The Composite Face.
Can you spot all 27 creatures?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/22/the-composite-face/Archive for December 2005
Holdin' On to Your Twin's Arm.
Ryan and Dave, two identical twins, have a very weird idea of extreme body modifications. Here's what they say in an interview with Body Modification Ezine: RYAN: After discus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/22/holdin-on-to-your-twins-arm/Santa Got Permission to Fly!
US Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta gave Santa Claus the official US Government permission to fly over its skies and land on people's houses legally. An order grantin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/22/santa-got-permission-to-fly/Poor Me / Bad Me Paranoia.
Paul Chadwick of the University of Southampton and Peter Trower of the University of Birmingham, UK analyzed 53 paranoid people and found that there are 2 forms of paranoia:- &quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/22/poor-me-bad-me-paranoia/Boston's Santa Speedo Run.
Seth Frye and friends came up with the "Santa Speedo Run" in 1999. The idea is to run wearing only Christmas themed speedos (though they add bikinis and one-piece for the ladies) in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/22/bostons-santa-speedo-run/Grouchy Gorillas? Maybe It's Menopause!
Researchers at Chicago's Brookfiled and other zoos discovered that aging female gorillas go through menopause, just like humans! The study also may provoke a few chuckles along th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/22/grouchy-gorillas-maybe-menopause/Twice The Chance to Get Hooked.
Clarence Olberding caught a very unusual fish out of Holmes Lake, Nebraska. This fish didn't have a chance. A rainbow trout pulled out of Holmes Lake last weekend had double t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/21/twice-the-chance-to-get-hooked/Redneck Space Shuttle.
Checkout Dave Lilligren's other hilarious Redneck stuff: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/21/redneck-space-shuttle/MIT's Robosnail.
MIT professor Anette "Peko" Hosoi and colleagues developed Robosnail, a robot that moves like a snail! It can even crawl on vertical walls and cross ceilings.Link to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/21/mits-robosnail/Jim Needham's Balancing Rocks.
Jim Needham of Carmel, California, is a master rock stacker. As he places a heavy boulder on top of the rocks that are stacked, all the rocks begin shifting under the added w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/21/jim-needhams-balancing-rocks/Dave Gorman's Balancing Pebbles.
Dave Gorman, on the other hand, balances pebbles! Link (Thanks Thomas!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/21/dave-gormans-balancing-pebbles/Siemen's Super Fast CT Scan.
Siemen's Somatom Definition CT scan machine can take a complete scan from head to toe in less time it takes for a human heart to beat!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/21/siemens-super-fast-ct-scan/Alex Von de Rostyne's Pixelito.
Alexander Von de Rostyne built this tiny radio-controlled helicopter called Pixelito. It weighs in at a mere 6.9 grams (0.2 oz)! http://pixelito.reference.be/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/21/alex-von-de-rostynes-pixelito/Mighty Mouse Robot Freed a Stuck Radiation Source.
Sandia National Laboratories' robot, dubbed M2 for the cartoon character "Mighty Mouse" successfully freed a radiation source (the size of a restaurant salt shaker) at t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/21/mighty-mouse-robot-freed-a-stuck-radiation-source/Pimp My Dump Truck.
See more pics of pimped dump trucks: Link (via Fawn Jotter)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/21/pimp-my-dump-truck/Radio Controlled Human.
Researchers at the Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Japans has developed a headgear to control human movements, using a technology sinisterly called galvanic vestibular sti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/21/radio-controlled-human/Brent Curry's Couch Bike.
You can even rent this Couchbike at Brent Curry's Bicycle Forest: http://www.bikeforest.com/cb/index.php...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/21/brent-currys-couch-bike/Kathleen Connally's Walk Through Durham Township, Pennsylvania.
Kathleen Connally takes just absolutely gorgeous photos of Durham Township, Pennsylvania. I'm sure you'll agree: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/20/kathleen-connallys-walk-through-durham-township-pennsylvania/Martin Archer's Daze of Our Lives.
"What is the problem monsieur? You asked for à la carte. It's a squirrel. It's been run over by a cart and lightly sautéed."Checkout Daze of Ou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/20/martin-archers-daze-of-our-lives/People Who Memorize Pi.
Daniel Tammet set the European and British record by reciting Pi to 22,514 decimal places in just a little over 5 hours. The record-breaking bid was dubbed 'Pi in the Sky' by its brainchild...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/20/people-who-memorize-pi/Intelligent Design Blocked in US Court.
US District Court ruled that Pennsylvania school cannot teach intelligent design in science classes."We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cann...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/20/intelligent-design-blocked-in-us-court/Rob Gardiner's London Eye and Venus
Rob Gardiner's black and white photographs are very cool. This one above is a timelapse of the London Eye in the UK. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/20/rob-gardiners-london-eye-and-venus/Joseph Seigenthaler's The Whites.
How would you describe Joseph Seigenthaler's artwork? Link (Don't miss his Teething Baby)!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/20/joseph-seigenthalers-the-whites/Olaf Breuning's Easter Bunnies.
For more of Olaf Breuning's artwork, see: Link Olaf Breuning...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/20/olaf-breunings-easter-bunnies/Tom Whaples' Pathetic Ice Cactus.
Tom's cactus is one of the most pathetic plants I've ever seen. Let's hope it survives the icy winter season that's gripping the East Coast! Link (via Fennec's blog)....
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/20/tom-whaples-pathetic-ice-cactus/James Croak's Double Dirt Man 2005.
James Croak chose a unique medium for his art: cast dirt. http://jamescroak.com/dirtman/index.html (via Jaf Project)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/20/james-croaks-double-dirt-man-2005/Mutations Maybe Responsible for Lighter Skin Color.
Using zebrafish as a model, Keith Cheng of Penn State College of Medicine and colleagues have discovered that mutations in the gene for melanosome production in humans may be resp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/20/mutations-maybe-responsible-for-lighter-skin-color/
