The Maleo bird of Sulawesi has a unique way of looking after its young - if looking after is how it could be described. It buries its eggs and abandons them, having nothing more to do with their rearing.&n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/17/we-hatch-we-fly-the-bizarre-maleo/Boxers or briefs? That is the age old question most guys ponder. For one Fort Worth soldier currently based in Afghanistan, his preference was revealed in a widely circulated photo that has made him famous. 19-year...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/17/army-soldiers-boxers-make-him-famous/John Steven Szwalla was arrested for attempted armed robbery of a computer cafe in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He approached the store owner, Bobby Ray Mabe while pointing something that was under his shirt. Mabe and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/17/man-robs-store-with-banana-eats-evidence/These glasses make it easy to identify whose drink belongs to who at a party. Then when a person gets to the point where they can't spell their own name, you know they've had too many! Link -via Unique Daily Drink, gl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/17/chalkboard-glassware/Have you ever wondered who the Alfredo in Fettuccine Alfredo was? Or The Salisbury in Salisbury steak? Listverse has the stories of those whose names are left behind in the foods we eat. Crêpes Suzette (thin panca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/17/10-people-who-gave-their-name-to-food/Crooked Brains blog has a very spiffy collection of antique and unusual padlocks, from back in the days where any household item was an opportunity for showing off craftmanship.Link - via somethinbeautifulFrom the Up...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/16/the-elephant-padlock/Why are snails so slow? Roberto Nespolo and Paulina Artacho of the Southern University of Chile may have the answer: turns out, evolution favors slower snails because they are more energy efficient.Testing the biolog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/16/why-snails-are-slow-survival/Marine engineer Graham Hawkes' latest creation, Deep Flight Super Falcon is a $1.5 million battery-powered winged submarine is just like a plane, except it "flies" underwater: A single rear-mounted prope...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/16/is-it-a-bird-a-plane-no-its-the-deep-flight-super-falcon/This year is the International Year of Astronomy, so to help all of us armchair astronomers celebrate, New Scientist has a nifty gallery of the most important telescopes in history (from Eyes on the Skies: 400 Years of T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/16/the-most-important-telescopes-in-history/Mark Jenkins (featured before on Neatorama for his tape sculptures) made this whimsical "stop sign flower" in Washington DC. Sometimes the best ideas are the simplest, though this probaby breaks quite...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/16/stop-sign-flower-by-mark-jenkins/No one can deny that this Adelaide, South Australia, orangutan is smart. She managed to deliberately short circuit an electric fence with a stick, and was building a mound out of grass and sticks in the ditch in order...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/16/orangutan-attempts-escape/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIWf_hc1_TM][YouTube - Link]These piglets are just trying to get a little shuteye, but some humans have found a way to make them twitch their ears in unison.From the Upcoming ueue,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/16/let-sleeping-pigs-lie/While everyone was talking about the swine flu, researchers at the University of North Carolina have found the reason why its far-scarier cousins, the avian flu strains, didn't become a full-blown pandemic. Turns out, we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/15/nosetoo-cold-for-avian-flu/Astrophotographer Thierry Legault took what is probably one of the most incredible photographs of the Sun. What's the big deal about the big yellow ball? Look closely:OK, so you look at it and say, "So what? It’s a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/15/amazing-picture-of-the-sun/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d2-PtK4F6Y][YouTube - Link]Pixel City is a procedurally-generated city by Shamus Young. For the non-coders out there, this essentially means that based on a certain set of rules,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/15/pixel-city/A new article released today in the journal of African Inverterates by Alex Wild and Irina Brake details the unusual behavior of a group of kleptoparasitic flies in South Africa. They lay in wait for ants, and mug them,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/15/ant-mugging-flies/Toilets are no more an eyesore. Experience the difference of total comfort and luxury with these high-tech toilets. This post covers 10 most advanced toilets available.The technology that’s packed into toilet seats...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/15/top-10-toilets-screaming-high-tech-in-luxury/A group of ladies in England have knitted their entire village - to scale. Dozens of pictures at the link....every inch of this village - Mersham, in Kent - has been lovingly knitted by a small group of very tw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/15/it-takes-ladies-to-knit-a-village/If the residents of Madrid and Barcelona, Spain, seem a little bit high, that's probably not because they're high on life. Instead, it may just be because of the cocaine and LSD found in the air. Yes, you read that right...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/14/cocaine-and-lsd-in-the-air-of-spanish-cities/Psst! Got a guinea pig? Chances are, fluffy (guinny or piggy or whatever it is you call a guinea pig) is cold and needs a custom-made guinea pig coat.But where would you get one? eBay to the rescue! A seller named sydney...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/14/guinea-pig-coats/Stupid criminals who love to brag about their crimes aren't new, but add social networking to the mix and police have a new tool to bust them. It's a new kind of justice ... Facebook justice!Asylum has a nifty post about...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/14/facebook-justice-fighting-crime-with-facebook/Photo: Munish Bansal, South West NewsMunish Bansal is a proud father of two, with a bit of a photography obsession: he has photographed his children every day for 13 years (so far)!Accountant Munish, 36, from Gilling...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/14/dad-photographed-kids-everyday-for-13-years/Want to "jumpstart your career in the blogosphere" with an internship at one of the world's largest blogs? Arianna Huffington's blog Huffington Post, currently ranked #1 by Technorati, has an opening. But there...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/14/got-15000-you-too-can-intern-at-huffpo/When "Uneekdolldesigns" creator Debbie Ritter saw Susan Boyle on YouTube she just had to make a doll version of her! The result is a 5 inch clothespin doll that really does well represent Susan!I cheered fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/14/tiny-susan-boyle-doll/Since Osamu Shimomura discovered Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) in jellyfish back in the 1960s (his work earned him the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry along with Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien), the science of biology ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/14/glowin-for-science/When you were 12 or 13, you liked to draw monsters, didn't you? Michelangelo did, too! The Kimbell Museum, located in Fort Worth, has acquired a rather unique piece of painting history. The painting, The Tormen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/14/texas-museum-lands-michelangelos-earliest-work/A curveball will slowly shift by a couple of feet at most, but to the batter it seems to suddenly jump several feet. Watch this animation of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year winner to experience how this occurs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/14/optical-illusion-why-a-curveball-confuses-batters/Martin Humphreys of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England has a one-eyed cat named Midge he adopted from a rescue center 12 years ago. For five years now, Midge has accompanied Humphreys on his daily run and hates to finish...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/14/man-vs-cat-in-the-great-race/Look what's eating this kid! Craftster member 3RaysOfSunshine knitted this awesome hat for his/her son, who wanted a "mean shark". Link -via Everlasting Blortknitting, shark, hat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/14/shark-attack-hat/I live in a small town in Kentucky, and the only time you see more than a few young people in Goth clothing is during our annual festival, in the heat of August. Now I've found a niche blog that addresses a question I've...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/14/goths-in-hot-weather/
