The website for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Cal Tech is reporting the discovery of carbon buckyballs in space. "We found what are now the largest molecules known to exist in space," said astronomer Jan Cami of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/carbon-buckyballs-found-in-space/It doesn't get much more random than this, Neatoramanauts! College Humor presents: a chameleon eating a cricket off a sumo wrestler's face, captured in super slo-mo goodness.Hit play or go to http://www.collegehumor.com/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/chameleon-eating-a-bug-off-a-sumo-wrestlers-face/Last day to vote!! Arm Rotating Girl has taken the lead by A LOT! And we just read in the comments that Star Wars Playing Unicycle Riding Guy has decided to sell his iPad, should he win, and donate all the proceeds to Gu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/gtfo-finalists/Team StarKid, a troupe of University of Michigan students and grads came up with a sequel to the musical parody, A Very Potter Musical, that went viral last year.Behold, A Very Potter Sequel:The StarKid twenty-someth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/a-very-potter-sequel/If you decide to be cremated when the time comes, your choice of final resting places will be much greater than if you were to be buried. Mental_floss takes a look at some of the more, hmm ...imaginative ways people have...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/oh-the-places-your-ashes-will-go/Yellow-bellied marmots in Colorado are gaining weight and producing more offspring compared to thirty years ago. The difference is attributed to climate change. In the Rocky Mountains, these marmots usually hibernate ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/hefty-marmots/Most articles of apparel are subject to what might be termed style churning. Consumers are accustomed to seasonal modifications, new variations, and occasional eruptions of stylistic insanity. Women’s clothing is esp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/possibilities-for-mutation-in-necktie-design/The Valencia Club in Penryn, California had been closed for a year when 29-year-old Travis Kevie helped himself to the business. He broke in and posted a sign that the bar was open. Kevie sold drinks for four days until...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/man-broke-into-bar-and-opened-it/Literally one day after I wrote a post about the Haunted Mansion, Disney announced at Comic Con that they are going to make a second movie based on the famed ride. I know I'm not the only one who remembers that the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/disney-making-new-haunted-mansion-movie/(vimeo link) The Kleptones mashed up the Beatles song "Come Together" with a lot of other songs, and Crumbs Chief pieced together a video for it as part of the Videotones project. How many of these dance scenes do you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/epic-dance-video/This guy dropped some food on his iPad and came up with the idea of the iDish. Nothing revolutionary; he's just using his iPad as a dish, often with some appetizing food or fancy dishes displayed on the screen to mak...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/the-idish/Lifehacker often shares a look inside interesting workplaces, and today featured the headquarters of Etsy, the website at which crafters can sell their homemade treasures. In a series of pictures, you can see that th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/inside-the-etsy-offices/The giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands have benefited from the captive breeding program initiated at the Charles Darwin Researched Station. The tortoises are released when large enough to defend themselves against...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/gentle-giant-the-tragedy-of-lonesome-george/Watch Russian military tanks maneuvering as if they were dancing, as they perform in a precision drill called The Invincible and the Legendary. Andrei Melanyin, seated with his legs crossed, watches the tanks p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/tank-ballet/I can't think of too many things more unappetizing than brushing your teeth with black or brown toothpaste. Several such pastes are in this list of Ten Strange Toothpastes, as they contain charcoal or chocolate. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/ten-strange-toothpastes/(YouTube link) Turn your handwriting into a font! Pilot Pens asks you to use your ink pen at least once more to write out your letters, then feed them into their font generator. Download your personal font, and then y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/pilot-handwriting/British brewery BrewDog, noted for its quest to make the world's strongest beer, is now selling bottles of beer in the prepared bodies of dead squirrels and stoats. Because, you know, that's what people want. The p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/beer-served-in-dead-squirrels/On July 11, thirty people set a world record when they observed a total eclipse for over 9 minutes. What's so special about that? Well, the longest anyone can observe an eclipse is just over 7 minutes, and this one w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/chasing-the-moons-shadow/Tom Broadbent, a student at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, built a machine that harvests the kinetic energy of water that is flushed down a toilet. It's called HighDro Power and can save about £926 in a s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/household-turbine-powered-by-your-toilets-wastewater/Alex mentioned it briefly the other day, but I thought Matt Blum's odyssey was worthy of another post a) in case you missed Alex's and b) because you just can't ever get enough bacon, right? Right! So our friend over...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/matt-blums-great-bacon-odyssey/By A.J. Jacobs For my book, The Year of Living Biblically, I spent 12 months trying to follow every rule in the Old Testament. Even the obscure one-like stoning adulterers (I used pebbles) and never shavi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/5-confusing-biblical-rules-and-what-they-may-mean/Would you like to have giant robot arms with which to crush your enemies? Okay, that's a dumb question. Of course you would! Etsy seller giantcardboardrobots makes them: Each arm is approximately 5' 6" in lengt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/giant-cardboard-robot-arms/Hello Neatoramanauts! It's time for this week's What Is It? game. Can you tell us what the function of the strange contraption above?Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please. You can, howeve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/what-is-it-game-146/(YouTube Link) This time-lapse video shows the changing moods of people in America over the course of a day, as ascertained by emotional keywords that they use on Twitter. It was created by computer scientist Alan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/twitter-mood-map-of-the-united-states/You can spice up your Twitter feed by following characters from movies, TV, and literature! Twitter is full of people who don't exist, but have plenty to say anyway. Buzzfeed searched for the most entertaining of tho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/the-28-best-fictional-characters-on-twitter/One tree + four mirrors = an entire forest! Step into a small booth and experience an infinite number of trees. This installation by DUS Architects was shown to folks in Oosterdokskade, Amsterdam last month. http...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/unlimited-urban-woods-pavilion/Michel Lefaivre is a gunsmith who makes miniature, functional firearms. Pictured above is one example of his work, a 1/4 scale Gras rifle model 1874. Lefaivre writes about how he does it: Each part starts from a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/the-miniature-guns-of-michel-lefaivre/Potsdam University in Germany is offering formal instruction in flirting to IT graduate students: The 440 students enrolled in the master's degree course will learn how to write flirtatious text messages and emails, i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/university-offers-flirting-class-to-computer-science-students/Unless otherwise noted, all photos by Zeon Santos. Since I was a kid, I loved ghosts and haunted houses and Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion has always been one of my favorites and I’m sure many of you agree. But what...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/neatorama-facts-haunted-mansion/
