Earlier this year Devorah Sperber’s Star Trek art was featured in a show at Caren Golden Fine Art in New York. The show, entitled “Mirror, Mirror”, takes its name from a classic episode but als...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/bead-me-up-scotty/We all have our days, the ones where the slightest thing can light our fuse and set us off. Maybe it was a horrible day at the office, trench warfare with a significant other, the swerving idiot at the intersection, eco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/when-you-just-want-to-break-things/In 2004, Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" caused a storm of a controversy, but this year viewers in the Tuscon area saw a whole lot more than that. Viewers were astonished to see a woman u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/super-bowl-viewers-saw-porn-instead/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tz7MEPDUIE][YouTube - Link] No motor? No problem! In India, this ferris wheel is powered by men climbing up and using their body weight to rotate the wheel. I guess you'd wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/human-powered-ferris-wheel/For generations Americans have grown up with the image of an old and frumpy Martha Washington. Like many other icons, historians are giving her a fresh new update. "We always see Martha with a withered face...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/the-new-martha-washington-sex-appeal/Everyone loves a good secret passageway. The idea alone sparks curiosity and makes the brain buzz with thoughts of mystery and adventure. Normally these hidden doors are relegated to ancient sites and historic buildin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/the-hidden-door-company/This sailfish is keeping an eye on group of sardines that he and some 100 other sailfish have driven together to form a ball the size of an elephant. Sailfish hunt in packs and work together to drive bait fish up fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/sailfish-roll-a-huge-sardine-katamari/I'm not very happy with that little rodent's prediction this morning, but the Pennsylvania Tourism Office did make me laugh with this little video clip from a couple of years ago - it's what happens when the pressure of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/heeeeeres-punxsutawney-phil/Five-year-old Beatrice Rienhoff suffers from a rare genetic disorder that leaves her with very little muscle mass and a range of medical problems. Doctors don't know exactly what's wrong, nor how to help her. Famil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/do-it-yourself-dna-analysis/A duvet cover goes over an ordinary blanket to turn it into a comforter. Forum member cherry_blossom55 made this awesome duvet cover for her boyfriend, who is a chemistry major. It has the entire periodic table of elem...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/periodic-table-duvet-cover/Ok here's something I've never seen before that dates back to pre-World War II. This contraption consists of a tractor and some form of corkscrew drive system. After a bit of research, it appears that this invention...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/skrew-doo/You know about the Miss America and Miss Universe beauty pageants. You are probably also aware of child beauty pageants, bodybuilding contests, transexual pageants, and pageants for married women. Then there are the ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/odd-and-extraordinary-beauty-pageants/There's an odd fad going on in Japan: that a person's blood type determines his personality. But it's not all fun and game. The craze has gone so far that there's a new form of discrimination called "bura-hara,&...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/in-japan-blood-type-rules-all/Did your parents tell you not to play with your food? If so, you probably never created a photo op like this one!http://mymomisafob.com/2008/10/23/dad-said-this-should-be-called-naked-chicks-or-naked-chicks-in/From...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/four-chicks-in-a-hot-tub/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWfcATXnBLs][YouTube - Link]Chinlone is a 1,500-year-old activity that combines elements of sport and dance. Teams compete and are judged on how gracefully they perform their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/chinlone/The Pyrenean ibex, a form of mountain goat, was deemed extinct in 2000. Using tissue recovered from its body, however, scientists were able to successfully clone this creature. Although the cloned ibex died shortly after...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/scientists-clone-extinct-animal/In the Italian city of Siena, there is a famous horse race that harks back to medieval time. In the Palio di Siena, ten horses and riders, dressed in colors representing the 17 city wards, race (bareback, no less!) aroun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/palio-di-siena-the-siena-horse-race/In the hands (and mouth) of Buddy Greene, the lowly harmonica is transformed into a fearsome musical instrument. How good is he? Let's say that they don't let anyone just play at the Carnegie Hall. With a harmonica, no l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/buddy-greene-plays-the-harmonica-at-carnegie-hall/Photo: Elizabeth Thomsen [Flickr]That's "I See What You Mean," a 40-foot tall blue bear peering into the window of the Colorado Convention Center. The steel and fiberglass sculpture is created by Lawrence Argen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/giant-blue-bear-sculpture-peek-a-boo/My hat is off to the folks at Bandai - the Japanese toymaker has created a speaker with a diorama of Tokyo's Ginza district, back in the days (like 1955, dudes). Behold, the Bandai Diorama Speaker:The 2×1W spea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/bandai-diorama-speaker/Finally. After years of being an internet meme, the Lolcats have their own theme song. And like a bad car wreck on the freeway, there's just NO WAY you can not look at it. I dare you: Link (with apologies to The Cure)mem...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/lolcat-the-theme-song/According to a new poll by Pew Research Center, more than half of Americans want to live somewhere else than they're currently living:Living in Las Vegas appeals more to men than women. Affluent adults are twice as l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/where-would-you-rather-live/Plenty of Hollywood marriages are so short that they're over before the ink on the marriage certificates dry (Britney Spears and Jason Alexander's 55 hours marriage, anyone?). But it doesn't mean that all celebr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/hollywood-marriages-that-last/The Cairns Post reported this incredible story of a cow that is believed to have survived a lightning strike:In a moo-ving experience, this cow is believed to have been struck by lightning and somehow survived.*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/holy-cow-lucky-bovine-survived-lightning-strike/This looks almost too good to eat! This football stadium was made from common snack foods. Holy Taco has an ingredient list and illustrated instructions. Link -via J-Walk Blogfootball, stadium, snacks, snack stadium...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/01/snack-food-stadium-2/Tommy Tutone made the phone number 867-5309 {wiki} one that everyone remembers -if they were around in 1982 when the song was a hit. Now that phone number is up for sale, available to someone who lives in the same New...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/01/867-5309/After graduating high school, three Japanese buddies decided to follow their dream of a year-long cross-country road trip, from the northeastern island of Hokkaido to the southwestern one of Yakushima. But before t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/01/custom-road-trip-truck/Why settle for chips and dip when you can watch the game noshing on Beer Ice Cream with Pretzel Crust and Dipping Sauces, or Puffed Sauerkraut, or Pizza Pebbles? Wired Science asked leading molecular gastronomists...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/01/scientific-super-bowl-snacks/Sometimes a little critter just can't catch a break. This poor little man keeps trying to eat a cherry tomato, which keeps sliding just out of reach. Thank goodness for the kind Samaritan that finally holds the food in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/01/little-tortoise-tries-to-eat-a-cherry-tomato/Strange de Jim has been archiving zingers delivered by late night TV show hosts for a decade. It's probably the most complete archive of such one-liners - from 1999 through this past Friday. Here's an example from thi...
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