(Photo: jbdodane)Western Sahara, a territory currently ruled by Morocco, looks like a desolate place. There's little vegetation, but there are substantial phosphate resources. Bou Craa, a mining town in the interior, ext...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/The-Worlds-Longest-Conveyor-Belt-is-61-Miles-Long/Would you light a scented candle that boasts of car exhaust smell? How about gasoline, chlorine, body odor, or fish? There’s even one called “Rest Stop” that smells of urine! They’re all products...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Stinky-Candles/(Photo: cocicoco)The Major League Baseball team of Houston, Texas is the Astros. Before that team adopted its space-themed name, it was known as the Colt .45s. On April 23, 1964, pitcher Ken Johnson threw a no-hitter aga...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/50-Years-Ago-Today-The-Only-Losing-No-Hitter-Game-in-Baseball-History/We’ve brought you several posts on the art of Hanksy. The New York parody artist has been busy, bringing us more great pun art in several locations. These works have shown up in New York City, Portland, Oregon, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/New-Art-from-Hanksy/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K-zDK4wrI4](Video Link)Once again, we peer into the wonderful world of Russian dashboard camera video. Many Russian drivers keep them to protect themselves from insurance fraud, but we've...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Dog-Gets-Revenge-on-the-Driver-Who-Ran-Him-Down/Children aren’t born knowing empathy. Even if they were, it wouldn’t extend to putting someone else’s needs before theirs. That takes years of living -sometimes decades. And some people never g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Empathy/If you love the Nikon Small World Photomicrography competitions (featured many times previously on Neatorama), where scientists around the world submit their best and most intriguing micrographs, then you'll love this!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Nikon-Small-World-in-Motion-2013-Winners/The story begins, “Three anthropomorphic lampposts got drunk, and one fell down.” That’s what it looks like, at least. These lampposts are an art installation called The Way Things Are in Halif...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Lampposts-Behaving-Badly/Jeffrey Chapman’s trial on murder charges begins Monday in Benton County, Kansas. The crime occurred in 2011, and at this late date, Chapman is concerned that the jury may be prejudiced by the large tattoo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Defendant-Thinks-Murder-Tattoo-Might-Hurt-His-Case/Neighbor's Moon by swissetteBy the light of that mystical moon your neighbor has come to pay you a visit, will you get on that odd cat shaped bus and join him for a grand adventure into imagination?Critters of all shape...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/My-Neighbor-The-Moon/(Photo: 1stdibs)This wonder is the PH Grand Piano, a wood and chromed steel instrument edged in brown leather. Poul Henningsen (1894-1967), a Danish furniture designer, developed it in 1931. Andreas Christensen, a piano...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/A-Beautifully-Weird-Piano/Today is the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. Or at least as close as we'll ever know -his date of birth was not recorded, but his baptism three days later was. The playwright who contributed to muc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/23-Things-You-Didnt-Know-About-William-Shakespeare-on-his-450th-Birthday/(Video Link)Kids who grew up in the 80s didn’t have Harry Potter in their lives, but frankly they didn’t need the shrimpy spell flinger hanging around when they had Transformers, Dungeons & Dr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Harry-Potter-Reimagined-As-A-1980s-Cyberpunk-Anime/Don’t freak out just yet. Redditor CountBubs’s dad hadn’t been in his shed for a couple of years. When he finally opened the door, he saw this hornet’s nest. Luckily, the hornets...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Hornets-Nest/The Live Read of Space Jam with Blake Griffin from Seth Green (Video Link)Unless you're a diehard fan of both basketball and Bugs Bunny chances are Space Jam didn’t make its way onto your top ten movi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Comedians-Gather-For-A-Space-Jam-Table-Read/Amid rumors of a sequel to the 1985 film The Goonies, let’s take a look back at the kids adventure based on a story by Steven Spielberg. It’s been 29 years, and both the cast and the audience have ag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/12-Things-You-Might-Not-Know-About-The-Goonies/We have shared many fine examples of cartoon character cosplay over the years, but Ryoko Demon’s portrayal of Captain Amelia from the Disney animated feature Treasure Planet really takes the cake!Ryoko Dem...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Amazing-Treasure-Planet-Cosplay-Of-Captain-Amelia/[http://youtu.be/KxmnWTdZQ6E] (YouTube link)April is Limb Loss Awareness Month. Josh Sundquist tells us about famous people who are missing a body part or two that you may not be aware of in this week’s mental_flos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/18-Famous-People-Who-Are-Missing-Body-Parts/Ah, the 70s! It was a weird time to be alive. It was a decade in which you could wander through American society and constantly ask yourself, "What the heck is going on here?"The Chevrolet El Camino is an icon of that er...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/A-Mercedes-El-Camino/(Video Link)(Video Link)There was a show which aired in Japan from 1998 to 2002 that made the Truman Show look like Romper Room, and attempted to answer the question- can one live only on winning prizes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Japans-Demented-Real-Life-Truman-Show/Wind-up Cyberman by Gordon Brebner DesignsIf you ever receive a little cybernetic man shaped toy as a gift, whether it's a wind-up toy or not, you'd better ask for a gift receipt because that shiny little guy is a ticki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/This-Cybernetic-Fellow-Is-All-Wound-Up/Has this ever happened to you? The caption for the comic at Doghouse Diaries says,This comic was created after performing a longitudinal study with a sample size of 2.Which highlights a scenario that hap...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/When-You-Do-Something-The-Other-Doesnt-Like/It may seem like a strange idea to use stacks of shipping containers as hotel rooms or temporary housing, but this isn’t an idea conceived for the luxury set.Hong Kong based OVA Studio came up with the idea of usin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/The-Hive-Inn-Stacked-Shipping-Container-Housing/[http://youtu.be/q8oJaPeEP-8] (YouTube link)In 1986, volunteers in Cleveland inflated 1.5 million helium balloons to break the Guinness World Record and raise funds for the United Way. What could possibly go wrong? Despi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/That-Time-Cleveland-Released-15-Million-Balloons-and-Chaos-Ensued/Rome was one heck of a civilization and there's no denying that they had great style. Unfortunately, most of us can't really go buy a real antiquity and the knock offs just look cheap. If you want something with style, c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Cant-Afford-Roman-Antiquities-But-Love-the-Style-Try-These-Instead/The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research.These Russian scientists may all have contributed to one research paper.by Arne Lundberg, Department of Orthopaedics, CLINTEC, Karolinska In...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Entropy-in-the-List-of-Authors-of-Scientific-Papers/Artist and music lover Natalie Sharp discovered the Unknown Pleasures of painting her face to look like various album covers, and now she must Remain In The Light lest she be mistaken for a Veckatim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Artist-Paints-Face-To-Look-Like-Classic-Album-Covers/James Haggerty is an artist who works in many different media. Among his more inventive projects are large mosaics of Star Wars characters that use tens of thousands of individual staples.Isn't that amazing? I'v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Star-Wars-Mosaics-Made-of-Tens-of-Thousands-of-Staples/[http://youtu.be/ZbIHK28Zl0M] (YouTube link)This insect (it looks like a katydid, but I may be wrong) keeps turning this thing over and over. What is it thinking? “Where’s the opening on this thing?” or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Bug-Workout/With the help of her Fairy Godchef, Cinderella’s dress turns into a marvel of cheese and pepperoni. The result is much tastier than the fabric original. Just make sure that it’s delivered before midnight or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/23/Cinderellas-Pizza-Dress-is-a-Fairy-Tale-Come-True/
