South African diamond company Nare Diamonds Ltd. uncovered a huge 235-carat diamond (the size of a hen's egg), just weeks after launching its operations: The mine was shut down three years...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/235-carat-south-african-diamond/Ueba has these amazing pics of Venice, re-created with Lego bricks: Link (Thanks Yayo!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/venice-in-lego/From the website: The Knife Ship became the protagonist of the performance held in Venice on the Campo dell'Arsenale, September 6, 7 and 8, 1985. With its corkscrew and bl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/claes-oldenburgs-knife-ship/This one above is titled "Court of Appeals". See more of Will Bullas witty word-play paintings: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/will-bullas-paintings/This latest Jesus sighting - an image in a Peruvian sand dune - is brought to you by Google Maps. (via The Register)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/jesus-on-peruvian-sand-dune/Hubble Space Telescope took this amazing picture of Open Cluster NGC290, located about 200,000 light-years away in a neighboring galaxy called the Small Cloud of Magellan. Link (via Starspirit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/open-cluster-ngc290-stellar-jewel-box/Yuehe Lin and Guodong Liu of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a technique to force a variety of enzymes to self-assemble layer-by-layer on a carbon nanotube. In the fut...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/nanotube-biosensor-layered-like-lasagna/From the website: A blistering comedy “tribute” to President Bush by Comedy Central’s faux talk-show host Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondent Dinner Saturday...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/stephen-colbert-at-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner/On May 1, 2006, dubbed "A Day Without Immigrants" (in reference to the movie "A Day Without A Mexican", a million people across the United States protested a proposed bill...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/a-day-without-immigrants/So, that's what they mean! Link (via Presurfer)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/secret-meanings-of-swat-hand-signals/Actually it's a high-resolution picture of the sun taken by NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope. And no, the sun didn't just sprout an arm and it isn't scratcing its head - that's a s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/solar-flare/China has successfully tested a home-grown Maglev train in Chengdu: The test train can hold 60 people and travel up to 100 miles per hour, Xinhua reported, citing Zhang Kunlu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/chinas-own-maglev/This spoof on The Police's Every Breath You Take is done by Columbia Business School for its Spring 2006 Follies, featuring imitation of its Dean Glenn Hubbard who lost the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/every-breath-bernanke-takes/Wired News has a fantastic collection of "Gadget for the Lazy". Shown to the left is "The Bird 2.0".Other gadgets include:- A Bugle emulator- Ice cream turner- Shoe mops- El...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/gadgets-for-the-lazy/Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center created this unmanned 'crusher' all-terrain-vehicle for the Army: Since Crusher and its predecessor do not ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/crusher-unmanned-vehicle/Ron fitted his VW Beetle with a 1350-hp GE Model T58-8F helicopter turboshaft engine. When he fired up 26,000 rpm jet, the fiery afterburner comes to life. The cool thing is that the car is pe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/ron-patricks-jet-powered-volkswagen-beetle-and-honda-scooter/This Lego contraption can throw a CD disc at such high speed that it would break apart upon impact.Link (via TechEBlog, Thanks Steve!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/philippe-philo-hurbains-hammerhead/Neatorama reader Kacie suggests that we check out Alex Grey: This guy is a major psychedelic artist. His works are marvelously individual. However, common themes can be seen throughout sev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/alex-greys-interbeing-2002/What does your roomba do when you're away from home? Probably something similar to Kara and Amit's roomba - it goes cleaning the streets of New York, ride the subway, buy cupcakes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/kara-and-amits-roomba/From the website: Some people will try to tell you that the human skull is just filled with mushy brain matter. This is clearly not true! This fabulous design lets you know the truth ̵...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/jeremy-somers-piece-of-mind/This video game controller was inspired by the SegaSaturn game "Death Crimson," also known as the worst game ever made (it received a score of 1.0909 out of 10 according to user revi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/takamasa-sumis-death-crimson-video-game-controller/Simply enter your planet of choice, asteroid or comet composition, size and velocity and see what happens.Link (Thanks Tim Mosley!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/douglas-p-hamiltons-solar-system-collider/If you like this one, see also The Matrix Ping Pong (Thanks Sahan!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/karate-matrix/To develop a super-solider of the future, researchers at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition are looking at tongues.Yes, tongues: By routing signals from helmet-mounted ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/brain-port-tongue-as-a-superior-sense-processor/From the website: Last Halloween I built a robot costume out of laundry detergent bottles, crutches, football shoulder pads, and several stoned days with a hot glue gun.Definitely ver...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/cloroxbot-recycled-giant-robot-costume/
