Archive for October 6th, 2005
Clever Spider Mating Strategy.
The male nursery spider faces a dilemma - the female spider is much bigger and likes to eat male suitors while mating. So, it develops a clever strategy: it brings a dead insect t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/clever-spider-mating-strategy/Python vs. Gator.
In the Florida everglades, they found a dead carcass of a 13-foot Burmese python whose stomach had burst from trying to swallow a 6-foot alligator whole. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/python-vs-gator/World's Ugliest Dog.
Susie Lockheed's 15-year old dog Sam, a purebred Chinese Crested Hairless, has won the World's Ugliest Dog competition for 3 years in a row. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/worlds-ugliest-dog/Blur's Aunt Luisa.
Blur Studio made this 2002 Academy Award-nominated short animation about an old lady who hears music all the time but can't figure out where it's coming from. http://www.blur.com/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/blurs-aunt-luisa/Honda's Dog-Friendly WOW Car.
Honda has created a dog-friendly concept car called WOW. (for Wonderful Open-hearted Wagon, although I think it stands for bow wow). Anyways, the car has a special crate for dogs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/hondas-dog-friendly-wow-car/Bike Riding Robot.
Japanese company Murata Manufacturing has created a robot that rides a bike without falling! The robot, tentatively named Murata Boy, has gyro sensors to detect velocity and incl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/bike-riding-robot/Molar Painter.
Ron Grant chooses a canvas unlike any other artists - he paints on tooth! After establishing his own dental lab 25 years ago, he became interested in painting on dental crowns. Hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/molar-painter/Smiling Jefferson on New Nickel.
Next year, for the first time in nearly 100 years of having presidents looking somber in coins, the US Mint is trying something different: a new nickel with Jefferson half-smiling...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/smiling-jefferson-on-new-nickel/
