(National Film Board link) The English title is From the Big Bang to Tuesday Morning, a 2000 film by Quebec animator Claude Cloutier. -via Everlasting Blortevolution, animation...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/du-big-bang-a-mardi-matin/Dave Crisp, using only a metal detector, found a hoard of more than 52,000 Roman coins in Frome, UK. They were sealed inside a pot about 30 cm underground: Somerset County Council archaeologists excavated the pot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/man-with-metal-detector-finds-1-million-in-roman-coins/Dr. Peter Kertesz is a dentist in London, England. He has a regular clientele of patients he takes care of during the day. But he also moonlights: Dr. Kertesz recently worked on the huge teeth in the powerful jaws of two...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/treating-tiger-teeth/Nestled in a chest of drawers existed a list of names of those lives that succumb to the Blood Countess, Elizabeth Bathory. For years, Bathory's sadistic killing spree went unnoticed as she left a trail of blood from Cac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/cachtice-castle-blood-countess-elizabeth-bathory-and-the-murders-of-vienna/Douglas Coupland made this pixelated sculpture of an orca. It's located at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Coupland is also a novelist and playwright, and we've previously featured his innovative trailer for a boo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/orca-pixel-sculpture/Now this is recycling! Artist Nick Georgiou from Queens, New York, folds newspapers and magazines into works of art, and then drops them off in random locations throughout the city:“Books and newspapers are bec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/newspaper-sculptures-of-nick-georgiou/Oh, Snap! Mousetrap Cheese Board and Slicer - $17.95How do you lure people to come to your next wine and cheese party? Why, the same way you'd trap critters: with a mousetrap. Actually, it's a beechwood cheese board and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/oh-snap-cheese-board-and-slicer-that-look-like-a-giant-mousetrap/How has Britain changed in the past 10 years? Prospect Magazine has an interesting infographic detailing the transformation of Great Britain from 1997 to 2009:Richer, fatter, living longer, more indebted, drunker, be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/how-britain-has-changed-1997-to-2009/There's a London Underground station that never moves a single passenger. That's because it's a mock-up built to train new employees. The station, located in West Kensington, is designed to be as realistic as possi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/the-london-undergrounds-fake-station/(You Tube link) We don't know whether we should be terrified or overjoyed. We've just come across a video demo from the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab that shows an autonomous quadrotor helicopter pe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/sweet-little-quadrocopter/There is so much going on a Neatorama, we sometimes forget that neato stuff happens outside the site, too! This week, our fearless leader Alex was a guest on The Social Blade Show. Yeah, it's an hour long, but it's a tal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/this-week-at-neatorama-11/LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya had a tattoo artist mark his thumb so that it looks like a LEGO brick: Every single day, I snap together bricks. Each day I am pressing down on the bumps of each brick to make sure th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/lego-thumb-tattoo/
