Just about the only thing that can make a cute baby animal cuter is to be born with markings that say "love". See five creatures who have their heart showing, including this ox with a forehead heart. Link (image cr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/07/five-animals-with-extra-heart/You know about these famous landmarks, but do you know where to go to see them? In this Lunchtime Quiz from mental_floss, you'll be given a landmark and you decide where it is. It's a bit harder than you might think. I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/07/wheres-that-landmark/It seems like all the new houses in my area are covered in stucco. I got to wondering, what else are houses made of, besides wood and brick? Well, now that's nifty has 10 unique examples.I saw a show on TV the other...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/07/10-houses-made-of-strange-materials/Translation Party is where you can type in an English phrase and have it translated into Japanese and back again, several times until it gets as funny as it can be. I tried "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/06/translation-party/When the War-Khasis tribe needs a new bridge to cross one of the many criss-crossing rivers of the cherrapunji region, they don't build one. They grow it.The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/06/living-root-bridges-of-india/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Great Video Explaining How A Vehicle's Differential Works It's an old documentary- and it explains how it works so well with models a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/06/videosift-clips-of-the-week-34/Submitted by Willem KossenHooray! It's time for our collaboration with the always excellent (and perplexing) What is it? Blog. Can you guess what the strange object above is for?First correct guess will...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/06/what-is-it-game-107/Today (August 6th) is the 64th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, by the United States. The blast killed an estimated 70,000 people immediately, with possibly that many again dying of radiation in t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/06/hiroshima-64-years-ago/The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is apparently concerned with more than raising crops, has announced that the estimated cost of raising a child born in 2008 from birth to age 18 is $221,190. If you adjust for ex...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/05/cost-of-parenthood-221190/The International Olympic Committee will decide by October which city will host the 2016 Summer Games. The finalists are Chicago, Madrid, Rio, and Tokyo. The design blog idsgn has the proposed logos for each finalist a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/05/2016-olympics-logos/Hershel McGriff, an old NASCAR champion from yesteryear, started racing at the age of 17 in his family's sedan and last competed in 2002. But he just returned and competed at Portland International Raceway, finishin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/05/81-year-old-nascar-driver/At the recent DefCon hackers' convention in Las Vegas, a fake ATM deceived many hackers in attendance: An organizer for the conference said security authorities seized the device. It’s not known how long the ATM...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/05/hackers-hacked-by-fake-atm/Craftster user UpKnitCreek created this Legend of Zelda-inspired Link outfit for a friend's baby shower. For authenticity, she (he?) even put leather soles on the booties and wrapped the whole thing in a wo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/05/legend-of-zelda-baby-outfit/I may not be totally perfect but parts of me are excellent - $9.95, modeled by the lovely Stefanie....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/05/i-may-not-be-totally-perfect-but-parts-of-me-are-excellent-and-other-ashleigh-brilliant-shirts/Mystery Sale - July 2009 UpdatePhew! After about two weeks of hard work, we've finally shipped out all Mystery Sale orders. If you haven't received yours yet, especially if you live outside of the United...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/05/neatorama-update-mystery-sale-and-upcoming-queue-contest/Ever wonder why so many tech gadgets, OS windows and images all have rounded corners? It may be more than just visual appeal. The rounded corners may make things easier on the eye!Nänni confirmed my theo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/05/why-technology-loves-rounded-rectangles-theyre-easier-on-the-eye/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Frk2H-g3CQ][YouTube - Link] This short video clip shows why it's a bad idea to get your car washed with a Liebherr R9800 Excavator. If you're curious, the shovel has a capac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/05/liebherr-r9800-excavator-car-wash/Whaling was a profitable industry throughout the second half of the 19th century. One sperm whale could net a ship up to three tons of spermaceti, or whale oil, which was used for lamp oil and in many other products. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/05/sailors-with-a-sweet-tooth/Scientists from the the Tokyo University of Science used mouse stem cells to grow a new tooth that worked like a charm in a mouse's mouth. The cells were grown in a lab dish until a tiny tooth "bud" formed. It was then t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/05/tooth-grown-from-stem-cells/Think you can blow a pretty good-sized soap bubble? Chances are, it's nothing like the creations of 'Bubbleologist' Samsam Bubbleman:Samsam (real name Sam Heath) was aiming to pop the Guinness World Record set in 200...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/04/lets-hope-he-doesnt-blow-it-bubbleologist-creates-worlds-largest-free-floating-bubble/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgXveBf_l6k][YouTube - Link]A time-lapse video of the Manhattan Bridge in New York City shows the how the bridge bounces as traffic flows over it. WPIX News asked the NY Depart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/04/manhattan-bridge-gettin-jiggy-with-it/How will the world end in the immediate future? Slate has a both serious and fun look at this question, allowing users to suggest up to five of one hundred forty-four possible problems that could bring about th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/04/choose-your-apocalypse/One of the good things about living in the midwest is that while I may not live in a big city, a bunch of them are within decent driving distance - Minneapolis, Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha. Milwaukee and St. Lou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/04/tweeting-from-lollapalooza/When Aidra Frazier and Ernest Leitch of Buhl, Idaho got married on July 4th, they wanted a theme for the wedding. Independence Day wouldn't do, so they went with the video game Katamari Damacy. Link Link to more pic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/04/katamari-damacy-wedding/This interactive graphic from the New York Times shows what activities Americans over age 15 are engaged in at different times of the day. It may look confusing at first, but if you go to the link, just run your mouse...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/04/how-americans-spend-their-time/Morten Traavik, the artist who founded the Miss Landmine pageant in Angola (featured previously at Neatorama) also organized a similar beauty pageant in Cambodia. After expressing support for the contest, the Cambodian g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/04/miss-landmine-pageant-banned-in-cambodia/Christopher M. Danforth and Peter Sheridan Dodds, statisticians at the University of Vermont, analyzed song lyrics, blog posts, and speeches for certain emotional keywords in order to discern the collective moods of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/04/analyzing-nation-moods-through-song-lyrics-and-speeches/Being born a Jill, I always have had an involuntary relationship with the name “Jack.” For a few months in high school, I even dated a Jack. I was thrilled when we broke up because I no longer had to hear the nursery...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/03/you-dont-know-jack/(YouTube Link) Forty-one people gathered at a Bensons for Beds furniture warehouse in Tewkesbury, UK to break the mattress dominoes record. That means leaning on an upright mattress and then falling over backwards,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/03/going-for-the-mattress-dominoes-record/The Toy Zone has pictures and descriptions of fifteen weapons or defensive systems that historians have found sketched in the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. These include a tank, cluster munitions, and mobile walls...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/03/15-war-machines-by-leonardo-da-vinci/
