The following is a Neatorama Shop Story, a narrative starring the products carried in this blog’s very own online store. I Once Had a Chum from Nantucket*/str...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/neatorama-shop-story-i-once-had-a-chum-from-nantucket/Sandeep Ravindran writes in Popular Science that a Swiss violin maker treated a new violin with a unique fungus. The result was that the new violin beat a Stradivarius in a listening test: A jury of expe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/simulating-a-stradivarius-with-fungus/Michael Tennesen writes in Scientific American that biologists suspect that robins, baby chicks, rhesus monkeys, and parrots may have the ability to count. Although they may not have fixed numerals, they have h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/animals-that-can-count/The Bloodbot is a robot that drains you of your blood, thus replacing nursing assistants who previously did that task. It's a project by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College, UK. It's been aroun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/a-robot-that-draws-blood/I'm a big fan of papercraft artist Yumiko Matsui (featured before on Neatorama here) - so it was a pleasant surprise to hear from her about this Neatoramabot papercraft sculpture. Ain't he cute?If you haven't seen Yumiko...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/neatoramabot-papercraft-by-yumiko-matsui/Julian Hakes designed shoes that have no sole. The support is there, though, for the heel and ball of the foot, which forms a natural bridge between the two. In the course of designing, he had tracing paper and maski...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/the-mojito-shoe/This week marks the 25th anniversary of an historic tennis match. At a Virginia Slims tournament in 1984, Vicki Nelson and Jean Hepner exchanged 643 shots; it remains the longest single rally in the history of professi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/the-longest-point-in-the-history-of-professional-tennis-29-minutes-643-shots/A few months ago, photographer and environmentalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand and his non-profit organization GoodPlanet released the movie HOME, a documentary about life on Eart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/home-by-yann-arthus-bertrand/To get a little perspective, this is what the Burj Dubai (previously at Neatorama) would look like if it were built in downtown Manhattan. Gizmodo has a chart comparing some of the world’s tallest buildings if you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/burj-dubai-in-new-york/Sometimes the stories of what might have been are just as fascinating as what really happened. Kara Kovalchik of mental_floss dug up actors and actresses that turned down TV roles that may have turned out quite diffe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/11-famous-actors-and-the-big-tv-roles-they-turned-down/(YouTube link)Forget rap, forget the news, THIS is what auto-tune was meant for! Carl Sagan sings his lovely prose about our wonderful universe with an appearance by Stephen Hawking. -via Geeks Are Sexyauto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/a-glorious-dawn/It looks like a new volcano is growing in Nola, Italy, near Mt. Vesuvius! The Vulcano Buono (good volcano) is a commercial center designed by Renzo Piano. The interior space is bigger than it looks due to the sloping...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/vulcano-buono/You may be familiar with Scrat, the “saber-toothed squirrel” from the Ice Age movies, but a real one lives in Niagara Falls, New York. This squirrel has an unusual tusk growing out of its lower jaw! Mary Jo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/saber-toothed-squirrel/The three graphs above show that women who give birth in winter months (blue dots) tend to be younger, less educated, and less likely to be married compared to mothers who give birth during the summer months (green dot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/winter-babies-are-different-from-summer-babies/Image: Artist's conception of LRLL 31 system, courtesty of NASA/JPL-CatlTech NASA's Spitzer Telescope spent five months observing LRLL 31, a young star with a ring of materials orbiting it. Astronomers believe that i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/spitzer-telescope-captures-images-of-forming-planet/(YouTube Link) Tina Law writes in New Zealand's Stuff magazine about one man who wanted to own a den that looked the interior of a submarine. Wayne Eyre of Spencerville, NZ hired special effects artist Dea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/man-builds-submarine-home-theatre/Image: Lunchbreath [Flickr]Lunchbreath's Infotoons are one of my favorite things about the web. They're simply brilliant. This one above uese a Gantt chart to illustrate the various stages of a doomed relationship.Check...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/infotoons-by-lunchbreath/Los Angeles Times' Your Scene gallery user pablo uploaded this photo of a "lost in translation" sign (yes, made popular by Engrish.com) warning us that playing and jumping are dangerous. A quick Googlin' pinpoi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/playing-and-jumping-are-dangerous/Philosopher AC Grayling shares his nuggets of wisdom in The Guardian's highly enjoyable This much I know series: Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/this-much-i-know-by-ac-grayling/Ken Morrish of Colaton Raleigh, Devon, England picked a bizarre Red Delicious apple off his tree. It looks as if someone stuck together half of a green apple and half of a red apple, but these colors are natural. Jo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/an-apple-with-a-split-personality/The United Nations is in session, with leaders and representatives from all over the world meeting to exchange ideas. Just how can they do that, when they speak so many different languages? The United Nations hires...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/interpreting-the-un/Take cakes that are so bad they're good, mix in a great sense of humor and what do you get? A madly popular blog phenomenon, and now, a book as well! Jen Yates, the founder of Cake W...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/cake-wrecks-interview-with-jen-yates/When a celebrity gives up something that he or she gets paid millions to do, in order to pursue what they feel could be their “true” calling, music, most of the population cringes. Digging t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/failedcringeworthy-celebrity-music-crossovers/Every other day, we get to hear about some new solar powered creation. Here are 13 amazing solar concepts that draw inspiration from plants. After all, plants are Mother Nature's solar generators. Pictured is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/13-great-solar-concepts-inspired-by-plants/(YouTube Link) Dan Ros rigged his Big Mouth Billy Bass so that it quotes Homer Simpson, Bill Clinton, and characters from Monty Python's The Holy Grail: The star of the show is the mbed chipset, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/hacked-big-mouth-billy-bass-quotes-monty-python-can-be-controlled-via-twitter/[caption id="attachment_26443" align="aligncenter" width="464" caption="Photo by Tamas Ladanyi"][/caption] Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is gorgeous! September 22nd was the Autumn equinox, where we all experi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/equinox-sunset/An Indonesia woman named Ani gave birth to 19.2-lb baby yesterday in Medan, North Sumatra. The boy, Muhammad Akbar Risuddin, is among the heaviest babies ever delivered who survived: Perhaps unsurprisingly, he wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/19-2-pound-baby-born/(YouTube Link) The Colombian Pop artist Bon Yurt created an enormous portrait of Marilyn Monroe using paintball equipment. It's modeled after Andy Warhol's depiction of the actress. The final seconds of the above...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/paintball-art/Photo: Skylar Wicked Evolution, Jr. is a 750-lb miniature van that can stand upright, partially transform into a vaguely beast-like creature, roar, and breathe fire. It was made by a fellow named Skylar, and is among...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/a-transforming-roaring-fire-breathing-van/Donald G. McNeil, Jr. writes in The New York Times that a new vaccine tested on 16,000 Thai volunteers demonstrated improved resistance to the virus that causes AIDS. According to the National Institute of Alle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/progress-on-a-hiv-vaccine/
