A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) addresses one the programs the TSA uses in airport security checks, called Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT). The program employees 3,00...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/TSA-Program-costs-200-Million-a-Year-Does-It-Work/Most americans have only enjoyed sesame seeds on the top of their cheeseburger buns, but they have a delightfully rich, peanuty taste when eaten alone. That's why this new black sesame McFlurry from McDonald's sounds so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/We-Need-to-Travel-to-Korea-to-Try-This-Black-Sesame-McFlurry/Ah Choo! Pepper Mill (peppercorns not included)The holidays are almost here. Show your holiday guests that you have an eye for design and a nose for finding the most unique table top items with the Ah Choo! Pepper Mill f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/Ah-Choo-Pepper-Mill-2/This newspaper retraction took 150 years to see print, but like they say, better late than never. The Patriot News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, published a bad review of a local speech which they referred to as "silly re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/Bad-Review-from-1863-Finally-Retracted/Turkey is great and all, but all that chewing can just be so tiring, and there isn't nearly enough sugar in it. That's why this year, I'm ordering my Thanksgiving dinner from Portland ice cream joint Salt & Straw.&nb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/This-Thanksgiving-Eat-Your-Dinner-In-Ice-Cream-Form/[http://youtu.be/b6Q9nJsAvBk] (YouTube link)The more we learn about the planet Mars, the more fascinating it becomes. Evidence beamed to Earth from our rovers tells us what Mars was like in its distant past. Billions of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/Mars-Evolution/Street luge is a lot like the winter sport of luge. You lie down a sled and roll down a hill, hopefully faster than any other competitor while not dying.Normally, luge sleds are powered just by gravity. But Daz Fellows,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/Jet-Engine-Powered-Street-Luge/What's living in your refrigerator?November 15th is Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day. Yay! It only makes sense that this date was chosen, because you're going to have to make some room in there before you buy the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/Happy-Clean-Out-Your-Refrigerator-Day/(Video Link)If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then monkeys are from Mercury and cats are from Neptune. Even so, like men and women, they've been known to find common ground with one another. In fac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/Enjoy-An-Interspecies-Dinner-From-Thailand/Chameleons are over. When it comes to unlocking the secrets of camouflage, scientists are turning to the octopus.(Image credit: Flickr user DaugaardDK) At the age of 21, snorkeling the clear, blue waters off Pan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/The-New-Kings-of-Disguise/(Image: Radoslaw Botev, modified)Sweden and Switzerland are two countries somewhere in Europe--or so I've heard. They are, it turns out, not the same place, nor interchangeable.Chinese tourists, however,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/Sweden-and-Switzerland-Launch-Joint-Awareness-Program-to-Help-Tourists-Tell-the-Two-Counties-Apart/Chances are you never felt hungry after looking at a pinecone, but chef Dominique Ansel, the creator of the Cronut, might just change all that. That's because he's created delicious desserts that look just like a pinecon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/Want-to-Eat-A-Pinecone-You-Might-Want-to-Try-This-One/Timothy Archibald is a photographer in San Francisco. We’ve previously featured one of his humorous works: chickens dressed as famous historical figures.But he’s got another project that’s more serious....
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/Photographer-Photographs-the-World-of-His-Autistic-Son/Mickey & Minnie Mistletoe Salt & Pepper ShakersAdd a little spice to your holiday table with the Mickey & Minnie Mistletoe Salt & Pepper Shakers from the NeatoShop. You are sure to fall in love with this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/Mickey-Minnie-Mistletoe-Salt-Pepper-Shakers/[http://youtu.be/EYEHUOpwNvE] (YouTube link)NBA stars sink basketballs to play the tune "Jingle Bells." Clever idea, but I think they could have taken a little more time to make it look real. And why are we listening to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/Jingle-Hoops/Johnny Cash Ostrich AttackBuddysteinWelcome Home WookieAlfSomething strange inspires the creative mind of Erika Jane Mallette, an artist in Austin. I’m not sure that I want to know what it is.But I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/15/Ericka-Jane-Malettes-Delightfully-Surreal-Paintings/[http://youtu.be/qY-d46-gPMI] (YouTube link)Look at these adorable new babies! They are twins, but obviously not identical, as one has a full head of hair. Watch them snuggle with each other as they get a therapeutic bat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/Bathing-Newborn-Twins/(Photo: adam w)Punks, ravers and members of other youth subcultures may grow up and become more ordinary and mainstream. But according to a sociologist, goths tend to stay more closely identified with th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/Why-Do-Goths-Stay-Goth-Long-after-Punks-and-Ravers-Have-Moved-on/The child may not be a precise artist, but he understood exactly what he was trying to create when he drew his grandmother. Yoni Lefevre, a designer in the Netherlands, asked children to draw pictures of their grandparen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/Kids-Drawings-of-Their-Grandparents-Recreated-in-Photographs/When EM2 Bud Cloud reconciled himself to the fact that he didn't have much longer to live, all he wanted to do was go down to the Navy shipyard and see the USS Dewey, his old ship when he was in the Navy himself...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/A-Sailors-Dying-Wish/(Photo: Joanne Lefson)Rupee was a homeless, starved and dying dog living in a garbage dump in northern India. Three months later, he reached one of the Mount Everest base camps located at 17,598 feet above sea level. He...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/A-Dog-on-Mount-Everest/After Colorado legalized recreational use of marijuana last year, city officials found themselves with a stinky problem. Literally! As industrial-scale growing of marijuana ramps up, people in some parts of Denve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/Smell-of-Pot-in-the-Air-Call-the-Nasal-Ranger/[http://youtu.be/2JOVO8oejEY] (YouTube link)If you've been having a bad day and are tempted to think the world's gone to hell in a hand basket, take five minutes to watch these Valais Blacknose lambs gamboling about the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/Lots-of-Lambs/Noble Gases by Wirdou Sorry halogens, this club is for noble gases only. And what fetching elements these noble gases are: Krypton looks particularly genteel with a top hat! T-shirt illustrator extraordi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/Noble-Gases/X-Wing Fighter PlushCuddle up with your favorite Rebel Alliance vehicle. This adorable plush is in the shape of the X-Wing Fighter from Star Wars. It is the perfect plush toy for combating night terrors about dark...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/X-Wing-Fighter-Plush/In 1944-45, 12 inmates at Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania dug a tunnel with spoons to make their escape. Bank robber Willie Sutton took credit for the scheme, although burglar Clarence “Kliney” Kli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/The-Daring-Escape-From-the-Eastern-State-Penitentiary/Got a lot of unread books? The Balance Bookshelf by Chris Cushingham of Cush Design Studio lets you stack all the books you've read on one side of the "scale" and the unread ones on the other. It's a c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/The-Balance-Bookshelf/What would happen if history was written by critters instead of people? Well, things would be pretty much the same, but our old portraits would be a lot more interesting (and adorable). At least that's what the work...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/They-Will-Never-Take-Our-Bones/Do you think you could draw the United States, with the states, without looking at a map? It's a lot harder than you think! The staff at Buzzfeed tried it, with varying results (mostly funny). The above...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/Could-You-Draw-the-United-States/(Photo: Science Museum)Two hundred years ago, the United States and Britain were locked in a savage struggle known as the War of 1812. After Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated in 1814, Britain sent much of its vast military ca...
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