There is some evidence that peeling a hard-boiled egg is not as easy as it was a couple of decades ago. The reason why might surprise you -older eggs are easier to peel, and the eggs we eat are fresher than ever! As an e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/15/why-are-eggs-harder-to-peel/Fiat Lux is a lamp with a switch that hovers underneath -no strings attached! The ball-shaped switch is magnetic, and rests on the lamp when not in use. When you approach the lamp, it turns itself on. Then you "hang"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/15/fiat-lux/A tree snail found in the tropical forest near Cairns, Australia has been named after the late Steve Irwin. Dr. John Stanisic of the Queensland Museum named it Crikey steveirwini. The scientist described Cr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/15/snail-named-after-crocodile-hunter/(video link) National Geographic's Adventure Magazine named ten people as Adventurers of the Year, and invite you to rate each of them to help them determine the readers' choice top adventurer. One of the profiles f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/15/world-record-base-jump/SwissMiss discovers that Google Reader offers several sorting options, including this one: books, weird, Technology...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/15/sort-by-magic/I've started a new project on flickr called Limericks for Naughty Children. Here's a sample, and here's the full set. I'm having a bit too much fun making them.LinkFrom the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Ape Lad.A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/15/limericks-for-naughty-children/National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen is one lucky man. Not only did he get to swim and take photos of a 12-foot leopard seal in the Antarctic (and didn't get eaten), he was actually "adopted" by it! *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/15/how-natgeo-photog-paul-nicklen-got-adopted-by-a-deadly-antarctica-predator/Hulu, which I understand is not available to the whole world (apologies), has a great video by Gerald Calderon. It's quite possibly the best explanation of the origin of life ever presented on film. The art direction...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/15/origins-of-life/A funny illustrated look inside the world of internet trolls, with a classification chart of different traits and different members of the troll ecosystem. The best way to deal with trolls varies by type. To deal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/14/trolls/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3oJGKA5SHk][YouTube - Link]It is one of the rarest creatures of the ocean's deep, and it has been caught on film for the first time ever. The species, smalleye stingray, is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/14/first-footage-of-giant-stingray/Get ready for a strange story of a lost Beatles album found on cassette on the other side of a portal to a parallel universe. James Richards brought the cassette back and is making all the songs available. Link -via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/14/the-beatles-never-broke-up/Think before you buy a souvenir snow globe on your next vacation. You probably won't be able to take it on a plane in your carry-on luggage because of TSA regulations."Snow globes are not permitted to be carried thro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/14/tsa-says-no-to-snow-globes/Some people eat at their computers. Some smoke while computing. And some don't change the filter on their heating and air system as often as they should. Many of us never open up our computers to see what's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/14/dirty-computer-pictures/Often overlooked and certainly overshadowed by its more famous neighbor, the Manhattan Bridge will, this December, become a centenarian. Quite a feat, all told, as the bridge's history has been full of issues to sa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/14/the-manhattan-bridge-turns-100/My parents are awesome has to be one of the best tumblr accounts to date - the simply concept is it posts retro pictures of parents, who are looking awesome. Your parents were awesome, too, so w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/14/my-parents-were-awesome/At The Business Insider, Alyson Shontell wrote about her unsuccessful job interview with Google, which has gained a reputation for asking hard and bizarre questions that test a candidate's creativity, priorities...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/googles-famously-difficult-job-interview-questions/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suf_TfahO3w][YouTube - Link]It took over 11 hours to create these two "Where the Wild Things Are" chalk murals at Arnold DC, a Washington ad agency. Watch the timelapse v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/where-the-wild-things-are-chalk-wall-art-timelapse-video/Danvers High School Principal Thomas Murray was not amused - I repeat, not amused - when kids in his school started saying the word "meep." Anyone caught uttering or displaying the word of choice of Beaker, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/oh-meep-high-school-principal-bans-nonsensical-word/Up until now, scientists believed that coral only ate plankton and other micro-organisms, but a new discovery shows the mushroom coral can actually eat jellyfish almost its same size. Scientists were diving near the Isra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/scientists-discover-coral-that-eats-jellyfish/Montreal acrobat and Cirque du Soleil performer Oli Lemieux amazes in this practice video. This makes me want to see another show of theirs, and soon! From Asylum~ While most of us are content to bounce up and down...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/oli-lemieux-cirque-du-soleil-practice/ESC from New York - $9.95 | More Funny T-ShirtsNeatorama designer Chris "Snake" Murphy came up with this excellent design "ESC from New York." Ah, this certainly brings back memories. From the Neatora...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/esc-from-new-york/Photo: Le Creative Sweatshop Le Creative Sweatshop is a French art studio that produces (among other things) enormous papercraft art installations. The high-heeled shoes pictured above are a part of their effort to "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/papercraft-high-heels/Images: IMMD It Made My Day (IMMD) is a blog of reader-submitted anecdotes about the funny experiences that made their day. On the right-side of the page, you can type in your own "moment of win" and vote on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/it-made-my-day/So. Yesterday, we heard that the Pope's astronomer conceded that there may be alien life outside of planet Earth, and today NASA said that it discovered significant water on the Moon. "The discovery opens a new...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/nasa-confirms-significant-water-on-moon/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMcHCCuV8HM][YouTube - Link]Ok, so maybe there is a slight hint of sarcasm incorporated into the title of this video. Apparently there is a learning curve, for some,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/ninja-hide-and-seek/"Bliss" by Charles O'Rear (L), "After Microsoft" by Goldin & Senneby (R) The default desktop image for Windows XP was called "Bliss," and became instantly recognizable. The image was taken by a photographer name...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/after-microsoft/Are you fat? It may not be your fault, blame the bacteria in your intestines instead:Ninety percent of the bacteria fall into two major divisions, or phyla: the Firmicutes and the Bacteroidetes. Previous research had...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/fat-blame-it-on-the-bacteria/If you're afraid of Friday the 13th (the date, not the movie), you're in good company. There's a certain US president who shared your paraskevidekatriaphobia:It's also the number that prompted FDR to alter his own tr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/whos-afraid-of-friday-the-13th/Photo: MR38 [Flickr]Flickr user MR38 has a nifty photoset of bumper cars modded into street legal mini cars (complete with real license plates!) as seen during the annual Cruisin' Grand festival in Escondido, California....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/old-bumper-cars-turned-into-real-cars/A city of limestone towers rises in western Madagascar.Photo: Stephen Alvarez / National GeographicBenson weaves through skin-ripping pinnacles. In Malagasy, the formations are called tsingy, meaning "w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/tsingy-de-bemaraha-madagascars-stone-forest/
