Humans are not the only political animals. Mark Foster, an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, discovered that while big, aggressive males rely on physical force to dominate, smaller and more mild-mannered chim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/chimps-are-born-politicians/Christoph Niemann shows us how you only need a few LEGO pieces to make a whimsical yet brilliant homage to New York City:During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, Christoph Niemann spends a lot of time with his bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/i-lego-ny/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F62H1V10bE4][YouTube - Link] Now, if only they can teach it to say "WTF" the Interweb will implode with awesomeness! From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by mrsfosoty.goa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/goat-said-whaaat/It looks like the Nintendo Wii has other applications besides video games and fitness: it also serves as a police tool in Japan! Kanagawa police used the picture making capabilities of the Nintendo Wii to creat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/japanese-police-have-you-seen-this-mii/Feeling sad or depressed? Cross off shopping from your list. Researchers have just proven that sad people are big spenders:In a recent experiment one group of people was shown a sad video clip about the death o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/depressed-dont-go-to-the-mall/Recompute is an unusual case for your computer. It's green and sustainable ... and made out of corrugated cardboards! Recompute and other neat "green" technologies are competing in the Greener Gadgets Desig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/recompute-cardboard-computer-case/Australian scientists have determined that dolphins, already famous for their intelligence and depth of emotions, are also talented chefs of the sea! Photo: Simon White/APDolphins are the chefs of the seas, having...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/dolphins-talented-chefs-of-the-sea/So how did we get here anyway? Call it evolution, call it luck, but really the best and brightest creatures above and below the waves found powerful allies. In some cases these are completely unexpected - predator and pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/7-symbiotic-wonders-of-the-seven-seas/A South Korean grandma has failed her driving test 771 times, reports a local newspaper:The 68-year-old, identified only by her last name Cha, has taken the test almost every working day since 2005 in the southwester...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/south-korean-grandmother-fails-driving-test-771-times/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYjgHLFZMa0][YouTube - Link]“A Nintendo training video from 1991 teaching retail workers how to handle customers with defective Nintendo products.”From the Upcoming ueu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/nintendo-customer-service-training-in-the-90s/The Los Angeles Times has a neat article on British born Philip Harper, the only non -Japanese sake brewer to achieve the status of toji, or master brewer, in Japan.They call him "the sake savant," but that doesn't b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/japans-unlikely-sake-brewer/Artist Liz McGrath is selling personalized painted butcher knives just in time for Valentine's Day. There are two designs, the one shown and one with a cute little mouse on the blade. Each cleaver comes with its own...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/artistic-murder-weapons-slay-me/The biggest snake ever discovered was announced today on National Geographic News. Its fossilized remains turned up in a coal mine in northeastern Colombia. The monster measured 42 feet long, weighed about 2,50...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/a-snake-of-unusual-size/As part of the International Year of Astronomy, the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s telescopic observations, you get to decide where to point the Hubble next.“Hubble’s Next Discovery – Y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/you-can-choose-hubbles-next-target/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If7jdSYh_Mc][YouTube - Link]Check out this award winning short film (it's only 3 minutes long). It's a nice shoutout to the gothic horror films of the 20s and 30s. Simple but effec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/award-winning-short-film-shadows/Could flexible organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, be the future of lighting? Don’t worry; I don’t understand that sentence either. Keep reading for a jargon-free explanation. On General Electric&rsq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/plastic-could-make-house-lights-obsolete/Many of you have heard the phrase “Knowledge is Power,” but what about “Knowledge is Philanthropy?” At freerice.com, your intellect and breadth of vocabulary allow you just that, the opportunity...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/freericecom/When you need a bandage your options are rather limited - the traditional boring old band-aid or some embarrassing cartoon character-endorsed variation. Sometimes you just want something a little different and what can b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/scab-bandages/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q19uhAjtuk0][YouTube - Link]Samsung debuted these touch screen vending machines at CES. The machine features a large screen that shows animations and interactive menus and is also...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/samsung-touchscreen-vending-machine/Caroline Petrie is a nurse who carry out home visits to sick and elderly patients. One day, she offered to pray for the recovery of a sick woman ... and now she may lose her job because of it!Mrs Petrie, 45, is a com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/praying-for-patient-may-cost-nurse-her-job/It's always a good idea to give your kids vitamins, right?Well, according to a new study by pediatrician Dr. Ulfat Shaikh at UC Davis School of Medicine, health doesn't have much to do with why kids take vitamins ... but...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/do-your-kids-need-vitamins/Think that those urban graffiti are all left by poor, underprivipeged taggers or teenagers led astray by gangs? Think again: the Los Angeles County sheriff just arrested tagging crews who are surprisingly rich:Los An...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/think-all-graffiti-taggers-are-poor-and-underprivileged-youths-think-again/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC0twcvcAnY][YouTube - Link]When some people decide to roll a large snowball down a hill in Hampstead Heath park in London, do you: a) Jump out of the path of a giant runaway sn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/riding-britains-biggest-runaway-snowball/No, not "Hip-Hop Explained to Grandma" (though that would be very interesting) but more like the difference between sub-genres of rap, like why the Dirty South sounds nothing like East Coast or West Coast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/hip-hop-explained/French street artist JR has just completed an art project in the slums of Kibera, Kenya, where he covered the rooftops of homes with a material printed with the pictures of eyes of the women who live in them. The art...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/slum-art-in-kibera-kenya/Denny's restaurants across America were jammed yesterday with customers seeking to take advantage of a promotion advertised during this past weekend's Super Bowl game. The promotion promised a free Grand Sl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/dennys-slammed-by-breakfast-promotion/Times are tough, and money is spread pretty thin, so you probably want to sell some of your stuff. If you decide to sell your gold jewelry to Cash4Gold, who has been running a lot of late-night TV and radio ads, read thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/cash4gold-is-it-for-real/Online magazine Babble has a neat look at inside the studio of Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart, who are single-handedly (okay, with four hands) are making pop-up books cool again. Here's the interview with Babble's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/the-making-of-the-worlds-most-amazing-pop-up-books/As kids, we've all played with corn starch and water and found the effects to be fun. Whatch what happens when it's added onto a speaker. Enjoy! Via - LiveLeak speaker, Corn starch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/alien-life-on-a-speaker/With "Nightmare Before Christmas" director Henry Selick's new film Coraline opening this weekend, SlashFilm's Kevin Kelly atkes a retrospective look back at the history of stop-motion animation, a discipline th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/a-condensed-history-of-stop-motion-animation/
