(image credit: Thorsten Dziomba) To mark the 25th anniversary of the development of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), a contest was founded called SPMage07 to showcase the wonderful nanoscale images made with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/15/nanoscale-images/I don't know what kind of silly German talk show this is but somehow, the host managed to get Lionel Richie to sing "Hello" with his lungs filled with helium. Odd as it may seem, it's quite funny. Link: YoutubeFun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/15/lionel-richie-on-helium/While out walking along a footpath in Outwood, England, George Gunn shot a video clip - later, he saw something peculiar in it: a ghostly image of a Roman soldier.Link Previously on Neatorama: Ghostly Gas Station Cloud |...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/15/ghost-of-a-roman-soldier/Marmite Statue in Greenwich Park, London. Photo: Liz Hunt [Flickr]Making of the Marmite Statue. Photo: Liz Hunt [Flickr]On Valentine's Day, sculptor and Marmite lover Jeremy Fattorini recreated Rodin's "The Kiss&quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/15/giant-marmite-statue-on-valentines-day/Manuel Uribe, who according to Guiness Book of World Record hold the dubious title of Heaviest Man in the World, has lost half his body weight thanks to a low-carb diet:Medics from Italy and Spain visited him and off...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/15/worlds-fattest-man-lost-half-of-body-weight-on-low-carb-diet/Photo: Ross ParryMeet Sooty the cat, a six-year-old kitty that weighs 28 lb (12 kg). Sooty's owner, Molly Oliver, 68, is now putting the fat cat on a diet after it got stuck in his kitty door:[Molly] added: "I t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/15/fat-cat-got-stuck-in-kitty-door/Bitter single people, rejoice! If the lovey-dovey Valentine's Day make you wanna puke, today's your day: St. Skeletor Day.St Valentine of course is the patron saint of making single people feel like crap — each yea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/15/happy-st-skeletor-day/Singapore artist Josef Lee of The Museum of Modern Fiction takes another look at the biblical story of Adam, Eve ... Steve Jobs and the Apple MacBook Air?Josef's cartoon is intended for mature audience, and has depiction...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/15/adams-apple-cartoon-by-josef-lee-adam-eve-and-steve-jobs/Besides making things taste salty, did you know that there are more than 14,000 uses of salt? The Salt Institute would know, wouldn't they? Here are their tips on some common and some unusual uses of salt:Invigoratin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/15/unusual-uses-of-salt/People are flocking to a remote desert town in Peru to wallow in three slimy mud pits with healing powers that they believe were brought by alien spaceships:Local doctors and scientists accredit these enigmatic and i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/15/miraculous-mud-ponds-in-peru-left-by-alien-spaceships/Photo: Mad physicist [Flickr]Ralph Savelsberg built some amazing LEGO models of military airplanes:Created with no special pieces, it has movable wings and retractable landing gear, just like the rest of its companio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/15/e-2c-hawkeye-lego-airplane/Earlier today, a student opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill in a new Valentine's Day massacre:The shooting took place during an introductory geology class at the university's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/15/a-valentines-day-massacre-shooting-at-northern-illinois-university/"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie, author (1890 - 1976)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/15/quote-agatha-christie-on-the-perfect-husband/Remember our previous story about Saudi's ban on the color red for Valentine's Day? Turns out that the anti-valentine sentiment wasn't limited to muslim extremists. India's hard-line Hindu are showing no love for The Day...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/15/hard-line-hindus-protest-against-valentines-day/It's Valentine's Day, and in the U.S., that means chocolates, roses, romantic dinners and marriage proposals galore. In Japan, Valentines Day is almost unrecognizable by U.S. standards. On February 14, only the men rec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/14/love-japanese-style/For those of you who didn't get it, here's a little story about Vincent van Gogh's ear: Van Gogh felt an increasing fear that Gauguin was going to desert him, and what he described as a situation of "excessive t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/14/bizarro-van-goghs-valentine/I don't really buy into Valentine's Day. I mean, I want a card (even a homemade card), but I don't need flowers at work and a huge box of chocolates or anything like that. I'm not a very sappy, romantic person. Howeve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/14/best-valentines-day-gifts-ever/Dutch designer Katharina Ludwig presents a line of jewelry made of ice! There are ice earrings and a ring as well as necklaces. Of course, each piece must be remade every time you wear it. Could be a real hit for women...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/14/ice-jewelry/The Naked Cowboy has filed a $6 million lawsuit against Mars. Times Square busker Robert Burk says the candy maker stole his image for a massive video billboard featuring an M&M wearing a cowboy hat, boots, and briefs....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/14/naked-cowboy-sues-over-singing-mm/These stick-on eyes will make you seem alert while you get some real shut eye at your desk! Too bad I couldn’t find out who is actually selling these. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/14/how-to-sleep-at-work/It takes real bravado to convince people they should give you money because you are royalty, or because you need an airplane, or because you can protect them from other scammers. Cracked looks at the most outrageous sche...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/14/the-5-ballsiest-con-artists-of-all-time/Yup, they're real aquariums!George and Steven Lo of Aqua Forest Aquarium in San Francisco make aquariums - but not just any ol' fish tank. Their creations of "Nature Aquariums" are simply stunning: real plants...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/14/aqua-forest-aquariums-are-gorgeous/According to the latest analysis by the Pew Research Center, non-Hispanic white people will become a minority in 2050!If current trends continue, the population of the United States will rise to 438 million in 2050,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/14/whites-to-be-a-minority-in-2050/The Hubble Space Telescope just snapped a photo of what may be the farthest galaxy we've ever seen: it's almost 13 billion light-years away.Since the galaxy is so far away, its light took ages to reach us, so what we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/14/hubble-found-a-galaxy-far-far-away/Photo: I Love Badger Dogs [Flickr]Some people in Corpus Christi, Texas, are deraming a draem of literacy ... See also: Hm, That's Just Ironic previously on Neatorama...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/14/i-have-a-deram-draem-gosh-darn-it/Wail of Echoes Eternal by Mainman [Flickr | Brickshelf]Ephram's Garden 1 by mondayn00dle [Flickr | MOCpages]Megiddo Mangler/8 Track by legohaulic [Flickr]Spade of Shades by monsterbrick [Flickr]I am so enthralled with th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/14/black-fantasy-biomechanical-lego-creations/"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." - Mark Twain, humori...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/14/quote-mark-twain-on-the-secret-of-getting-ahead/Cookie Monster recently paid a visit to NPR’s New York studios. In an interview, he answered questions from James Lipton’s version of the Proust questionnaire. The interview was captured on video, and accompanies a b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/14/cookie-monster-on-npr/David Prowse, who played Darth Vader’s body in three Star Wars movies, is a bodybuilder and fitness trainer. He auditioned for the first Superman movie, but was passed over in favor of Christopher Ree...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/14/darth-vader-and-superman/Whoa! Those are tentacle suction-cup implant done by Dark Freak at Luck All in São Paulo, Brasil. Found at the always mindboggling ModBlog - via Albotas, thanks robby!...
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