Denmark's iconic statue of Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid normally sits in the Copenhagen Harbor, but left last week for temporary residence at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. On April Fool's Day, she retu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/04/skeleton-replaces-copenhagen-mermaid/It took Sean Stiegemeier a year to compile his first attempt at time-lapse photography, and ended up with this creation for the band Stomacher, and their untitled song. If you see one time-lapse video this week, make it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/04/time-lapse-video-by-sean-stiegemeier/The oath of office for officials in the State of Kentucky includes an affirmation that the person has never fought a duel: Typically, a judge and honoree stand facing each other, right hands raised. The judge reci...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/04/kentucky-state-officials-must-swear-an-oath-against-dueling/Atlanta-based photographer Erik Dixon got a tattoo illustrating the inverse square law, which "...is the physics equation for the fall off rate of light radiating from a source point. Something I use every time I sho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/04/inverse-square-law-tattoo/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrFjM1qyHVw] YouTube link. In order to investigate how sperm of two different males compete within the reproductive tract of the female, a researcher at Syracuse University used...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/04/sperm-races-visualized/Move over police K-9 unit! There's a new animal cop in town: the Monkey Police.A Thai police force has begun taking a monkey dressed in officer's uniform on patrol each day to help improve relations with Muslim separ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/04/monkey-cop/If you love your freedom, don't kiss your mate in public - that's the lesson a British couple learned the hard way in Dubai, where they were sentenced to 1 month in jail for public indecency:Ayman Najafi, 24, and Cha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/04/kissing-in-public-in-dubai-1-month-in-jail/Remember the story about a Junior High student who was handcuffed and perp walked for doodling on her desk? The 12-year-old schoolgirl and her mom are now suing for $1 million: The legal papers describe Alexa's ordeal as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/04/kid-arrested-for-doodling-now-suing-for-1-million/Did you get started in your career as an unpaid intern? According to labor officials, that may actually be free labor and therefore illegal:“If you’re a for-profit employer or you want to pursue an intern...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/04/are-unpaid-internships-illegal/The blue elements in the image above appear to be a arranged in a continuous spiral, but in fact they form a series of concentric circles. Your brain will argue so strongly for a spiral that you may need to run you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/04/this-is-not-a-spiral/(YouTube link) This looks way cool. You can ignite the particles in a stream of smoke! It's not so cool when you think about how this would work in a burning house. -via redditfire, Light, smoke, parlor trick...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/04/relighting-trick/There seem to be no end of things tagged with the word rainbow in nature. Well, here is another - the Rainbow Eucalyptus. With a quite spectacular trunk it is a surprise that its main use is the production...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/04/the-rainbow-eucalyptus/So you say you know your Star Wars flicks when you hear 'em? Prove it. Our friends at boingboing.net posted my quiz today. Take the quiz now.Star Wars, boingboing...
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