Archive for July 1st, 2007
Groovy Girl Has Moves.
This video is for everyone who liked the song from the Daft Hands video last week. Click play, or visit the Link [dailymotion] to watch this groovy girl’s moves. Wow.
BTW – the song is called “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” by Daft Punk.
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Night-Shining Clouds as Seen From Space.
Photo Credit: Veres Viktor
Veres Viktor took this fantastic photo of beautiful "night-shining clouds" or noctilucent clouds in Hungary.
NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite captured this view from space:
Credit: Cloud Imaging and Particle Size Experiment data processing team at
the University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.
On June 11, 2007 the cameras on the AIM satellite returned some of the first data documenting noctilucent clouds over the Arctic regions of Europe and North America. This new data reveals the global extent and structure of these mysterious clouds, to a degree that was previously unattainable. White and light blue represent noctilucent cloud structures. Black indicates areas where no data is available.
Previously on Neatorama: Night-Shining Noctilucent Clouds | Mysterious Glowing Cloud
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Roman Gladiators: Bean-Eating Vegetarians.
Real gladiators of ancient Rome turned out to be very different from their Hollywood depictions:
Gladiators were bean-eating vegetarians who fought barefoot, participated in refereed matches and suffered floggings if they became inebriated or behaved inappropriately with women, new findings suggest.
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Colosseum Planter.
Talking about the Romans: here’s a simple way to add a touch of ancient Rome to your garden: the Colosseum planter!
Link (they also have a Leaning Tower of Pisa birdfeeder) – via The Green Head
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Deathbed Confession: Army Officer Saw Roswell Aliens.
Lt. Walter Haut, the public relations officer at Roswell Army Air Field during the infamous Roswell UFO incident, left a sworn affidavit to be opened after his death. Last week, the text was released:
… the weather balloon claim was a cover story and that the real object had been recovered by the military and stored in a hangar.
He described seeing not just the craft, but alien bodies.
Link – via Blue’s News
Update 7/3/07: Here’s the document – Thanks The Good Reverend!
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Experts: Babies Lie. Parents: Duh!
Pyschologists inally confirmed what parents already knew forever: babies lie.
Behavioral experts have found that infants begin to lie from as young as six months. Simple fibs help to train them for more complex deceptions in later life.
Until now, psychologists had thought the developing brains were not capable of the difficult art of lying until four years old.
Following studies of more than 50 children and interviews with parents, Dr Vasudevi Reddy, of the University of Portsmouth’s psychology department, says she has identified seven categories of deception used between six months and three-years-old.
Infants quickly learnt that using tactics such as fake crying and pretend laughing could win them attention. By eight months, more difficult deceptions became apparent, such as concealing forbidden activities or trying to distract parents’ attention.
By the age of two, toddlers could use far more devious techniques, such as bluffing when threatened with a punishment.
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America's Best Restroom.
The America’s Best Restroom competition is now open for your votes! Five restrooms have been designated as finalists.
Catch 31, Virginia Beach, VA
Fandangles’ , Flushing, MI
Jungle Jim’s International Market, Fairfield, OH
Mix Lounge at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV
Vermont Marble Museum, Proctor, VT
Follow the links to see each restroom, and cast your vote before July 31st. Link -via Fark
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Plushies in Glass Bottles by David Huyck.
Taking cues from those pickled animals in a bottle, artist David Huyck created these plushies pickled in a glass bottle! Link – via Drawn!
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Toothless is Beautiful: How Humans Will Justify Almost Anything.
Newsweek has an interesting article on cognitive dissonance – basically a term used by psychologists to describe the intense discomfort of having two conflicting thoughts, beliefs, or perceptions at the same time. Humans, they say, will justify almost anything.
Here’s an example how the Nuer and Dinka tribes of southern Sudan "justify" toothlessness as beauty:
The Nuer and the Dinka tribes of southern Sudan share an unusual custom. Both of these cattle-herding societies remove several of their kids’ permanent front teeth as soon as they sprout: two on the top and four to six on the bottom. It’s a very painful procedure, done with a fish hook, and it leaves all tribe members with a distinctive slack-jawed look and speech impediments.
This practice probably started long ago, when tetanus was rampant in central Africa. Tetanus causes "lockjaw," but the tooth removal would have allowed children afflicted by this infectious disease to drink liquids even when their jaw muscles clamped shut. Although there has been no tetanus or lockjaw in the southern Sudan for ages, both the Nuer and the Dinka continue the custom of extracting the front teeth. Indeed, they believe the sunken jaw and lower lip are beautiful. People with front teeth, they say, look like jackals.
Social psychologist Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson described this in terms of cognitive dissonance:
In the case of the Nuer and Dinka, they "choose" to believe that the toothless look is aesthetically pleasing in order to justify the infliction of such trauma on their children. Any connection to health and survival is long gone.
Link – via New York University PR Forum
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Cokexedo: Coke Can Tuxedo.
We saw the corkxedo by Miss Cellania before, and now thanks to a link by Adam Stanhope, we have the cokexedo: the coke can tuxedo!
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Piilo: Futuristic Tent.
You’d probably never guess that this translucent, flexible membrane is actually a tent called Piilo, created by Markus Michalski. What? Don’t believe me? Check it out yourself: Link – via electro^plankton
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Taming Wild Robins.
That’s bird lover and wildlife photographer Dennis Bright, who gained fame by being able to tame wild robins:
He said: "Taming a Robin is actually quite simple – anyone can do it. The secret is that they will sell their soul for a mealworm!
"And talking to them really helps too – I use simple, common phrases like, ‘come on cheeky’. This particular Robin has been in my garden for four years. He comes into my house during the day and never flies away when I feed him.
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Barcode Chandelier
A chandelier inspired by the parallel line patterns of barcode graphics.
Link – via Mike Ballan
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Worm charming.
The World Worm Charming championship was held yesterday in Cheshire, England. Worm charming {wiki} is the act of attracting worms from the ground, originally for bait, but now also for competition. The world record is held by Tom Shufflebotham, who charmed 511 worms in 30 minutes! Link -via the Presurfer
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No excetions.
Time to learn English! And spelling, too. -via Arbroath
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Antique Telephones.
It makes you pause when you find out things you bought new are now being sold as antiques. Distinctive Telephones sells antique, vintage, and reproduction telephones (the kind with a dial). I was a bit taken aback when I saw Princess phones for $182, but then I remembered how much Ma Bell charged for those phones new (on the monthly payment plan). Link -via Dump Trumpet
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Rolling Water Container.
We take running water for granted, but millions of people in the developing world are forced to carry buckets of water home (sometimes from miles away). Innovation like this Q Drum rolling container makes their lives a little easier. Link – via Development Crossing
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Toypography.
Toypography is a clever wooden block toy, where English words can be reformed to Japanese (or Chinese, I suppose) characters of the same meaning!
Link | Toypography’s website [in Japanese]
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Big Foot: an Endangered Species?
Is Big Foot an endangered species? A Canadian member of parliament thought so – he tried to get Bigfoot protected under the Canadian version of the endangered species act:
… Mike Lake, a Canadian member of parliament from Edmonton, Alberta, agreed to introduce a petition that called for Bigfoot to be protected under the Canadian version of the endangered species act.
Lake presented to the House of Commons a petition that stated, “The debate over (Bigfoot’s) existence is moot in the circumstance of their tenuous hold on merely existing. Therefore, the petitioners request the House of Commons to establish immediate, comprehensive legislation to affect immediate protection of Bigfoot.”
Unfortunately, reality set in and Lake was forced to table the petition to prove that he wasn’t crazy.
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Observing the Motion of a Single Electron.
This is incredible: Brown University physicists Humphrey Maris and Wei Guo were able to observe (and film) the motion of a single electron!
To observe the motion of an electron – an elementary particle with a mass that is one billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a gram – has been considered to be impossible. So when two Brown University physicists showed movies of electrons moving through liquid helium at the 2006 International Symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids in Kyoto, they raised some eyebrows.
The images, which were published online on May 31, 2007, in the Journal of Low Temperature Physics, show scattered points of light moving down the screen – some in straight lines, some following a snakelike path. The Matrix it’s not. Still, the fact that they can be seen at all is astounding. “We were astonished when we first saw an electron moving across the screen,” said Humphrey Maris, a professor of physics at Brown University. “Once we had the idea, setting it up was surprisingly easy.”
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Tim Baker's Ammonite Book.
Sculptor and special makeup effects artist Tim Baker created this awesome cast ammonite fossil and brass handmade book.
Link – via Brass Goggles
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Contest to Kill 100 People with Swords.
Here’s a story about a macabre 1937 contest between two Japanese officers in China during the Nanking Massacre:
In 1937, the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun and the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun covered a "contest" between two Japanese officers, Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda, in which the two men vied to be the first to kill 100 people with a sword. The competition took place en route to Nanking, directly prior to the infamous "Nanking Massacre" …
Both officers supposedly surpassed their goal during the heat of battle, making it impossible to determine which officer had actually won the contest. Therefore, they decided to begin another contest, with the aim being 150 kills. The Nichi Nichi headline pertaining to the event read "’Incredible Record’ [in the Contest to] Behead 100 People—Mukai 106 – 105 Noda—Both 2nd Lieutenants Go Into Extra Innings".
Link | Wikipedia Entry – via reddit
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