A fireman in Bangkok, Thailand used an interesting approach to reaching out to an autistic boy. Fearful of his first day at school, the boy climbed out on a third-story ledge and refused to come inside.Despite teache...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/25/spider-man-rescues-autistic-thai-boy/If you have some music that you want to see instead of hear, and if you have some bbq gas and plumbing supplies too. Well why not build a Rubens' Tube? If you're lucky you'll be treated to an amazing representation of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/25/making-the-rubens-tube/Kelp forests occur in cold, nutrient-rich water and are among the most beautiful and biologically productive habitats in the marine environment. The coast of California, in particular, is home to one of the most...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/25/kelpmania-stunning-and-spectacular-kelp-photography/[YouTube - Link] In Nuanquan, China there is a unique tradition dating back about 500 years to celebrate the Lantern Festival. Instead of using fireworks like any old place - or that the fact that fireworks were in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/24/the-beauty-of-molten-iron/When the going gets tough, the tough gets ... snipped? It may be economic doom and gloom for you and me, but not for doctors performing vasectomies: they see a little boom in business! They looked at their statistics...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/24/tough-times-are-good-for-vasectomies/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofrSio_jZO0][YouTube - Link]Remember Maru, the cat who lives in Japan and loves to dive headfirst into cardboard boxes, has become a YouTube international sensation and who has his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/24/maru-returns/Remember the kerfuffle when Re/Max tried to block the trademark registration of rival real estate company Rehava? Well, they're not the only company that knows how to play hardball. Consider Apple (yes, that App...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/24/apple-all-your-pods-belong-to-us/Image: Atlantic ProductionsIf you think that Tyrannosaurus rex was the fiercest dinosaur ever, think again: a team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo and other universities found a 50-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/24/predator-x-the-fiercest-dinosaur-yet/Is this the beginning of the end of the dominance of the US dollar as the world's preferred currency? The global economic crisis and the erosion in the value of the dollar has led China of all countries to call for a new...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/24/china-calls-for-a-new-global-currency/Image: Ray Alma (who went as MODOK himself on Halloween!)I'm fascinated with blogs that focus so narrowly on a single topic as to become a universe of their own. Take, for instance, this one called MARCH MODOK MADNESS -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/24/march-modok-madness/English artist Ian Davie has a unique canvas for his artwork: discarded swan quills. His feather drawings are absolutely fantastic:Using feathers collected during the regal birds' annual moult from a swannery near to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/24/ian-davies-feather-art/Why are teenagers so lousy at chores? Is it laziness ... or biology? Monica Luciana of University of Minnesota and colleagues have the scientific answer:Blame it on "cognitive limitations." [Teenagers'] bra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/24/the-scientific-basis-of-teenage-laziness/or North Carolina, either--odds and ends-- observations at random on Taiwanese daily life Once again, Neatorama welcomes guest blogger Joel Haas, North Carolina sculptor and author, as he posts hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/24/not-in-kansas-anymore/The remains of a 14th century teenager, believed to have been beheaded on charges of witchcraft and buried in unconsecrated ground, has been laid to rest in a proper funeral...700 years after her death. The girl,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/24/beheaded-teen-witch-gets-proper-funeral700-years-later/Photographer Matt Hoyle was lucky enough to get some of the most interesting sideshow performers and characters still working in the industry to his NY Studio. Matt gave them a slightly vintage look of the 1940's era w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/24/barnumville-striking-photos-of-sideshow-performers/You probably already heard you can turn gummi bears into alcoholic delights by soaking them in vodka for a few days. If you want more details than that, or you've already tried this experiment and it didn't work so well,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/24/how-to-make-vodka-gummi-bears/It's bad enough when someone gets a celebrity tattoo, but it's even worse when no one can figure out who it's supposed to be! Take your best guess at a dozen mysterious tattoos at City Rag. Link -via Gorilla Mask Ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/23/mysterious-celebrity-tattoos/We love chili peppers, the hotter, the better! The ingredient that gives spicy peppers their heat is capsaicin, but what is the purpose of capsaicin in nature? To find the answer, ecologist Joshua Tewksbury traveled to B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/23/whats-so-hot-about-chili-peppers/Don't you hate when you answer the phone and get sucked into the receiver? Me too. That's what happens in White Zone, where you're magically transported to a room with just four pieces of furniture: a T.V., a dresser a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/23/white-zone-flash-game/Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), is so dedicated to her cause that she is determined to continue her campaign for animal rights even after she's dead.In fact, she even pla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/23/peta-co-founder-ingrid-newkirks-unique-will/I couldn't get my cat to not throw up her hairball on our bed, so imagine my awe at Samantha Martin, who trained her "Amazing Animals," a group of 13 cats, to walk a tightrope, ride a skateboard, and play in a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/23/samantha-martins-rock-cats/CNN commentator Jack Cafferty is mad. Steaming mad. At your bratty kids for disturbing his meal. In his new book, Now or Never: Getting Down to the Business of Saving Our American Dream, Cafferty writes that though educa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/23/jack-cafferty-to-parents-your-kids-arent-special/This is the chance for all of you who are sick of the whole bacon craze - I know you're out there - to make sure it's defeated once and for all. So Good blog has constructed a Meat Bracket pitting the four...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/23/not-into-march-madness-how-about-meat-madness/Before you get upset, know that the little guy isn't drinking wine, just apple cranberry juice. You have to admit the glass seems to be just the right size for his nose. Link Via Cute Overloadanteaters, wine glasses,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/23/anteater-drinking-from-a-wine-glass/When they were not too busy conquering distant lands, the Romans liked to dig. German hydromechanics professor Mathias Döring discovered that Roman engineers spent a century digging a 66-miles long underground aqued...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/23/longest-underground-aqueduct-in-the-world-discovered/Revenge is a dish best served cold. And in this case, with a coconut. Here's the story of a monkey named Brother Kwan, who was overworked by his master climbing trees and fetching coconuts to sell: The newspaper s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/23/monkey-kills-abusive-owner/The B-52s are from Athens, Georgia and was formed in 1976. The group was named after a beehive hairstyle resembling a jet nose. The girls in the group would frequently wear beehive wigs during the early period of thei...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/23/music-tidbits-the-b-52s/After many years in grad school, Pauline Fujita of Litmus has had at least as much coffee as science, yet like most of us, she knew very little of the brewed beverage. So, Pauline decided to delve a little into the scien...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/23/the-biology-chemistry-and-physics-of-coffee/Old Milwaukee "Swedish Bikini Team" In the early 90s, Old Milwaukee decided to compete with the imports by inventing the Old Milwaukee Swedish Bikini Team. The ad features a bunch of guys out fishing and being manly me...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/23/six-controversial-moments-in-beer-advertising/From the folks that brought you Forrest Gump in One Minute, here is Kill Bill Parts I and II in One Minute. The awesomeness is indescribable. Here's the clip, devised, directed, and edited by Joe Burgess, Rocco Sulkin an...
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