Nobody's seen a jaguar in central Mexico since 1900. Until now. Three photos of an adult male jaguar, taken by a camera trap in the Sierra Nanchititla Natural Reserve, have confirmed the big cat's existence in an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/jaguar-redux/Wow ... we all knew fast food was bad for us, but really? For starters, their burgers can apparently last for 20 years ... longer than the average vehicle. Next up: you would have to walk for seven hours to burn off a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/why-you-may-not-want-to-let-your-friends-eat-at-mcdonalds-or-yourself/Sometimes there are words that cannot be translated into another language without losing some of its meaning. According to the BBC and 1,000 linguists, the most difficult word to translate is "ilunga". A word...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/untranslatable-words/Have you ever wondered what happens to the corpses of the fallen on the upper slopes of Everest? Sometimes they move or are buried by snow, but often they are anchored in place - chilling monuments to their own demise....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/everest-climber-returns-to-everest-to-bury-the-everpresent-dead/Joel Watson of Hijinks Ensue made this printable Valentine's Day card that is oh-so-wrong if you think about it. If you don't get this, then it's obvious that you've never watched Star Wars before ...LinkStar Wars, Valen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/happy-valentines-day-hey-wait-a-minute/Corner Forest by Yuken TeruyaYuken Teruya sees art in everyday objects. Things like pizza boxes and toilet paper rolls. It takes a certain kind of genius to find beauty in something ordinary, but Yuken has done exactly t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/toilet-paper-roll-art-by-yuken-teruya/From ancient to postmodern, these spiral staircases span the spectrum from wonderfully worn to pristinely perfect. Warning: viewing so many in a row from above can have a dizzying impact on the onlooker. Don't trip! *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/16-spectacular-spiral-staircases-as-seen-from-above/Truman Capote's Black and White Ball - November 28, 1966Even though Truman Capote's masquerade was the hottest ticket in 1966, at the advice of Evie Backer, Truman purposely made the decor at his event as understated as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/three-famous-masquerade-balls/What would you do if you came home to find your house ransacked, and worse, that the burglar was still inside? A couple from Montgomery, Alabama, did what some people might find unthinkable - they made the burglar cle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/couple-make-burglar-clean-their-home-at-gunpoint/Remember the Cat Cam? A cat in Seattle wore a camera one day a week for a year, and now those photographs have their own exhibit in an art gallery! Cooper the tomcat has 16 framed photos displayed at the Urban Light Stud...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/cat-has-photography-exhibit/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWPAAgedh8w][YouTube - Link]The Oregon Zoo posted this irresistibly sweet video clip of a 5-month old baby Asian elephant named Samudra playing with a ball. I dare you to resist gi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/baby-elephant-moment-of-cute-zen/Plants grow too slow to see most of the time - making these videos seem like secret access points to a hidden world that operates at a radically different speed.For those of you unfamiliar with plants (they're a lot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/12-incredible-time-lapse-plant-growth-videos/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ehlw_phys][YouTube - Link]WGN news anchors Robert Jordan and Jackie Bange have worked together for many years. They started making up these little coordinated dance routine...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/chicago-news-team-boogies-during-break/Everland is a hotel with only one room including a bathroom, a king-size bed and a lounge. What makes it so different is that - because it is also an art installation - this hotel travels! The Everland has been '...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/a-hotel-with-a-unique-view/Martin Miller at Photography Served gives us a look at some historic weapons of mass destruction under an artistic light. His striking black and white photographs transform some of last century's most horrifying...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/beautiful-and-deadly-wmds/The winter of 1709 was the coldest in 500 years. All across Europe, from Scandinavia to northern Italy, and to the western coast of France, livestock died in their barns, fish froze in the rivers, millions of birds...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/the-year-europe-froze/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSQeMBzHR0o][YouTube - Link]Here's an all-star cast of comedians - John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman - lampooning the stereotypical "rich peopl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/the-four-yorkshiremen-sketch/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70vaA38NUvo][YouTube - Link]See if you can spot what's wrong with this video of a company advertising their skills in ... video production! The irony of it sort of reminds me of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/a-slight-technical-hitch/The Ponginator is a three stories tall robot that can fire ping pong balls at up to 170 miles per hour. Its inventor, Vernon Graner of the Austin Robot Group explains:Ponginator is a robot, and as far as robots go,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/the-ponginator-a-giant-ping-pong-ball-shooting-robot/Dr. Pepper lovers rejoice, here's a way to "winterize" your favorite soda by turning it into a delicious hot beverage. Instructions are from a vintage recipe advertisement published in the 60's. E...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/hot-dr-pepper-who-knew/Every Sunday afternoon at Ginny's Little Longhorn Saloon in Austin, Texas, customers clutching numbered slips of paper gather around a pool table, anxiously waiting for a chicken to defecate. Your $2 bet could win...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/chicken-bingo/Back in the day we just used to put our tooth under our pillow, and the next morning it would be replaced by a dime. But it looks like the Tooth Fairy has taken her business to the next level with this official $16 Too...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/official-tooth-fairy-kit/[YouTube clip] Other people have made guitar sculptures out of glass before, but glasscutter by day, rock drummer by night Brian Chivers of BC Glass Studio went one step further: he actually created a glass guitar (ye...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/rock-the-casbah-with-a-glass-guitar/Susan Goldin-Meadow and Meredith Rowe of University of Chicago have found a link between gesturing and improved vocabulary in toddlers. We all know that toddlers will gesture long before they form words, such as r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/gesturing-improves-a-toddlers-vocabulary/In 1968, a white firefighter named William Carroll from South Boston saved the life of a black baby during a fire at the Roxbury housing development. This was a time marked by deadly racial riots across America....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/40-years-later-a-thank-you-for-saving-a-life/Blogger 'brb' of the Bouncing Red Ball website has posted 12 fantastic photos of various factories in Japan. They look like something out of a sci-fi or anime movie.Lately, I’m having a “factory fetish”,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/12-amazing-photos-of-factories-in-japan/Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City, Utah, was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest fingernails in the world. Totalling over 28 feet long, she was once offered $10,000 by a Japanese televis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/woman-with-worlds-longest-fingernails-lost-them-in-car-crash/The Amish are often portrayed as anti-technology Luddites, but in fact they often accept non-electrical forms of technology, as long as they can remain "off the grid" and independent. The photo shows...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/how-the-amish-hack-technology-to-meet-their-needs-and-beliefs/Not only is there no gold at the end of the rainbow but, frankly, driving straight toward one sounds slightly scary. No, there was no pot of gold nor any other mythical or fantastic phenomena. However, the lucky winner...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/end-of-the-rainbow-finally-found/
