You may find a lot of flesh on Chattoulette, but you're guaranteed to find them on Charcuteroulette. It's a website dedicated to showing you random Charcuterie: Link - via Accordion Guy
Martini may be the Breakfast of Champions, but most of us don't associate breakfast with alcoholic drinks. Well, New Zealand's Moa Brewery is set to change all that by launching the world's first "breakfast beer" called Moa Breakfast:
Moa co-owner Geoff Ross said his company wasn't targeting alcoholics, nor was it trying to create irresponsible behaviour.
"Look at cultures like Germany where a lager in the right circumstances is part of the culture, or Italy where the grappa is used as a morning pick-me-up. Cultures around the world consume alcohol in the right way, and that includes breakfast."
Previously on Neatorama: Neatolicious Fun Facts: Beer
Talk about adding insult to injury: after a thief stole $2,500 from a victim, he or she sent flowers to her home!
Oh, how brazen! NBC News has the video clip: Link (self-playing video clip)
That's what archaeologist Kamila Remisova Vesinova claimed. Her team has found evidence of a male skeleton buried in a way normally reserved only for women of the Corded Ware culture in the Copper Age:
The skeleton was found in a Prague suburb in the Czech Republic with its head pointing eastwards and surrounded by domestic jugs, rituals only previously seen in female graves.
"From history and ethnology, we know that people from this period took funeral rites very seriously so it is highly unlikely that this positioning was a mistake," said lead archaeologist Kamila Remisova Vesinova.
"Far more likely is that he was a man with a different sexual orientation, homosexual or transsexual," she added.
Lefty or righty? A new study links a larger anterior cingulate cortex (left) to politically liberal views and a larger right amygdala to conservatism. Image: R. Kanai et al., Current Biology, 21 (26 April 2011)
What makes someone a conservative or a liberal? According to this new (and undoubtedly controversial) study, it's their brain anatomy:
Cognitive neuroscientist Ryota Kanai and colleagues at University College London recruited 90 student volunteers and had them rate their political philosophy on a five-point scale ranging from very liberal to very conservative. Then the researchers used magnetic resonance imaging to get a look inside their brains. In a paper published online today in Current Biology, the team reports two main findings: political conservatives tend to have a larger right amygdala, a region involved in detecting threats and responding to fearful stimuli, whereas liberals tend to have a larger anterior cingulate cortex, an area that becomes active in situations involving conflict or uncertainty.
There was considerable overlap though. When the researchers looked only at the brain scans, Kanai says they could predict who was liberal and who was conservative with about 75% accuracy—much better than a coin toss but probably not good enough for any high-tech campaign tactics.
Kanai is at pains to make clear that the findings don't mean political views are "hard-wired" into the brain. He acknowledges that the data don't prove that these neuroanatomical differences actually cause political differences, but he suspects that they might play a role.
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The video of twin baby boys having a long conversation in gibberish captivated the people of the Internet about two weeks ago. Here, actors Michael Chiklis and Patton Oswalt duplicate the scene, sound for sound and motion for motion. Warning: some foul language once the act starts breaking down.
via Gizmodo
I hope you've had a great week! Here's a reminder: when you enter a contest at Neatorama, be sure to use a valid email address for your entry, and check your email. What if you win? We can't send a prize if we can't get hold of you! And to keep you up-to-date, here's what happened this week at Neatorama:
Jill Harness introduced us to 17 Great Pieces of Geek Clothing, many of which you can either buy or recreate yourself.
On Friday she gave us 13 Hilarious Peeps Candy Easter Dioramas. Aren't you glad so many clever and creative people have extra time on their hands?
From the Annals of Improbable Research, we took a look at The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome.
We learned some important art history in the story of The Painted Lady, from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.
Mental_floss magazine gave us 4 Eco-Fabulous Places to Live in 2020.
Neatorama collaborated with National Geographic to bring you up close and personal with the active volcano Mt. Nyiragongo in the post Man vs. Volcano over at the Spotlight Blog.
At NeatoBambino, we saw the return of the Decipher The Doodle Contest. Congratulations to smurfie, who had the closest-to-correct answer, and Bt, who had the funniest answer, which you can read in the winner's post. Don't miss out on all the other funny and/or informative posts at NeatoBambino!
We saw Mal and Chad's Fill in the Bubble Frenzy on Wednesday. This week's winner is Todd McCoy, who gave us, "WHO LET THE DOG DRUM?! Who..who..who..who!" Todd wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop!
In this week's What Is It? game this week, Stephen was the first to peg the item as a show business prop but also a real weight from a old-fashioned strongman show. It belonged to Warren Lincoln Travis, who indeed lifted this with his hips by a chain running through the hole in the middle. It weighed between 1650 and 3750 pounds, depending on how much sand he filled it with. There’s even more information about it at the What Is It? blog.
The funniest answer was from samuel, who gave us a Super Mario answer:
Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop!
The Name That Weird Invention! contest featured a strangely versatile automobile. First prize for naming it and a t-shirt goes to Scott-O, who calls it Asscender. Second prize is awarded to ed4linda for calling it the SUC: Sport Utility Compact-o-van. However, ed4linda did not select a t-shirt.
During April and May, Steven Johnson of the Museum of Possibilities will be off writing a book describing his techniques for thinking up whimsical product concepts, and will not be submitting images to Neatorama. The Name That Weird Invention contest will resume on Monday, May 30.
Neatorama teams up with mental_floss to bring you the How Did You Know? contest that runs at mental_floss. Congratulation to the latest round of winners: Shawn Doyle, Justin Salisbury, Maxim Lowe, and Mark Dziak!
There are more ways to get your Neatorama fix: If you aren't checking our Facebook page every day, you're missing out on extra content, contests, discussions, and links you won't find here. Also, our Twitter feed will keep you updated on what's going around the web in real time.
Jill Harness introduced us to 17 Great Pieces of Geek Clothing, many of which you can either buy or recreate yourself.
On Friday she gave us 13 Hilarious Peeps Candy Easter Dioramas. Aren't you glad so many clever and creative people have extra time on their hands?
From the Annals of Improbable Research, we took a look at The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome.
We learned some important art history in the story of The Painted Lady, from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.
Mental_floss magazine gave us 4 Eco-Fabulous Places to Live in 2020.
Neatorama collaborated with National Geographic to bring you up close and personal with the active volcano Mt. Nyiragongo in the post Man vs. Volcano over at the Spotlight Blog.
At NeatoBambino, we saw the return of the Decipher The Doodle Contest. Congratulations to smurfie, who had the closest-to-correct answer, and Bt, who had the funniest answer, which you can read in the winner's post. Don't miss out on all the other funny and/or informative posts at NeatoBambino!
We saw Mal and Chad's Fill in the Bubble Frenzy on Wednesday. This week's winner is Todd McCoy, who gave us, "WHO LET THE DOG DRUM?! Who..who..who..who!" Todd wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop!
In this week's What Is It? game this week, Stephen was the first to peg the item as a show business prop but also a real weight from a old-fashioned strongman show. It belonged to Warren Lincoln Travis, who indeed lifted this with his hips by a chain running through the hole in the middle. It weighed between 1650 and 3750 pounds, depending on how much sand he filled it with. There’s even more information about it at the What Is It? blog.
The funniest answer was from samuel, who gave us a Super Mario answer:
Conjoined Bomb-omb twins. They’re waiting anxiously out outside of Dr. Goomba’s office to see if a surgery is possible. It’s been over a year now since the castle guards pulled them out of that koopley’s famous freak show on a case of child abuse. They look so happy in this picture, even though they’re nervous.
Good luck Bomb-ombs, I hope the answer will come soon!
Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop!
The Name That Weird Invention! contest featured a strangely versatile automobile. First prize for naming it and a t-shirt goes to Scott-O, who calls it Asscender. Second prize is awarded to ed4linda for calling it the SUC: Sport Utility Compact-o-van. However, ed4linda did not select a t-shirt.
During April and May, Steven Johnson of the Museum of Possibilities will be off writing a book describing his techniques for thinking up whimsical product concepts, and will not be submitting images to Neatorama. The Name That Weird Invention contest will resume on Monday, May 30.
Neatorama teams up with mental_floss to bring you the How Did You Know? contest that runs at mental_floss. Congratulation to the latest round of winners: Shawn Doyle, Justin Salisbury, Maxim Lowe, and Mark Dziak!
There are more ways to get your Neatorama fix: If you aren't checking our Facebook page every day, you're missing out on extra content, contests, discussions, and links you won't find here. Also, our Twitter feed will keep you updated on what's going around the web in real time.
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Geese mate for life and when the female lays her eggs the male guards the nest. When this goose lost her mate she nested in an urn in a Buffalo, New York cemetery but, with no male to guard her, she was vulnerable to predators. A deer stepped into the breach and has taken on the role of protector of this mother goose and her soon-to-be goslings for more than a week.
The deer now spends its days near the urn acting as guardian when needed. As passersby approach the area the deer stands and places itself between the person and the nesting goose. On one occasion the deer even took a protective stance attempting to fend off a barking dog near the area of the urn.
The exact location is not being revealed to prevent the curious from disturbing this unusual domestic arrangement.
Link - Via Arbroath
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YouTube user peteqwerty51 made a steel guitar from a stainless steel sink. It plays rather well! This is his first sink guitar, and he's already planning improvements for the next one.
via Walyou
Aha! I knew it! Those aren't bearskin caps after all, as this ad for Eurostar by the Leg Agency proves.
Link via reddit | Agency Website
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Actually, the Segway would be a fairly sound vehicle for modern jousting, as this commercial for the State of Washington's lottery illustrates. But buying lottery tickets is probably not a likely route to this most excellent goal.
via DVICE
Michael Sacco of Fanboy has several pictures of cosplay competitions from fan conventions in the 1970s, including Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Marvel Comics. Pictured above is Wendy Pini as Red Sonja. Pini is a now comic book artist and with her husband was the creator of Elfquest.
Link
German artist Iris Schieferstein made these shoes, dubbed "Vegas Girl" out of stag hooves and revolvers. She's worked extensively in taxidermy.
Link | Artist's Website | Photo by the artist (I think)
Scientists have developed an image scanning program that can distinguish between individual zebras by their stripes:
When a zebra has been entered into the database and given a StripeCode, the researchers match another picture of the same animal by comparing the StripeStrings of the new and original images. Each image will generate a different set of StripeStrings, but the underlying ratios of black and white should remain similar.
By finding the StripeCode with the most similar StripeStrings in the database, the system is able to accurately identify the correct animal. Other existing zebra identification systems are less accurate, more complex, and require a greater level of manual input from the user.
Link via io9 | Photo by Flickr user ross_hawkes used under Creative Commons license
Previously: Tim Flach's Barcode Zebra
