Sprout Bookmarks | $5.95
Have you met Sprout, the little green bookmark? It's a set of six silicone bookmarks that look like little green plant sprouts, at the NeatoShop! Easy to use, and they bring a smile to any face that sees them! Makes a great gift, too.iKickstand | $11.95
See what's happening on your tablet or other gadget hands-free with the handy iKickstand from the NeatoShop. And how cool is this -it looks like a bicycle kickstand! It's compatible with all versions of iPad, including iPad 2 and the new iPad 3, as well as other tablets and e-readers.Mousetail Cordwrap | $5.95
Does your desk look like a spaghetti factory? How about your entertainment system? Get all those cords and cables under control with the Mousetail Cordwrap from the NeatoShop! They're cute, easy to use, and made just for this purpose. Wrap a mouse's flexible, rubber-wrapped tail around a bundle of cords (it adjusts to the bundle size) and keep them neat and out of the way. There are two in a package.Sylvester Birdhouse | $27.95
Watch out, Tweety! Actually, there's no danger in this Sylvester Birdhouse, just a cute 10" resin birdhouse featuring Sylvester sitting on top of a rocket ship. The birds will find a home, and you'll love the look!John Wayne Flask | $19.95
Hey there, Pilgrim! Keep your favorite beverage handy with the ultra-manly John Wayne Flask from the NeatoShop! It hold six ounces, is dishwasher-safe, and most importantly, pays tribute to "The Duke." This flask comes in a lovely gift box because we know you've got a John Wayne fan somewhere in your family.Park officials said they would carry out a post-mortem to determine the cause of his death.
With no offspring and no known individuals from his subspecies left, Lonesome George became known as the rarest creature in the world.
For decades, environmentalists unsuccessfully tried to get the Pinta Island tortoise to reproduce with females from a similar subspecies on the Galapagos Islands.
Figure 1. The amount of sleep I got at my own place, and at Hermina’s place.
(Image credit: Flickr user Genna G)
Some years ago a colleague pointed out that there was a connection between paranoid symptomatology and the drawing in of joints on arms and legs on human figure drawings. [A researcher named] Buck states that emphasis upon knees suggests the presence of homosexual tendencies. Over a period of time, this investigator was impressed with the frequent connection between these two variables. This study was designed to determine the validity of this hypothesis….
30 subjects who had drawn knee and arm joints on the figure drawing of the H-T-P [the House-TreePerson Technique] were matched with 30 subjects who had not drawn the joints. 4 psychologists rated each S for paranoid trends. Ss who had a high degree of paranoid symptomatology drew joints twice as often as those without prominent paranoid tendencies. However, drawing the joints should not be considered pathognomonic but it is a significant sign.
In Study 1, 55 young women responded that they preferred men with hairy chests and circumcised penises. The chest was the male body part reported to be most “sexually stimulating” to females. The busts were the female body part most “sexually stimulating” to males (n = 34). In Study 2, men (n = 35) preferred larger busts than women typically possess on the average, but the women (n = 48) tended to overestimate the bust size most preferred by males. The ratings of bust-revealing clothing showed the males were more desirous of actually seeing the naked bust than females appear to realize.
Most creatures of the deep can survive only a few hours at sea level (the drop in pressure messes up cell-to-cell communication and causes paralysis), and any decompression can be fatal. But AbyssBox inventor Bruce Shillito, a biophysicist at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, has devised a new tool that will allow sea animals to be captured, brought to the surface, and transferred into an AbyssBox, all at a constant pressure. So you might be able to make eye contact with the deep-sea anglerfish before Cameron names himself king of the underworld.
We kids would jump onto the back steps of the slow-moving, horse-drawn ice wagons and steal a chip or two; the ice smelled vaguely of manure but cooled palm and tongue.
People on West 110th Street, where I lived, were a little too bourgeois to sit out on their fire escapes, but around the corner on 111th and farther uptown mattresses were put out as night fell, and whole families lay on those iron balconies in their underwear.
“Traveling with the poles is just horrible; it’s the absolute worst part about this whole thing,” Hollis said recently. “The hardest is when other athletes complain. The sprinters have a gripe? Do you know what I wouldn’t give just to be able to throw my spikes in a bag and go?”
Fees and restrictions for checking baggage on airlines are perpetually rising, but pole-vaulters have little recourse.
Shipping companies are inconvenient and ineffective, because the poles must be sent days early and horror stories abound about chopped, chipped and cracked poles. So most vaulters endure the inevitable airport process: pack five or more poles weighing roughly 10 pounds each into bags that look like something a giant might use to carry his skis, and then approach the check-in counter with a hopeful smile.
The initial response, vaulters say, is almost always the same.
“I hope you’re not trying to check that,” Mary Saxer, who will be jumping in the trials here, said in a nasal tone, mimicking the curmudgeonly character she often encounters.
