Like its name says, This is Why You're Fat website is dedicated to chronicling the brave culinary concoctions guaranteed to give you a coronary by day's end. I think I've gained a few pounds just looking at the photos, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/22/bacon-cheese-turtleburgers/It doesn't get any sillier than this, folks: the councils of 6 boroughs in London issued parking tickets to themselves, then refused to pay the fines to themselves.One farce saw Islington Council in North London issu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/22/london-council-issued-parking-tickets-to-self-refused-to-pay-fine-to-self/Some people collect stamps, but James Brown of Nottingham collects vacuum cleaners. In fact, "Mr. Vacuum Cleaner" has so many of them that he opened a museum:He was eight, and desperate for a cleaner of his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/22/vacuum-cleaner-museum/Web and graphic designer Christian Annyas sure watched a lot of movies over the years. To prove it, he collected screenshots of the movie titles (and many trailer and "The End" titles as well). His collections...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/22/movie-title-stills-collection/We've posted this spectacular performance by Russian ice skater Evgeni Plushenko several years ago - but since he recently won silver at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the clip has enjoyed somewhat of a resurgence.If you have...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/22/evgeni-plushenkos-sex-bomb-ice-skating-performance/Women have been obsessed with hairstyle since, well, for-ev-vuh. As you can see, even women from the Middle Ages liked their hair all done up fancy, as documented by the Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier fran&...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/22/hairstyles-of-the-middle-ages/Artist Shaenon K. Garrity (of Narbonic and Smithson fame) discovered that Edward Gorey was a Trekkie, so naturally she created what might have been: a Star Trek comic in the style of the late macabre children book illust...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/22/star-trek-in-the-style-of-edward-gorey/Yitta Schwartz of Kiryas Joel, New York, died last month at the age of 93. She left behind 15 children, more than 200 grandchildren, and so many great and great-great grandchildren that her family guesses that she could...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/21/woman-dies-leaves-behind-2000-descendants/An 88-year old man was caught videotaping Avatar in the movie theater ... for his wife who couldn't come to see it for herself. The police were called in, but the ending was different than you'd expect:Police describ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/21/the-case-of-the-elderly-movie-pirate/Most people want to bust out of a prison, not in - but love makes us do crazy things. Here's the story of a man who break into a prison not once, not twice but night after night to visit his girlfriend:The s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/21/man-breaks-into-prison-for-love/Tired of seeing motorists speed through his neighborhood, retired police officer Bill Angus decided to do something clever: he put a bird feeder shaped like a speed camera at the edge of his property facing the road. And...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/21/bird-feeder-is-a-fake-speed-camera/Everybody knows O Fortuna by Carl Orff. They may not know what it's called, but they've heard it in hundreds of movies, TV programs and commercials. But do you know what it's all about? Here's the lyric of O For...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/21/carl-orffs-o-fortuna-translated/If you've ever felt guilty of taking a noontime siesta, here's science coming to your rescue. A new study revealed that napping can boost your ability to learn:"Sleep not only rights the wrong of prolonged wakef...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/21/sleep-on-this-nap-boosts-your-brains-ability-to-learn/Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas (1935) Photo: NOAA George E. Marsh AlbumDust may be an annoying facts of life to you and me, but it is endlessly fascinating to scientists. Indeed, dust actually play a big role in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/21/the-surprising-role-of-dust-in-earths-ecology/Usually, you get presents on your birthday - but on his 81st birthday, it was business owner Bob Moore that gave out presents. A big present, actually: he gave his whole company to his employees!Scores of employees g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/21/man-gave-company-to-employees-on-his-birthday/The user-generated website There, I Fixed It often showcases how people use duct tape to fix anything. An engineer at NASA submitted photos of how duct tape is put to work on the International Space Station! See more...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/21/nasa-relies-on-duct-tape/Vancouver is a city, but the community of Whistler, where the winter Olympic skiing events are actually held, is shared with native wildlife. A family of lynx was spotted hanging out near the luge track, and on Wednesday...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/21/lynx-on-the-downhill-slope/(YouTube Link) Stanford University students Derrick Davis and Tom McFadden made this rap video about metabolism. It's called "Oxidate It or Love It/Electron to the Next One" and is a parody of 50 Cent's "Hate It or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/21/biology-rap/Mother Nature Network has a photo gallery of ten animals with very long lifespans, including the red sea urchin: The red sea urchin or Strongylocentrotus franciscanus is found only in the Pacific Ocean, primar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/20/10-animals-with-the-longest-lifespans/It looks like a Coke machine, right? It's not. This is a picture of a woman wearing a special dress. Designer Aya Tsukioka's made this dress for women who fear being attacked in public places: By unfolding the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/20/ninja-skirt-transforms-user-into-a-coke-machine/We've previously mentioned the fine work of the Scottish brewery BrewDog, which sells the world's strongest beer at 32% alcohol content. The German brewery Schorschbrau responded by releasing Schorschbock, which is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/20/sink-the-bismark-germany-and-britain-in-fierce-competition-for-worlds-strongest-beer/National Geographic shows us a 330-year-old book that describes the fear of what we would call zombies or vampires. De Masticatione Mortuorum, Latin for "The Chewing Dead", discusses the customs of the time for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/20/the-chewing-dead/Those who can dance, those who can't ... finger dance! Behold Michael Jackson's Thriller finger-danced. Complete with hand costumes, of course. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]thriller, finger dance, Michael Jackson...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/20/thriller-finger-dance/While the web is buzzin' with the Epic Beard Man's fight on an Oakland bus, (which is unshowable on Neatorama for obvious reasons if you've ever seen it), I prefer this one: when koalas fight, as seen on Robert Gale's A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/20/epic-koala-fight/Photo: *Cencula* [Flickr]When Siebe Warmoeskerken of VTPN (Flickr user siebe) started taking photos of cookies splashing into a cup of coffee, little did he know that he was about to spark a little Flickr meme. Behold th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/20/coffee-splash/The next time you munch on a taco, ponder this: Where does it come from? (And "the kitchen" or "Taco Bell" instantly pop up in your thoughts, stop reading here).Landscape architect David Fletcher team...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/20/where-does-your-taco-come-from/Arlington High School junior and debate club president Justin Surber likes to wear his black T-shirt featuring Friedrich Nietzche's famous words "God is Dead." He wears it to provoke debate, he says, believing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/20/god-is-dead-but-yearbook-censorship-is-alive-and-well/True love, as J. Tithonus Pednaud of The Human Marvels blog said, knows no bound. Here's the story Al and Jeanie Tomaini, The World's Strangest Married Couple:He was shy, gentle and sweet inside and out – from...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/20/the-worlds-strangest-married-couple/Researcher Wolfgang Goymann and colleagues were studying the migrations of the garden warblers (Sylvia borin) when they discovered an interesting nugget of information: While pockets of flab accumulated over...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/20/fat-birds-have-more-sex/If you like Babies With Laser Eyes (via Boing Boing), you'll like OMG Laser Guns Pew Pew Pew. Or not.squirrel, laser gun, pew pew pew...
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