Why do math teachers love math? Because it makes people cry! That's what this viral photo making its round on the web purportedly say (After all, math = mental abuse to humans, amirite?).
But we know the truth: you love math because it's got problems. Lots of problems that make your life seems so easy and smooth in comparison.
If I had this, my life would be COMPLETE! Behold, the most amazing thing you'll see today: perpetual Slinky treadmill. God knows how many laws of thermodynamics this lil' puppy has broken* just today (no actual treadmill required and less complicated than the Slink-O-Matic!)
Actually, it's the NESM or Never Ending Slinky Machine, by the folks over at Creatables. The Slinky treadmill is powered by USB connection and is perfectly angled to keep your Slinky "slinking" downhill as long as you keep the treadmill powered.
Our pal Uncle John's Bathroom Reader has just told us that June is Bathroom Reading Month (silly me, I thought every month is bathroom reading month!).
To celebrate, they're having a very neat giveaway - you can win a Kindle Fire and 10 Uncle John's eBooks (that'll be enough to accompany you for a whole year's worth of sittin' and readin' in the bathroom!) and other neat prizes.
Take a look and enter to win over at Bathroom Reader - Thanks Mana!
Don't forget to read tons of neat Bathroom Reader articles in Neatorama's archive.
P.S. Bathroom Reader is also having a Father's Day Sale till June 16. And as a father, I can say that we love to read in the bathroom. Where else would we find some peace and quiet in a house full of rowdy kids?
Take an blood sucking animal with rows and rows of very sharp teeth and add a little Monster Week, and what do you get? From the makers of Sharknado, here comes a movie this Sunday on Animal Planet that will, ahem, suck you in:
Oh, what exactly did they mean by rows and rows of very sharp teeth? This:
Image: Petromyzon marinus (lamprey) mouth / Drow_male/Wikimedia
We ran three big contests on Neatorama a while back, and while we've picked the winners, we haven't announced them publicly. Well, let me correct that oversight. Here are the winners of our most recent contests:
$100 NeatoShop Goodies Giveaway
Congratulations to
Emily M. who won our $100 NeatoShop Goodies Giveaway. She chose the Planet Plates, Zombie Back Scratcher, and some really neat Planet Socks, American Gothic Socks, and Constellation Socks.
Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt
Over 100 of you solved the clues to the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #26, which we ran with our pal Dumpaday, and we've picked the winners at random. Ian Gates won the grand prize, a Tokyoflash watch of his own choosing (he chose the Maru Wood watch - excellent choice!), courtesy of the kind folks over at Tokyoflash.
| Maru Wood Tokyoflash watch, won by Ian Gates | Time Travelers by Crumblin' Cookie, won by geogirl16 | Winds over Neotokyo by Whitebison, won by Nick Lynn | Frozen Kombat by Coinbox Tees, won by amgonz |
Captain America Mystery Box
Congratulations to Caroline H. who won the Captain America Mystery Box and $100 Amazon Gift Certificate courtesy of our competition partner Today I Found Out. Caroline shared with us a photo of the box and all the goodies it contained!
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SETI astronomers are always looking for signs of extraterrestrial life by watching the skies for radio signals (sadly, with the exception of the Wow! Signal, there hasn't been any promising signs), but can the reverse also be true? Are alien civilizations out there watching for signals from Earth - and if so, what sort of things are we telling them through our television broadcast.
In Carl Sagan's 1985 novel Contact, which was later turned into a Hollywood blockbuster, alien's first transmission to Earth contained images of Adolf Hitler (uh-oh!) opening the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Obviously, they've been watching our TV. But if you think watching Hitler was bad, imagine getting transmissions of Jersey Shore, which has just now reached Alpha Centauri. Needless to say, we are all doomed!
Abstruse Goose has an updated 2014 version of a visualized list of what TV shows aliens are now watching - given the electromagnetic broadcast that leaked into space.
In case you haven't noticed, dad jokes have evolved beyond "pull my finger" (ah, 'twas classic!). But as British painter and web phenom Hector Janse van Rensburg, better known by his nom de guerre Shitty Watercolour, shows us, they haven't evolved that much.
Take a look at three in his series of Dad Jokes (hopefully he'll produce more of these in the future!) that'll probably remind you of good ol' dad:
Where do Americans shop? In chain stores, of course! Love 'em or hate 'em - chain stores are a fact of life in most parts of the United States of america.
Kaitlyn Wells of MarketWatch took data from Morgan Stanley's annual retail atlas to create a series of maps delineating the different chain stores that dominate the retail landscape of the nation's shopping habits. Morgan Stanley's data lists 119 of the country's largest retail chains and their locations across the states.
Take a look at the shopping maps of the United States:
View more maps and analysis over at MarketWatch.
Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking ain't afraid of no black holes, but you know what he's afraid of? Artificial intelligence.
In his op-ed at The Independent, Hawking noted the release of the new Hollywood movie Transcendence starring Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman and opined that Artificial Intelligence or AI has huge potential. Hawking called "success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history" - but warned that it could also be humanity's last achivement:
One can imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand. Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all.
If Hawking is already terrified about the role of AI in the future of humanity over the Transcendence movie, let's hope he's never seen the Terminator franchise. Read the rest of Hawking's op-ed over at The Independent. (Photo: 20100/Wikimedia)
In the wild, your chance of survival is often tied to your ability to make fire. But how do you make fire without matches or without rubbing two sticks together? With beard, of course!
Survival expert Dave Canterbury of Pathfinder School shows us how to do it with only his beard. But what happens if you don't have any beard? In this sponsored video, let's take a look at whether Dave could keep wild wolves at bay when his cameraman left him bound at his hands and ankles.
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!
The Nikon Small World in Motion Photomicrography 2014 is open for submission, and while we wait for this year's batch of super awesome entries, let's feast our eyes on the winners of the 2013 competition, which have just been announced:
First Place
Subject matter: Quail embroy at 10 day incubation (3D reconstruction) 1x
Technique:
Optical tomography, illuminated with a blue LED light (green fluorescence)
Captured by Dr. Gabriel G. Martins of The Instituto Gulbelkian de Ciencia, this video shows a sequence of "virtual" slices through a quail embryo at 10 day incubation:
This 3D reconstruction of a quail embryo – comprised of more than 1,000 separate images – shows in startling clarity and detail the anatomy of the specimen. The winning video shows a sequence of “virtual” slices through the whole embryo with 10 days of (in egg) gestation. With this technique, studying the whole anatomy of large specimens like this embryo (23mm long) is possible.
Second Place
YouTube Link - via Geeksugar
Old pagers and brick-sized cell phones are relics to you and me, but they're music to the ears of these guys from South Korea's telephone network SK Telecom.
In this advertising video clip put together to celebrate 30 years of mobile phones, they've arranged about three dozens of old mobile phones (including the Motorola DynaTAC phones - does anyone remember that?) so their ringtones play an electronic, mobile orchestra of sort.
Dontcha think that the composition has a, uh, ring to it?
| Kisai Quasar Silicone | Uncle Venkman | Attack of Funny Animals | Kisai Intoxicated |
Woohoo! You've made it to the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #26 answer page.
You're only one step away from winning. One lucky commenter, chosen at random, will win the Tokyoflash Watch of their choice. Three more random commenters will win neat T-shirts from the NeatoShop.
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It's been a great while since our last Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt, so it's with great pleasure that we announce that it's time we run another one!
For those of you who haven't played before, the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt is an online scavenger hunt with neat prizes. You can win a Tokyoflash watch of your choice as well as neat T-shirts from the NeatoShop.
Here's how to play. Solve the clues, for example:
1. What's the name of Neatorama's kid and baby blog?
2. What is 2+1?
3. What is the name of the top grill in our Top 10 Coolest BBQ Grills post?
Put the answers together to form this link: http://www.neatorama.com/neatobambino-3-lynx
Go ahead and copy and paste that URL to your browser to get to the answer page. Easy, right? I think you're ready for the real contest, then!
Here are the clues to the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #26:
1. Visit Tokyoflash.com and look for the new watch featured above. Fill in the blank: "Made from durable ______ with a clean matte finish"
2. Visit the NeatoShop's Funny T-shirt category. Find the shirt you'd wear when you want bust some ghosts (there are a few of them, but any of them will do.) Fill in the blank: "Who are you ____ to call?"
3. Visit our pal Dumpaday's very funny post: attack of the funny animals. Fill in the blank: "Mah sleep number is _____"
4. Back to Tokyoflash. Find one of their watches that can stop you from driving drunk. Fill in the blank: "When _____, a line on the screen moves from left to right."
Visit Tokyoflash, the NeatoShop and Dumpaday to find answers to these clues. Then string them together to form the URL: http://www.neatorama.com/answer1-answer2-answer3-answer4 (all one-word, lower case, separated by dash).
This contest will end soon, so hurry! Have fun, guys!
