NASKART by Dann MatthewsWhen real auto race car drivers are replaced with virtual avatars that drive go-karts, throw banana peels on the track and launch flying turtle shells at the opposition racing will never be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Go-Kart-Or-Go-Home/(Maps: Google Maps)This is Machias Seal Island, a 20-acre island in the Bay of Fundy.You can't see it? Let's zoom in.Hmm. That doesn't help much. Let's zoom in some more.There it is! It's a speck of land that barely appe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Machias-Seal-Island-An-Ongoing-Border-Dispute-Between-the-United-States-and-Canada/As I type this, I have a demanding cat on my lap who thinks I have nothing better to do than pet her. She’d have plenty to do if I had a CATable! The CATable was designed by Ruan Hao of LYCS Archit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/CATable-A-Work-Desk-for-Cat-Owners/In this mod of Grand Theft Auto 4, you play Princess Anna from Frozen. She sings a foul-mouthed version of her sister’s song “Let It Go” while going on a murderous rampage around Liberty City....
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Grand-Theft-Frozen/(Image credit: Edwinb)Hollywood spends big bucks for lavish film sets on location. What happens to these sets when the movie wraps? Moving or reusing them costs more than they’re worth, but sometimes dismantli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/The-Post-Shooting-Life-of-Sixteen-Film-Sets/It took me several months, off and on, but my latest carpentry project is finally complete! It's a hanging cupboard that looks like Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.The door i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/I-Made-This-My-Little-Pony-Cabinet/[http://youtu.be/rbUsWXMLVfE] (YouTube link)Mean Girls is only ten years old? I thought it was much older than that. But I recall when it came out, that I meant to watch it because I love Tina Fey. But I didn&rs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Teens-React-to-Mean-Girls-10th-Anniversary/(Image Via Knithacker)(Image Via Lorna Watt)Yarnbombers add color and crocheted warmth to gray and sooty cityscapes, and their creations are the warmest and fuzziest works in the street art scene.Yarn enthusiasts Jill an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Crocheted-Monster-Benches-At-San-Franciscos-Ferry-Building/[http://youtu.be/UEIn8GJIg0E] (YouTube link)American drivers, imagine a busy intersection in a large city with no traffic lights and no traffic cops. This is the condition in many cities around the world. This intersecti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/A-City-Intersection-with-No-Traffic-Lights/(Video Link)Energy efficiency is a big part of “going green”, and delivering electricity to a long, lonely stretch of highway is not only a daunting dask- it’s simply inefficient.With the advancement of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/An-Energy-Efficient-Glow-In-The-Dark-Highway/This interactive map from Climate Central has the average temperatures of each state and how they've changed since the first Earth day in 1970. Click on a state to see its graph. The states that have warmed the most sinc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/US-Warming-Fast-Since-the-First-Earth-Day/Your Move, Creep 2014V by FuackaThere's a new sheriff in town, one who's more machine than man, and he's taking back the streets of Detroit and thanking people for their cooperation.Celebrate the return of everyone's fa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Dead-Or-Alive-Youre-Coming-With-Me/This beautiful looking (and probably tasting) dish is a skinned 5-foot alligator filled with a crawfish-based stuffing. It's the creation of the BBQ Pit Boys, a barbecuing federation that teaches members how to cook food...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Barbecued-Crawfish-Stuffed-Whole-Alligator/[http://vimeo.com/92502298] (vimeo link)Valentin Delluc is shushing down a mountain without touching the ground, with the help of a parachute! We get to tag along thanks to his helmet cam. Along the way, he grinds his sk...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/SpeedRiding/Waking up with some hair of the dog that bit you last night means something completely different when you’ve just spent the night in a B&B shaped like a beagle.This charming canine shaped cabin is called the Do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/A-Bed-And-Breakfast-Shaped-Like-A-Beagle/[http://vimeo.com/91210057] (vimeo link)When we say we are going off to “find ourselves,” we usually don’t mean it literally. That journey is literal for a disembodied robot hand! He wants to f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Out-of-Hand/(Coffee Time t-shirt now on sale at the NeatoShop)Caffeine--it's nature's wonder drug! And it's best consumed with coffee, often by spooning the grounds directly from the can into your mouth at 3 AM as a deadline nears.I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Psychological-Study-Coffee-Helps-You-Stay-Honest/Design student Joyce Lin created Study in Bird Motion, a kinetic sculpture made of mylar and popsicle sticks. When you crank the handle, it flaps like a bird! I want one -but my cats would destroy it in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Study-in-Bird-Motion/(Video Link)What was once something kids did while sitting around bored in class has now become a thing kids do while bored in class, while hanging out with friends, and also to impress people online.Whether yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/These-Guys-Make-Epic-Pen-Spinning-Look-Easy/(Photos: Ollie Harrop)Benjamin Rice, a designer in Manchester, UK, made this lamp for SPIN London, an urban bicycling show. Appropriately, he made it from old Raleigh Grifter children's bikes. In this da...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/X-Wing-Lamp-Lights-Up-the-Night/(Video Link)It’s safe to say that Spongebob Squarepants is not a scientifically accurate cartoon show, despite the fact that the squirrel wears a diving suit and the squid is a bit of a jerk.Toon heads do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Animated-Short-Scientifically-Accurate-Spongebob-Squarepants/While many Americans complain about the costs of healthcare: insurance, hospital bills, paperwork, and medicine, relatively few begrudge doctors making a good living. After all, they study for years to achieve their degr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Heres-How-Much-Money-Doctors-Actually-Make/Not Saying It Was Science But ... by TeeKetchScience has gone nova thanks to the legendary mind of Dr. Tyson, not the Mr. Tyson who punches people in the face, the one who makes learning about science fun and prov...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Its-Not-Magic-Its-Science/This Tuesday, April 22, is Earth Day. To mark the occasion, Beth Klosterboer made a spherical cake. She used 2 hemispheric pans to form the body of the cake, then hollowed out the core. She frosted blue icing around the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Earth-Cake-with-Rock-Candy-Core/(Video Link)Jack White is a musical mastermind who puts a lot of mental energy into the songs he creates, but there’s a whole ‘nother level of deep thought going on in his latest video for his song...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/The-Science-Behind-Jack-Whites-Newest-Music-Video/Albero means "tree" in Italian, so it's only fitting that this tree-like bookcase bears the name of the very thing that inspired it. The central post serves as a trunk and like a real tree, it can expand and grow to fit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/This-Bookshelf-Is-A-Great-Way-to-Draw-Attention-to-Your-Personal-Library/In 1994, three media moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen got together and decided to create a new Hollywood studio they named DreamWorks Studios (the initials of the three founders make up the SK...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/15-Great-Illustrations-From-The-Art-of-DreamWorks-Animation/(video link)The video above, 5 Game of Thrones Plotlines Ripped Right Out of History, contains spoilers. I watched the video and had to look up the Black Dinner. It was basically a set-up: a ten-year...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/The-Black-Dinner/Creating highly detailed sculptures, with realistic fluid shapes and organic contours, out of wood is a feat in itself, but when you create each individual work out of one single piece of wood you’ve got some serio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Incredibly-Realistic-Sculpture-Carved-From-A-Single-Block-Of-Wood/(Photo: Pop!Tech)Malcolm Gladwell is a public intellectual famous for his broad-scope psychological and sociological books, such as The Tipping Point, Outliers, and Blink. His most recent book...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/22/Convicted-Terrorist-Sentenced-to-Read-Malcolm-Gladwell-Book/
