Sarah Zielinski writes in The Smithsonian that Jupiter, as the largest planet in our solar system, occasionally pulls comets into its orbit. Sometimes, as with comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994 (pictured), Jupiter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/16/jupiters-temporary-moons/The blog Funster Mental Floss has pictures of ten amazing playgrounds from around the world. Pictured above is the St. Kilda Adventure Playground in Port Philip, Australia. It covers four hectares of land...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/16/10-bizarre-and-unique-playgrounds-from-around-the-world/Not Coming To A Theater Near You is a film review website that assumes a bias towards older, often unpopular, and sometimes unknown films that merit a second look. A new offshoot of that site is Stills, where one scre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/16/stills/Photo: Jorge Orta, Studio Orta Jorge Orta is a Paris-based Argentine artist noted for his work with PAE light cannons, which he uses to project images onto mountains or large buildings. The image above was projected...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/16/the-light-artwork-of-jorge-orta/(L) Rogue by Mari Kasurinen (R) Galactus and the tiny Silver Surfer by Jodi K. MoisanWe've featured the customized My Little Ponies before on Neatorama, but Laura Hudson of Comics Alliance has a compilation post that is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/16/my-little-pony-the-superhero-mods/Holy Moley, it’s a wireless Rube Goldberg contraption. Nearness, a video by Jack Schulze and Timo Arnall uses RFID chips to activate each step. The film Nearness explores interacting without touching. With RFID it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/16/nearness/The native Maori of New Zealand tell of a giant man-eating bird called Te Hokioi. Now scientists have identified a real bird that fits the description. Haast’s Eagle has been extinct for only 500 years, and ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/16/legendary-man-eating-bird/(YouTube link) YouTube member whoiseyevan, the creator of Ghost Busters 1954 puts together a trailer for the 1951 version of Raiders of the Lost Ark, featuring Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, and Pe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/16/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1951-trailer/It takes a true friend to wear a dress to a funeral -if you’re a man. Barry Delaney of Dundee, Scotland wore a lime green minidress to the funeral of a soldier killed in Afghanistan to fulfill a pact the two had made....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/16/keeping-a-promise/Photo: Ack Ook [Flickr] Yo ho ho and 66 animatronic pirates! The Pirates of the Caribbean ride is one of my favorite Disneyland rides. And apparently, I'm not alone in thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/16/neatorama-facts-pirates-of-the-caribbean/As the new Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol is released, National Geographic takes a look at the Freemasons, their symbols, and the myths surrounding them. Freemasonry is rich in symbols, and many are ubiquit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/8-myths-about-the-freemasons/Sean Konrad caught a 48-pound rainbow trout. That’s a world record. But should it be? The trout he caught was a genetically-modified fish that escaped from a fish farm. It has three sets of chromosomes, which makes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/48-pound-trout-world-record-or-genetic-cheat/A well-insulated 20,000 square foot home complete with an airstrip and a Jacuzzi sounds really nice. This one is underground in an abandoned missile silo! It was once the home of an Atlas-F missile built for the Cold...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/military-installations-converted-into-homes/Ever wondered just how much surface area you would need to supply the entire world with all of its power needs using only energy collected from solar panels? Luckily for us the Land Art Generator Initiative have done...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/how-many-solar-panels-does-it-take-to-power-the-world/Neatorama's Mystery Sale - $9.95Hooray! Here comes Neatorama's much anticipated Mystery Sale. What mysterious item will you get for $9.95? Well, we wont' tell you: that's the whole point of the Mystery S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/neatorama-mystery-sale-september-2009/(vimeo link) Could you stare at a marshmallow and not eat it if it meant getting TWO marshmallows just for waiting? It’s hard when you’re a little kid! This cute video is a recreation of a well-known experiment...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/oh-the-temptation/Butter ... is there anything it can't do? Add this to the long list of the awesome things butter can do: in China, they use it to prevent suicides!Government officials in south-east China have ordered workers to cove...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/chinese-government-covered-a-bridge-in-butter-to-fight-suicides/Wok Kundor is the Elizabeth Taylor of Malaysia. The 107-year-old woman is looking to marry again ... for the 23rd time! Wok Kundor has been happily married for four years to her husband, a man 70 years her junior.*/e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/attention-bachelors-107-year-old-woman-is-looking-for-23rd-husband/Photo: Quinton RobinsonNational Geographic reader Quinton Robinson took this amazing photo of a Madagascar giant leaf tailed gecko that looked at the world with trippy colored eyes!Yet another amazing photo from the Your...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/gecko-with-psychedelic-eyes/Should you love your children unconditionally or should you dole out love only when they behave? Do your children become better adults if you are selective about your approvals - like many of the new parenting advice boo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/is-conditional-parenting-bad-for-children/Our pal Asylum blog has a fantastic article about how some of the world's most bizarre riots got started. Like this one in New Delhi, India in 2007, that was caused by ... monkeys! In New Delhi, where monkeys are a t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/the-monkey-riot-and-other-weird-riots-in-history/From your experience of watching Sesame Street and the Muppet movies, it’s difficult to picture how surreal and edgy The Muppet Show was. Unless you remember watching it! Imagine it from a TV exe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/the-muppet-shows-10-weirdest-moments/Jill Heinerth has spent the past 14 years exploring underwater caves all over the world. Wired has a gallery of beautiful photographs she’s taken in underwater caves, lava tubes, and glaciers. This picture was take...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/cave-diving/A 16-inch snake was killed at a home in China and then found to have a foot growing out of its body! 66-year-old Dean Qiongxiu said she awoke to find the reptile clinging to a wall in her bedroom. She killed the snake wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/snake-found-with-a-foot/What did you do when you "became a man"? - No, I don't mean losing your virginity, though in many cultures, coming of age is intricately linked to sexual maturity. Did you celebrate by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/6-strangest-coming-of-age-rituals-in-the-world/Horseshoe crabs are cool for many reasons (trust me). So here's a campaign to tell people what to do if you find one on its back. Just Flip 'Em! There's even a theme song.Our Just flip 'em! program is designed to bri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/save-the-horseshoe-crabs-just-flip-em/Ah, it's been a sad few days. Two days ago, Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug - who some say is the most important man of the twentieth century (his discoveries led to much improved crop yields, thus saving a lot of the worl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/patrick-swazye-rip/Vincent Miu took Runner-Up in the 2009 Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest, Earth & Space category, with this entry. I imagine it's a long exposure shot grafted onto a single shot, but I'm not sure. A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/venus-jupiter-and-the-moon/Photo: Mark Gallagher Resembling something out of Independence Day, or the arrival of Cthulu, Mammatus Clouds are a meteorological phenomenon caused by sagging cellular accumulations produced in clouds of ice and wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/mammatus-clouds-2/Printing the entire internet is a ridiculous idea, but in the event that you actually wanted a printout of the entire internet today, then you would have to have started printing back in 1800BC. And if you wan...
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