Ever since the dawn of civilization, humans have had the need for speed. Indeed, raceways have been in existence for just about as long as we have cars, and although you may have never found yourself in the middle of a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/worlds-most-interesting-and-dangerous-raceways/If you were ever a witness to a crime, and you were asked to provide the height and weight of the suspect, would you be able to do it? Do you have any idea what 266 lb on a 6'3" frame look like? This may help: Ro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/photographic-height/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YdiptluUOQ][YouTube - Link] If you need the protection of a guard animal, would you be better off with a Rottweiler ... or a cat? Watch the video first ... From the Upcoming ueu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/rottweiler-vs-cat-who-will-win/An amazing picture taken from International Space Station shows the shock wave from a volcanic eruption. The eruption ocurred on the Sarychev Peak on Matau Island, located in the Kuril island chain northeast of J...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/amazing-photo-of-a-volcanos-shock-wave/(YouTube link) Maybe there is a little envy in this cat, but he sure is affectionate. The laughter from the spectators is a bonus. -via Buzzfeed Cat, hair, hairless cat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/hairless-cat-loves-hair/Archaeologists have unearthed a well in Cyprus that is believed to be between 9,000 and 10,500 years old, making one of the earth's oldest water wells. Debris at the bottom of the well includes the skeleton of a woman....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/ancient-well-found-complete-with-skeleton/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs8cjYmoSUo][YouTube - Link]TXT Island is a stop-motion film by Chris Gavin, who hand-crafted each frame using hundreds of plastic peg-board letters. The films follows the endea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/txt-island/Researchers using a criminology method made an interesting observation about great white sharks. It turns out the hunting habits of the great whites were similar to human serial killers.The scientists adapted g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/sharks-serial-killers-of-the-sea/You might like to think that the decisions made in stately offices are in your benefit, but a quick look back through 20th century history reveals numerous offices of government used to plan, organize and ultimately comm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/7-infamous-offices-that-decided-the-fate-of-millions/Why do some women like to carry around their dog in their handbags? If you've ever pondered how pets evolved into a fashion accessory (where "walking the dog" involves absolutely no walking on the part of the f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/why-carry-a-dog-in-a-handbag/Little known outside of its home states of Nevada and Arizona, this new bridge has been overshadowed by its more venerable and certainly larger neighbor but the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge is certainly something to be seen....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/the-incredible-hoover-dam-bypass-bridge-under-construction/Ten years ago, Tanya Angus was 5'11" tall and living in Michigan when she began to get migraine headaches and noticed her shoes did not fit. Not only did her condition worsen, but she started to grow and her v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/becoming-a-giant-6-6-480-lb-woman-is-still-growing/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbiPSFBADFw][YouTube - Link]What do you get when you combine a bunch of technically inclined Romanians, half of a Volkswagen, and half of an Opel? Something that looks ridicu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/half-vw-half-opel-frankencar/Artist Pete Dungey did an unofficial survey to find out who is the most famous Alan (and Allen) in England ... and then etched the resulting names onto a set of allen (get it?) wrenches. Here's the project, cheekily name...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/24/alan-wrench-by-pete-dungey/Think that all that texting is just a big waste of time? Think again! For 15-year-old Kate Moore, texting sure does pay:"Let your kid text during dinner! Let your kid text during school! It pays off," 15-ye...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/24/texting-champion-let-your-kid-text-during-dinner-let-your-kid-text-during-school-it-pays-off/As of 2010, the Pontiac brand name will no longer be used. Over the last 50 years, there have been almost 30 Pontiac models sold in the US. How many can you name in ten minutes? Anything over ten is considered a winnin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/24/name-that-pontiac/Thanks to movies and a series of insurance ads, we tend to think of the extinct hominids known as Neanderthals as hairy, stooped, club-wielding caveman. Modern science knows a lot more about Neanderthals now, but the o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/24/misconceptions-about-neanderthals/Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal is waiting for his chance at a world record. Magar is only two feet tall and weights ten pounds! But he can't be classified as the world's smallest man until he officially becomes an adult....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/24/worlds-smallest-man-to-be/English Russia has a collection of record album covers from the 70s and 80s. Looking through these, I get the feeling that I've seen these before, just with different faces and a language I understand. Link -via Metafi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/24/soviet-russian-album-covers/1. The Visionary: St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Margaret Mary Alacoque grew up in a family of fervid cheese-haters, which wasn't exactly unusual for the time. Cheese had a bad...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/24/4-holy-women-transformed-by-cheese/Mike Giepert noticed that Mac dock icons are often letters, and you can line them up to spell words. So he posted one and asked his readers to send in others. There are 14 screenshots of various words posted so far. I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/23/mac-dock-icon-spelling/(Cartoon Brew link) Space explorers go to Alpha Nine to check out the monster, which turns out to be what you've secretly thought space aliens were really all about. This animation was Jake Armstrong's thesis film at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/23/the-terrible-thing-of-alpha-nine/Captain's uniforms of every military branch of the various countries that served in World War II, modeled by the same guy! "My hobby deals strictly with World War II militaria & insignia. However, rather tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/23/military-uniforms-of-world-war-ii/This painting, commissioned by a jam and preservative maker, was painted using only the products made in their factory! Artist Lindi Kirwin was commissioned by F. Duerr & Sons a British Jam Maker to create a work...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/23/a-well-preserved-painting-blackcurrant-jam-trees-marmalade-pavement/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5epzcME5U-M][YouTube - Link]Aaron Shutway, an 8th grader from Brecksville-Broadview Heights Middle School, makes an amazing half court shot to put his class in a frenzy. - via spor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/23/8th-graders-amazing-basketball-shot/Toy MoviesAtom.com: Funny Videos | Animation | TV & Movie Spoofs (Atom Films Link) Toy Movies is a short film by Dan Meth. It's a compilation of trailers for faux movies based on toys from the 1980s, includ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/23/80s-toys-as-actionhorror-movies/Photo: get_debashish [Flickr]Neatoramanaut Debashish Paul took a photo of a section of Hogenakkal Falls in South India that has a face of a mustachiod man. I know, I know, it's just pareidolia (the tendency of human brai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/23/the-face-in-hogenakkal-falls/Here's a tribute song titled Nugget Man by Paul Sabourin and Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo of the musical duo Paul and Storm, memorializing Robert C. Baker. Robert who? You may not know the man, but you surely know o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/23/robert-c-baker-nugget-man/Our very own Stacy Conradt has some unwelcome house guests, so naturally she blogged about it.We saw them in broad daylight on Sunday morning – it’s a mama and three babies. I don’t know if it had b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/23/stacy-met-some-raccoons/I've heard of their existence for years, but I've never seen one quite like this: behold the backpack vacuum cleaner that you wear.Seems like it's a better idea than dragging a heavy upright model around the house, right...
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