Necessity may be the mother of inventions, but prison seems to be a particularly fertile birthing ground. Take a look at these collection of improvised tools, escape equipments and weapons made by inmates undoubtedly ins...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/11/the-shiv-crucifix-and-other-improvised-weapons-by-inmates/The desert rhubarb has a remarkable ability to move water in channels down its leaves in a way that lets water penetrate much deeper than other plants can: Ecologists had been puzzling over the desert rhubarb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/11/a-desert-rhubarb-a-self-irrigating-plant/Taser International has developed an extended-range taser. It is a 12-gauge shotgun that shoots a shocking cartridge over 100 feet: The teases have revealed little actual info, but a Taser press release highl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/11/the-worlds-first-projectile-taser/In a busy life, it can be hard to find the time to peruse news sources for the latest things that journalists want us to be panicked about. That's why you can save time by using Doomwatch, which indexes terms used in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/11/doomwatch-what-do-you-most-need-to-be-terrified-of/The Hot Dog Hideaway Kit: it's like Lincoln Logs, except that the pieces of made of meat, instead of wood: What child doesn't imagine a house made of meat during the holidays? Our bestselling Hot Dog Hideaway...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/11/the-meat-house-kit/(YouTube Link) This song performed by the Austin-based celtic band Brobdingnagian Bards describes the intoxicated adventures of Luke Skywalker. Here's a sample of the lyrics: A long time ago, in a pub far away,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/11/the-jedi-drinking-song/Wouldn't it nice if one dose of medicine could be used over and over? The was the premise behind the everlasting cathartic pill. It was made of metal, and leeched out antimony as it passed through the digestive system, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/11/the-everlasting-pill/Los Angeles-based artist Mike Kelley brought the bottle city of Kandor from the Superman comic series to life. If you don't know, Kandor is a Kryptonian city miniaturized by Brainiac and kept in a bottle by Superman:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/11/kandors-the-miniature-kryptonian-city-in-a-bottle-by-mike-kelley/Anton Hecht, who brought us Blinking Balet (a wonderful YouTube clip of old people dancing in the street to Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights posted before on Neatorama) is back. In his new clip, Anton interviewed the res...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/11/tower-block-musical/I've always been obsessed with tree houses, probably because I never had one. That being said, I couldn't stop looking at these bizarre structures at the very tippy-top of the trees. For more cool tree houses, check...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/tree-top-house/I love Mark Velasquez's portrayal of Little Red Riding Hood in this photo. His gallery has a variety of other amazing images. Stop by and enjoy them all. LinkArt, Photography, Photos, fairy tales, Little Red Ridin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/great-photos-by-mark-velasquez/Netherlands residents now have a place to watch their fish when they go on vacation. It's the world's only fish-resort. My question is how can they stop the fish from fighting each other? Linkanimals, fish, Nether...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/the-first-hotel-for-fish/The New York Times looks at the history of human-whale interaction, from whale hunting to the modern effects of sonar on the cetaceans. A very different type of interaction takes place in the lagoons of Baja California,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/friendly-whales/A family in Bristol has decided to take an unusual approach to getting their lost dog back -by spraying their urine around their neighborhood. An animal behaviorist gave them the idea. Of course, my first suggestion m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/family-uses-pee-to-attract-lost-dog/David Bowie is a great musician with a wide variety of musical talent. He also has a heck of an interesting life story, with far more interesting details than I could actually include in this post. David Bowie at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/music-tidbits-david-bowie/The German-built Antares DLR-H2 is the world's first hydrogen fuel-cell aircraft. It just made its first test flight. It has a range of 750 km and can fly up to 170 kph. Click the link for more pictures and a v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/the-worlds-first-zero-emissions-aircraft/The issue of monetizing a website (through ads, or in Neatorama's case both ads and e-commerce*) is something I continually think about. As many of you know, the blog started out with no ads whatsoever and throughout its...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/hosting-bills-killed-the-internet-star/Every now and then, there are calls for an international currency to diversify the current global currency system that is dominated by the US dollar. The current economic crisis has got Russia and China pushing for the c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/global-currency-good-or-bad-idea/Moon Over Amtrak, an annual event in Laguna Niguel, California, where people expose their behinds to a passing Amtrak train, may be coming to and end. Tight-assed city officials are cracking down on the tradition:The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/moon-over-amtrak-got-city-officials-saying-no-to-crack/Natalie Jasmer was so good at hide-and-seek that her frantic family called the cops to help them look for the two-year-old toddler:Natalie went missing Tuesday evening while playing the game with her brother and sist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/toddler-beat-cops-at-hide-and-seek/The beautifully colored patches that you see here are in fact salt evaporation ponds that can be seen when you are flying over San Fransico Bay. Find out what causes these colors, see more pictures. and find an interac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/san-franciscos-multicoloured-salt-ponds/You only have to look at a turtle once to realize how different they are from other vertebrates. Where did that shell come from? The shell itself is made from broadened and flattened ribs, fused to parts of the turt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/how-the-turtle-got-its-shell/Cultural differences call for different food, so when a food company like McDonalds goes global, the menu items in other countries can seem a bit strange to Americans. Hot dogs or pasta for breakfast? McSpaghetti? Bana...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/mcdonalds-menu-items-from-around-the-world/Birds, bugs, and bats propel themselves through the air with wings, but other animals also travel through the air by gliding, leaping, or parachuting. This mental_floss article takes a look at seven creatures you would...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/7-%e2%80%9cflying%e2%80%9d-animals/Don't dispose of that liquid gold, there's money to be made from the hydrogen in it. Hydrogen can be an abundant source of energy, but it's hard to store inexpensively: Gerardine Botte, an Ohio University profess...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/getting-electricity-from-urine/Have you ever found yourself driving your car and saying "Hey, I'd like to have a freshly-baked pizza right now, but I don't want to stop driving"? Well, you're in luck! You can plug this 12-volt pizza oven directl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/in-car-pizza-oven/Prey Alone (Video Link) Prey Alone is a 2005 short film by Stephen St. Leger and James Mather. It's about a mysterious stranger who shoots and races his way out of a city, and the cop trying to stop him. *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/prey-alone/Just in case you've been looking for the Hello Kitty Taser, you may as well give up because it's not a real product. TASER International has announced that they do NOT sell a Hello Kitty version of the weapon. However,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/10/hello-kitty-taser/Ever wonder what the internal workings of a gingerbread man would look like? Artist Jason Freeny has you covered, detailing the full anatomy of one of our gingerbread man friends. LinkArt, biology, gingerbread, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/gingerbread-man-dissection/NASA's orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory snapped this shot of Stephan's Quintet, a group of five galaxies, four of which are currently in collision. Follow the link for a larger picture. Link Previously on Ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/four-galaxy-collision/
