A new drug being developed for the US military can protect cells against the effects of radiation, according to a study publish today in the journal Science. Although radiation is an important weapon used...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/11/new-drug-fights-radiation-effects/Good spoons have heavy handles, but that makes it difficult to lay your spoon down when eating from a bowl. If you don’t want to put the spoon down on the table, you’ll tip the bowl over. But this bowl and spoon co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/11/the-dish-ran-away-with-the-spoon/James Spring wanted to help someone in some way to celebrate his 40th birthday. He read about a case of a couple wanted for murder who may have gone to Baja, Mexico, an area he was intimately familiar with. The couple ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/11/investigation-birthday-celebration/Real Men Wear Kilts is a website with information on how to wear a kilt, news about kilts, links to vendors, and a member registry with pictures. I have long felt that there was a desperate need for a website devot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/11/real-men-wear-kilts/Giving a whole new meaning to coffee tasting like crap, the secret behind the special blend about to go on sale at an upmarket department store in London, is that it is made from cats' droppings. The beans are extrac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/11/100-cup-of-joe-er-cat-droppings/NASA rocket scientists have used the gravitational pull of one planet to “slingshot” space craft toward another planet. This method causes acceleration without additional fuel use. What if we could set up a system...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/the-martian-express/The next College Weekend on mental_floss is rapidly approaching! That means I'm looking for contributors. Check out the link above to see what other scholars have contributed in the past and then send Stacy Conradt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/calling-all-college-students/Postcard From Yo Momma is a neat website where you can send (anonymously) emails from your mom. Some are very Internet-literate, whereas others still use their AOL emails and send out little guilt traps like "I wish...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/postcard-from-yo-momma-compilation-of-emails-from-mothers/Cartoon Brew blog has a clip of what the adaptation of Windsor McCay's comic strip Little Nemo could have been like...Here's the test sequence, animated by the legend of anime Hayao Miyazaki and directed by Yosh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/little-nemo-the-miyazaki-version/Andy Heatman from Liverpool, England, got banned from his local gym for ... sweating too much!The 42-year-old psychiatric nurse, who teaches patients about cleanliness and hygiene, was confronted by staff at Cheshire...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/banned-from-the-gym-for-sweating-too-much/Hina Aoyama has got hands as steady as those of the world's best surgeons. Except she uses hers to make intricate cut paper art, like these below:Lettre de Voltaire by Hina Aoyama. Photo: Masajiart.gr.jpTrois Papillon by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/hina-aoyamas-cut-paper-art/Here's a YouTube clip of Marcel W. Helland playing one of the world's rarest musical instruments (only 25 or so exists): the contrabass saxophone. As you can see, it's quite large (about 6 foot 4 inches or 1.9 m tall) an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/contrabass-saxophone-is-really-really-big/Carrying a little dog in your bag is so 2007. This year, the haute couture is combining the two directly!! Behold the Excessory Baggage, a wry commentary/art by Meryl Smith: The Honey Space, a usually unatte...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/excessory-baggage-the-dog-bag-by-meryl-smith/I love Easter eggs. They require a little poking around to find, but they usually contain something entertaining. I never find Easter eggs on my own, though. I wait 'til someone else finds them and then I take advanta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/6-easter-eggs-that-arent-out-of-season/Pink Tentacle has a neat post about joge-e, or "two way pictures," produced for mass consumption in 19th century Japan:This print by Kuniyoshi (c. 1852) depicts Hotei (Laughing Buddha) and Shoki (a character...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/vintage-japanese-two-way-pictures/Behold the most impressive fan-made Star Wars spaceship model ever: a DIY 48" Star Destroyer built from scratch! The attention to detail will boggle your mind: Link - via reddit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/diy-star-destroyer-the-most-amazing-fan-made-star-wars-starship-ever/German inventor Dieter ‘Didi’ Senft unveiled his latest creation Tuesday in Storkow, Germany. It’s a 39-foot guitar, driven by a bicycle chain underneath! http://www.absolutegadget.com/200804091276/news/automotiv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/riding-my-guitar/They say you can find anything on the internet, including specialized niche dating services. Cracked takes a look at five you should avoid, and the reasons why (if they aren’t obvious to you). Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/the-5-most-ill-advised-dating-sites-on-the-web/Don’t you just hate it when you spend millions of dollars for a large construction, only to find out there is something fundamentally wrong underneath? Oh yeah, especially when the failure becomes apparent dur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/embarrassing-moments-in-engineering/(YouTube link) Gizmo likes to watch boxing on TV. Looks like he'd also like to get in on the action! -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/boxing-cat/The Bulbdial Clock . . . has no hands, just one pole in the center of the clock. Towards the outer rim we find three light sources of varying heights which revolve around the pole casting shadows on the dial. As...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/the-bulbdial-clock/Yay! It's time for our collaboration with What is it? blog: can you guess what this strange hammer is for?Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, but you can enter as many times as you'd like. Ple...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/10/what-is-it-game-57/(YouTube link)Striding through the moon dust with the moonbase strapped to its back, this unlikely idea reminds me of the mobile cathedrals in Absolution Gap, others suggest Howl's Moving Castle. "In a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/09/moonbase-hermit-crab/The world of moths is one that we'll probably never fully understand, but a recent study by Rothamsted Research brings us one step closer: Moths that fly high above our heads throughout the night are not at the me...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/09/silver-y-moth-cruises-at-55-mph/A lungless frog? Sounds like a joke: I say, I say I say, my frog has no lungs. How does it breath? Glad you asked. Read on: "The first lungless frog has been discovered lurking in the jungles of Borneo.*/em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/09/the-frog-with-no-lungs/(YouTube Link) A somewhat subtle literary joke. Previously on Neatorama: William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy singing. Via Ace...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/09/george-takei-singing-on-the-road-again/"I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don't know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/09/man-whose-house-was-hit-by-five-meteorites-believes-that-aliens-are-targeting-him/Nope, that's not a guy peeing on a tree. It's a cardboard ad to show the lack of public restrooms in New York City.Part of a neat compilation of "Ads using Trees" over at CrookedBrains: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/09/ads-using-trees/Photo: marcn [Flickr]Prisoners in the New Hampshire state prison in Concord, New Hampshire, stamp license plates with the state's motto: "Live Free or Die."...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/09/oh-the-irony-new-hampshires-live-free-or-die-license-plates-made-by-prisoners/Acanthusleaf Design Studio created this ring based on a Diana Scarisbrick's book Historic Rings. In a closed position, it looks just like any other ring, but then you can "open" it up to look like a ce...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/09/clockpunk-ring/
