Four statisticians at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University have published an article in the peer-reviewed journal Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress on the subject of zombie epidemiology....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/14/zombie-studies-finally-gets-the-scholarly-respect-it-deserves/(YouTube Link) Urlesque has compiled videos of unique accordion cover songs, including variations on the works of Britney Spears, Duran Duran, and Black Sabbath. Here's a video of YouTube user mattdallow playing "P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/14/the-rolling-stones-on-the-accordion-and-other-covers/Invasive Asian carp are populating the Great Lakes and forcing native species out of their traditional habitats. Scientists are taking steps to contain the invaders without affecting other species. They've developed an u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/14/corralling-carp-with-noisy-bubbles/Leaving is a video game based on a true story. William David, a developer for Ubisoft, decided the best way for him to quit would be through the same medium, but in a rather different style. The combination of st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/14/leaving/A sign of a tightened economy, ramen noodles are more popular than ever. Still, they can get boring after a while. From Rasmussen College, here are 50 ways to dress up ramen noodles in salads, soups, main dishes, breakfa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/14/50-amazing-ramen-noodle-recipes/In this Lunchtime Quiz from mental_floss, you'll be given eight musical artists on the left and eight titles of recorded-live albums on the right. Cam you match them all up? Most of these albums were really big hits. M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/14/the-live-album-quiz/(YouTube Link) Esslam Zahra of Egypt mounted a retractable fifth wheel on the back of his car, set at a right angle to the other four wheels, in order to pivot into tight parking spots. Via The Presurfercars, Ess...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/14/five-wheeled-car/Food Face Kid's Dinner Plate - $11.95 eachIf your kid doesn't find dinner time enjoyable, maybe this will help make meals fun: Food Face Kid's Dinner Plate. The plate has a picture of a face that your kid can decorate wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/14/food-face-kids-dinner-plate/"Man With No Shadow" is a life-sized art installation by Makoto Tojiki. It consists of LED lights at the ends of wires of different lengths suspended from the ceiling. It made its debut this April in Milan at the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/led-man/Scientists interested in the ability of gray squirrels learn from watching other squirrels have come up with an ingenious (albeit a bit iffy from a moral perspective) study: teaching 'em to steal!The study suggests t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/animal-psychology-how-squirrels-learn-to-steal/There's something very familiar about the logo of the Ji'a'po fast food chain in China ...Ji’a'po is a fast food chain founded in 2007 and now there are about a hundred stores in China. What make people impressed t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/colonel-sanders-long-lost-sister-found-in-china/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A042J0IDQK4][YouTube - Link]A little flood isn't going to stop a couple thousand of good fire ants in the Amazon jungle. Take a look at this amazing BBC Wildlife video of how fire...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/amazing-video-of-fire-ants-making-a-living-life-boat/In 1920s, mutilated bodies of murdered children turned up in the streets of New York City. The crimes were so horrific that they were quickly attributed to a boogieman. The truth was more mundane but much more distur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/albert-fish-the-vampire-of-brooklyn/The Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego is trying a new tactic for drawing guests in a struggling economy: the "Survivor Package." For $19 a night, guests get a tent to sleep in (no mattress, linens, lights, or ai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/luxury-resort-offers-19-room-the-catch-theres-no-bed/An Israeli woman paid $32,000 for the entire Business Class of an El Al flight to allow her dog (and an accompanying vet) to fly with her. She told reporters any price was worth it to keep her pet free from the stress of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/woman-booked-planes-entire-business-class-to-fly-dog/Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore has come up with a clever new marketing campaign in a search for new recruits for the Singapore Navy. They sent over 6,000 letters containing a fold out uniform to help the students better...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/navy-sends-officer-uniform-in-letter/Only the geekiest of papercraft projects made the cut for this excellent list from oobject. Take a look at what happened when geeks get their hands on construction paper:Whether a novice or a paper-folding master, pa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/geeky-papercraft/Hello from Earth! is a program by COSMOS, an Australian science magazine. Using the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, it will transmit Internet user-submitted messages to Gliese 581d, a potentially Earth-like p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/hello-from-earth-send-a-message-to-a-nearby-planet/Oh, I want one of these! Sit down in a shark's open mouth to enjoy the latest marine nature documentary on TV. $19.95, beans not included. http://www.dealsdirect.com.au/p/shark-bean-bag-cover/ -via Unique Daily furnit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/shark-beanbag-chair/A recent study published in the journal Current Biology suggests that facial expressions may be culturally-bound, rather than universal: University of Glasgow researchers enlisted 13 Western Caucasians an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/facial-expressions-vary-from-east-to-west/(YouTube Link) At the age of six, Miko Andres from the Philippines is thought to be the world's youngest competitive practical shooter. Practical shooting is a sport in which participants shoot rapidly at multiple...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/the-worlds-youngest-practical-shooter/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Amazing one-man Looping Song by an Indie Musician The description of this video says he made it all in one take- and it reall...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/videosift-clips-of-the-week-35/The Found Photos project consists of a collection of private photos which file-sharing users have unknowingly made public when installing P2P software. The result is a pastiche of modern life upon which you can't fee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/how-secure-are-your-private-photos/Before the age of photography, there was a strange custom of making a plaster cast of the face of the recently departed. These "death masks" were mementos of the dead, though they also had other purpo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/death-masks-of-the-famous/Four-year old Zachary Clouter dug up quite an unusual potato in his parents' garden: a spud shaped exactly like a rubber duckie!When four-year-old Zachary Clouter was asked to help out on his parents allotment, he di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/kid-finds-rubber-duck-shaped-potato/We all grew up with the beloved Disney versions of fairy tales and stories, which have wonderful "all's well that ends well" happy endings. What you may not know is that Disney left out a few horrifying d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/10-horrifying-original-endings-of-fairy-tales/In a case of life emulating Photoshop, Korean designer Jinsu Park created this concept "Color Picker Pen" that can sense and then draw in the appropriate color:the color picker pen enables colors in the env...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/color-picker-pen-by-jinsu-park/Humans may not be able to walk on water, but an invention by Li Weiguo let us bike on water! Behold the amphibious bicycle, made by water containers jerry-rigged into pontoons:Li Weiguo's daughter Li Jin rides the hu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/diy-floating-water-bike/Who would have thought that shipping containers could be used in making beautiful homes? In this post at Green Diary, blogger Aditi Justa explored 10 of the most interesting homes (and structures) built with recycled shi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/13/recycled-shipping-containers-transformed-into-trendy-homes/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg][YouTube - Link]In December of 1995, astronomers did a risky experiment with the Hubble Space Telescope. They pointed it to a region in space the size of a speck of dus...
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