Love chocolate? You better stock up - the price of chocolate could skyrocket as a British financier has cornered the world's supply of cocoa bean:The cocoa beans, which are sitting in warehouses either in The Netherl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/cocoa-bean-market-cornered/The undying devotion of fanboys to Apple is nothing new, but researchers have reframed Apple's relationship to its consumers/fans into something else: religion.There are scholars who study Apple's consumers as religi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/the-religion-of-apple/Attention cell biologists: think that you know all cell components? Nucleus? Nucleolus? Basic stuff, right?Now how about this: nucleolinus. If you never heard of it, you'd be excused - the nucleolinus is a structured tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/scientists-rediscovered-mysterious-cell-structure-the-nucleolinus/This bank robbery business may just be a bit too complicated for some criminals. Take, for instance, the lesson this bank robber learned the hard way:A woman suspected of robbing two Butte County banks last week was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/bank-robber-got-locked-out-of-getaway-car/Harrison Krix of Volpin Props spent 17 months creating the Daft Punk helmet worn by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. The result? Pure awesomeness!Links: Build video [YouTube clip] | Volpin Props website - via Blame It On The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/daft-punk-helmet-2/Why do poor people often have many kids, even though having a lot of children surely makes their tough lives even harder? Don't blame them - blame evolutionary biology:There is no reason to view the poor as stupid or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/evolutionary-biology-explains-why-poor-people-have-lots-of-kids-at-a-young-age/Sick and tired of getting their signposts stolen over the years, the villagers of Shitterton decided to make one that's a bit more difficult to steal: a stone sign that weigh more than a ton.Ian Ventham, 62, chairman...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/try-stealing-that-now-punks/When chemistry professor Scott Bur of Gustavus Adolphus College left for a week's vacation, he returned to a very shiny office:Nothing was done to Bur’s office last year, so the students needed to amp up their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/chemistry-professor-foiled/O. Ray Courtney was a designer from the 1930s-1950s who applied Art Deco stylistic principles to motorcycles. Pictured above is a 1936 motorcycle that he built in that style from a 1930 Henderson, carefully restored...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/lovely-art-deco-motorcycle/(Video Link) If you were hoping that, after the Robopocalypse, you could earn your soylent green by flipping pancakes for our robot overlords, you're out of luck. Human researchers at the Italian Institute of Techn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/robot-learns-how-to-flip-pancakes/Canadian Air Force pilot Capt. Brian Bews experienced a breakdown while flying into Lethbridge County Airport in Lethbridge, Alberta. He safely ejected from his CF-18 Hornet immediately before it impacted on the ground....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/pilot-ejects-a-second-before-jet-crash/Sometimes things are worth waiting for. Guédelon in France is a castle being built using only medieval techniques. As such (and perhaps unsurprisingly) it is the first castle of its type to be built in France for ge...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/guedelon-castle-%e2%80%93-new-medieval-chateau-rises-in-france/Sacrebleu! France has just passed a rule stating that anyone insulting the French national flag could be fined €1,500: France has introduced a rule to protect its national f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/insulting-the-french-flag-could-cost-you/If an airline loses your luggage, shouldn't it refund your baggage fee? That seems reasonable enough, so when American Airlines refuses to refund $25 fee after losing Danielle Covarrubias' b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/airlines-sued-over-baggage-fee/What's 36 feet tall, made of straw, and peers over the Nantwich horizon? A meerkat, of course! Snugburys Ice Cream Farm of Hurleston in England erects a big straw statue every summer. The concept started in 1998 with a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/big-straw-meerkat/Several original posts this past week at Neatorama had to do with the Disney company in one way or another. Stacy Conradt stepped back in from her maternity leave and wrote Toy Story Movie Trivia. Jill Harness w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/this-week-at-neatorama-13/The Lesser of the Two Weevils - $9.95For entomologists, the choice is clear: always pick the lesser of the two weevils. This clever design by Chris Murphy is my current bug T-shirt favorite! Link | More Science T-ShirtsT...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/the-lesser-of-the-two-weevils/YouTube user lorocker shows some amazing editing chops with this Seinfeld "trailer" clip, titled Serenity Now, re-mixed into a thriller hinting at the dark side of Newman.Not to be missed: Hit play or go to Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/serenity-now-a-seinfeld-thriller/Ten years after the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade tradition started, the very first Disney character balloon to appear was none other than Mickey Mouse.Mickey measured over 50 feet tall and was constructed by the Goodye...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/macys-thanksgiving-parade-1934-first-ever-mickey-mouse-balloon/When artists talk about period piece, they usually mean work set in a particular era. But when Hawaii-based artist Lani Beloso titled her art series The Period Piece, she was being very literal:As a long sufferer of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/the-period-piece-by-lani-beloso/Here's a pretty nifty night light for LEGO lovers: the LEGO Brick Light ($15.95) is a portable LED light that can be attached to walls, under shelves or anywhere light is needed. The unit easily detaches from the mount j...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/lego-brick-light/Police in Larkspur, Colorado investigated a complaint of a car with the horn blaring for 45 minutes in the middle of the night. They found the car, with a bear inside it. What's more, the bear had taken...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/bear-breaks-into-car-goes-on-joy-ride/Mike Tyson has gone from fearsome boxing champion to convicted rapist to sideshow fighter - all throughout his life, it's always been easier for all of us to caricaturize him than to understand him. That's why this tell-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/mike-tyson-as-youve-never-known-him-before/(You Tube link)Does your opossum need a pedicure? This video will tell you all you need to know. Just choose the polish colour. (If it gets restless give it a grape.)opossum...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/the-feet-are-the-foundation-of-the-opossum/(YouTube Link) Located in a Japanese mall called Canal City, this fountain is programmed immaculately to "paint" the air with falling water. Canal City (Wiki) via Bits and Piecesjapan, Arts amp Crafts, water, com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/computer-controlled-fountain/Biologists have determined that this tiny cave salamander, nicknamed the "human fish" has a maximum lifespan of 100 years. For a creature of that size, that's quite unusual: The salamander, also called olm and Proteu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/human-fish-is-extraordinarily-long-lived-for-a-creature-its-size/(Video Link) This Academy Award-nominated short film is about an old woman who tells her little granddaughter the tale of Sleeping Beauty. But grandma has some anger issues with people in her past (and present) and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/sleeping-beauty-has-some-personal-issues/Seoul-based designers Jeong-Min Lee and Hyoung-Min Park made packing tape that creates the impression of hinges wherever you lay it down. It's called "X-Tape". Link via Super Punch | Photo: mmiinnpackaging, tape,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/packing-tape-with-hinges/Someone in Liverpool came up with the brilliant idea of equipping motorcycles with firefighting equipment. Liverpool is the first city in the UK to roll out two of the £30,000 bikes, which have pumps with a rang...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/firefighting-motorbike/Elton John and Lee Hall are writing a musical based on Animal Farm, George Orwell's 1945 allegory about the perils of communism: Lee, who won Olivier and Tony awards for his book and lyrics for the stage Bill...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/george-orwells-animal-farm-will-be-a-musical/
