You had a lot of fun naming the fifty nifty Unites States in ten minutes. Now for the real challenge: how many of the 192 countries who are members of the United Nations can you name in ten minutes? I got nearly half of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/192-nations-in-ten-minutes/A screengrab from the iconic video game Super Mario Bros. 2? No, that's actually from its prototype Doki Doki Panic.The Mushroom Kingdom has the comparison between the prototypes and the final version: Link - via digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/super-mario-bros-2-prototype-doki-doki-panic/Here's this week's Cellar Image of the Day and Neatorama collaboration: Spiegel magazine has a feature on photographer Volker Steger's fantastic microscopic photography of squashed insects: Link [in German, for more p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/volker-stegers-photography-of-squashed-bugs/Twinkies [wiki], and American icon, and for some, the symbol of junk food, is the snack food that people love (or love to hate). Today, the "golden sponge cake with creamy filling" snack is ubiquitous: it's virtually in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/twinkies-fun-facts/It's not nice to scare people. Funny, but not nice. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Random Good Stuff. (My favorite is the policeman and the corpse!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/boo/MIT professor Pawan Sinha got the idea for writing the world's smallest book from a dream while taking a nap during a boring session at a scientific conference: The New Testament of the King James Bible reproduced on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/worlds-smallest-book/Denise Duhamel wrote a poem about bureaucracy written on paper attached to a hamster wheel, which can be read in a loop without a beginning nor an ending.See what the poem reads: Link - via Miss Cellania...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/denise-duhamels-hamster-wheel-poem/To save energy, snails re-use mucus trails laid down by other snails:Snails create trails of mucus to that help them glide across the ground, mainly in search of food or a partner, but making all that mucus uses up a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/snails-re-use-mucus-trail-to-save-energy/Someone made this Nintendo Famicom [wiki] guitar! Check out the build log Link [in Japanese] - via TokyoMango and Eduyayo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/nintendo-famicom-guitar/I really don't know what motivates someone to jump out of one plane and freefalls into another falling plane - then jump out of that one and skydive to the ground!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Spluch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/skydiving-into-a-falling-airplane/This Chinese guy from Shanghai has mastered the art of inhaling smoke through his ears or eye-sockets and breathing it out of his mouth.Link - via A Welsh View...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/smoking-through-your-eye-socket/We've seen the inflatable church before on Neatorama, so it's only fair to showcase the opposite - a portable, inflatable pub that can hold up about 50 guests and fits in the back of a van!: http://www.amberiris.co.uk/si...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/the-inflatable-pub/Chocablog has the recipe for making 15 in tall chocolate Dalek: Link - Thanks cybele!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/chocolate-dalek/If you were to combine pictures of the sun taken every 10 days, from the same location and at the same time, you would end up with a picture similar to the one above. The astronomical term for this shape is an anale...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/charting-the-path-of-the-sun/Go on, watch this swimming snakebot and try to convince yourself after the first few seconds that what you're watching is just a machine. What makes this thing particularly amazing is that it can move just as smoo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/those-amazing-japanese-and-their-astounding-robots/See how DNA is packed in the nucleus of every cell of our body, and how it replicates. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via jwz....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/visualizing-dna-packing-and-replication/Add this to the dangers of microgravity in space: wasabi spill!The spicy greenish condiment was squirted out of a tube while astronaut Sunita Williams was trying to make a pretend sushi meal with bag-packaged salmon....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/wasabi-spill-in-space/Christofle's Malmaison Classique Flatware's knives, forks, and spoons are set with diamonds. Only $18,600 a place setting. Must be nice to be rich.http://www.vivre.com/browse/product.jsp?p=P28910 - via Notcot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/diamond-studded-silverware/What good are those baby books if they don't teach your kid what's truly important: that they exist to serve your needs, like fixing your car, doing your banking and afterwards, mixing you a drink.From author Lisa Brown,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/practical-baby-books/Found at New York Nerd - via Hemmy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/dog-hugs-baby/In 1951 the Civil Defense Department decided to use Bert the Turtle animation to teach children to "Duck and Cover" [wiki] in case of a Soviet nuclear attack.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Milk and Cook...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/bert-the-turtle-teached-duck-and-cover/Stanford University scientists have created a way to use browse the web without the use of a mouse:A researcher at Stanford has created an alternative to the mouse that allows a person using a computer to click links...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/browse-the-web-with-only-your-eyes/In late 60s, Rudolph de Harak designed and the sculptor William Tarr built a 1:1 scale Sopwith plane complete with its runway on top of a building to tease the neighboring buildings' inhabitants. The title of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/new-york-plane-sculpture/25-year-old drummer Nargiz started the Burka Band, Afghanistan’s first all-girl band ever two years ago. Their song “Burka Blue†was released in Germany in 2002 and became a club hit. The band has ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/the-burka-band/Peter Clark uses pieces of colorful maps, manuscript, and found papers for his collage artwork: http://www.peterclarkcollage.com/home.html - via Happy Ant...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/peter-clarks-collage-art/This cool concept spiderweb inspired radiator is made by Sergey Mozheyko and Yaroslav Rassadin of MANWORKS Design: http://www.manworksdesign.com/eng/index1.php?id_part=20 - via Smidigt.se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/spiderweb-radiator/Ladies, have you ever been out shopping and realized, after leaving the store, that the shopkeeper stuffed your bag too full? Or are you the "recycle everything" type who would prefer to shop with reusable...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/bra-transforms-into-a-shopping-bag/Bob Basset makes some weird stuff, like this cthulhu leater doll! Link - via jwzPreviously on Neatorama: Bob Basset's Dragon Bag....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/cthulhu-leather-doll/Paleontologists discovered fossils of a slug-like creature covered with prickly armors that lived on the ocean floor about 500 million years ago:Called Orthrozanclus reburrus, the new animal was about half the size o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/prickly-slug-fossil/Archaeologists have discovered a shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina thought to be the ship of legendary pirate Blackbeard.The ship ran aground in 1718, and some researchers believe it was a French slave ship B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/04/blackbeards-ship-discovered/
