Male chimps prefer older mothers to young female chimps: To a young male chimp there is nothing so attractive as wrinkles, sagging skin and bald patches in a female who is old enough to be his great-great-grandmother...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/26/male-chimps-prefer-momma-chimps/These playful cushions, shaped and colored just like boulders, are made by Livingstones: Link - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/26/stone-cushions/According to Edward Kravitz of Harvard University, aggression is a nearly universal feature of social animals. Even flies and lobsters fight.It turns out that male and female flies fight differently - and it all comes do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/26/fly-fight-club/North Carolina resident Wallace Woodard threw away a winning $100,000 "Winter Winnnerland" lottery ticket because he didn't read the ticket's instruction on how to win.When he decided to play again a week later...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/26/man-dumpster-dived-for-winning-lottery-ticket/Those patient cats are tortured by their owners to the limit including this in the image impersonating Rachel Welch. Link - Via Johnny Cat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/25/stuff-on-my-cat/Who knew Lenin had a rug? More of these charmers here, including a Brezhnev and a Castro....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/25/soviet-propaganda-carpets/I bet Neatorama can make you smile... Link - Via Shiny Shiny...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/24/laughing-time/Seems that the aerial camera took a photo in the just moment when something on the ground threw the sun light rays against it and a star glare effect appeared in the middle of the image. Link - Via Google Blogoscope...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/24/star-reflection-effect-on-googlemaps/Yes, it's a walking bike. I don't know a word of japanese so I can't understand what they say. I just look at that and can't belive they've invented that, seems that the wheel is not enough confortable nor efficien...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/24/the-walking-motorbike/Carl Smith of Britain was on vacation in Spain recently and went fishing. He struggled for 90 minutes to land an eight-foot long catfish that weighed 226 pounds! The is the biggest catfish ever caught in Spain, surpass...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/24/a-fish-story/This week, Neatorama is collaborating with "What is it?", a fantastic blog of guess-the-weird-objects, edited by Rob. What is it? has hundreds of unusual objects for you to identify. It's hours and hou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/23/guess-what-these-are-and-win-free-neatorama-t-shirts/Its a serious slope when you go up by helicopter instead of ski-lift. Its steep when you have to wear a parachute to schuss down. And its a treat when you can watch by helmet-cam from the comfort of y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/23/speedflying-mt-eiger/Its Thanksgiving Day in the US, and a flock of wild turkeys has been sighted trying to make an escape by... train. These turkeys were noticed yesterday waiting on a station platform in Ramsey, New Jersey, about 20 mile...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/23/the-great-escape-attempt/If you read Boing Boing daily like most bloggers on the planet, then you already know that its founder Mark Frauenfelder is an accomplished illustrator.Here are Mark's paintings, shown at Roq La Rue gallery in Seattle, W...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/23/mark-frauenfelders-art-show-at-roq-la-rue/Dr. Steven Palter created a new laparoscopic technology that enables surgeons to "see" tumors and other pathologies as if they had x-ray vision: The new “keyhole” surgery technique enables surge...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/23/new-laparoscopic-surgery-techniques-lets-doctor-see-tumors/Nothing really "neat" about this post, except to remind everyone how good they have it compared to this anti-Santa Claus....Neatorama reader özi wrote: the hairy christmas fairy reminded me of pretty m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/23/homeless-anti-santa-in-rio-de-janeiro-asks-you-for-gifts/Oded Ezer has an idea: a new kind of transgenic organism composed of half sperm and half letter, to create a new kind of typography. (Yes, it's an imaginary creature.) What do the spermies above spell?Link - Thanks O...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/23/oded-ezers-typosperma/In Wu Han China, people have been purchasing tattoo’d fish. Customers can chose from many different Chinese characters such as “Wealth, Dragon, Longevity, Happiness…†These tropical fish...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/22/tattood-fish/Indian performers and magicians Amar and Sabyasachi Sen are the masters of "cinema in silhouette" or as they call it, "handshadowgraphy." Link - via Happy Ant's Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/22/handshadowgraphy/Thiago Olson, 17 year-old high school student, is called "the mad scientist" by his friends for good reason: he created a nuclear fusion reactor in his home.In the basement of his parents' Oakland Township...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/22/teen-built-nuclear-device-in-his-basement/This fantastic mechanical device for Fourier analysis was built by Dutch polymath Tatjana van Vark.Link | Making of the Harmonium (lots of detailed photos) | Other Works (don't miss this) - via Endless Parade of Excellen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/22/harmonium-a-mechanical-fourier-analysis-and-synthesis/No, that's not a photo of baby and momma Grizzly bears, but a very photo-realistic painting by Robert Bateman. See more of his artwork here: LinkSee more photorealistic art by Ralph Going, Max Edwin Wahyudi, vector arts....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/22/robert-batemans-artwork/Yes, this list of the funniest (or worst) analogies written by high school students is quite old (and you've probably gotten it as a viral email), but it's still entertaining nonetheless. Some gems:Long separated by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/22/funniest-high-school-analogies/Steve Milton of Eugene, Oregon, created this 4594-pound rubber band ball by using more than 175,000 rubber bands. It was certified as the world's largest by Guinness World Records officials during a weigh-in Tuesday, No...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/22/worlds-largest-rubber-band-ball/Depressed about not getting Sony's newly released PS3 [wiki]? Be thankful at least you're not shot, shot in a drive-by with a BB gun, robbed, pepper sprayed, batoned by the police or injured in a melee and in a stampede....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/22/depressed-about-not-getting-a-playstation-3/Bert Simons,a papercraft lover, unwraped a 3d model of his face in real scale and stuff it all up toghether to get a copy of himself. Also he distributes the cutout printable image so you can get a copy of his fac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/22/bert-simons-self-copy/Back in 1984, a young actor named Brian Atene made an audition tape for Stanley Kubrick. A couple of months ago, that video was posted on YouTube and was an instant internet hit because it was so over-the-top....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/22/the-youtube-saga-of-brian-atene/The guy modded his sneakers to play Nintendo Games. They don't seem to fit your feet but they are the coolest shoes ever. Link - Via Joystick...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/22/the-famicom-shoe/This remarkable vehicle is a dekotora, Japanese for "decoration truck." Pink Tentacle has more photos and links to several picture galleries....
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