numbers). He began in 1982 and finished with the entry "one mill...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/15/typing-to-one-million/Kevin "Cannonball" Alderton, 34, a former soldier who lost his sight when he was attacked in the street, has set a new world record for downhill speed skiing: 100.94 mph...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/15/blind-man-set-new-record-for-downhill-skiing/See more of Jeremy's artworks here: Link (via Superhelga)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/15/jeremy-forsons-monkey-pilot/Ipfini, Inc. has created a unique liquid container called the Choice-Enabled Packaging. This container has "buttons" on the side of the container's surface that release...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/15/ipfinis-programmable-soda/Can you spot the face? For more illusions, checkout Vurdlak's blog: Link (Thanks Vurdlak!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/15/face-illusion/Connie Cheng and Leonardo Bonanni of the MIT Media Lab made this "smart" spoon: The spoon is equipped with sensors that measure temperature, acidity, salinity, and v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/15/connie-cheng-and-leonardo-bonannis-intelligent-spoon/This is the story about YouTube - the Internet's TV-killer. A year ago, co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen were in between jobs, a pair of twentysomething geeks running up big credit c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/15/chad-hurley-and-steve-chens-you-tube/Not to be outdone by the World's Most Expensive Sandwich, Chef Tom Bridge is making the World's Most Expensive Cheese Toast (£345 or $604 a slice!):He will use L’A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/14/worlds-most-expensive-cheese-toast/Gotta admire the creativity of these students. http://www.bleargh.net/wordpress/?p=130 (via error101)...
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