Next month will mark the 30th anniversary of the Mount St. Helens eruption that buried the area in ash, flattened trees for miles around, and killed 57 people. A quarter of the 110,000-acre Mount St. Helens National Volc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/mount-st-helens/Many people feel nervous when it comes to seeing a doctor. Medical care involves being intensely vulnerable and putting your fate in the hands of, basically, a stranger. Of course nearly all doctors are quite competent,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/12-criminally-insane-real-world-medical-professionals/(YouTube Link) Engineers at Kagawa University in Japan are developing a talking robotic version of the human mouth: To enable the robot's speaking abilities, engineers at Japan's Kagawa University used an air...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/robot-mouth-simulates-the-human-voice/Hello Neatoramanauts!Today, a mystery box showed up at NeatoHQ. Clearly it has got something to do with the upcoming Iron-Man 2 movie, but what is inside? (We don't know ourselves!)So to share the fun with all of you, we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/iron-man-2-mystery-box/(YouTube Link) The Great Mosque of Djenné in the West African country of Mali was originally constructed in the 13th Century. It gradually grew to be an enormous structure before it fell into ruins by the 19th Cen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/the-great-mosque-of-djenne-the-largest-mud-brick-building-in-the-world/(YouTube Link) This may be the reason the ibex has such long horns, but odds are this guy's just using what he was given to get the job done. Aren't animals cute? | via UniqueDailybutt, ibex, scratch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/ibex-utilizes-his-horn/The Daily Telegraph has compiled a 31-image slideshow of amazing photographs of the volcano currently erupting in Iceland. Scientists aren't sure why electrical discharges are visible during some volcanic e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/amazing-pictures-of-the-icelandic-volcano-eruption/Which typeface should you use for a particular presentation? Graphic designer Julian Hansen created a flow chart to help you make a decision. Pictured above is one small piece of it. You can view larger images at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/typeface-flow-chart/Or perhaps displayed in some other prominent location in your home. This 24 centimeter (9.5 inch) figurine has been masterfully crafted out of the finest crystal by Atlantis - one of the premier glassmaking companies o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/wouldnt-this-look-nice-on-your-mantlepiece/Graphic designer Alex Griendling made these tarot cards inspired by the television show Lost. He wrote about the project's focus on the first season: After making all of these I may take a break. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/lost-tarot-cards/Paul Reber, professor of psychology at Northwestern University, responded to this question submitted to Scientific American: The human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/what-is-the-maximum-memory-capacity-for-the-human-brain/In celebration of today's Boston Marathon, the Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss pits celebrity marathon runners against each other. From ten matched pairs of celebrities, you decide which one could best the other in a mara...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/a-celebrity-marathon-quiz/Bharti Kumari of Kusumbhara, Bihar, India is the headmistress of the village school at the age of twelve! Every day, she walks two miles to another village to attend school from 10AM to 3PM. Before and after her own clas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/12-year-old-runs-school/(YouTube link) You may think the baboon is not too smart because it fell for that old trick, but at least it knows where the water is! From the 1974 documentary Animals Are Beautiful People. -via Cyn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/the-baboons-secret/Robin Alex, of Albuquerque, New Mexico went to New Orleans to built a Habitat for Humanity house. When she returned, her cat Charles was gone. That was eight months ago. Then earlier this week, Alex received a call...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/new-mexico-cat-gets-ride-home-from-chicago/Tribbles {wiki} appeared in a 1967 episode of Star Trek: TOS and returned in the spin-off series and movies. Romulan Whore posted this diagram of the inside of a tribble, and attributed it to the Star Fleet Refe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/the-anatomy-of-a-tribble/Paul Hutton of Essex, UK, was stopped by police for driving a children's toy car while drunk. The Barbie-branded vehicle has a top speed of 4 mph. Hutton won't be allowed to drive for another three years: Mr Hut...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/man-loses-license-after-drunk-driving-in-barbie-toy-car/The following is an article from Uncle John's Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader. You'd think that with all the donut, hot dog, and pie eating contests there are in the world, there'd be no call for the co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/eating-contests-to-avoid/Flickr user Cake Rhapsody make this zombie cake for her daughter's 8th birthday. It's made from Rice Krispies, chocolate, and fondant. No actual brains were used! Link -via Rue the Dayzombie, Cake, bithday cake...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/zombie-girl-cake/Pictured is Chauncy Morlan, who once made a living as a side show fat man. People paid money to look at him, because he was so unusually obese. A hundred years later, you can walk into any buffet restaurant and see a doz...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/freak-show-fat/Timothy Miller does wonderful stained glass windows in designs you'd never expect, including super hero logos and Transformers. Here you see his version of Bumblebee. See more in his gallery at Deviant Art. Link -via The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/transformers-in-stained-glass/This is StacyBee's baby, who isn't due for a while but has already learnd to smile! Her baby shower happened last week, with an Alice in Wonderland theme. Stacy posted all about it, including photographs and l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/early-baby-picture/We've been trying to preserve, repair, or remove our teeth for thousands of years. From the manual bow drill to modern veneers, this post shows how far we have come in the quest for good, or at least functional, teeth....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/19/a-pictorial-history-of-dentistry/Fruit Jackets - $9.95 ea ($27.95 for the trio) at the NeatoShopEating fruits every day is healthy, but the trip to the office can be downright dangerous for your fruit. So to help save your apples, bananas, and pears fro...
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