Get this: According to the 2010 Census report, ten of America's 100 largest cities have names that starts with a "C". How many can you name in five minutes? That's the challenge of today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_fl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/18/c-is-for-city/Lots of great skiing mountains also double as hiking trails in the warmer months. However this area in Austria has got to be the only place this doubles as a hiking spot and a great place to scuba dive. *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/18/austrian-lake-is-also-a-popular-hiking-spot/(YouTube link) Tommy doesn't want to share his bone with Lulu, despite the fact that Lulu wouldn't have taken it anyway. She's already stuffed! -via Arbroathdog, Cute, chihuahua...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/18/dog-defends-bone-from-plush-rival/Ray guns have been featured in everything from War of The Worlds t Star Wars, yet it seems a hand held ray gun is still a thing of science fiction. Here however is a history of the imaginary device as it appears in d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/18/a-celebration-of-the-ray-gun/What if you could put your baby on hold for twenty years? Would you do it? Scientists have now been able to achieve just that. Imagine being born at the age of 20. Doctors at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/18/embryo-frozen-for-20-years-gets-born/Some day devices will be readily available to help wheel chair bound people walk again. Watch the video at the link to see a paralyzed man walk with the help of an exoskeleton. A 22-year-old paraplegic college gradu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/18/paralyzed-student-uses-exoskeleton-to-walk-at-graduation/James Zwerg was a Freedom Rider who went to Montgomery, Alabama in 1961. As soon as he stepped off the bus, a mob grabbed him and beat him to a pulp. A photograph taken of Zwerg in the hospital was published nationwide a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/18/the-hero-in-the-picture/A female poodle fell out of the sky onto the grounds of Shorncliffe Nursing Home in Sechelt, British Columbia. How she came to be flying over the nursing home is explained by the deep talon marks in her back and sides,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/18/eagle-delivers-poodle-to-a-better-life/Will Carlough grew up with Star Wars (as did many of the internet generation) and was an avid fan. He discusses the process of recovery in an essay at Slate. In high school, I read more Star Wars novels than I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/18/the-five-stages-of-star-wars-grief/Scientists and health officials are pretty certain that the smallpox virus exists in only two places in the world: at the CDC in Atlanta and in a government laboratory in Russia. The World Health Organization declared th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/18/is-it-time-to-destroy-the-last-smallpox-stores/(vimeo link) This video from Bruton Stroube Studios is "designed to showcase food in a beautiful and unusual way." But really, it's just fun to see flying food! A second video showing how it was done is posted at St...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/18/breakfast-interrupted/The following is an article from the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research. by Steve Trimberger With the loss of Pluto, the number of major planets in our solar system has dropped to eight....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/18/limited-lifetime-of-the-solar-system/Hot Dog Hat - $7.45 Are you at a loss of what to get your Dad this Father's Day? He needs the Hot Dog Hat from the NeatoShop. No Father's Day cookout is complete without a grown man wearing a plush Hot Dog on his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/hot-dog-hat/All you need to do is turn off the lights to unleash this little girl's dreams -or you might call them nightmares. Link -Thanks, Richard Schumann!animation, dreams...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/ana-somnia/[https://youtu.be/igSE5_Nce28] (YouTube link)When you drop Mentos into a plastic Coke container, you might have a rocket. Or it might not work at all. Or it might surprise you! -via I Am Boredrocket, coke, Mentos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/mentos-fail/The physics of crossing the street just got more complex. I think that I'll just jaywalk. Link via Geekosystem | Photo: Jeff Wysaski Previously: Class Cancelled due to Portalcrosswalk, Portal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/portal-crosswalk/The late Paul Johnson of Carbon Hill, Ohio, collected pencil sharpers starting in the 1980s. His collection grew to over 3,400 distinct sharpeners, which he eventually housed in a shed that served as a museum. Johnso...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/the-pencil-sharpener-museum/Stephanie Vetter captured this photograph of an aurora over Jökulsárlón, a glacial lake in Iceland. It won an international competition for landscape astrophotography. Link via GizmodoIceland, aurora...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/the-end-is-nigh-and-it-is-beautiful/Planarians, a type of flatworm, reproduce by asexual fission. Cut one in half, and the missing parts will regrow until you have two planarians. Scientists have known for a while that the regeneration took place among...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/worm-regenerates-entire-body-from-a-single-cell/This would, in all actuality, be a great movie. Or at least a short film. The pairing of Wolverine and Animal is good, but Beaker is automatically funny in all things. deviantART user Rahzzah made this image to ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/the-x-muppets/This looks like a painting, but it is a photograph. Photographer Frans Lanting took this picture of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia. The orange is a sand dune rising in the background. It was chos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/camel-thorn-trees/Yes, really! The post isn't mislabeled. This is tattoo of a protein named after the Sega video game character. The man with this image writes: I got the tattoo because I am a cell biology student and love the ridi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/sonic-the-hedgehog-tattoo/What do we know about this madness? Nothing, but the stark computer programming manuals beside Pikathulhu tell us enough. via Kotaku | Photo: unknowncthulhu, Pokemon, Pikachu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/the-call-of-pikathulhu/Graduation Brain Cell - $9.95 Are you still looking for the perfect gift for your favorite graduate? Get them the Graduation Brain Cell from the NeatoShop. Yes, I know they wanted cash. Yes, this is an adorable ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/graduation-brain-cell/This lime-green Lego bike was just one of the highlights of the Brickmagic Lego convention in North Carolina earlier in May. Check out their Flickr photostream for tons of other amazing creations. http://www.obv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/lego-bicycle-non-functional-but-awesome/While some contend that there could exist extraterrestrial civilizations that have been around for a billion years and therefore a billion years more advanced than us, others stand by the Fermi Paradox which asserts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/the-billion-year-technology-gap/When I was a kid I planted a tree that grew over the rooftop of my house. At the time I thought that was pretty cool, but now I have seen this great gallery of The Strangest Trees on Earth, which you will agree are p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/the-strangest-trees-on-earth/Japan has been developing an alternative source of energy using wind power, however instead of traditional windmills this giant wind tower can utilize wind from different directions. Japan-based ZENA Systems is work...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/japanese-wind-tower/If you think American football and rugby are rough, then you should check out some of these Ancient sports. While some may be comparable to modern mixed martial arts, boxing and wrestling, others are pretty extreme i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/ancient-sports/Learning any language can be tough but it seems that the English language has plenty of detractors. This list illustrates different instances of homonyms that can come into conflict. My favorite is number seven:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/21-reasons-english-sucks/
