Not once, not twice, but eight different times has Popular Science or Popular Mechanics magazine declared that the future of travel is the monowheel. Wesley Treat collected the covers of these issues for a retrospective...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/the-ginormous-wheel/Here is an incredible papercraft recreation of Han Solo’s famous ship. The detail is extraordinary and true to the movies. This is a great project for inmates with a science fiction passion or any young man who h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/millennium-falcon-papercraft/Ronnie Dabal was fishing in Puerto Princesa Bay in the Philippines when a squall capsized his small boat. He avoided drowning by hanging onto a piece of styrofoam. 24 hours later, he woke up on the beach. He told a tale...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/saved-by-dolphins/Every summer in Catalonia, Spain, teams of "Castellers" can be seen competing against each other to see who can build the highest human tower. See more pictures at Oddee. Link -Thanks, Emily! Catala...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/human-towers/Dr. Carl Winter takes popular songs and changes the lyrics to incorporate food safety instructions. The results are funny! I Want to Hold Your Hand by the Beatles becomes You Better Wash Your Hands, *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/food-safety-songs/Remember the gay penguins that got ejected from their colony because they were trying to steal eggs from other penguins? Well, the zookeepers gave the couple two eggs laid by an inexperienced penguin mom ... and it turns...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/gay-penguins-turned-out-to-be-the-best-parents-in-the-zoo/This infographic, titled Species-scape, purports to show various species at sizes relative to the number of known species in that group. Insects, represented by the fly, is the largest (at about 900,000 known species). I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/species-scape/Dr. Paul Grabb thought he was removing a benign tumor from a newborn's brain. Instead, he found a tiny foot:Grabb said he could not tell whether the miniature limbs were from a benign stem cell tumor called a teratom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/its-not-a-tumah-its-a-foot/Ian McVey wanted to serve his country, so he joined the Marines after college. He was supposed to go to Iraq, but died not long before his unit shipped out in a motorcycle accident.Ian's father, John McVey, had to settle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/sallie-mae-to-father-of-dead-marine-pay-up/Cat lovers in China are protesting China's cat meat industry. You red that right: cat meat industry. Apparently, cats are a hot commodity and that's not because people want them for pets: On Monday, the Southern Metr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/guess-the-ingredients-of-the-dragon-tiger-and-phoenix-soup-a-chinese-delicacy/Why do old people think life was great in their younger days? Science finds out the answer: our brain remembers the good stuff and forgets the bad ones!Report author Professor Roberto Cabeza, from Duke University, No...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/scientists-decode-the-secret-of-nostalgia/I <3 this adorable Little Mr. T by Etsy seller Kezzaroo:Approximately 3 inches from toe to fro. Little T comes on a pin, complete with genuine gold plated chain!! Did you know that Mr.T once punched Chuck Norris a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/little-mr-t/OMG! It's the cutest thing I've seen today. The Daily Mail has a cute story of Paula, the baby Hippo born at Berlin Zoo just 18 days ago, taking its a swim with her mother: Link (with embedded video clip)hippo, baby anim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/ma-and-baby-hippos/This next bit of news is brought to you by Captain Obvious. An Australian psychotherapist Stephen Carroll surveyed a group of 16 to 25-year-old students, and found that male science "nerds" are most likely virg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/male-science-nerds-most-likely-to-be-virgins/When life gives you lemons, make a lemonade. When communism gave Poland a statue, artist Kamila Szejnoch made ... a swing out of it!Here's her art installation, a swing at the monumental bronze "Berling Army Soldier...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/soldier-statue-swing-by-kamila-szejnoch/Photos: Rebecca Hale, NG Staff, Cathy SmithNational Geographic has an interesting article about some of the strangest hangover cures from around the world. Perhaps they mean "cure" in a way that you'll never to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/strange-hangover-cures-from-around-the-world/Chessington Zoo in London has issued an apology to guests after giving the gorillas a Christmas treat of Brussels sprouts. The seasonal sprouts are highly nutritious, but the gorilla farts caused horror among people arou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/brussels-sprouts-gorillas-bad-situation/(YouTube link) Just watch the slow-motion video, because this is something you don't ever want to actually do. -via Geeks Are Sexy Dangerous, lighter, blender...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/lighter-in-a-blender/How much do you know about starfish? You know a lot more after reading the post at ScienceRay! Starfish are predators. They don't have real eyes, but they have light sensors. And they sometimes have more than five "arm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/starfish-sentinels-of-the-sea/Rotterdam artist Bert Simons creates realistic sculpture portraits made of paper! See more in his portfolio, including sculptures of some European celebrities. Link -Thanks, Stephen Douge! papercraft, sculp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/paper-portrait-sculpture/It may be the wrong time of year to think about how fat you are -or maybe it's the best time of year to change your habits before you put the pounds on! HealthAssist lists 14 habits you want to examine to turn your healt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/14-habits-that-make-you-fat/Re Jin hand paints ants on decals that she tranfers to these spoons! Just another way to make your dinner guests go home and never come back. Link -via J-Walk Blog spoon, ants, flatware...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/ants-on-my-spoon/This is sweet! A collection of geographic hearts found all over the world. This forest is found in Cantabria, Spain. Link -Thanks, David E! hearts, geography...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/9-gigantic-hearts/The Max Planck Institute in Germany printed a lovely poem in Chinese characters on the front of their latest journal issue. At least they thought so. They had consulted an expert on China to find the right poem, but th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/chinese-poem-is-brothel-ad/My favorite part? "With special guest star... Beatrice Arthur!" After that it's like six minutes of Chewie's family grunting at one another. At that point, feel free to skip to the second video, which is the part that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/the-star-wars-holiday-special/There's been an abundance of cute on the web, particularly lately. At least one site aims to counter this movement, and that is Ugly Overload. I've been waiting for a great post to share, and this quick collection of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/tongues-are-gross/Why is it that cute things only get cuter as they get smaller? Whatever the reason, WebUrbanist has the ultimate list of cute animals, as it has the 15 smallest animals. Some of the animals are just tiny species and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/15-teeny-tiny-animals/Ok, maybe that's a little misleading, but a recent study has shown that girls have a better sense of taste than boys. Boys require about 10% more sourness and 20% more sweetness to recognize flavors than girls requir...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/girls-taste-better-than-boys/Kelly Ferrell uses a laser to cut these adorable mammoths, there are also t-rexes, butterflies and more. They seem quite hard to put together once you get them, but the result is quite worth it and is certain to attr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/itty-bitty-dinosaur-puzzle/Cute Things Falling Asleep is yet another adorable animal blog, this one exclusively posts videos of its namesake. I've gotta say, this one is even a bit too cute for me, but I couldn't resist this adorable sloth video...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/cute-things-falling-asleep/
