Sixteen percent of Australia's greenhouse emissions come from agriculture, so scientists there are busy trying to solve the problem of ... burping sheep?"Ninety per cent of the methane that sheep and cattle and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/29/scientists-to-breed-sheep-that-burp-less/With all the debate going on with health care, you'd be forgiven if you want to skip this post. But I think I've found the solution to making health care affordable for Americans: just outsource it to Thailand.Eric Wahlg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/29/how-to-make-health-care-affordable-medical-tourism/What would Robocop, Hellboy, Batman and other comic characters look like if they had beards? You don't have to wonder anymore. Behold Croatian illustrator Vanja Mrgan's series "Bearded": Link - via Laughing Squ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/29/bearded-superheroes/One frigid Friday morning, animal control got a call about a cat that may or may not be alive under a deck. When they got there, they found a cat so cold it was rigid. Its eyes were closed. There was no movement. And the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/29/meet-icee-tale-of-a-frozen-cat-that-will-warm-your-heart/Quick, when you think about working in a hotel, what do you think about? Being a receptionist? Part of the cleaning crew? How about a coin polisher, a mud manager and ... a duckmaster?!Judy Mandell of the Los Angeles Tim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/29/duckmaster-and-other-weird-hotel-jobs/YouTube Link Everyone's favorite Scottish Fold Internet star would like to show you trickz. Previously on Neatorama: Maru, the Box Loving Cat, Maru Returns, Maru Gets a BIG Box, Maru Makes Faces. -via Unique Dai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/29/a-magic-trick-by-maru/Photo: Podkayne Studios Etsy seller Podkayne Studios sells nativity sets that remember the Christmas story just a little bit differently. Dinosaur, Star Wars, Pokémon, Indiana Jones and other themes are available....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/29/not-right-nativities/Photo: Olivier Kosta-Théfaine Paris-based artist Olivier Kosta-Théfaine burns images into ceilings using only a cigarette lighter. His medium is an extension of a common form of street art in the neighborhood in wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/29/this-artist-uses-only-a-cigarette-lighter/Steve Irvine makes ceramic pinhole cameras. He writes "I like the organic look of these cameras which contrasts with our usual notions of cameras being machine-made, high tech devices." The cameras are quite functi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/29/the-ceramic-cameras-of-steve-irvine/The zoo of Warsaw, Poland, has a pair of prehistoric humans (or actors depicting them) on display over the weekend: Organiser Maria Mastalerz says the weeklong "performance" aims to attract interest in a play, "Ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/29/humans-on-display-at-the-zoo/This periodic table of cupcakes is for a chemistry nerd's birthday party. Each cake is labeled with an element and color-coded by its state of matter. I hear hydrogen and helium are very light and fluffy. Looks like...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/periodic-table-cupcakes/Image: Maureen Alarid Maureen Alarid of Off Beat Bride created this invitation for her wedding, featuring Admiral Ackbar's prudent advice about marriage. Alarid writes: The wording [on the back] is my...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/pop-culture-wedding-invitation/The food blog Eating the Road presents this handy flow chart that you can use whilst shopping for cereal. Which cereal should you buy? The chart allows you to factor in issues such as current state of into...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/cereal-selection-flow-chart/The World Wide Web is big. Really big. As of July of 2008, Google found 1 trillion (that's 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once. The search engine has only indexed a fraction of those web pages (the last cou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/the-dark-web-500x-larger-than-the-world-wide-web/Because you Neatorama readers are so smart, you might already know how sickle cell anemia makes someone resistant to malaria. This apparent evolutionary disadvantage has actually survived through the generations because...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/disorders-that-make-us-stronger/(YouTube link) Hey, it's a holiday weekend, so take 17 seconds to enjoy playing with a baby kitten. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/short-sweet-and-adorable/An elk has been identified as the perpetrator of a murder in Sweden. In 2008 the body of a Swedish woman was found by a lake; she had been taking her dog for a walk, and failed to return. Her husband was arrested an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/elk-accused-of-murder/In this two-part post, see animals you may or may not be familiar with all dressed in their best Arctic white!Animals that live in the Arctic (either full time or seasonally) are adapted to extreme conditions. Many a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/top-10-beautiful-snow-animals/The Airbus A380 is the ultimate in airline luxury, and here are lots of photos to prove it!The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, a subsid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/airbus-a380-airline-emirates/(YouTube link) Kenyan contortionist Lazarus Gitu appears on a German television show. Gitu performs with Circus Mama Africa as The Snake Man. -via Bits and Piecescircus, contortionist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/lazarus-gitu/Lorrie at Clueless in Carolina recently found a newspaper in her mother's home announcing the news that World War II had ended. Besides news, it contained sponsored ads celebrating VJ Day. You could almost feel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/peace-in-the-news/Oregon journalist Paul Linnman was 23 years old in 1970 when KATU in Portland flew him to Florence to cover the removal of a beached whale. Officials had decided to get rid of the carcass by blowing it up with dynamite....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/exploding-whale-reporter-looks-back/Scottish brewery BrewDog has released its newest beer, named Tactical Nuclear Penguin. At 32% alcohol content, it's the world's strongest beer: A warning on the label states: "This is an extremely strong beer; it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/worlds-strongest-beer-is-32-alcohol/Yeah, but they're teddy bears that eat people, so don't feel too bad. Brian Murphy of CollegeHumor put together five Facebook update pages as though they had been written by Star Wars characters....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/star-wars-facebook-updates/(YouTube Link) The Bristol Robotics Laboratory at the University of Bristol, UK has built a robot that senses obstacles not with cameras, but sensitive whiskers at the front end: Researchers at the University...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/scratchbot-uses-whiskers-to-maneuver-in-the-dark/Funny Or Die Link Chris Higgins enlightens (again) with his Mental_Floss post of a collection of videos supposedly showing a Home Shopping Network scenario gone wrong. This is music video for The Avett Brothers' "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/avett-brothers-the-american-budget-network/Residents of Axedale, Australia called authorities when they smelled what they believed to be a gas leak. Firefighters responded to the home and found a 120 kilogram pet pig, which they believe to be the source of the ga...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/27/pig-farts-spark-gas-scare/This cool staircase/slide combo is known by London architect Alex Michaelis. It's one of 15 awesome staircases featured on Web Urbanist. LinkArt, design, stairs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/27/amazing-staircase-design/Looking to cuddle up with your own bit of disease? Try this breast cancer cell sculpture by Amyof Glitter, Vinyl and Thread. She was inspired by the beauty of the cancer cells and entered her creation in the Good Cau...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/27/plush-breast-cancer-cell/One of the most eerie historical mysteries of all time is that of the strange disappearance of the three ligthouse keepers of Eilean Mor. Some even think they might have been abducted by a giant bird or squid... and, of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/27/the-eilean-mor-lighthouse-mystery/
