Photo: Ian Cannell & Caroline RabyTurns out "bird brain" isn't so stupid after all: western scrub jays can plan for the future by storing snacks when they detect that food will be in short supply in the nea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/10/bird-can-save-for-a-rainy-day/Color me impressed! Here are some very cool double dutch video clips: An awesome jump rope video by Chris Holmes, Shaun Hamilton, Willia Amos, and Cliff Forbes in the 1999 World Jump Rope Championship in St. Louis. Hit p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/10/awesome-double-dutch-video-clips/Clayton Boyer designs and builds unique custom clocks, such as the Nautilus above, and sells plans to over ten of them. Each clock is handmade almost entirely from wood, including the gears. He typically tries to i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/09/create-your-own-amazing-wooden-clock/Here's this week's collaboration with Bizarro comic - for more, check out Dan Piraro's website: Bizarro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/09/bizarro-old-testament-cards/Here's a funny short clip about "bugzibitz," an exhibit about the world's most talented bugs at the Toronto Zoo.http://www.bugsrock.ca/ [Flash] - via Notcot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/09/toronto-zoos-bugzibitz/Jonathon Crystal, a psychologist at the University of Georgia, found out that rats are capable of a form of complex thinking previously attributed only to humans and primates: they can think about what they know or do no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/09/rats-know-that-they-dont-know/Bonk, the headbutting cave dude from the defunct console system TurboGrafx-16, is making a comeback to Nintendo's Wii.Buzznett has dug up a 90's ad for the bald caveman with an unusually large weapon (that's his head, yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/09/bonk-the-headbutting-caveman/Neatorama reader Alex wrote:The priests of Epiphany cathedral (Yelohovo church in Moscow) have been taking the lift to go up to God for several years, since the architectural monument of 18 century has been modernize...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/09/take-the-elevator-to-talk-to-god/The US Postal Service will help Star Wars celebrate its 30th anniversary by rolling out a cool R2D2 mailboxes! Link - via Boing Boing and OhGizmo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/09/r2d2-postal-mailbox/The Optimus Prime Voice Changer Helmet. It does great things for your voice, but you can forget about invincibility, or turning into a truck. Coming soon from Hasbro, to a comic shop near you, but no price as yet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/09/the-optimus-prime-voice-changer-helmet/The largest telescope ever is up at the South Pole, funded by the National Science Foundation. The South Pole Telescope is designed to measure the properties of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) light that was orig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/09/south-pole-telescope/The Kiss (c. 1907) by Gustav KlimtNo one really knows where the first smooch came from. One less-than-romantic theory suggests it began with ancient mothers passing chewed-up food to babies, which is 1) not sexy, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/09/k-i-s-s-i-n-g-tidbits-from-the-history-of-kissing/We've checked out VideoSift's geek, politics, cute, and comedy channels before - today, let's go with the viral video channel: Here's an amazing silhouette com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/09/videosift-viral-videos-channel/Scott Rench prints computer generated images using ceramic glaze (instead of ink) onto the canvas of a slab of clay, which is then fired in a kiln. The result? A beautiful work of art that will stand the test of time bot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/09/scott-renchs-ceramic-artwork/Dollar artist Marc Sky has created dozens of cool origami sculptures of dollar bills! This one above is titled "March of the Penguins." http://www.marcsky.com/dollarartist2.html - Thanks Rob!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/09/marc-skys-dollar-origami/Is it possible to represent a complete dialogue of Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction using only typography? Hit the Play button to find out or follow the link to a higher resolution video. Link [Quicktime HR vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/09/samuel-l-jackson-pulp-fiction-dialogue-represented-using-typography/MC Hammerheadshark uploaded to his Flickr this image of the Sarajevo Rose (wiki). He tells the Wooster Collective: "As I was passing through Sarajevo I couldn't help but notice the effects of the Bosnian War....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/08/the-sarajevo-rose/This four-years old baby elephant likes to dance and play harmonica at the same time! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Say No to Crack...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/08/dancing-baby-elephant-plays-the-harmonica/Here's a 1930 Popular Science article "Thirteen New Aids Designed for the Busy Housewife" (including such gems as the electric lamp stove seen above, kitchen incinerator to burn all your garbage, electric toast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/08/new-kitchen-gadgets-from-1930/Among the many slides on Pompeii [wiki] available at University of California at Santa Cruz's Branson DeCou Archive is this one showing an ash figure of a victim of Mount Vesuvius eruption. http://library.ucsc.edu/slides...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/08/ash-figure-of-pompeii/An 85-year-old Chinese man fell out of his fifth floor window and would've plunged to his death had he not been saved by an errant nail: The nail in the wall, between the fourth and fifth floors, snagged his clothing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/08/fallen-man-saved-by-a-nail/Bono and his celebrity friends' Red campaign has raised $18 million worldwide - that's nothing to sneeze at except that they had spent an estimated $100 million promoting it!The disproportionate ratio between the mar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/08/celeb-driven-red-charity-shopping-campaign-spent-100-million-to-bring-18-million/Google Maps has a hidden feature that allows anyone to zoom in extremely close on some satellite pictures. This screenshot shows the closest zoom available for a location in the Sahara desert. Using this hidden fea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/08/a-closer-view-of-google-maps/What will those kooky Japanese tv producers think of next?Link [YouTube] via Danger Room....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/08/creative-use-of-a-helicopter/Balthazar Napoleon de Bourbon, an Indian lawyer and part-time farmerin the Bhopal suburb of India, may be the last king of France!This Indian father-of-three is being feted as the long-lost descendent of the Bourbon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/08/indian-lawyerfarmer-may-be-the-last-king-of-france/Remy and Jeremy Vos made this MiniV8 by taking an old Mini [wiki] pickup chassis and putting a V8 engine!http://www.miniv8.com/ - via Found on the Web...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/08/mini-v8-pickup/Anybots' Dextor is the world's first dynamically balanced walking robot, meaning it balances just like a human (unlike the famous Honda's Asimo robot). Paul Graham explains:There are of course biped robots that walk....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/08/worlds-first-dynamically-balanced-walking-robot/Hans van Bentem of Rock and Royal makes awesome custom chandeliers, like the skull and bones one on the left! http://www.rockandroyal.com/UK/ - via Geisha asobi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/08/custom-chandeliers/Driving school BSM found that young drivers are more likely to drive faster on the roads after playing racing video games:More than a third of young drivers are more likely to go faster on the roads after playing on-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/08/young-driver-drives-faster-in-real-life-after-playing-racing-video-games/From the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum via Egyptology Blog...
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