This map, or geoid, shows the contours of the earth in a more precise manner than ever before. It was constructed with measurements taken by Europe's Goce satellite. Launched in 2009, the sleek satellite flies p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/05/map-of-the-earths-gravity/In a 2007 article in The Independent (UK), sports historian Nicholas Hobbes explains that gloves were introduced to make competitions bloodier and briefer. Gloves distribute a blow, but they also add weight to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/bare-knuckle-boxing-is-actually-safer-than-using-gloves/Joan Ginther of Bishop, Texas has won multi-million dollar lottery payouts four times. Most recently, she won $10 million: Each of Ginther's triumphs has netted her a seven-figure sum of money and her winnings no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/woman-wins-lottery-for-the-fourth-time/The Bridge of Love in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia, is a place where young women traditionally go to affirm their ardor for their lovers. A woman will write the name of her beloved on the lock, attach it to the railing, and t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/the-bridge-of-padlocked-love/Get a taste of Independence Day celebrations of the past with a slide show of vintage postcards from collectors Scott Henderson and Richard Sheaff. Now this is Americana at its finest! Early 20th-century postcar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/fourth-of-july-postcards/Law enforcement agents in Ecuador discovered a fairly modern, long-range submarine built by narcotics smugglers. It was about to launch for a trip to North America: The sophisticated camouflaged vessel has a conn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/ecuadoran-drug-smuggling-submarine/No matter where you are or what you are supposed to be doing, you can be watching TV! Block out everyone around you and stay in your own little world with the TV Hat! Now there's no reason to ever t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/tv-hat/(YouTube Link) Clay Shirky is a tech pundit and a professor of new media at New York University. In this video, he argues that lolcats represent human progress because they are a demonstration of "cognitive surplus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/lolcats-are-a-sign-of-human-progress/Laura Cesari made a set of beaded necklaces that are patterned after the orbits of our solar system. Each one shows either the entire solar system or a planet and the orbits of its moons in proportionate distances:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/solar-system-necklace/When I was a kid my vision of my own adulthood was based on The Jetsons. I imagined myself whizzing around futuristic buildings in my own little air car and landing on my home's helipad just in time for my ev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/terreform-one-sustainable-city/Flipper Guitar Spatula - $9.9550% Rock, 50% Roll, 100% Silicone Spatula. Behold, the Flipper Guitar Spatula from our friends Gama-Go, available from the NeatoShop: LinkAnd please remember, don't flip the bird like old cr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/flipper-guitar-spatula/Spirit of '76 by A.M. Willard Yankee Doodle went to town, A-riding on a pony; He stuck a feather in his hat, And call it macaroni. This Fourth of July, amaze...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/yankee-doodle-fun-facts/Photo: Christina House/LA TimesThat's the first Disneyland admission ticket ever sold. It was purchased by Roy O. Disney (Walt Disney's older brother) for $1 in 1955.Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles Times has a fascinati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/the-first-disneyland-admission-ticket-ever-sold/Oh, these interlocking wooden name puzzles called "Nuzzle" by John Christenson is absolutely gorgeous! Nuzzles® are custom designed handmade wooden name puzzles crafted by John Christenson since 2008, e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/nuzzle-handmade-name-puzzle-by-john-christenson/This Fourth of July, please please please leave the fireworks to the professionals. Here's why:Suffolk County police say 36-year-old Eric Smith was using a 3-foot long metal tube to shoot mortars from the street near...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/disarmed-by-fireworks/Cardon Webb prowls the streets of Queens, New York, in search of badly made, handwritten fliers and announcements, and "upgrade" them into stylish ones.Are his redesigned fliers better than the original? Maybe,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/cardon-copy-redesigning-the-lost-cat-flier/Photo: Colombia National Police/APThe World Cup fever is everywhere, and everyone wants a piece of the buzz, including Colombian drug lords:Fans worldwide have fashioned replicas of the World Cup trophy out of everyt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/world-cup-trophy-made-from-cocaine/Pizzacone is a new Manhattan restaurant where you can buy the contents of a pizza stuffed into a cone: The dough cones are shipped to Pinto daily from a Connecticut bakery, and each Pizzacone is made to order...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/03/pizzacone/This is an interesting story that includes beauty queens, feminists, terrorists and even Bob Hope. There were two separate protests at the Royal Albert Hall on 20 November 1970. One of them, the iconic flour-bomb d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/03/miss-world-and-the-angry-brigade/Nearly 140 years ago, famed explorer David Livingstone was stuck in a remote village in present-day Congo, suffering from a particularly nasty disease that consumed his flesh and skin. Most of his expedition had either d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/03/livingstone-letter-from-bambarre/Remote Control Zombie - $23.95 This is like me every morning: this Remote Control Zombie walks and moans on your command. All you have to do is push a button on the brain-shaped...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/03/remote-control-zombie/When Marvin Hunter and Kim Silver of Martelle, Iowa, got married, they decided to incorporate their love of bow hunting into the wedding ceremony:The bride looked lovely, if a little hard to see against the wooded ba...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/03/bow-hunters-wed-in-tree-stand-clad-in-camo/Artists get inspirations from many things in life, but it's probably safe to say that Lorraine Ashley's inspiration is quite unique.You see, Lorraine suffers from a rare medical condition called catamenial pneumothorax....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/03/artist-turned-menstruating-lungs-into-art/Fire up the Bluesmobile, Blues Brothers fans! We're going for a ride in celebration of a very good news: three decades after the release of the movie, The Blues Brothers got the nod from the Catholic Church.Call it &...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/03/the-blues-brothers-got-the-nod-from-the-catholic-church/(YouTube Link) Nissa, a Border Collie owned by YouTube user Epic1, will stop at nothing to get her frisbee back. via Bits & Pieces | Previously: Tree-Climbing Colliedogs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/03/tree-climbing-dog/Wave Rock is an unusual landform in southwestern Australia. It looks like a giant wave of water that is about to crash. This feature was caused by the erosion of soft rock below the harder top. It measures 14 mete...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/03/wave-rock/Artist Dalton Ghetti sculpts pencil leads. The work is very challenging, and he often works on multiple projects, so it can take him a decade to finish a single piece. From a 2007 article about him in The New Y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/03/sculpted-pencil-leads/The symbolism of historic icons usually gets simplified over the years, and often co-opted by groups with their own agendas. Along the way, the actual history gets lost, which is the point of this Cracked article 8 Histo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/03/8-historic-symbols-that-mean-the-opposite-of-what-you-think/During this holiday weekend in the USA, you may be looking for something to read in between picnics and parades. We've posted a lot of links for you this week, so just in case you've found it hard to keep up, he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/03/this-week-at-neatorama-10/(YouTube link) The annual Keep Austin Weird Festival took place just last weekend in Austin, Texas. Who better to show us what it's all about than Zach Anner? This is the third part of his Zach Anner Rolls Over Au...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/03/the-keep-austin-weird-festival/
