Photo: Edward BurtynskyThere is a particular industrial activity that is quite unique to the small town of Alang in Gujarat Province, India. It's not manufacturing - actually, it's the exact opposite: in Alang, container...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/shipbreaking-yard-where-ships-go-to-die/Photo: P.S.1 Contemporary Art CenterThat's "Controller of the Universe" by Damián Ortega, a sculpture consisting of dozens of tools suspended in the air as though in midexplosion. It's part of an exhibit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/controller-of-the-universe-by-damin-ortega/Shock jock Howard Stern is no stranger to controversy, and now, he's at it again: he's "auctioning off" 22-year-old Natalie Dylan's (not her real name) virginity to help pay her college tuition. Shock jock H...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/auctioning-off-her-virginity-to-pay-college-tuition/Photo: Library of CongressRemember the scene in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987), where Eliot Ness, played by Kevin Costner, saved a baby-carriage that went down the stairs while in a shoot-out with Capone's henc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/baby-falling-down-the-odessa-steps/To remind the people of Sydney and Melbourne, Australia that Queensland is a warm place to go to during winter vacation, Tourism Queensland employed a bunch of attractive women to ... um, flash men on the street with thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/queensland-flasher-ad/How well do you know your NFL helmets? In today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, try to match the "eye" to the helmet it's found on. Oh, I scored 25%. If you are totally unfamiliar with the teams (as I am), finding an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/all-%e2%80%98eyes-on-the-nfl/The Large Hadron Collider has not yet turned the whole Earth into one big lump of goo, as some might fear. This means we still have the chance to enjoy the LHC photo gallery over at Dvice, containing 30 stunning image...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/large-hadron-collider-photo-gallery/Would you believe that Einstein was the inspiration for Yoda, E.T., and even a spiffy BMX bike trick? Here are 6 things inspired by Albert Einstein, the smartest man who ever lived: 1. Yoda...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/6-things-inspired-by-einstein/Crop circles are so passé - the next big thing are ... ice circles! As circles and rings in ice-covered lakes and river-bays have become a relatively numerous documented phenomenon - especially in Scandinavian...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/ice-circles/Like an old pair of jeans that got back in style, when gas prices are stratospheric, so are "classics" like the Honda Civics and Geo Metros of the 80's and 90's.Ken Bensinger of The Los Angeles Times has a neat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/the-geo-metro-is-back-baby/If you think belly flopping from the side of the pool hurts, imagine doing it from high up. Waaay high up! Here is Darren "Professor Splash" Taylor's record-breaking high dive from 35 feet into just 12 inches...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/man-bellyflops-onto-12-inch-of-water-from-35-feet-up/To fight dwindling congregations, some churches are encouraging worshippers to attend online dating courses to learn how to flirt: Peter Spalton, known as the dating doctor, said that churchgoers tended to be more re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/dating-tips-for-churchgoers/Language purists think that English is a weed that keeps on popping up in the linguistic garden that is their native tongue. Take for instance, the Italians: From 'il weekend' to 'lo stress' and 'le leadership', Ital...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/the-ugliest-english-words-according-to-the-italians/This is just like a plot of a crime novel. A dog named Scooby (yes, after the cartoon character) has created a legal history by appearing as a witness in a murder case in France:The animal's 59-year-old owner had bee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/scooby-the-dog-witness-in-a-murder-case/It was a match made in Heaven. Well, no, actually it was a match made by zookeepers: 7-year-old Wukong wed 6-year-old Xiaoya during a special ceremony at a zoo in Wenling, Zhejiang province in China.It was all a publicit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/monkey-wedding/J.J. Abrams' new show Fringe premiered tonight on Fox. Overall, it was pretty good, although I could have done without yet another pro-torture message from a Fox show. There's a website for Massive Dynamic, the mys...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/fringe/(YouTube link) The Rocket War of Vrondados is an old custom that began at the time of the Turkish occupation and it still happens every year at Easter. In the beginning the residents of the parishes of Pa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/the-rocket-war-of-vrondados/(YouTube link) Another eerie episode of Google mischief from The Vacationeers, who brought you Google SMS, Google My Maps, Google Moon, and Google Maps. -via I Am Bored...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/google-mobile/Talk about a renewable energy source! Dutch agriculture minister Gerda Verburg unveiled a biomass power plant run exclusively on poultry manure, with a capacity of 36.5 megawatts. Situated in Moerdijk, the 150 milli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/chicken-manure-to-power-90000-homes-in-the-netherlands/Far below the Earth’s surface, where the sun rarely penetrates, is a world of twinkling glow worms, precious gems and limestone caves and mountains, a land inhabited by nature alone. Within this world are visions...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/10-incredible-underground-lakes-and-rivers/Neglected Sensibles Shelter is a Flash microsite (epileptic warning: a couple seconds of flashing sequence) where you can regain your "sensible" (sensibility?).Apparently it's a small cuddly thing you can feed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/pick-up-your-neglected-sensibles/If cuddly little blob isn't your thing, here's a virtual pet spider you can drag around and feed little insects.An interactive Flash website by Tomas Eriksson, and needless to say, not for arachnophobics! Link - Than...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/virtual-pet-spider/Photo: Steve took it [Flickr]Scienceray blog has a really neat post on macro photography of dew drops:In his poem Hyperion, Longfellow said, “Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it." Wha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/wonderful-macro-photography-of-dews/The Boston.com website has compiled a set of 25 impressive photos of hurricanes, as seen from orbit. The crew aboard the International Space Station was able to take a photo of Ike from 220 miles overhead last T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/viewing-hurricanes-from-space/The toughest creatures on earth have survived a trip into space. Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are microscopic animals that survive extreme conditions that would kill most organisms. Last September, a colony of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/invertebrate-astronauts/Enter your family name in the World Names Profiler and find out the distribution of that name around the world. I used my maiden name, married name, and the names of several other people and got the expected results fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/world-names-profiler/It's the simplest weather report ever! Will you need an umbrella today? Just enter your ZIP code (it only works for the US) and Umbrella Today will give you a yes or no answer. You can also sign up to get a text messag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/umbrella-today/Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy Blog (which is now a part of the Discover Magazine website) has some interesting facts about Mother Earth. Did you know that there are at least four natural objects in space that stick near th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/ten-things-you-dont-know-about-the-earth/(YouTube link) YouTube member bulc96 won $40 in a contest with this video. -via I Am Bored...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/the-simpsons-intro-in-lego/Before the latter part of the 18th century, prison was a place to put people away and forget about them. Then the Quakers designed Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia to make prisoners penitent and to encourage th...
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