Wildlife photographer Jason Edwards seized an opportunity few ever get -to take pictures of a newborn kangaroo inside its mother's pouch. Two years ago, Edwards encountered a wild kangaroo that was unusually friendly. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/how-to-get-into-a-kangaroos-pouch/I once thought that sun tea made in a jar was really something, but how cool is storing sunlight in a jar? The Sun Jar is a regular Mason jar with solar cells, rechargeable batteries, and LED lights. It also has a ligh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/sun-jar/Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss is my favorite kind -geography! You'll be given a pair of US states. Do they share a border or not? I scored 100%, of course. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/26488 me...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/borderlands/Yay! It's time for this week's collaboration with the always awesome What is it? blog. Can you guess what this um, rather violent-looking tool is used for? Hint: it has a very specific use - and it's *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/what-is-it-game-101/Kottke lists 50 of his least favorite films of all times. In the "50 Films You Can Wait to See After You're Dead" post you will find movies such as Gigli, Crossroads and Jaws 3-D. Any film y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/50-films-to-watch-when-youre-dead/Summer is nearly here and school's out! Except for hundreds of poor students in Chino, California, who got an unwelcome surprise news that they have to sit for 34 more days of school because of a clerical error. If they...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/the-best-of-school-district-bureaucracy-no-summer-break-for-you/Part I [YouTube Clip]Born 3-and-a-half months prematurely, Derek Paravicini was so small that his doctor presumed that he was dead. Just as his mother had given up hope, she heard the faintest whimper. To keep him alive,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/derek-paravicini-the-musical-genius/Here's living proof that SomethingWonderful can come out of SomethingAwful Forums - behold the Nacho Hat! Cota Froise of SA Forums has the step-by-step guide on how to make your very own Nacho Hat: Link - via bookofjoeha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/nacho-hat/Heck, people drink designer water at $55 a bottle (yes, I'm looking at you, Bling H2O), so why not sell designer band-aids to rich people that obviously get their papercuts from counting too much money? Here's an experim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/designer-band-aid-leather-luxury-for-your-boo-boos/This apple is in the portfolio of artist Kevin Van Aelst, along with quite a few other neat visual works. The only problem I have is that he forgot Madagascar. Linkearth, Arts amp Crafts, apples, Kevin van Aelst...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/the-earths-delicious-core/Happy Bloomsday, everyone! For those of us who aren't hardcore James Joyce fans, today is the day that honors the Irish author (we'll get to that in a second). It's not an official holiday, but that doesn't make it any...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/8-academic-holidays/Well, the headline pretty much sums this one up - disgruntled university is suing an adult content site for treading on their trademarks. Unfortunately for National American University, however, the similarities mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/national-sues-naughty-american-university/Ryan Deal of Top Cultured has a list of last meals given to condemned criminals, both real and fictional. Here are a few: Adolf Eichmann: He declined a special meal, preferring a bottle of Carmel,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/45-famous-last-meals/Hyalinobatrachium pellucidum (glass frog) Photo: Luis Coloma An expedition on the Nangaritza River of Ecuador, near the border with Peru, has uncovered nearly a dozen species new to science, including four amph...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/new-animals-and-plant-species-discovered-in-ecuador/An 18-year-old Belgian girl is suing a Romanian tattoo artist over the 56 stars on her face. Kimberley Vlaminck says she requested three small stars, but the tattoo artist didn't understand her French and English. R...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/seeing-stars-over-tattoo/Artist Mark Wagner takes one dollar bills and cuts them with an Exacto knife, then reassembles them into works of art that sometimes have no resemblance at all to the original bill. The one dollar bill is the mos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/currency-collages/(YouTube link) Socks play hide and seek in this new ad from PES for Orange Telecom in Europe. -via Unique Daily PES animation...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/hide-and-seek/Buildings are creatively converted or utterly demolished all the time to make room for highways and other large-scale civic problems, but the laws vary on what can be done when a single hold-out structure stands alon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/defying-developers-buildings-of-the-resistance/At "TOP 100 funniest one-liners on the internet" you will find a list of jokes that suits the 140 character limitation on micro blogging services such as Twitter. To give you an example: If I agreed with you we'd bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/100-funny-one-liners/Photo: Vasily Fedosenko/ReutersEvery month, National Geographic publishes a very neat photo gallery called Vision of Earth. This particular one, from the June 2009 selection (third pic, you can see the uncensored version...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/caption-monkey-60-mmm-dude-what-are-you-doing/The recently revived Herminiimonas glacei - image: The Society for General Microbiology Forgetting the lessons of Jurrasic Park, scientists have "awaken" a strain of bacteria called Hermeniimonas g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/120000-year-old-bacteria-awakened/The following is reprinted from Uncle John's Unsinkable Bathroom Reader Sinking of the Titanic - LIFE Images We all know the story of the Titanic - but did you know that one...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/masabumi-hosono-the-man-condemned-for-surviving-the-titanic/In India, a newly discovered color-changing frog has been worshipped as a god. Reji Kumar, the person who found it, keeps the frog in a glass jar at his home where hundreds of people come to see it every day. Apa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/rainbow-frog-is-worshipped-as-god/Ever since the dawn of civilization, men have demonstrated their cultural sophistication, scientific knowledge and philosophical aptitude in written word kept in libraries for peers and, less often, the public, to access...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/the-7-most-impressive-libraries-throughout-history/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxxWGj2GAD4][YouTube - Link]Students at Politechnika Wroc?awska or the Wroclawska University of Technology in Poland had themselves a grand ol' time rigging their dorm with a light...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/college-dorm-light-show/To celebrate the anime Mobile Suit Gundam's 30th anniversary, Japan is building a life-size RX-78-2 Gundam in Odaiba, Tokyo. From Anime News Network:The statue will be free for viewing, but it will only stay up for t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/life-size-mobile-suit-gundam/Don't mess with Chiquita the Chihuahua! The tiny 10-lb dog took on a 100-lb wild cougar who wanted to eat its companion for dinner ... and won! It was 10:30 p.m. and out went Chiquita through the doggie door to inves...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/chihuahua-vs-cougar-guess-who-won/Missing the bus may have been the best thing that ever happened to UK sprinter Jeffrey Lawal-Balogun:"Then one day I was on my way to college and had to run after the bus. I must have been quite fast because a g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/olympics-hopeful-discovered-while-running-after-a-bus/Orthodox jews are restricted from surfing the web in case they run across religiously questionable and sexually explicit materials. But Koogle, a search engine launched by Yossi Altman, may change all that:Yossi Altm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/koogle-the-kosher-search-engine/Snakes slither to get around but how exactly do they snake move? Scientists used to think that they move by pushing against objects like rocks but it turns out that something else is going on:New research co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/16/scientists-solve-snakes-slithering-secrets/
