A few weeks ago we were asked to participate in this neat little Sweep Panorama photo contest. Sony provided Neatorama with this sleek and very pretty Cyber-shot DSC-WX1 camera to play with....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/15/vote-for-your-favorite-sony-wx1-panoramic-photo/The blossom of the orchid is only 2.1 mm wide - approximately the size of the O in the title of this post. American scientist Lou Jost found the tiny flower by accident among the roots of a larger plant that he had coll...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/08/worlds-smallest-orchid-is-only-this-big-o/Quick: what comes to your mind when I say "Ferrari"? A line of gorgeous (and exorbitantly priced) supercars? Formula One racing? How about mule-shoeing, World War I flying ace, and the H1N1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/10-neat-facts-about-ferrari/A few months ago, photographer and environmentalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand and his non-profit organization GoodPlanet released the movie HOME, a documentary about life on Earth and the current...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/home-by-yann-arthus-bertrand/Stop and think about this for a second: how does a zooplankton eat in such a vast ocean? Turns out, it's not a trivial task: copepods, a type of zooplankton, filter a volume of water approximately 1 million times their o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/06/the-lucky-luke-effect-how-zooplanktons-eat-in-a-vast-ocean/After winning a horse race, the glory usually goes to the horse instead of the jockey. But the jockey makes a world of difference. A new study from the Royal Veterinary College in London says that how a jockey positions...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/how-to-make-a-horse-go-faster/Prague Skyline from Petrin Tower - Gigapixel in PraguePanoramic photographer Jeffrey Martin of 360 Cities took this 2 gigapixel panorama stitched together from "a few hundreds shots" taken with a camera with a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/05/petrin-tower-panorama/I know many readers may not like rap and may complain about the selection this week, but like all of these articles, the band was chosen by user requests. If you’ve got a band you want to see tidbits about, just list t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/27/music-tidbits-the-notorious-big/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhBn1ozht-E][YouTube - Link]The floating water bridge is a weird phenomenon discovered by Elmar Fuchs and colleagues from the Graz University of Technology in Austria, in which, wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/25/floating-water-bridge/Humans like to measure things - distance, mass, time, you name it, we've measured it. And along the way, people have come up with some interesting and unusual units of measurements: Apgar Score...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/30/fun-and-unusual-units-of-measurements/
