A 12-year-old boy visiting the Detroit Institute of Arts with his school stuck a wad of gum to a $1.5 million abstract painting "The Bay" by Helen Frankenthaler.Holl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/twelve-year-old-boy-stuck-gum-in-15-million-painting/Haraldur Sigurdsson of the University of Rhode Island discovered the lost kingdom of Tambora, which was wiped out by a giant volcanic eruption in 1815. Records suggest that th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/the-lost-kingdom-of-tambora-pompeii-of-the-east/Why settle for that boring and blah wedding cake topper? Go with these awesome weird wedding cake topper. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/bride-of-chucky-wedding-cake-topper/Dr. Hinke Osinga and Professor Bernd Krauskopf crocheted this magnificent Lorenz manifold, "the two dimensional stable manifold of the origin of the Lorenz system".*e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/crocheted-lorenz-manifold/Phil Dalton of John Downer Productions used a fake salmon with a camera inside to record bears diving for salmon. Each camera costs about £10,000 to develop and build, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/salmon-cam/I really don't know what to say about Geoffrey's work of art - judge for yourself. Link (via Gordon Keith Blog)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/geoffrey-cottenceaus-animaux/For more naughty cereal boxes, see: http://www.mainstreetsonoma.com/cereals.html (via WFMU Beware of the Blog)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/naughty-cereal-boxes/Andy of Bike Furniture Design has been creating playful furniture from bicycle rims, handlebars, frames, and wheels since 1990. http://www.bikefurniture.com/index.html (via Mil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/andy-greggs-milano-lounge-chair/Hanson Robotics has created this Einstein Robot with a freakishly lifelike facial expression. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/einstein-robot/This crazy musical instrument was designed in 1650 by Athanasius Kircher, a 17th century German Jesuit scholar. The piano was designed to raise the spirits of an Italian p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/cat-piano/Did you know that Benjamin Franklin made a "Plan", kind of like commandments for more righteous living and kept it until his death? He even made a form to keep track ......
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/benjamin-franklins-personal-plan/More than 60 years after the end of WWII, a distributed computing project called M4 Project cracked an Enigma message by brute force.The message? It was sent by a submarine saying...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/distributed-computing-project-broke-enigma-message/Birmingham News published a collection of never-before-seen photos of the civil rights movement in Alabama, forgotten for decades in an equipment closet: The section is the result of resea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/unseen-unforgotten-birmingham-news-civil-rights-photos/This picture was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/ausonia-mensa-massif-on-mars/In their new book Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators and Human Evolution, Donna Hart and Robert Sussman argue that early humans are often dinner for wild dogs and cats, hyenas, e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/27/when-humans-were-dinner/From the website: Like the salad served at the Pizza Hut but dislike the idea that it’s expensive and you are not allowed to take more than once? Here is a guide on how...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/27/maximize-your-salad-bar-roi/The owner of this Korean fish started to notice that its face have begun to look more and more human over the last couple of years. (via Underwater Times)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/27/fish-with-a-human-face/In Désirée's photo series titled "Camouflage", a suit is painted in such a way that the wearer seems to "disappear" into the background. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/27/dsire-palmens-camouflage-voor-boekenkast/UrlyArt makes a photo mosaic using screenshots of websites. This particular one is of Dick Cheney in hunting garb from hundreds of websites covering the news of his shooting in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/27/urly-art-cheney-shooting-incident/Giraffe Manor was built in 1932 by Sir David Duncan, just a few miles outside of Nairobi, Kenya.It is now a lodging, a very unique lodging: Exclusive, spacious and elegant, it is the only p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/27/giraffe-manor/From the guy (Jay Barnes) who brought us "Rock Paper Saddam", here's: The Painting....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/27/saddam-the-painting/This stunning color photograph is part of an archive of vintage Middle East photographs at the University of Chicago Library. This photo was labelled "2129 P.Z. Kairo. Bor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/27/vintage-middle-east-photos/Checkout other amazingly beautiful photos from landscape photographer Marc Adamus: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/27/marc-adamus-forest-river/Ben Lee of the University of Puget Sound and biologists Dan Shain and Paula Hartzell of Rutgers University went "worming" to Mount Rainier to find out more about ice wo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/26/ice-worms/WeirdMeat.com is a document of one man's attempt to eat strange food around the world. I mean, really strange food...Like this one entry called "Vertical Pork Bone" from...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/26/weirdmeat-a-blog-about-strange-food/Marshall Oak doesn't just like star trek, heck - he's actually in it! See Marshall rose through the ranks from cadet to starfleet captain in this photoshop-chic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/26/marshall-oak-starfleet-captain/Sir William Herschel, Chief Magistrate of the Hooghly district in Jungipoor India, was the first to use fingerprints and palmprints on contracts with native Indian " ... to frighten [him]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/26/history-of-fingerprinting/Check out more cute paintings of Michael Sowa: http://www.scancoo.com/sqs_SowaArk_MichaelSowa/index.htm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/25/michael-sowas-reckless-highway-pig/
