I really need to start frequenting flea markets. Now this is a super team: "Spiderman 3" (with baseball bat), Hulk (wearing a g-string), Batman (relatively accurate), and "Superman Come Back" (with super crossbow an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/greatest-toy-pack-of-all-time/Candle flame in (L) normal and (M) low gravity. Floating flame balls in microgravity (R)What does a candle flame look like in microgravity? In 2002, NASA did the experiment and found out that flames do strange things in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/balls-of-flame-in-microgravity/Photo: John GollingsBehold the Klein Bottle House by Australian architects McBride Charles Ryan. What is a Klein Bottle?For us right-brain thinkers; in Mathematics, the “Klein Bottle” is a non-orientable...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/klein-bottle-house/Scientists have always thought that humans and the Bonobo are the two primate species that mate face to face. Well, they've just been proven wrong. Thomas Breuer of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/gorillas-also-mate-face-to-face/Tttthhhhhhiisss HHhhaawwaiiiii Chaaairrr iiisss ssupRRrrr Aaawawwsosommee !1!! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Hawaii Chair website [autostart videoclip w/ sound] - Thanks Lee!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/hawaii-chair-rawks-your-world/Emily and Joshua of peer-see blog found the reason why Engrish is so prevalent in China: the poor Chinese kids never had a chance to begin with! Just look at these ABC picture blocks they used to teach English.Link (The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/engrish-abc-picture-blocks/Can't wait for this year's Darwinian Valentine's Day Card Contest at Skepchick blog! Last year, they did a top 10 Best Darwinian Pick-up Lines, for example:10. Trust me Baby, my selection is ALL natural!9. Why don't...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/darwinian-valentines-day-card-and-pick-up-lines/The government of Australia had just reversed course and apologized to the Aborigines for laws and policies that "inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss."In a motion passed unanimously by Australian M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/australia-finally-apologized-to-the-aborigines/Pink Tentacle reports:This suit of dog armor — identified by antique Japanese armor dealer Toraba.Com as the only known and certified authentic example of its kind — is believed to have been created for the pet o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/samurai-dog-armor/Yeah, yeah, yeah - it's three weeks old... It's still probably the funniest American Idol audition of all time, however. 32-year old Paul Marturano sings a brilliant song about his love for American Idol judge Paula...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/if-i-were-columbo-id-peter-falk-her/In December, 2007, Amazon.com purchased one of only seven copies of the book in exsistence. From their site: Amazon has purchased J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard at an auction held by Sothebyâ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/the-tales-of-beedle-the-bard-jk-rowlings-book-of-handwritten-fairy-tales/(YouTube link) It’s interesting to see the strategies different species use to operate. Cat: Back off or I’ll fight! I’m warning you! Raccoon: I don’t know anything about...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/cat-vs-raccoon/The following is reprinted from Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History AgainThe stabbing of Kitty Genovese lasted 50 minutes was witnessed by 38 people. Surely someone would pick up the phone and call th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/the-genovese-syndrome-when-nobody-helps/A caecilian's motherly love knows no bound, as a team of BBC crew recently discovered. The female worm-like amphibian allows her young to peel off and eat her skin!The female caecilian's skin becomes thicker and more...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/caecilian-youngs-eat-their-mothers-skin-alive/Meet Aditya "Romeo" Dev, who at just 2 ft 9 in. (0.84 m) is the world's smallest bodybuilder:Pint-sized Romeo is well-known in his hometown of Phagwara, India - for his ability to lift 1.5kg dumbbells - des...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/worlds-smallest-bodybuilder/Found at Flickr user skootter01, who wrote:In Korea you can see some strange signs, and this is one of the funniest I've seen. This little shop is located along a little street full of furniture stores in Uijeongbu,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/what-not-to-call-your-furniture-store/"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." - Henry Kissinger, diplomat (b. 1923)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/quote-henry-kissinger-on-politicians/Many of the Valentines Day roses presented in Europe are grown in Ethiopia. Over 100,000 roses are exported each day! And the custom of giving flowers is catching on domestically. Floriculture is one of Ethiopia’s fast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/ethiopian-roses/Read the stories behind the development of classic videogame characters Donkey Kong, Mario, Sonic, and of course Pac-Man. Japanese game designer Toru Iwatani was 26 when he invented the timeless masterpiece. In th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/the-origins-of-your-favorite-video-game-friends/A beautifully preserved fossil of a tiny pterosaur has been discovered in China. And he’s just plain adorable! The new fossil, which was discovered in 2004 in western Liaoning province, China, is about 120 millio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/13/the-tiniest-pterosaur/ZOMG, this is my most favoritest Valentine EVAR! It's made by Chris of Jack of Science blog. Read the rest of his creations and weep: Link - Thanks Chris!Previously on Neatorama: Geeky Science Valentines | Scien...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/12/neatest-science-valentine-youre-more-special-than-relativity/That's the highest denomination dollar bill ever printed. Well, actually it's a not a dollar bill, it's a gold certificate:What's a gold certificate? Well a gold certificate is money that the government prints that o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/12/the-hundred-grand-dollar-bill/From the same folks that did the Dharma Initiative Rations featured on Neatorama way back when, here is the Bureau of Communication's web forms you can email:The Bureau of Communication has a collection of old-fashio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/12/bureau-of-communications-declaration-of-romantic-intent/Ottawa-based artist Eyelander rides the bus and has been drawing the faces of commuters for the past five years. I think I've met some of these people, even though I've never set foot in Ottawa! http://www.eyelander.com/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/12/the-wheels-on-the-bus-cartoons-by-eyelander/Those oh-so-clever ad people made me chuckle with this ad for Axe, the deodorant and body spray that supposedly made men irresistible. Found at Hobson's Choice - Thanks Tory Hobson!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/12/hillary-for-obama-the-axe-effect-ad/The Peace Sign, one of the most widely known symbols in the world, was first designed and drawn on home-made banners and badges in London, England on February 21, 1958, when CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ) wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/12/peace-sign-turns-50/30 examples of how our favorite video game character Mario would look like wearing a mustache from famous persons like Magnum, Zorro, Frank Zappa and more. Link See also: Neatorama's 10 Mario Fun Facts.*/em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/12/super-mario-mustache-collection/The Deadbolt takes a look at previously-unused Indiana Jones scripts that may or may not contain spoilers for the new movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. We just don’t know yet. Read abo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/12/indiana-jones-4-the-scripts-that-werent/Victoria Falls is on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is 360 feet tall. At the top is a natural rock pool, called Devil’s Pool, where the water is relatively calm. From September to December, when the water...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/12/swimming-at-the-edge-of-victoria-falls/Just because you can flush it down the toilet doesn’t mean it’s gone forever! In this article, Roto-Rooter lists their top five things they’ve found, and then there’s more sewer stories from all over. http://www....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/12/the-weirdest-things-found-in-sewers-and-drains/
