Who says that old people can't dance? Here's The Awesome Threesome performing at Leisure World (a retirement community) in Florida.Check 'em bust a move (without busting a hip, thankfully) to Michael Jackson's Billie Jea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/old-people-lewd-dancing/It's not unusual to have a pet rodent, but Melanie Typaldos' pet Caplin Rous is no ordinary rodent. See, Caplin is a Capybara, the world's largest rodent: The second part of his name, which Typaldos pronounces like &...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/caplin-rous-worlds-largest-pet-rodent/I, for one, welcome our new hexapod overlord ... to a dance off! Here's a video clip of the best dance compilation from the 4th Hexapod Championship in Hagenberg, Austria.They'll eat the humans after building an appetite...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/hexapods-got-talent/Rich CEOs are different from you and I - not only do they have more money, their brains are wired differently. That's the conclusion of an online "color test":Ask CEOs to pick their favorite color and what...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/color-test-proves-that-ceos-are-different/Forget James Bond! The best action scene ever filmed is from the 1985 Tollywood movie Alluda Mazaaka...!, starring the "Megastar" Chiranjeevi and directed by E.V.V. Satyanarayana.You'll soon see why Chiranjeevi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/the-best-action-scene-evar/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwahIQz0o-M] YouTube link. This is a true color movie, not a "colorized" one. This wonderful film was made in 1927 by Claude Friese-Greene. Colour film from the 1920s is except...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/color-video-of-london-in-1927/The objects above are remarkably ornate baby rattles/ teething toys, as crafted by a master silversmith. They are attributed to Nicholas Roosevelt, an 18th-century American craftsman, and are now part of the collec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/these-are-not-lipstick-tubes/James Stowe has a neat collection of Star Wars cards for Valentine's Day, which is this Sunday. There are six cards, one for each episode. Link (Previously on Neatorama: A Very Wrong Star Wars Valentine)original...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/star-wars-valentines/We are often told we must learn from history, and that we should learn from the experiences of others, but how often do we learn about forms of government from scientific experiments? MIT economist Benjamin Olken got the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/testing-democracy/A moonbow is a rainbow that appears in moonlight. Light from the moon must be refracted through a mist of water in order for us to see the effect. Photographer Wally Pacholka captured this effect at the edge of Haleaka...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/a-moonbow-in-hawaii/Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will test your familiarity with city nicknames. If you're lucky, your city will be one of the ten! If you're unlucky, you'll score 30% like I did. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/city-nicknames/The Moa was the only wingless bird that ever existed.The moa were hunted to extinction by 1500 by the Maori in New Zealand. They were the only species of birds with no wings. But wait, you say, what about kiwis, emus, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/moa-is-the-only-bird-without-wings/British artist Rob Smith has some lovely wood carvings in his deviantART gallery. One of the most striking is this table that looks like it's melting. It's made of recycled oak and took him four weeks to make. L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/melting-table/The US division of the Boy Scouts turns 100 today. The movement began in Britain under the leadership of General Robert Baden-Powell. An American publisher, William Boyce, met a Boy Scout in London and was so impressed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/the-boy-scouts-at-100/Remember the I Love xkcd animated music video (inspired by the Discovery Channel promo I Love the World, drawn by animator Noam Raby and sung by Olga Nunes) posted previously on Neatorama?Well, Olga Nunes and Elaine Doyl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/we-love-xkcd/Just a quick update from the Neatorama Shop - items back in stock: Food Face | More...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/neatorama-shop-update-feb-2010/Michael R. Barrick created a graphic last summer using the Vancouver Olympics mascots and the internet cartoon character Pedobear. The image shows up in a Google image search for the mascots, so it was only a matter of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/07/pedobear-as-an-olympic-mascot/You can get a swine flu vaccination at Walgreens. To advertise that fact, they put stickers on other products, but do they say "vaccine"? No, the stickers just say "H1N1 Available Here", which won't make much sense onc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/07/h1n1-products/Go get your protective tin foil hat, because you're going to need it. German scientists have been trying to understand why their equipment that measures gravitational waves has been picking up a particular sound. One p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/07/scientific-evidence-that-the-entire-universe-is-a-holographic-projection-around-the-earth/(Video Link) I can't speak Russian, but I've read that this Russian-language commercial is about a man trying to report a claim to his insurance company. The employees vanish into their equipment the moment that th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/07/office-camouflage/(YouTube Link) In this instructional video, a safety expert at a drainage site stresses the importance of having a sturdy harness, properly attached. He demonstrates how a rope line connecting him to the guardrail...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/07/test-your-safety-harness/The secret to happiness doesn't come from thinking happy thoughts ... it comes from thinking happy thoughts fast.Here's what researchers at Princeton and Harvard universities found:Results suggested that thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/07/the-secret-to-happiness-thinking-fast/I love these kinds of interactive generators, and this one's pretty cool. For the above panel, fill in what you'd like each word balloon to say. Link via Buzzfeed (where there's a bunch of funny examples).batman,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/07/batman-robin-comic-generator/The stethoscope was invented by a doctor too embarrassed to place his ear on a woman's ample bosom.Before the invention of the stethoscope, a physician would listen to a patient's heart by placing his ear over the chest....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/07/how-the-stethoscope-was-invented/[caption id="attachment_29331" align="aligncenter" width="477" caption="Photo: Grant Gunderson"][/caption] The ski report for the Eastern U. S. is a chart-topper this weekend, so to get you in the mood -or if you'd li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/07/grant-gundersons-skiing-photography/The British Library has announced that the Klencke Atlas will have its first-ever public showing this summer as part of a map exhibition. It is almost absurdly huge – 1.75 metres (5ft) tall and 1.9 metres (6ft) wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/07/klencke-atlas-the-largest-book-in-the-world/A variety of birds may use their crests and protruberant feathers to feel their surroundings. Studies were conducted on auklets, who breed in dark, rocky crevices. The researchers placed individual auklets into a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/07/some-birds-use-modified-feathers-as-sensory-receptors/If you want to sing in a karaoke bar in the Philippines, be forewarned not to sing Frank Sinatra's My Way ... that tune by Ol' Blue Eyes could just be your last ...“I used to like ‘My Way,’...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/07/sinatras-my-way-karaoke-killings-in-the-philippines/Tired of waiting for "the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement," the Pentagon has decided to take matters into its own hands: military scientists will create "synthetic organisms" that can l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/07/pentagon-to-create-synthetic-organisms-with-molecular-kill-switch/A patent has been issued for this device, which would conserve space in burial grounds. The inventor even envisions a transparent variety: “A clear plastic Easy Inter Burial Container, where the body is additionally...
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