Dale Chihuly makes some fascinating sculptures out of glass, as well as employing other odd methods, like painting with a common broom. He's truly a talented artist, and worth a look-see. Link (Also, today's his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/glasswork-of-dale-chihuly/Neuroscientist Craig Bennett bought a salmon to test an fMRI machine and work out some protocols. So, as the fish sat in the scanner, they showed it “a series of photographs depicting human individuals in social s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/dead-salmon-mri-red-herring/Schools are spending less time than ever teaching the art of cursive handwriting, especially as more time is devoted to typing in the early grades. On the 2007 SAT essay questions, only 15% of college-bound students used...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/is-cursive-handwriting-necessary/All right. So John Farrier has posted a couple of really cool pool tables. The first one is Deep Green, a pool-playing robot created by the robotics lab of Queen's University in Canada. The second one is the $200,000 Obs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/best-pool-table-evar/The following is a Neatorama Shop Story, a narrative starring the products carried in this blog’s very own online store. Stardate: the future as con...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/neatorama-shop-story-space-cupcakes/Sometimes the best idea are the simplest! Marc of Wooster Collective posted this "carrot tree" in Antwerp, Belgium. Sadly, no other detail is forthcoming - does anyone know what this is all about? A viral campa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/the-carrot-tree/In her art series See Through, Swedish artist Helga Steppan arranged all her material belongings into separate piles based on color: This way of working can be clearly seen in the series ‘See Through&#...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/helga-steppans-chromatically-arranged-belongings/Photo: Kevin Cyr New York-based artist Kevin Cyr is trying to construct a functional camper that's built onto a shopping cart. It's an expression of his fascination with vehicles and an exploration of a simple lifest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/19/a-camper-built-on-a-shopping-cart/Photo: Montyfull Craftster user Montyfull was a fashion major and a gamer, and so naturally combined the two interests with evening wear inspired by the video game Super Mario Bros. The above sequin dress took eighty...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/19/super-mario-bros-inspired-evening-wear/(YouTube Link) The Obscura CueLight Pool Table, currently set up in Esquire magazine's ultimate bachelor pad, creates stunning visual effects as pool balls move around the table. Motion sensors detect anyt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/19/obscura-cuelight-pool-table/A private owner has donated a fossil that could change the way we think about Tyrannosaurus and their development. Some scientists believed the T.Rex evolved to its enormous size, then its arms shrank, when they wer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/19/mini-t-rex-could-be-missing-link/(L) Fire Tower home in western Montana, photo: Heidi Long and Gravity Shots; More at Timber Home Living (R) Fire lookout tower in western Poland. Image: Mohylek [Wikipedia]Imagine a house in the forest - you're surrounde...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/19/fire-lookout-tower-house/Pictured on the left is the 1st iPod ever made, it was released in 2001, it boasted an impressive 5GB storage and as you can see the design still looks good to this day. See it along with other original gadget designs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/19/the-worlds-first-gadgets/Marcelo Bezos has been collecting pennies for the past 35 years, and when his father-in-law died from colorectal cancer, he decided to do something to raise awareness for the disease: building a record-breaking pyramid o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/19/marcelo-bezos-penny-pyramid/Image: Jones Soda Gourmet soda maker Jones Soda has released five new flavors inspired by the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. They are Potion of Healing, Sneak Attack, Bigby’s Crushing Thirst Destr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/19/dungeons-and-dragons-themed-sodas/Picture this: a man and woman came back to his apartment after a date. The house is nice and clean, then he mixes a margarita ... and when her neck is a little stiff, Mr. Man offers a little shiatsu massage to make her f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/19/vfa-a-man-better-than-chocolate/(YouTube link) Distraction is a film by Mike Stern, who probably didn’t have to listen to the boss’ favorite music while creating this. Still, you know he’s been through it at one time or another! Link -via YesB...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/19/distraxion/If you enjoy delicious-looking cakes or ones that look adorable, this mole rat cake is not for you. If you like the occasional bizarre and unusual cake on the other hand, than you might join me in saluting this monst...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/18/mole-rat-cake/(L) Neil Gaiman by Leigh Gallagher (R) Jules Verne by Ted McKeeverSteven Gettis of Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobberin' Time!!! website has been collecting artists' interpretation of their favorite literary figure/author/cha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/18/authors-as-drawn-by-artists/Photo by Manuel Villa SpaceInvading is bringing the Neat back with four architechtural wonders today. This one is the "Habitable Polyhedron" and it has a unique function. The project, meant for a family house bac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/18/habitable-polygon/(YouTube Link) Deep Green is pool-playing robot created by students at the robotics laboratory of Queen's University in Canada. Students have worked on it for the past three years, gradually improving its abilities...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/18/pool-playing-robot/Weighing in at 400 pounds, this new design by Portland, Oregon custom bike builder Metrofiets is intended for mobile partying. Here are some of the features that owners Phillip Ross and Jamie Nichols included: *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/18/a-bicycle-that-is-a-combination-bar-pizzeria-and-dance-club/(YouTube Link) The above video is a reconstruction of the Croatian city of Dubrovnik. Rebecca Boyle writes in Popular Science that computer scientists at the University of Washington's Graphics and Imaging...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/18/reconstructing-cities-from-thousands-of-flickr-images/Image: Rick Watson, Kitten Rescue Kevin Pereira of G4's Attack of the Show solicited contributors to a Keyboard Cat-themed art show and auction. Proceeds will go to the no-kill cat rescue shelter Kitten Resc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/18/keyboard-cat-art-auction/You know about these historic events, but do you remember who was president of the United States when it happened? This Lunchtime Quiz from mental_floss will strain your historic perspective. I scored 50%, mainly by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/18/who-was-president-part-two/Coed Magazine has a pretty accurate list of movies that opened at number one that, in retrospect, fell critically flat. While I see their point about The Phantom Menace, I would have substituted it for *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/18/terrible-1-movies/Normally, babies learn how to look at the world before they can communicate their experiences. The rare cases of people who have been blind all their lives and then had their sight restored offer scientists a unique oppo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/18/how-the-brain-learns-to-see/Because this is what you want to smell like: A creeping, wet, slithering scent, dripping with seaweed, oceanic plants and dark, unfathomable waters. Available from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, the scent of Chtu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/18/cthulhu-perfume/The two sportswear companies Puma and Adidas, based in Herzogenaurach, Germany were founded by Adi and Rudolf Dassler. The two brothers made shoes together beginning in the 1920s but split apart during World War II, prob...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/18/adidas-and-puma-to-end-60-year-feud/This lamp post is an ad for McDonalds in Vancouver. You have to wonder 1. how much light does it really emit, and b. is the coffee still free? -via Gizmodocoffee, mcdonalds, street lamp...
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