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Arrrrr! The pipes are clogged again, so let's call our favorite plumber to fix it. David Bear reimagines some of our most beloved icons of video game and pop culture as pirate's Jolly Roger flags:
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Da Vinci probably would've never guessed that bats are perfectly proportioned as depicted by Madrid, Spain-based T-shirt designer Samiel. Check out his Vitruvian Bats and the rest of Vitruvian Man-inspired designs over at the NeatoShop.
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Break the chain of mundane clothing with this T-shirt by Tom Trager! You don't need to eat a horse's heart or fight a warlock - just head on over to the NeatoShop to buy one.
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Pop art version of Alice in Wonderland? Oh my ears and whiskers! The only thing missing from this neat design from NeatoShop artist Edwoody is the sign that says "WEAR ME."
Visit Edwoody's official Facebook page, then let's go down the rabbit hole and explore more of these fantastic designs:
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He may know nothing, but surely you know a great T-shirt when you see one! Like this fantastic mash up by NeatoShop artist Donnie. (And if you're constantly chilly, it's also available in long-sleeve T-shirt, sweatshirt and hoodie).
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We all know that being overweight is bad for your health, but results from a new study show that it can also be bad for your brain. In fact, it can make you stupider.
From past experiments, scientists know that obese lab animals have poor memory and lower learning skills as compared to their normal-weight peer. For example, lab mice don't recognize familiar objects and do not navigate mazes as well, but the exact reason why wasn't discovered until now.
In a paper published last month in the Journal of Neuroscience, Alexis Stranahan and colleagues at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University found that as lab mice grow obese, their blood show increased levels of interleukin 1 proteins. These proteins, a type of signalling molecules released by cells that affect the behavior other cells, play a central role in the regulation of immune responses and is known to cause inflammation.
In obese lab mice, interleukin 1 can pass through the blood-brain barrier and enters the hippocampus, a part of the brain that's important in learning and memory. There, interleukin 1 molecules cause inflammation and lower neuron activities - essentially the molecules are clogging things up there.
Removing the fat by mini-liposuction of the mice cause the blood interleukin 1 level to drop and return of cognitive performance. In reverse, surgically putting fat in thin mice cause their interleukin 1 levels to shoot up and their cognitive performance to drop.
Now here's a good news you can use: turns out that exercise works just as well. When the researchers put the obese mice on a daily treadmill regimen, they noticed that after 12 weeks, these mice have lost significant amount of belly fat and did better on cognitive tests as compared to sedentary mice.
So, get out there and exercise! It's good for your body and your brain!
We've covered Hawaiian-born musician Kawehi a while ago on Neatorama, so we're glad that she's back! This time, Kawehi takes her looping-technique to cover Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box." That's pretty good!
If you like that, check out the rest of her music videos, then head over to her Facebook page:
What is the best and worst things about your state? In these two maps of the United States by redditor bigafricanhat, each of the states in the nation are labeled with its best and worst characteristics (yes, it's biased but still fun :)
These are the Star Wars behind-the-scenes photos you're looking for.
Ever since the iconic sci-fi series joined
Instagram back in December 2013, the Star
Wars Instagram has amassed an empire of followers (it stands at about
327K follower right now - it got 50K followers right off the bat with
just three pics. What can we say? The Force is strong with this one.)
Since then, they added over 200 posts, so it's time that we take another look at some of the best behind-the-scenes photos posted to the Star Wars
Instagram account so far:
A never-before-seen behind-the-scenes image of Natalie Portman as Queen Amidala
Gamorrean Guard feet, found at the Lucasfilm Archives
This prop is used to create the hyperspace-jump effect, with a little help from fancy lighting and camera tricks
Sound designer Ben Burtt petting George Lucas' pet dog Indiana, the inspiration for Chewbacca and the eponym of Indiana Jones
"We named the dog Indiana" is actually true!
Wampa hair sample
This wampa hair sample was sent to costume makers to ensure color continuity
This is why cutting an onion makes you cry. It's because it's evil*
*Actually it's because of cutting an onion breaks its cells open, thus releasing enzymes that turns sulfenic acid into propanethiol S-oxide, a volatile sulfur compound that wafts up to your eye, react with the water in your tears to form sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid (the chemical that disfigured Gotham district attorney Harvey Dent and turned him into Two-Face in the Batman comics- see? Comics are scientifically useful!) burns, so your eyes produce more tears to wash it away. In short, onions make you cry because it's evil.
Where does your country rank in overall life satisfaction?
According to this article over at Quartz, data from the Gallup World Poll as presented in Paris-based think tank Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)'s Society at a Glance 2014 report, 15 countries are ranked above the United States.
The top 10 countries reporting high life satisfaction are:
Switzerland
Norway
Iceland
Sweden
Denmark
Netherlands
Austria
Canada
Finland
Australia
Life satisfaction, according to the report, is determined by both economic development as well as people's diverse experiences and living conditions. There's a broad regional/cultural grouping as four out of the top five countries are Nordic. The report noted that, on average across OECD countries, women report slightly higher levels of life satisfaction than men, and that life satisfaction decreases with age.
The bottom 10 countries are
Russian Federation
Estonia
Indonesia
Turkey
Greece
China
Portugal
Hungary
India
South Africa
If you're wondering, the poll asked 1,000 to 4,000 residents of a country the following: "Imagine an eleven-rung ladder where the bottom (0) represents the worst possible life for you and the top (10) represents the best possible life for you. On which step of the ladder do you feel you personally stand at the present time?"
The dog owner on the bus will go "wah, wah, wah" after Dachy the Dachshund gets his revenge. Remember, with this breed of dog, it's death from the ankles down!
Via Neatorama's Facebook page, where you'll find more neat pics like this one - go give us a like, wontcha?
The detection of the gravitational waves is a landmark discovery - these waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity nearly a century ago, are believed to originate from the Big Bang. "Detecting this signal is one of the most important goals in cosmology today," said lead astronomer John Kovac of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "This has been like looking for a needle in a haystack, but instead we found a crowbar," added team co-leader Clem Pryke of University of Minnesota. Many have likened the major discovery as the "smoking gun" of the Big Bang.
The details of the discovery is fascinating (like how gravitational waves actually "squeeze" space as they travel and have "handedness" just like light waves). Even though the physics of the Big Bang may be over your head, it doesn't mean that you can't chat about it intelligently with your coworkers.
Here are 4 Neat Facts About the Big Bang That'll Make You Look Smart Without Understanding Any Physics that you can use to impress other people:
1. Father of The Big Bang was Actually a Catholic Priest
The first person who proposed the theory of the expansion of the Universe wasn't Edwin Hubble, the astronomer whose name graced the space telescope orbiting the Earth today.
Rather, it was Georges Lemaître, a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Université catholique de Louvain. (Photo: Wikimedia).
In 1927, Lemaître proposed that "the Cosmic Egg exploding at the moment of creation," but his new idea had little impact because the journal it was published in was not widely read outside of Belgium. A few years later, when Einstein read the paper, he remarked "your calculations are correct, but your physics is atrocious."
2. "Big Bang" Was Actually A Pejorative
Well, supposedly anyhow.
The name "Big Bang" was coined by British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle* who ridiculed the idea that the universe had a beginning (he likened it as "an irrational process, and can't be described in scientific terms," because that resembled the argument that the universe had a creator). Hoyle believed that the universe didn't have a beginning - it was always there (this "steady state" theory was later debunked). (Photo: Cardiff University/wikimedia)
On March 28, 1949, Hoyle first uttered the name "Big Bang" on a BBC radio broadcast. It was reported that he intended the name to be insulting, a claim that Hoyle later denied. He said that instead, it was a "striking image" for the radio audience meant to emphasize the difference between that, and his steady state theory.
