Scientists have finally proven parents wrong ... surfing the Internet is actually good for teenagers! Kids, print this out before the vast parents conspiracy shuts this down ...Surfing the internet, playing games and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/23/proven-by-science-surfing-the-internet-is-good-for-teens/That's an infrared image of an aurora on Saturn's polar cap, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft:Energetic particles, crashing into the upper atmosphere cause the aurora, shown in blue, to glow brightly at 4 microns (...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/23/saturns-aurora/Meet Mailman Steve. He was a letter carrier who became a local hero for failing to deliver (junk mail, that is):"Mailman Steve" -- a pudgy, kindly 58-year-old who toiled along a route in a rapidly growing n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/23/mailman-steve-hero-for-failing-to-deliver-junk-mail/He's seven meters tall and weighs three metric tons. He is WEEE Man! This sculpture stands at the Eden Project in Cornwall, after his debut at the South Bank in London. The British Royal Society of Arts had WEEE Man bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/23/weee-man/Mark Johnson traveled the world to record musicians all performing the same song. The result is an uplifting and entertaining music video of Stand By Me. There will be a documentary film "Playing for Change:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/23/stand-by-me/A team from the University of St Andrews in Scotland has developed a machine only 2 millimeters wide that can fire a tiny laser beam so accurately that it can puncture individual cells! The device was developed by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/23/microscopic-light-sabers-for-drug-delivery/The Poitou region of France spawned the Poitou donkey, a large hairy breed that almost died out thirty years ago. The Poitou comes from the Equus asinus species and is - basically - a donkey with dreadlocks. It...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/23/poitou-donkeys/The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) administered a 33 question basic civics test to 2,500 randomly-selected people. Included were some who identified themselves as "elected officials", although the story does not...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/23/dismal-scores-for-civics-test/It sounds like someone took Tom Hank's role in Terminal too seriously. Japanese citizen, Hiroshi Nohara, has decided to live in the Mexico City airport for 3 months and with apparently no reason. Since September 2, hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/23/japanese-man-lives-in-airport-for-no-reason/Ah, misogyny, one of the final frontiers of terrible, terrible inequalities in our society. It's amazing that only in the 60's sexism was so prevailent in advertising. Sometimes you see ads these days and think how pre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/23/9-sickeningly-sexist-ads/How do I make a dove cry? Hmmm...thank goodness for this helpful flow chart. Of course, maybe you have other burning questions, like "what percentage of boys were brought to the yard by respective milkshakes?" Finally,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/22/prince-flow-chart/If you want to sneak beer into an event (e.g. football games, theaters, church) but not pay over-inflated prices from vendors inside, then you might want to get a Beer Belly. It's a bota bag that fits over your bell...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/22/beer-belly/[YouTube - Link] That's right ladies and gentlemen! You too can own a mini helicopter/UFO and launch it into the air and make the people in your neighbourhood think they are seeing a real UFO flying above! Great...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/22/roboppi-mini-helicopterufo/We've done several bacon posts here on Neatorama before - there are the bacon placemats, bacon cups, bacon cinnamon rolls, and even a bacon tux. But there's a whole, wide world of bacon-related products out there. If...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/22/your-bacon-gift-guide/My friend Eric has recently launched Gluten Free Globe, a site for people with Celiac disease. He's got a bit of wanderlust, you see - he could just as easily be in Iowa as he could be in New Zealand or Hong Kong. He h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/22/restaurant-and-food-guide-for-people-with-celiac-disease/The following is reprinted from The Best of The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. First Thanksgiving 1621 by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, via Library of CongressIt's one of American history's most fami...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/22/thanksgiving-myths/More than 100 years ago, Albert Einstein put forth his theory of relativity in what is probably the world's most famous equation E = mc2. Now, French, German and Hungarian physicists have computationally proven...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/22/more-than-100-years-later-scientists-prove-e-mc2/Think that only women like to gossip? Scientists have just discovered that it's not just human females that love gossip - female macaque monkeys do to!Scientists spent three months listening to a mixed group of maca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/22/female-monkeys-like-to-gossip-too/Rosemary Alvarez went to the doctor because she had numbness in her arms and blurred vision. An MRI revealed something unusual deep in her brain stem, so doctors immediately sent her to surgery.But they didn't find the t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/22/thats-not-a-brain-tumor-thats-a-worm/Is your home decor lacking slightly creepy salt and pepper shakers? Artist Guy Michael Davis has you covered. These shakers are not only disturbing in appearance, but the molds used to make them were created with real de...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/turkey-head-salt-shakers/An old, but good story: Each year at the Tulsa State Fair, an artist is commissioned to make a sculpture out of butter. In past years, cows, farmers, and baseball players were created out of hundreds of pounds...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/giant-sculpture-of-darth-vader-and-yoda-carved-out-of-butter/Previously on Neatorama, we've read the story of a man who tried to pay a bill with a doodle of a spider. Contributor Ali S. commented "I would buy that spider and the story if I could!" Well, Ali, you're a little...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/payment-spider-sold-on-ebay/(Brightcove link) Nice fireworks! What's the occasion? It's the grand opening of The Atlantis, a luxury resort on the man-made Palm Jumeirah in Dubai. To get a scale of the fireworks, keep in mind that the "trunk" of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/grand-opening-party/How do you improve upon a turducken (turkey stuffed with duck stuffed with chicken)? Behold, the Turbaconducken. It's a turducken wrapped in bacon! Bacon Today has the step-by-step recipe with pictures. Link -via Cynic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/turbaconducken/(Metacafe link) On the b3ta boards this was titled "Look what Mum's getting for Christmas!" It would be a nice little experiment to explain how steam power works to the kids. http://www.b3ta.com/links/Look_wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/worlds-simplest-steam-engine/A kitten with two faces was born yesterday at a veterinary clinic in Perth, Australia. A newspaper photographer was at the clinic to shoot pictures of greyhounds when the birth occurred, and took the opportunity to snap...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/two-faced-kitten-born-in-perth/This week, we've started to feature another layer in the Google Earth Gallery, showing several thousand panoramic views provided by 360cities.net. This layer contains exciting 360 degree panoramas from a variety of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/google-earth-360cities/Every time you reload the page, you'll get a different randomly-generated recipe. This goes a long way toward proving that machines can't cook. Here's what I got on the first try: Coffee Surprise S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/random-recipe-generator/Damon over at the Videon.se video blog has listed his top three MacGyver fighting moments. The site is in Swedish, but MacGyver's moves are multinational. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/top-3-macgyver-fighting-moments/No matter what item you're about to buy these days, it feels like the USB option is always available. In this list of ten "gadgets to help you prepare for the upcoming winter season" you will be able to find everythi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/10-usb-gadgets-to-keep-you-warm/
