(Video Link) Kim Pimmel placed a magnet in the middle of a pile of soap bubbles and then poured ferrofluid along the outer edge. Watch magnetic forces pull the ferrofluid through the bubbles! It's an amazing demonst...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/magnetic-bubbles/Drew Robarge, a technician at the National Museum of American History in Washington, came upon a unique pair of eyeglasses. They were donated to the museum in 1982, but otherwise, he has learned nothing about them. W...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/the-smithsonian-is-trying-to-find-the-origin-of-these-battlestar-galactica-glasses/(Video Link) Patton Oswalt's book Zombie Spaceship Wasteland includes his reflections on the impact of role-playing games upon his life. This is followed by a lengthy poem entitled "The Song of Ulvaak," whi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/patton-oswalts-the-song-of-ulvaak-put-to-music/Scientists discover new species in the deep forests of Borneo and the Amazon all the time, but finding a new species of bird in the well-trodden United States of America? Now that's a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/first-new-u-s-bird-species-in-37-years/(YouTube link) Cornell Creative Machines Lab connected two chatbots to each other to see what would happen. You could call this a conversation, and however odd it is, it honestly makes more sense than some chats I'v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/a-conversation/You can think of this as the Inception of stop-motion films. YouTuber EranAmir presents this video clip of 500 people holding more than 1,500 pictures all around Israel, thus creating...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/the-inception-of-stop-motion-film/Think that your overdue library book's late fee was bad? Well, that ain't nothin' compared to what the Pentagon paid in late fees in returning rented containers ......
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/pentagon-racked-720-million-in-late-fees/Many studies have shown that being ugly is actually an economic disadvantage: it's a fact that good looking people make more money than ugly ones. But if you've got a face that only a m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/affirmative-action-for-ugly-people/That's right. The first Lollapalooza was held twenty years ago in 1991. Feel old, yet alternative (ironically, now mainstream) rockers? Via Accordion Guy lollapalooza...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/lollapalooza-was-20-years-ago-do-you-feel-old-yet/Talk about a tough audience. Granted, it can be hard to take a photo that everyone is happy with, but recently a Long Beach newspaper photographer was arrested for taking pictures of "no aesthetic value." Ouch. Long Bea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/man-arrested-over-photo-of-oil-refinery/New York City didn't see as much destruction as they had expected, but many communities up and down the east coast were severely impacted by Hurricane Irene. Buzzfeed has a roundup of frightening photographs from var...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/photos-of-hurricane-irene-aftermath/This Twaggie is based on a Tweet by @thesulk. If true, it would go a long way toward explaining why Rachmaninov's music is so difficult for us mere mortals to play. Link Previously at Neatorama: Another possible e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/rachmaninov/How to Be a Retronaut has a collection of portraits of married couples a hundred years back or more. Some look strangely alike, and they all look fairly uncomfortable posing for the photographer. http://www.howtobear...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/victorian-husbands-and-wives/A man entered Eastern Bank in South Boston with the intention to rob it Thursday, but left empty-handed. He went to a teller and presented a note demanding money, but she said her window was closed. The unidentified man...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/no-cutting-in-line-for-bank-robber/(YouTube link) If Pac-Man was a first person shooter game, this is what it would look like. Now, someone needs to make this playable ASAP! -via The Daily What Geekvideo game, pacman...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/fps-pac-man/The following is an article from the book History's Lists from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. During America's wars, they were considered entertainers more than harbingers of fear to U.S. troops. But sometimes medi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/now-hear-this-radio-war-propagandists/Apparently,the king of Jordan is a huge Star Trek fan so like a true Trekkie, he wants to show his love for the series as much as possible. The only difference -he's ridiculously rich. So he's decided to build his own St...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/jordans-1-5-billion-star-trek-theme-park/If you read There, I Fixed It, then you already know there are a lot of people with stupid solutions to serious safety concerns, but just in case you can't get enough, there's always this BuzzFeed collection of terri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/11-horrible-osha-violations/Ursus Wehrli is an artist and comedian from Switzerland. In his latest picture book, The Art of Clean Up, he meticulously rearranges components of photographs to be neat and tidy and completely meaningless....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/the-art-of-clean-up/I know I just shared a Flickr set of alternative histories with pop culture icons, but Etsy seller Matthew Buchholz has an equally notable art series featuring artwork of historical events reimagined to incorporate monst...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/alternative-histories-filled-with-monsters/The hurricane has come and gone now, but after seeing so many pictures of people preparing for the disaster, I have to admit that this gallery of pugs anticipating the worst is a breath of fresh (and cute) air. Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/pugs-preparing-for-the-hurricane/Flickr user Agan Harahap created a great series of images depicting heroes, villains and other pop icons Photoshopped into historical photographs. The result is a funny take on world history filled with icons we all...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/pop-icons-in-historical-pictures/It's hard to believe that people once thought we'd all be living in domes by the year 2000, but this delightful retro article from Popular Science confirms that the future is a lot squarer than people in the 60s and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/29/when-geodesic-domes-were-all-the-rage/Heavy pop, liquid designs and sheer surreal madness collide in Exit Man's unusual artworks. These busy, colorful pieces use bold, curved lines to guide you around the scene, and looking at them kinda feels like takin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/28/the-comically-surreal-artwork-of-exit-man/(YouTube Link) If you think your life is strange, watch this animated short and thank your lucky stars that you don't have to deal with the strangeness this guy deals with every day. Made by Santiago Grasso, this sh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/28/simplistic-stylish-and-strange-animated-short-the-employment/For a century, Russia and the United States have considered building a tunnel or a bridge across the 64-mile Bering Strait -- the body of water that separates Siberia and Alaska. Now the Russian government is making seri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/28/russia-plans-to-build-tunnel-to-alaska/(Video Link) Benjamin Krempel founded a company called PumpTire, which is marketing a rather unique bicycle tire. It has a partially open tube on the outer circumference. As the wheel turns, it opens and closes the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/28/tire-that-self-inflates-whenever-it-rolls/Hurricane Irene is causing havoc along the east coast, but some business owners in its path retained their sense of humor, at least long enough to thumb their noses at the storm -just before evacuating. See a collect...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/28/hurricane-irene-store-signs/Who says that street art has to be for young punks? A graffiti course in Germany is teaching the art of spraying to an unlikely segment of the population ... senior citizens!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/28/graffiti-for-grandmas/We've featured the Ekranoplan, the insanely huge sea plane (something between a hovercraft and an airplane) developed by the Soviets before, but most photos of the beast we'v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/28/ekranoplan-in-dry-dock/
