[YouTube Clip]Cancer schmancer, scientists at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego have finally solved the age-old question that has eluded science for centuries: can birds dance?Cats, dogs, and lab monkeys spend...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/03/bird-can-dance/Forget people! The real concern for farmers is not that humans get swine flu from pigs ... it's the other way around!Humans have it. Pigs don't. At least not yet, and U.S. pork producers are doing everything they can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/03/farmers-fearful-swine-flu-will-infect-pigs/Putting a man on the moon, solving Fermat's Last Theorem, or firing a tenured teacher because of incompetence or even criminal behaviors: which is harder?While most teachers are good, decent people with the thankless job...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/03/why-is-it-so-difficult-to-fire-bad-teachers/Cooks in Liberia are wily geniuses when it comes to recycling stuff. No oven? Not a problem - just take an old Blockbuster Video Quik Drop box and make it into one!Details over at AfriGadget:They showed me the oven,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/03/blockbuster-quik-drop-box-oven/(YouTube link) In this ad, 13,500 people sing Hey Jude together in Trafalgar Square in London on April 30th. Participants talk about the experience in a related video. -via Viral Video Chart Previously at Neatoram...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/03/t-mobile-extreme-karioke/Photo: Least Wanted [Flickr]We're always looking out for number one - or criminally speaking, those on the most wanted list. But not Mark "Least Wanted" Michaelson. He has spent years collecting tens of thousan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/03/least-wanted/I would assume that these skunks have been de-stinked and taken in as pets since the person is video taping them from such a close spot, but it seems they've held onto their instincts to break into things to get food...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/02/sneaky-skunks-break-into-a-fridge/What do zombie chickens, Osama bin Laden and Paris Hilton have in common? They're all in the best bad movies that have come out in the past 20 years. Movies that were box office bombs, universally panned or jus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/02/the-20-best-bad-movies-of-the-past-20-years/In celebration of the new Street Fighter movie and video game version, Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California, and I am 8-bit (with support from CAPCOM), are holding a tribute group art exhibition titled "Jab S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/02/street-fighter-tribute-show/So you're driving through a national forest and see a bunch of wild turkeys. You take out your rifle and start firing. Then suddenly up pop some state game officers from behind bushes and they yell "Game and Fish De...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/02/robot-wildlife-snares-poachers/Len Peralta of Monster by Mail who drew the Neatorama Alien and Neatorama Zombie some years ago has a new project: Summer of the Super-Villain. For a mere $25, you can custom order your own original villain or as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/02/summer-of-the-super-villain/Say what you will, but Goodwill can be a treasure trove of weird and wonderful stuff. Jonathan Ryan went to one a few days ago and found this gem: a pop-up book titled "Inside the Personal Computer" published i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/02/a-pop-up-guide-to-the-personal-computer/Sluice (2009) by Kate MccGwireBits of bones and pigeon feathers may be garbage to you and me, but not to artist Kate MccGwire. The London-based artist used thousands of discarded pigeon feathers to create amazing works o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/02/pigeon-feather-art-by-kate-mccgwire/Hard to imagine eating 10 sugar cubes, but when you guzzle down a can of soda, that's what you're putting in your body. See just how much sugar you're destroying yourself with ...LinkFrom the Upcoming ueue, submitted by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/02/how-much-sugar-is-in-that/Blair Blacker of Smart Grow created a new, natural product that prevents weeds, eliminates the need for pesticides, and lets farmer conserve water. It could revolutionize how food is grown, as long as you can overlook th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/02/human-hair-as-plant-mulch/Wolverine has his retractable claws, but real-life technology is catching up with comic book super heroes. Dvice lists eight awesome things you can implant into your body. If someone could have all of these, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/02/hi-tech-bodymods/I love this! The Wilkerson M21 Flat-Panel TV is a modern flat screen TV set with the look of a mid-20th century console. It's just one of 16 unusual TV designs featured at Now That's Nifty. Link -via the Presurfer T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/02/unusual-tv-sets/If you're over 18, can get to the Miami area, and have $25, you can race your car against police officers driving cruisers -legally! Officers from several local departments race at County Line Drag Way once a month in an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/02/drag-racing-the-police/Can people tell the difference? Not necessarily, according to a new study by Robin Goldstein of the American Association of Wine Economists and colleagues:Researchers provided 18 volunteers five food samples to try...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/02/was-it-pate-or-dog-food/Andy Mackie of Washington state had undergone nine heart operations and was taking 15 different drugs when he decided to quit. He gave up the medicine and started using the money he saved to give away harmonicas and musi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/01/pied-piper-cheats-death/[YouTube - Link] Remember this cute little loris who loved getting tickled? Well, it seems it's a she, her name is Sonya, she's from Russia and she loves her worms! I've always been a sucker for a gal with big bro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/01/sonya-loves-her-nom-noms/(YouTube link) Is this weird or what? This optical illusion known as Ames' Window was developed by Adelbert Ames, Jr. {wiki} Just watching it made me dizzy! -via reddit optical illusion...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/01/ames-window/Andre chewed off his front left and rear left paws to escape an illegal trap he encountered in Alaska. He then lived for weeks hiding under a camper shell. The Shepherd-Rottweiler-Lab mix was taken in by Alaskan Dog and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/01/dog-chews-off-feet-walks-again/From Bloomberg News: Half a glass of wine a day may add five years to your life, a new study suggests. Drink beer, and you’ll live only 2 1/2 years longer. Dutch researchers followed 1,373 men for more...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/01/drinking-wine-adds-5-years-to-your-life-wine-25-years/Joe Strummer was a highly political-minded musician with a love of music from all over the world. While many of you may only know a few of The Clash singles like "Rock the Casbah," the group had a lot of diversity and is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/01/music-tidbits-joe-strummer/Everything I've learned, I've learned from Star Trek. If no one has written that book, perhaps someone should. And this should be one of the chapters: io9 blog described 7 types of bad bosses, according to Star Trek (and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/01/7-types-of-bosses-according-to-star-trek/The world is filled with people with strange fetishes, but even considering the Intertubes' jaded standard, this particular fetish is really, really, really weird: behold the Woolies, people who like to esconce...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/01/meet-the-woolies/In this little country ditty, Social Media Blues, Scott Rodgers described his futile attempt of getting the attention of a girl through web 2.0 shenanigans.Twitterphobics: don't watch it, it'll just make you mad! Link [e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/01/social-media-blues-by-scott-rodgers/What do the rich and famous do with all their dough? Some of them, it turns out, collect weird things - here is a neat post about a few weird collections of the rich over at mental_floss:Imelda Marcos*em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/01/weird-collections-of-the-rich-and-famous/There are furniture, and then there are artistic furniture. It's often difficult to combine form and function, and it's almost always impossible to do it in such an artistic form. Yet, Korean designer Chul An Kw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/01/tentacle-y-furniture-by-chul-an-kwak/
