(YouTube Link) The Chiang Mai Yi Peng Festival is an Buddhist holy day in Thailand. That evening, celebrants send send burning lanterns aloft, floating on hot air. According to YouTube user bugzila: [...]it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/29/the-hot-air-lanterns-of-the-chiang-mai-yi-peng-festival/The Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah has created an interactive feature that allows you to see the relative size of small objects, starting with a coffee bean and magnifying down to a carbon atom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/29/an-interactive-illustration-of-the-size-of-atoms/Newsweek presents a pictorial history of birth control methods. We've come a long way since the Greek philosopher Aristotle recommended olive oil as a spermicide! http://www.newsweek.com/id/220089 -Thanks, Steady...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/29/the-history-of-birth-control/A Dutch medical magazine asked its readers to send in their stories of strange medical cases. One respondent told the tale of Margaret Daalman, who came in to the hospital 30 years ago complaining of a stomach ache. An x...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/29/the-silverware-swallower/Geologists: Experts in the Art of Subduction - $11.95, modeled by Zac.Ever been seduced by a geologist? No? Well, you can't blame them - though they're not well versed in seduction, they are experts in the art o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/29/geologists-experts-in-the-art-of-subduction/Remember Dave Carroll of the group Sons of Maxwell who wrote the song United Breaks Guitars after seeing his guitar abused? He flew United Airline again on Sunday on his way to speak to a group of customer service execut...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/29/lost-luggage/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Painfully Honest and Epic Mobile Home Commercial Come on down and buy yourself a home. Or don't. I don't care. Link Keanu Re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/29/videosift-clips-of-the-week-40/This week's collaboration with the What is it? Blog brings us this strange looking device - can you guess what it is for?Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, however, you can guess as many time...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/29/what-is-it-game-113/How do starfish keep cool when lying on the sand during low tide? Dr Sylvain Pincebourde and colleagues at the University of California, Davis and Bodega Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay, California, studied starfish (oka...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/starfish-bulk-up-to-cool-down/(Video Link) Lauren McCarthy created the Happiness Hat - a gadget that detects whether or not you're smiling. If you're not, it drives a small metal spike into the back of your head to encourage to you resolve that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/smile-or-suffer-the-consequences-while-wearing-the-happiness-hat/Natania had already planned to make slime and ectoplasm for Halloween when she came up with an idea for crystal-encrusted Halloween decorations. Get some pipe cleaners and some borax and make your own with her recipe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/borax-crystal-spider-and-cthulhu/(College Humor link) What if all our favorite pop culture vampires got together in the same room? Pretty much what you'd expect.Funny, halloween, vampire, dracula, Twilight, The Count...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/vampire-reunion/(YouTube Link) The Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt isn't just a t-shirt. You can actually play music on it. Use a magnetic pick over the string markings and press down on the frets with your other hand. There's also...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/playable-electric-guitar-shirt/It has long been suspected that there are underground tunnels and caverns on the moon, presumably the residua of lava tubes. Now a group of scientists led by Junichi Haruyama of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agenc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/entrance-found-to-underground-lunar-tunnel/Have you seen this old man? He's the "Geezer Bandit," a serial bank robber than has robbed three banks so far (once while carrying an oxygen tank!):Authorities say he walked in to a Bank of America branch i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/the-geezer-bandit/A legal secretary at PepsiCo forgot to deal with a lawsuit notice that came across her desk. Consequently, PepsiCo's lawyers did not show up to court when expected. The presiding judge summarily handed down a $1.26 bil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/company-forgets-court-date-loses-1-26-billion-in-default-judgment/(YouTube Link) Vadim Ryazanov built a robot that rolls away from you as you reach for it. He calls it "Mr. Wake." As soon as the alarm goes off, an IR sensor on the robot turns on. The robot is programmed to move...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/alarm-clock-flees-from-you-when-you-try-to-turn-it-off/Photo: Today and Tomorrow Swiss artist Felice Varini is known for his massive art installations that show different images depending on the viewer's vantage point. Recently, he created an optical illusion that covere...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/town-sized-optical-illusion/Photo: ZuZu Top Horrace Burgess of Crossville, Tennessee built a treehouse 97 feet tall. Its 8,000 square feet of floor space is spread over 11 stories. The house is built around a tree 80 feet high and 12 feet wide...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/the-greatest-treehouse-in-the-world/Image: Jelte van Abbema Dutch designer Jelte van Abbema created a typeface out of e. coli bacteria. Cliff Kuang wrote in Fast Company about how he did it: Van Abbema created the font by stamping bacte...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/a-font-designed-by-e-coli-bacteria/Perfect for Halloween, this dish is a regular meatloaf made into the shape of a hand! Not Martha has the instructions for several different versions, depending on how badly you want to creep out your dinner guests. L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/the-meat-hand/If you took a look at the larger version of this sculpture (left), you'd immediately conclude that it was made out of Styrofoam. As impressive as that would be, the real mind-blower here is that it's actually marbl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/the-amazing-sculptures-of-fabio-viale/The Haunted Mansion attraction at Walt Disney World features tombstones inscribed with the names of real people. This series of posts called 13 Tombstones tracks down who those people are -mostly Disney employees wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/13-tombstones/A church group staged a murder mystery dinner theater in Yeovil, England on Saturday night. They spent the evening looking for crime clues, but failed to notice that thieves had taken a large TV, laptop computer and the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/murder-mystery-party-guests-fail-to-spot-actual-crime/The 7th Annual Asana Yoga Competition was recently held in New York. New York Magazine has a glimpse at the extreme poses competitors used to impress the judges. Link -via Buzzfeedyoga, competition, yago pose, contor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/inside-the-vicious-world-of-competitive-yoga/IFC compiled a list - unlike everybody else's list this year - regarding scary movies. Sometimes, as you're watching a comedy, science fiction, or drama flick, they pull a fast one on you, and the next thing you know y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/25-scariest-moments-from-non-horror-movies/Here's a nicely done audio remix using sound elements from the movie, Pulp Fiction. It incorporates beats using sounds like soap being slapped into the hands of Jules and Vincent, the smoke alarm, the Wolf han...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/pulp-fiction-audio-remix/With new users joining every day, many people either don't know Facebook etiquette or they don't care. The Golden Rule, and treating people as you would treat them offline is a good start, but just in case, here are some...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/facebook-etiquette-rules-people-still-break/List of cool bandage designs including bacon, beef, comics, duct tape and more.Next time you have to dress a wound why not dress it up? They say that laughter is the best medicine so why not cheer yourself up with a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/14-cool-examples-of-bandage-design/Image: Tasha Marie An artist from MAC Cosmetics painted a woman as a comic book character for Halloween -- right down to the dot printing style of old comics books. Or, alternatively, as a figure from a Roy Lichtenst...
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