Estonian designer Pavel Sidorenko created fantastic wall clocks out of used vinyl records. This one above is my favorite, but don't miss the one cut to look like a pipe-smoking penguin: Link - via Core 77clock, vinyl, Pa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/30/vinyl-wall-clock-by-pavel-sidorenko/Fourteen-year-old Kora Wira was fishing in Florida with her parents when a barracuda jumped out of the water and bit her arm! The 42-inch fish landed in the boat and was killed by Wira's father. Between docking the b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/30/kora-and-the-fish-that-bit-her/Gen Y Neatoramanauts probably don't know what this is, but the rest of us could chuckle in nostalgia at these retro mouse pads over at the NeatoShop. They're made to look like obsolete test patterns for televisions.LinkT...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/30/retro-tv-test-pattern-mouse-pad/Have you ever been told that the reason giraffes have such long neck is that they evolved to eat leaves on tall trees? Well, you've been lied to. The real reason (surprise, surprise) is sex and mating:The latest theo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/30/the-real-reason-giraffes-have-such-long-necks/Are you unhappy? Maybe it's because of all that money you have. Jonah Lehrer of Wired's The Frontal Cortex blog explains:Once we escape the trap of poverty, levels of wealth have an extremely modest impact on levels...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/30/why-doesnt-money-make-us-happy/Provenance unknown - via Geekosystem and The Daily WhatHow are you feeling today? If your emotional state doesn't lend itself easily to words, how about this handy dandy Internet Chart of Emotions?See also: The Daily Moo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/30/internet-chart-of-emotions/At first site these amazing hills on the island of Bohol look as if Willy Wonka and his Oompa Loompas have upped sticks and relocated. However, although local people have their own legends as to the presence of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/30/the-chocolate-hills-of-bohol/1. Henry Ford's Bumpy Road Henry Ford probably wouldn't be too judgmental about about his company's recent financial troubles. Particularly because he was no stranger to debt himself. When Ford first sta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/30/3-moguls-who-survived-bankruptcy/What a thrill it would be to turn over a page every month and find a new picture of a goat in a tree! You could have that delightful experience in 2011 with the Goats in Trees calendar. Link -via Breakfast Linkscalen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/30/goats-in-trees-calendar/Famous men in history sometimes had a special place they went to think, create, or unwind in which they could block out the rest of the world. Almost every man would like to have a "man cave" like these, if he doesn'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/30/14-famous-man-rooms/Summer 2010 is not over yet, and some among us are still making plans to head to the woods. We cannot wait to sleep out under the stars on a cabin deck or rocky slope above timberline. Even now in late July, backpacker...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/30/the-sleeping-bag-ultra-light-or-lightly-humorous/Hot Hits Pot Holder - $7.95From the turntable to your kitchen table, the Hot Hits Pot Holder (and a handy trivet) is there to protect your hands and table from your latest (culinary) hit. From the NeatoShop: Link | More...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/30/hot-hits-pot-holder/Do ugly people commit more crime? Yes, statistically speaking anyhow.Before you chalk this one up as the discredited pseudoscience of physiognomy rearing its ugly head, consider the argument behind a paper by Georgia Sta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/do-ugly-people-commit-more-crime/Some of the best meals you can have are actually on airplanes - but not domestic flights. No siree! NBC Today's travel expert Peter Greenberg shows us how international airplane passengers are still fed very well (yes, e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/great-airline-food-is-still-being-served-on-international-flights/Instead of asking "how much is that doggy in the window," you should be asking "how many years in jail?" if you live in San Francisco. See, the Bay Area city is weighing a ban on all pet sales, with e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/san-francisco-to-ban-pet-sales/This certainly brings new meaning to the saying "the writing on the wall." Lori Weitzner created Newsworthy, a new wallpaper made from recycled newsprint: Linknewspaper, wallpaper, Lori Weitzner...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/wallpaper-made-from-newspapers/The one thing I hated most about school was how early it started. I've always thought that my academic performance (and that of my friends) would improve tremendously had school just start at the crack of noon - and now,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/students-perform-better-when-school-starts-later/Explorer Bart Hogan stands at an entrance to the Cheve cave in Mexico. Author James M. Tabor writes about a 2004 expedition through the Cheve supercave in his new book Blind Descent. Photo: Frank AbbatoAdd this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/the-rapture-a-terribly-way-to-die-in-a-cave/Forget Twilight vampires, the bloodsucking scourge that is spreading like wildfire in the United States is the bed bug:The tiny, sneaky insects are spreading so rapidly across the United States that almost no region...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/bed-bugs-no-area-unbitten/We've featured the fantastic artwork of Kevin Van Aelst before on Neatorama, but I couldn't resist this one: mitosis or cell division as explained with Krispy Kreme donuts (sprinkled, of course!) LinkKrispy Kreme, donut,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/donut-mitosis/John's post about scientists measuring the shortest interval of time ever inspired me to actually Google a question that I've pondered for quite some time: is time quantized? For th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/is-time-quantized/(YouTube link) Pomparkour is supposedly a new "sport" that is described as parkour with ladders. This ad for a sports drink is raising eyebrows because it has no warning that these are professional stunt people and th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/pomparkour-ad/German scientists hit electrons with light and then measured how they soon they moved. The delay between the bombardment and the movement of those electrons is the shortest interval of time ever measured, which is 20 at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/scientists-measure-shortest-interval-of-time-ever/Kathy Benjamin and Jim Avery of Cracked have composed a list of seven people who did amazing things of no importance whatsoever. Marva Drew, for example, typed all of the numbers from 1 to 1,000,000: So when...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/7-amazing-yet-uninspiring-feats-of-human-endurance/Thanks to high birth rates and few people exiting the sect, the Amish population in the United States is surging: The Amish population — a religious group that limits its member’s access to conveniences like telep...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/the-amish-population-boom/The cartoon character Bugs Bunny turned 70 on Tuesday: Bugs made his debut in the animated short film "A Wild Hare" on July 27, 1940. It's in that film that he first pops out of his rabbit hole and asks Elmer Fudd in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/bugs-bunny-at-70/Have you ever thought how jellyfish babies get born? And what does a hermit crab got anything to do with 'em?Creature Cast Blog from Scitable (a free science library from the science publishing powerhouse Nature) explain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/how-jellyfish-babies-are-born/Do you like to eat Chinese food but have always been intimidated with the strange customs and non-English speaking proprietors or waiters? (Quite rare these days, actually, even in hole-in-the-wall restaurants in Chinato...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/white-mans-guide-to-eating-chinese-food/Lawn Gegnome Project - $14.95, as modeled by StefanieGenomics may be a hot topic in biology, but meme wise, gnomes got 'em beat. If you're in the biological sciences, you'd probably get the pun. Here's Lawn Gegnome Proje...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/lawn-gegnome-project/Want to know the future? You don't need crystal ball or a time machine. Just examine your moles or your fingernails or your cats. Really. Ailuromancy or felidomancy. Simply observe the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/predict-the-future-using-your-fingernails-and-other-weird-methods/
