Chinese artist Sang Dong created this installation called "Eating the City" depicting an Asian city, complete with church and stadium, from biscuits!An estimated 72,000 biscuits, includin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/21/sang-dongs-biscuit-city/A new study led by Sebastian Charnoz at the University of Paris suggested that one of Saturn's ring (called the F ring) is actually a spiral!Link (with image of Saturn ring by Fréd&eacu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/21/saturn-ring-is-a-spiral/From the website: Astronaut Dale A. Gardner, having just completed the major portion of his second extravehicular activity (EVA) period in three days, holds up a "For...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/21/for-sale-2-satellites-cheap/That's a neat photo of an Airstream trailer, right? Wrong - that's a photorealistic watercolor oil on canvas painting of the famous artist Ralph Goings. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/21/ralph-goings-airstream/Louis Wain drew cats, even after he was committed to an insane asylum due to schizophrenia. Take a look at the changes in Wain's art as his mental illness worsen. Link Louis Wain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/21/louis-wains-schizophrenic-art/Stevie Starr, who calls himself a professional regurgitator, has a unique performance: ... he swallows live goldfish, pool balls, numbered coins, even dry sugar, and manages t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/21/stevie-starr-regurgitator-extraordinaire/Xu's 9 year old pet cat weighs 15 kg (33 lbs) and its "waist" measures around 77 cm (30 in)! http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/974/2006/02/18/63@52329.htmBut even Xu's cat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/20/xu-jirongs-fat-cat/Grancrete: a new spray-on concrete that can revolutionize homebuilding, especially for low-income housing worldwide. It only takes 1 day for a 5 man crew to build 2 complete g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/20/grancrete-sprayable-concrete/Singapore adventurer Khoo Swee Chiow broke the world's longest scuba submergence record by staying underwater for 220 hours.Here's his day by day log of the event: http://www.dare...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/20/worlds-longest-scuba-submergence/Dr. Leland Clark, inventor of the platinum "Clark electrodes" used to detect oxygen in liquid (and allows measurement of blood oxygen levels) also did this famous experi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/20/clarks-liquid-breathing-mouse/Checkout Niko's other artwork and comics here: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/20/niko-henrichons-comic-art/Steven Cummer of Duke University and collaborators from FMA Research in Fort Collins, Colorado, managed to take amazing video of atmospheric flashes of light called sprites: M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/20/atmospheric-sprite/From the website: Forget everything you think you know about China and take a couple minutes to ponder these images. Few people in the Western world know about the hidden b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/20/feng-jiangs-amazing-photos-of-china/Oscar took this photo of 300+ real low income houses in Ixtapaluca while working as a helicopter pilot over Mexico City. http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PhotoAlbum31.html...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/19/oscar-ruiz-aerial-photos-of-mexico-city/There's only one way to find out: Edward Cussler and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis filled a swimming pool with syrup and tested how fast 16 volunt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/19/do-we-swim-slower-in-syrup-than-in-water/MIT Professor Matt Wilson found that after running a maze, rats mentally replay the action - backwards! ... following a spatial experience such as running laps on a track, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/19/rat-remembers-maze-it-just-ran/In the 1970s, a Czech magazine published a DIY guide on how to make your very own paper pinhole camera: Its creators, Martin Pilný, Mirek Kolár and Richard Vy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/19/pinhole-paper-camera-works-with-35-mm-film/Protecting her 7-year old son, Lydia Angyiou of Ivujivik, Arctic Quebec, fought a polar bear hand-to-hand - and lived to tell about it! Angyiou, 41, who lives not far from the youth centre,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/19/woman-fought-hand-to-hand-with-polar-bear/The largest lightning storm ever detected is currently raging in Saturn. The storm is larger than the continental United States, with electrical activity 1,000 times stronger than the ligh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/saturn-storm-larger-than-continental-us/Take a look at earth lights at night, powered by Google Maps. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/night-lights-via-google-maps/From the news article: The Japanese Olympic Committee is telling athletes competing at the Turin Winter Olympic Games not to open web logs because the Olympic Charter bans ath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/turin-athletes-banned-from-blogging/The first rule of pillow fight club is, you do talk about pillow fight club.... On Valentine's Day, a thousand people showed up to pummel each other with pillows. Link (via Met...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/pillow-fight-club-2/From the website: The AOL Throne was built in the summer of 2003. It contains 4000 CDs, weighs at least 150 pounds, barely fits through doors, and plugs into an electical outl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/stupidcos-aol-cd-throne-2/LiftPort Group successfully built a mile-long tether into the sky, stretched taut by large balloons. A robot then climbed up the tether kind of like a space elevator.The company's lofty obj...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/space-elevator/This video clip purportedly show the resuscitation of a dead dog, as conducted in the 1940 by Dr. S.S. Bryukhonenko at the Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy in the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/experiments-in-the-revival-of-organisms/Donald Pottle took this amazing picture of an arteriole (blood vessel that connect the artery to the capillaries) in the eye. This photo is the winner of the 2004 Olympus BioSc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/olympus-bioscapes-digital-imaging-competition/Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts spent 10 years to create this 40" x 80" masterpiece of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling entirely in cross-stitch (including 628, 296 stitches in 1,802...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/michelangelos-sistine-chapel-in-cross-stitch/This Vietnamese man has gone 33 years without sleep: Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infini...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/18/the-ultimate-insomniac/I can't say it any better, folks:Situated in an elegantly restored house beside Beijing's West Lake, it is China's first speciality penis restaurant.Link (via Geoff Coupe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/17/whats-the-house-special-again/Check out how Biff made his awesome Tiki Fireplace (yes - with real fire in its mouth and smoke coming out of its nose) here: Link....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/17/jeff-biff-butlers-tiki-fireplace/
