The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society has posted a life size picture of a Blue Whale! Its so big that a map of the photograph is included to make it easier for you to know what you are seeing. Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/life-size-blue-whale/This week's collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this strange object - can you guess what it is? For more fun guessing game (and for dimensions clue on this object), check out What is It? blog.[No prize this wee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/what-is-it-game-15/Congratulations to one of Neatorama's authors: Anita of Say No to Crack for winning the 2007 Bloggies for Best New Blog! Yay!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/say-no-to-crack-wins-2007-bloggies-for-best-new-blog/Proposal Gone Wrong is having a video contest about marriage proposals that didn't exactly go as planned (ouch!): LinkMore links about marriage proposals at Miss Cellania: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/marriage-proposals-gone-wrong/Last year, then 72-year-old Chinese grandma Wang Xiaoya pulled (with her mouth!) a 4-ton truck loaded with people. This year, she outdid herself: she towed two vehicles with a combined total weight of 5 tons: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/super-strong-grandma-pulled-two-trucks-with-her-mouth/The Anatomical Museum in Modena, Italy, has a very cool collection of obstetrical models made by Giovan Battista Manfredini in 1775.http://www.armamentarium.net/SitoNuovo/1-%20Museo%20Modena.htm [warning: teratology sect...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/18th-century-obstetrical-models/Scientists are now able to wipe a single, specific memory from the brains of rats, leaving other memories intact. ... they trained rats to fear two different musical tones, by playing them at the same time as giving...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/scientist-can-wipe-specific-memory-from-rats/These rabbits are the *real* jackalopes - they got the grotesque horns all over their body after being infected with the Shope papillomavirus.http://ww2.lafayette.edu/%7Ehollidac/jacksforreal.html - via Spluch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/the-real-jackalopes-rabbits-with-shope-papillomavirus-infection/EclecticAsylum uses french fries as paintbrush and ketchup as ink! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Say No to Crack...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/painting-with-ketchup/Who knew that making more money is as easy as buying a mo' money man voodoo doll?For just $35, you'll get this doll that wears two $100 bills! That's an instant return of 470%! ;)Ah, if only making money were that easy (...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/mo-money-voodoo-doll/These japanese dudes, all dressed up as bugs, hop on a pogo stick to jump onto a platform, which gets higher with every jump. As if that's not bizarre enough, see how it ends: Link [YouTube video]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/bizarre-japanese-guy-on-a-pogo-stick/Elsewares has this cool bowl made from recycled bicycle chains. http://www.elsewares.com/commerce/Recycled-Bicycle-Chain-Bowl_MPD897.html...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/bicycle-chains-bowl/These shoes, euphimistically named "ballet shoes," are sold by the more-approriately-named company called Punitive Shoes ...http://www.punitiveshoes.com/index_en.shtml - via Naked Garlic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/punitive-shoes/The Red Cross creatively used the power of optical illusion to shock viewers in its earthquake-awareness campaign in San Francisco: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/red-cross-shock-earthquake-awareness-ad/This is not an artist's rendering or a photo of a star in another solar system. The photograph actually shows our moon passing in front of the sun, as seen from 1.6 million kilometers behind the earth. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/a-solar-eclipse-unlike-any-other/Anna Clifford, who was arrested for drunk driving, caused the police photographer to take several steps back to incorporate the full extent of her 18in-high mohawk. No, there's nothing neat about drunk driving. Bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/girls-hair-too-tall-for-mugshot/After Captain America [wiki] was killed (for the fourth and presumably final time), we found out that "star spangled avenger has bequeathed his most valuable possession, his indestructible shield to the only man he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/stephen-colbert-inherited-captain-americas-shield/When usability expert Jacob Nielsen conducted an eyetracking experiment to improve the effectiveness of news article design, he discovered that men (but not women) stare at crotches!Although both men and women look a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/eyetracking-study-men-stare-at-crotches/Inspired by this Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) controller purse, Craftster user frogz created this awesome NES messenger bag! Link - via Craftzine and Urban Retro Lifestyle, Thanks Tahir!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/nes-controller-messenger-bag/Yesterday, the Stardust hotel and casino in Las Vegas was imploded, complete with some awesome celebratory fireworks beforehand! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/las-vegas-stardust-hotel-and-casino-implosion/It's topped with creme fraiche, chives, eight ounces of four different kinds of Petrossian caviar, four ounces of thinly sliced Maine lobster tail, salmon roe, and a little bit of spice with wasabi. Anybody want...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/1000-pizza-at-new-york-city-restaurant/Today is Pi Day! Why? Because the date on the calendar is 3/14. Make mine blackberry! Metafilter has lots of ways to celebrate Pi Day. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/celebrate-pi/The Evil Mad Scientist laboratories made pretzels in all kinds of geeky shapes. Pictured are the symbols for infinity, paragraph (pilcrow), and the Mac command key. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/14/geek-pretzels/Remember the Einstein robot? The Hubo lab at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) has developed another cool robot: Hubo FX-1 that basically looks like a walking chair!Hit play or go to Link [YouTub...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/13/hubo-fx-1-chairbot/Psychologist Tanya Chartrand of Duke University conducted the study of why nagging doesn't work. She started the study because she couldn't get her own husband to do what she wanted him to do:Be careful what you ask,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/13/psychologists-found-out-that-nagging-doesnt-work-duh/David M Chasse has the step-by-step instruction on how to make your very own Star Trek Enterprise starship (complete with removable saucer section) out of office supplies: Link - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/13/diy-star-trek-spaceship-using-office-supplies/Neatorama reader Jeff Stearns saw our post about Windsurfing on Ice and sent this 1925 photograph of people skating on a frozen lake holding sails! - Thanks Jeff!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/13/skating-with-sails/Gregory of LA Apartment Therapy sent in this link: a top 10 amusing bathroom accessories.Link - Thanks Gregory!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/13/amusing-bathroom-accessories/Behold the Helica, a propeller-driven car invented and sold by Frenchman Marcel Leyat in the early 1900s. This one above, a 1922 saloon car version owned by Jean-François Bouzanquet, is probably only running model...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/13/propeller-driven-car/Wired's excellent new Danger Room blog has a "neat" piece on the quest to build stronger, faster and harder-to-kill soldiers using the metabolic secrets of - squirrels!The squirrels are amazing creatures. During the w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/13/tinker-tailor-soldier-squirrel/
