Is life on Earth special? Not according to Carnegie Institution's astronomer Alan Boss. The author of the new book The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets predicted that there may be 100 billion Eart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/26/the-galaxy-may-have-100-billion-earth-like-planets/Watch this series of slow-motion videos in which 90 small magnets are laid out in a matrix. Then another magnet is dropped on top, which upsets the matrix and causes the magnets to realign, assembling themselves into, um...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/26/magnet-mania/Thirty states have deals with large banks to deposit unemployment benefits. Many of the banks then issue a prepaid debit card to jobless people. On the surface, it looks like a simple deal. In practice, recipients are fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/26/bank-fees-on-unemployment-benefits/Can you hear the sound in the clip at this site? I can't, but that's not surprising. It can generally only be heard by people under the age of 25. Those who can hear it say it's pretty annoying. Some older folks use...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/26/the-teenager-audio-test/The chances had to be a million to one. When I traveled around the world for six months in 2007, I blogged about every place I visited. Because Matten, Switzerland was one of my most picturesque destinations, I feature...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/26/blog-post-helps-man-find-family-roots/Some really bizarre classes that are honestly offered at colleges include "Underwater Basket Weaving", "The Joy Of Garbage", and "Far Side Entomology". The professor who teaches the class &q...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/26/the-15-strangest-college-courses-in-america/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doQvWsJRCPs][YouTube - Link]Technically it's an iRobot, but it's pretty much the same thing. It kinda reminds me of Dr. Robotnik's creations, only alot less evil. - via MakeFrom th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/26/hamster-controlled-roomba/Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew were scanning Google Earth and came upon a forest in Mozambique that had never been mapped, so they set out to see what they could find. They found the forest of Mount Mab...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/26/would-you-put-me-down-please/Not too long ago a small local newspaper up here in Maine ran an article about a guy who had collected countless rolls of undeveloped film. It started with one roll of Kodachrome from a discarded camera but soon be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/26/kodachrome-dreams/These Japanese snacks are actually called "Sea Otter Boogers" and apparently are quite tasty treats made of candied black beans. They're yours for only about $6, of course, you have to speak Japanese to order them....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/26/sea-otter-boogers/This egg shell art is truly stunning. InventorSpot has more pictures of these lovely, detailed art pieces by artist Ron Cheruka. LinkArt, design, beauty, talent, pretty, skill, eggs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/26/crushingly-beautiful-egg-shell-art/It's amazing what some people can creatively do with everyday objects, and Christian Faur has recently dropped my jaw ... He makes pixel-art out of crayons, No not drawing with them, but using them stacked in a tray to m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/26/christian-faurs-crayon-pixel-art/Some of you might be familiar with Cake Wrecks, a site that mocks botched baked goods. This site is sort of like Cake Wrecks for weddings. If you think the camo tuxes are something, wait til you see the Hello Kitty d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/25/photo-evidence-of-tacky-weddings/Ilham Anas of Indonesia has become famous for his resemblance to President Barrack Obama. What first started out as a joke, when his friends posted pictures of him on the internet, has turned into his 15-minutes of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/25/obama-look-a-like-in-indonesia/Ian Welch of Aldershot, Hampshire (U.K.), caught the biggest freshwater fish by rod in Thailand, a record 55 stone (770 pound) freshwater ray! It took 90 minutes to land, 13 men to heave it out of the water... a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/25/british-angler-catches-largest-freshwater-fish-ever/I <3 this knitted burger by Etsy seller nillakitty (she's selling the pattern, not the burger itself).Our very own Jill Harness found this and other fun burger-related items, as posted on her neat article at InventorS...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/25/knitted-burger/Hard work never hurt anyone, or so the adage goes, or did it? According to the latest research by Marianna Virtanen from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, long hours at work can harm your brain:Long worki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/25/long-hours-at-work-may-lead-to-dementia/For homeowners caught in the nation's housing collapse, having their homes foreclosed is like a nightmare that they can't fight ... or can they? Chris Hoyer, a Tampa, Florida, lawyer told homeowners that there are three...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/25/3-little-words-that-stopped-foreclosure-produce-the-note/The miracle liquid can clean your toilet and is powerful enough to kill anthrax spores and oh, you can drink it because it's just ... water. Here's the skinny on the miracle liquid known as electrolyzed water:It turn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/25/the-miracle-liquid-electrolyzed-water/Remember the post about Micropinna microstoma, the fish with a transparent head? In that post, Neatorama reader sniggitysnags told us about the existence of the video clip by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Insti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/25/fish-with-a-transparent-head-the-video-clip/What happens when you give an artist a canvas the size of a football field and two BMW Z4's? You don't have to wonder: South African artist Robin Rhode had the pleasure of using the cars as paintbrushes. His creative r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/25/bmw-z4-used-as-a-paintbrush/CarlosLabs, a design firm based in Sydney, created a Google Maps mashup of cities around the world and what they would look like if hit by various nuclear devices. You can choose your city and then a weapon (Fat Ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/25/if-your-city-were-nuked/Parents may think they are showing their sense of humor when they name their baby, but how would YOU like to go through life with a name like Terry Bull, Paige Turner, Justin Case, Barb Dwyer, or Anna Sasin? Those are so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/25/most-unfortunate-names/To promote their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame giveaway (in which you can win a trip for two to the induction ceremonies), mental_floss is featuring rock and roll quizzes. Today's Lunchtime Quiz challenges you to identify...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/25/elton-vs-billy/(vimeo link) It looks like a portal to another dimension, or maybe a time-travel machine. Multiverse is an art installation in a 200-foot-long tunnel between buildings in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/25/multiverse/When she was a child, Nadya Vessey's legs were amputated below the knee due to illness. One time, another child asked what happened to her legs, and she replied that she was a mermaid. She couldn't get th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/25/mermaids-dream-comes-true/Did you know that cheetahs lived in Algeria? Not too many of them. This is one of the first-ever camera-trap photos of an extremely rare Saharan subspecies taken in late summer of 2008. The International Un...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/25/rare-cheetah-in-algeria/As if we needed another reason to be insanely jealous of people who work at Google, here's one more: not only is the food there free, their cafeteria doesn't suck. Not by a long shot. The Google people periodically b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/googles-cafeteria-doesnt-suck/The GEN H-4, designed by the Japanese, is apparently the world's smallest manned helicopter. It weighs in at a waifish 155 pounds and can be yours for one easy payment of $35,000.LinkFrom the Upcoming ueue, submitted b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/the-worlds-smallest-manned-helicopter/Mark and Nicky Webster's children were taken away by UK's social services after doctors found small fractures in their son's leg, mistakenly thought as caused by physical abuse but later found to have a rare medical caus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/government-youre-cleared-of-child-abuse-but-its-too-late-to-have-your-children-back/
