In what's got to be one of the funniest ironies of nature, the world's biggest sperm belongs to a teeny, tiny fruit fly named Drosophila bifurca. That's 1,000 times longer than an average hu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/17/worlds-biggest-sperm-belongs-to-a-tiny-fly/Molli's Choice non-carbonated water is pure, free of fluoride and chlorine, and is fortified with vitamin and nutrients for your pets. OK, so far, nothing special.Here's the kicker: the water is flavored...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/17/bacon-flavored-water/Norman Wagner at the University of Delaware and Eric Wetzel at the US Army Research Lab in Aberdeen, MD, have invented a liquid armor that may soon lead to light, flexible full-body armor.The liquid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/17/liquid-armor/The idea is simple: buy a shirt with blank pixels and configure your own design with a black marker."Depending on the type of pen you use, it may wash off after a few times in the laundry. Call...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/17/configurable-t-shirt/Luke P. Lee at UC Berkeley (my alma mater, yay!) built an artificial compound eye with 8,700 hexagonal microlenses. He modeled it after the eyes of dragonflies and regular flies.They are the first...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/17/artificial-compound-eye-lens/Duane Flatmo built this awesome looking machine (bicycle?) that goes on both land and water for the Kinetic Sculpture Race.Link | CNET Article...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/17/duane-flatmos-kinetic-sculpture-extreme-makeover/Today (June 16, 2006), NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (better known by its acronym APOD) turned 11 years old (and served over 400 million space-related images so far!).Herman Serrano made this fantastic c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/16/happy-birthday-apod/Apparently, many dogs are nearsighted - hence the need for prescription eyeglasses. But how to tell when you've got the prescription right?"Since a dog can't be asked to read letters on a chart, a dry, od...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/16/eyeglasses-for-dogs/Grab a rake, do some art, fly a kite, then take an aerial photo of your rake art. See more at Lenny & Meriel's photostream: Link [flickr] via grow-a-brain....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/16/rake-art/Ah, no wonder us Americans are getting fatter and fatter. Here's the motorized Cruzin Cooler:Cruzin Cooler combines two basic necessities of life, the ability to have cold food or a beverage handy al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/16/2389/See more amazing black and white photography of Gérard Laurenceau: Link - via Look At This ......
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/16/grard-laurenceaus-photography/See more creative job ads here: Link - via The Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/16/job-ads/Art graduate student Lauren Porter, 22, used 12 miles of yarn to knit herself a full-size Ferrari. "I get men admiring the racing lines and old women admiring the stitches," she said.Link | Ano...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/16/knitted-ferrari/We, like, found it at MissCellania....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/16/we-should-like-stop-saying-like/A "mummified sea monster" was recently put for sale on eBay (where else?) with this following description:I was taking my usual walk down a local beach here in Tampa Florida when I came upon this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/16/mummified-sea-monster-for-sale/Qiao Yubo's unusual pregnancy photo was the most emailed photo on Yahoo a day ago and made the rounds on the Net like wildfire: Qiao Yubo, who is pregnant with at least five babies, has her waist m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/15/womans-bundle-of-joy-turned-out-to-be-bundle-of-clothes/You should always cut those plastic six-pack rings before throwing it away, here's why: a turtle in the Ozarks is terribly deformed by living trapped in one of the rings. Let this be a lesson for your ki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/15/poor-turtle-lived-in-six-pack-plastic-ring/Z. Ryan Tian and colleagues at the University of Arkansas have developed long nanowires that can be folded into 3D nanostructures like cups, bowls, and tubes: "Humans have used paper made from n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/15/nano-paper/Mark Jenkins, who made weird tape sculptures, also made this sculpture of an "embedded" man in Washington DC. In the video clip above, the fun part is watching people's reaction to the piece.It remin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/15/mark-jenkins-embed/As if it's not bad enough that you can avoid the exercise of walking by riding a segway, now you can sit down while zooming around too!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/15/segway-seat-segseat/You wouldn't know it by looking at the photo, but this marine flatworm has got to have one of the most complex reproductive systems known to man:Each worm has both male and female parts. This thumb-sized f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/15/flatworms-complex-reproductive-system/Is that a footprint on Mars? This photo, taken by the Opportunity rover in the sands of the Meridiani Planum, look suspiciously like a size 11 shoe footprint. It turns out to be the rover's tracks, or so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/15/martian-size-11-shoe-footprint/Michael Edmonds suffers from epilepsy and can have seizures without warning. One day, he noticed that his cat Tee Cee would sit close to him and stare at his face right before an impending seizure:We...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/15/cat-warns-owner-of-impending-epileptic-seizure/From the website:The brochure described it as a gently-sloping back garden.But when Alan and Jackie Carter prepared to move into their newly-completed four-bedroom house, they were horrified to di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/15/gently-sloping-back-garden/This cafe in Budapest, Hungary, is dedicated to Frank Zappa and has giant murals of him inside ...Link - via grow-a-brain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/14/frank-zappa-caf/Frog Embryos Hatch Early to Escape Predator. In this amazing strategy for survival, frog embryos will hatch early to escape from an egg-eating snake by recognizing the vibrational cues of such attacks!Re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/14/frog-egg-hatch-early-to-escape-snake-attack/While we're on the subject of weird things found in Mars, how about this photo of a ... bunny on the red planet?Like a rabbit in a hat, the identity of an oddity that looks like "bunny ears" in a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/14/martian-bunny-ears/This photo, taken by Wolfgang Hinz in Lukla, Nepal, shows these stunning crepuscular rays or sun rays [wiki]. (Jacob's ladder, or rays of light shining through holes in low clouds, are a form of crepus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/14/crepuscular-rays/A fantastic Rube Goldberg contraption made from stick and stones by Jesse Ferguson, Nate True, Bre Pettis, Andru Edwards and Jake Ludington.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Make Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/14/rube-goldberg-meets-the-flintstones/Last week, a giant wall of dust rolled across the Arizona Valley:The wall of dust, which stretched from Apache Junction to Avondale, preceded a storm that dropped a quarter-inch of much needed rain in Tu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/14/giant-wall-of-dust-in-arizona-valley/
