What do you get when you combine "honesty is the best policy" with "Do as I say, not as I do"? Here's an interesting study showing that parents lie to children surprisingly often:"We are surp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/lying-as-parenting-technique/The argument of Mac vs PC (or more accurately, Mac vs Windows) is as old as time itself - that is, if time started in 1984, the year that the Mac was introduced.Sure Windows is bad. Awfully bad (I'm looking at you, Vista...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/whats-worse-windows-or-the-cult-of-mac/Researchers have taken another look at the famous Whitehall study of over 18,000 middle-aged London men and found that a single measurement of three factors predicted mortality better than any other measures. Those with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/how-to-shave-10-years-off-your-life-have-high-cholesterol-be-hypertensive-and-smoke/Amazing 1900's green creativity from John Krubsack who decided to grow chairs! It took him eleven years to bend and graft stems and brances of elder trees into the shape of a chair before it was ready for 'harvest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/growing-chairs/Marine biologist and blogger "WhySharksMatter" has created a list of four things everyone needs to know about sharks. Full of thought-provoking facts and cool pictures of sharks, this post will be interes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/four-things-everyone-needs-to-know-about-sharks/Hmmm, this t-shirt outlet might not be the place to buy gifts for loved ones, but if you are a fat guy and proud of it, you’ll find a shirt to love. There are also shirts for big women and for women who love fat gu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/fat-guy-shirts/(YouTube link) This ad for Freebord skateboards has skateboarders flying down the streets of San Francisco in the dark to connect glowing Tetris shapes. I have to wonder where the awesome outtakes are!-via Diggtetri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/human-tetris-on-skateboards/Most of us think of sweet produce as fruit and not-sweet garden foods as vegetables, with the exception of the tomato because that’s been argued over so much. But which plant foods are scientifically fruits, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/thats-not-fruit/The Mainichi Daily News (Japan) reports that a college student has developed a robot that can be partially controlled through a neural interface. Taku Ichikawa of the University of Electro-Communications in Tok...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/thought-controlled-robot-2/Photo: Fickle Pegasus Wrap you your baby, safe and secure, in the tentacles of Cthulhu with this crocheted baby blanket. It was created by Craftster user Fickle Pegasus for her husband's co-worker's son. Velcro tabs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/cthulhu-baby-blanket/(YouTube Link) The Madagascar Institute is a Brooklyn-based art collective that "that specializes in large-scale sculptures and rides, live performances, and guerilla art events." The artists are especially fond of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/jet-powered-merry-go-round/Andy Woodruff noticed that Ohio has 88 counties, the same number as keys on a piano. So he went to work on a map application that assigns a note to each county. You can play a song on the map (a couple of songs are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/ohio-is-a-piano/A 13-year-old macaw flew fifty feet up into a tree and was too scared to fly down. Emma Hooper of Botley, England believes that Cleo flew away because she was distressed at moving to a new home. When the RSPCA refused to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/woman-hires-cherry-picker-to-rescue-bird/Growing up singing together has its advantages! This post looks at thirteen different sibling acts that made it big, with videos of each.Often our brothers and sisters are the first people we sing and play music with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/band-cest-keeping-it-in-the-family/A sheet of paper may be nothing more than a medium upon which you scribble notes and doodle the occasional design, but to a paper artist it represents something that can be folded, twisted and turned into anything. Che...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/10-cutting-edge-folded-paper-artists/So many podcasts out there, but so little time. Here are fifteen in particular that are worth your time and will make you a better informed citizen of the world. Links include TED Talks, the Naked Scientists, a couple fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/15-podcasts-that-will-make-you-smarter/This completely hilarious montage of circa 1987 video dater men was featured on Boing Boing yesterday, and as one commenter mentioned, the guy at 3:34 was a dead ringer for Seth Green. Â Upon second viewing, I noticed th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/1987-dating-video/The last week in September is Banned Books Week. To mark the event, an interactive map has been created that shows requests for removal of books from public libraries and school libraries for the period 2007-2009.Â...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/an-interactive-map-of-banned-and-challenged-books/The Lumière brothers began producing moving pictures in the 1890s; this short of "The Serpentine Dance" required each frame of the film to be hand-colored. Several links for this video indicate t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/19th-century-color-motion-picture/Brandon Keim writes in Wired that scientists are getting closer to reconstructing images that duplicate what the brain actually sees through visual input. Though it's not actually brain-reading, it's a small st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/seeing-what-the-brain-sees/Did you know that today is World Rabies Day? Well, now you do. Our pal Asylum blog has a neat post about rabies trivia, including these gems:People who get rabies don't go vampire.Somewhat s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/happy-rabies-day/Photo: Mio I-zawa Japanese artist Mio I-zawa created this mechanical tumor that grows and throbs as your computer operates. The harder your computer works, the larger it grows. From the blog Pink Tentacle:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/this-mechanical-tumor-is-a-computer-peripheral/Photo: Australian Center for Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity, University of AdelaideDoes it seem like science is discovering new species left and right lately? After the discovery of the Cat Ba Leopard gecko, bri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/850-new-species-discovered-in-underground-lakes-and-caves-of-australia/Life Magazine has a hilarious post up featuring what they consider to be the 30 dumbest inventions of all time. When you look through the list, filled with things like the shower hat to the right, you actually start to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/30-stupidest-inventions-ever/Talk about junk in your trunk (sorry, but I just had to). An Italian man was arrested after a routine police stop ended up with authorities seizing over 1700 animals in his trunk. Included in the bust were 216 parakeets,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/man-caught-with-1700-animals-in-his-trunk/So. Three decades after he fled Los Angeles, director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland.In 1977, Polanski pled guilty of "unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor" to avoid being charged with rape by u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/should-roman-polanski-be-arrested/The melting clock in Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory is a familiar icon. One can purchase analog and digital versions of these clocks, hand-crafted by artists, but it is also possible to create o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/the-persistence-of-vinyl-records/Modern musicians are frequently believed to be stupid airheads who couldn't hold down any "real" job. But in reality, there are a lot of intelligent rock stars. Some musicians are even geniuses - and not just when it com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/8-scientifically-minded-musicians/(YouTube link) Dogs will occasionally follow children home, especially when the child encourages it. In this case, the dog bonded to Suryia the orangutan and the facility is now stuck with Roscoe. This cute clip is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/the-orangutan-and-the-hound-dog/(YouTube Link) "Hey There Cthulhu" is a love song by the The Eben Brooks Brand, from their 2007 album Karaoke Bash Vol. 3. It is about a man expressing his tender love for the Dark One and his yearning for...
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