No, I'm not making a lame joke about the band Counting Crows. As it turns out, crows can recognize symbols used as numbers. A new study suggests that crows can recognize symbols that represent quantities of items. At...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/04/did-you-know-crows-can-count/Notice anything strange about the apple pie pictured here? If you noticed there were no apples at all, you are right. That because the picture comes from The Awl's recipe for an appleless apple pie that uses chemicals to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/01/baking-an-apple-pie-with-no-apples/(YouTube link) Watch scientists, researchers, and assorted geeks get down! McGill University in Montreal gathered scientists, students, and volunteers to make this dance and lipdub video. Their sponsor, Medicom, is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/01/mcgill-dances-for-cancer-research/Our friends at Improbable Research awarded the annual Ig Nobel Prizes last night at Harvard's Sanders Theater for research that makes you laugh, and then think. This is the 21st year for the awards. Ten prizes were award...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/30/the-2011-ig-nobel-prize-winners/by Michael Reidy Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United KingdomAmerica’s taste for bean soup appears to be unrelenting, and the World Wide Web offers more than a quarter of a million references to the subject. Multiple-bean...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/27/how-many-beans-make-soup/(YouTube link) You know what they say... if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS. From the YouTube page: In 1970 three American researchers, John E. Ware, Donald H. Naftulin and Frank A. Donnell...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/23/the-dr-fox-lecture/The question is, I hope, theoretical: if you w... ...the second floor. The answer is ....at the Wired science blog Dot.Physics. Link
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/22/jumping-off-a-building-with-bubble-wrap/Chalk up another example of science finding inspiration in nature. The slipperiest su... ...-and-bolts of how he did it at Not Exactly Rocket Science . Link -via reddit
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/22/flesh-eating-plant-inspires-slippery-science/Just because Talk Like A Pirate Day is over doesn'... ...ll out "pirate." It's just perfect for all of you science -lovers out there with a penchant for swashbucklin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/21/periodical-elements-pirate-pillow/3D printers have been used to create some amazing things, from robot parts to minecraft models to flexible solar panels, but nothing compares to being able to print out body parts for surgery! In Germany, researchers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/20/3d-printer-used-to-fabricate-artificial-blood-vessels/
