Well, it's not laser shark but nature is definitely taking a step towards the ultimate formation of the Sharktopus. Behold, ladies and gentlemen: the world's first hybrid shark! Scientists said on Tuesday that they ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/worlds-first-hybrid-shark/Princess Platter - $19.95 Are you looking for the perfect dish set for your precious little princess? You need the Princess Platter from the NeatoShop. This fantastic princess castle set includes: Plate Bowl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/princess-platter/In 2006, a street artist who goes by the name Posterchild left signs in Toronto that would lead reasonably intelligent residents to conclude that the Batman had left Gotham City. I mean, if you saw a Batarang stuck i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/evidence-of-batman/This amazing LEGO sculpture of a Hyperion Battlecruiser from the video game Starcraft 2 was made by Sven Jungo, who used over 15000 LEGO bricks to build the highly detailed starship and must throw his back out every...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/hyperion-battlecruiser-from-starcraft-2-built-out-of-legos/When it comes to "discovering" new species of animals, I think it's more about having found where they've been hiding themselves from humanity and less about discovering brand new species. I mean, most of the anim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/11-new-animal-species-discovered-in-2011/(YouTube Link) With the start of a new calendar year, movie studios have started rolling out teasers and previews for their upcoming features, to ensure that ticket sales are high. Personally, I don't really care abo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/a-preview-of-animated-features-being-released-in-2012/(YouTube link) The Tweeting Cat Toy is handy for keeping up with your cat's activities while you're gone, but wouldn't it be nice to pet your cat or even groom him from a remote location? Taylor Veltrop hooked togethe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/robot-brushes-cat/There's a good reason why this Spitfire is painted pink. It helped its pilot hide in the clouds. Esther Inglis-Arkell explains how: To make sure they were rarely seen from above, these planes were painted to fly just...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/why-some-world-war-ii-planes-were-painted-pink/It is not unknown in the annals of history for warring powers to continue to trade with each other, on a limited basis, during active hostilities. But journalist Adam Hochschild found a remarkable episode of it during Wo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/wartime-trade-between-belligerents-of-actual-war-materials/(Video Link) This is the most fascinating video that you will see all day, and possibly all week. Two champion cyclists try to be the fastest at this thousand-meter race by moving the slowest. In fact, the two compe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/bicycle-sprint-race-moves-at-snails-pace/Guess what? I got a fever! And the only prescription.. is more drones! Thankfully, the US Navy has developed the Cicada Mark III disposable drone. Technicians have equipped the Tempest Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with tw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/navy-drone-comes-equipped-with-its-own-baby-drones/Snapshots normally capture narrow slices of time, but photographer Michael Chrisman preserved an entire year. He aimed a pinhole camera at Toronto's skyline and exposed the photosensitive paper inside on January 1, 2...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/2011-as-a-single-year-long-exposure-from-a-pinhole-camera/You can buy a pen like this, but the more ambitious tinkerers among you may try to make their own. Instructables user Mrballeng shows you how to make a reliable click ballpoint pen with two .30-06 cases. Find photos,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/how-to-make-a-rifle-cartridge-case-pen/Erica has a sweet tooth, and that's a good thing because she's a dental student. She made these cupcakes and you can, too, by following her instructions at the link. When you see the Baron, remember the tooth! The to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/tooth-shaped-cupcakes/Psst! Wanna get a good score on the SAT? Forget studying - the (criminally) smart way is to buy the perfect score. Here's the story by Alison Stewart at 60 Minutes of how one really sma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/perfect-sat-score-for-sale/(YouTube link) Inspired by the video game WipeOut, researchers at the Japan Institute of Science and Technology incorporated quantum levitation into a miniature race track. Or it's viral marketing for the game. -via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/quantum-wipeout/Men, want to go swimming in Papua New Guinea? Pray you don't encounter this lil' fella, lovingly named the "ball cutter" fish by the locals for the obvious reason:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/ball-cutter-fish/If you're not following @neatorama on Twitter, you don't know what you're missing! There you'll find all kinds of neato things we don't always feature here on the blog, like special contests! Oh, and if that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/neatoramanauts-are-community-3/Have you taken a look at your 401(k) recently? Did you find that you were plundered by the pin-striped pirates of the stock market? Well, a bottle of wine would make you feel better, espe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/screwed-by-wall-street-corkscrew/Marc de Vinck's wife misses her new cat when she goes to work and always bug him for updates. So what's a geek to do? Chester is a spunky little stray who’s always...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/kitty-twitty-cat-toy-lets-your-cat-tweet-you-any-time-it-wants/Some things may be obvious to you and me, but - surprise! - that's not good enough for research scientists. After all, questioning assumptions and testing hypotheses are what science...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/pigs-love-mud-and-other-obvious-scientific-findings/And they would know, wouldn't they? In 2009, a man found a dead mouse in his can of Mountain Dew and sued the company. The company argued that the claim is impossible, as no mouse corpse could have survived the corrosive...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/man-finds-dead-mouse-in-mountain-dew-sues-pepsi-co-pepsi-co-argues-that-mice-dissolve-in-mountain-dew/(YouTube link) Yesterday, after 22 years, Universal officially closed down the Jaws ride at Universal Orlando for good. Inside the Magic produced a tribute video to the now-bygone ride. For those who never got to expe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/a-tribute-to-the-jaws-ride/The tech world is talking about the new Steve Jobs action figure from Inicons that is eerily realistic. It comes with a ton of accessories, but no iPhone or iPad. The figure should be available in late February for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/the-new-steve-jobs-action-figure-is-uncanny/Four years ago, we published an article called Life Imitates The Simpsons, containing six plots from the TV show The Simpsons which later happened in the real world. In the years since, many more *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/13-simpsons-jokes-that-actually-came-true/(YouTube link) There are 15, or possibly more, TV show themes in this medley by the Koren Ensemble. So far, I haven't found a cheat list, and there's no way I could name them all. See, I didn't even know the Paula Col...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/tv-theme-medley/E. Robert Schulman and C. Virginia Cox Charlottesville, Virginia Abstract In this paper we demonstrate that writing a Ph.D. dissertation can have many benefits. Not onl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/03/how-to-write-a-ph-d-dissertation/
