Researchers from Venezuela discovered the secret to producing fart-free beans:

Flatulence is caused by bacteria that live in the large intestine that break down food not already digested higher in the gut. The gas the bacteria produce is emitted from the body as a fart.

Granito and colleagues found that adding these two gut bacteria to black beans, or Phaseolus vulgaris, before cooking makes them even less likely to cause flatulence.

What? Fart-free beans? Is nothing sacred anymore? What will I do with my anti-fart chair cusion?

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What? You didn’t think that it was true? Here’s University of Central Arkansas’ new degree in Underwater Basket Weaving and here’s University of Portsmouth’s syllabus on the course.

Let’s let Wikipedia have the last words: Link – via zxcvzxcv

If you think the praying mantis we had previously on Neatorama was bad-ass, check this one out! Like the Matrix, man! From Tribe.net – via LightChaser

Faith was born with no front legs, so she learned to walk like a human. If you are having a bad day, think of this and never give up.

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Catherine loved the TV show Space:1999 [wiki] so much that she’s renovating her house to look like Moonbase Alpha! (She calls hers Sorellarium after the Sorella Lamp made by the Italian company Guzzini in 1972, which is used as a prominent prop in the TV show).

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From the website:

Suzanne Cooper’s son was delivered at 6.59am and weighed 6lb 6oz (2.9kg) after being induced for six days. He was due on Saturday and husband Mike called the wait for his child ‘a bit of a horror show’.

He had to persuade his wife, a 36-year-old special needs teacher, to agree to the name.

‘The Omen is one of our favourite films and that’s why I was keeping my legs crossed for a birth on the sixth,’ she said. ‘It does seem a bit weird I suppose – but he’s perfect.’ Damien was born at Southmead Hospital in Bristol.

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Mark Frogley and Chris Phillips of the Imperial College London, discovered a neat quantum trick: a way to make a light ray that make things invisible.

Using two powerful beams made this way, the team performed its vanishing trick: the artificial atoms became transparent to one beam when a second – coupling – laser illuminated them at the same time. "By shining an invisible powerful laser onto these ‘artificial atoms’, we have learnt how to control the motion of the electrons so they no longer absorb light – when the laser is switched on, the crystals instantly become invisible, only to return to their normal opaque state when the laser is switched off."

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This one is titled "A Woman of Letters" and if you see closely, she’s diving into a sea of alphabets… See more of Rodger’s artwork here: Link