Karmawish is a new social networking site that hooks you up with other people who need help. Helping them earns you karma points, which gives you access to help that you need from others as life trips you up. Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/karmawish-a-social-networking-site-for-doing-good-deeds/Graphene is a new material made of carbon sheets only one atom thick: "It is the thinnest known material in the universe, and the strongest ever measured," Andre Geim , a physicist at the University of Manches...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/graphene-the-worlds-thinnest-material/Students at the University of Quebec won a competition of human-powered submarines by basing their design on the body and movement of a penguin: Team OMER, composed of students from the school's Ecole de Techn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/students-win-race-with-penguin-shaped-submarine/Like Star Trek, only real. Physicist Richard Obousy speculates about a means of faster-than-light travel and dubs it 'warp drive'. The picture above is of the ship that he proposes be built to test his ide...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/warp-drive-theoretically-possible/Computer security expert Tadayoshi Kohno says that biotechnology that has a neural interface, such as advanced prosthetic limbs, may make the brain accessible to hackers in the future: In some cases, patients...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/hacking-your-brain/Did you know frozen peaches and peas can actually be healthier for you than fresh ones? Were you aware that Chicken McNuggets actually contain beef extract? There's a whole lot most of us don't know about the food...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/10-facts-about-mass-produced-food/For many people, even the word "Detroit" brings to mind images of crime, cars and poverty. But no city can really be that black and white. The things you don't know about Detroit might just entertain you. Elovethisci...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/10-facts-about-detriot/People, meet your new grammar Nazi: a study by Harvard University linguist Ansgar Endress has revealed that monkeys can recognize poor grammar!For their study, Endress and colleagues played recordings of made-up Engl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/monkey-your-new-grammar-nazi/Photo: Gladstone GalleryYou're looking at Tower Snake, a spiral ramp built with bamboo and cast-aluminum snake skeleton by Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, currently on display at the Gladstone Gallery in New Yor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/tower-snake-by-huang-yong-ping/When it comes to beauty pageants, we're so used to hearing about scandals that this news is rather unusual: Kristina Higgins, who was crowned Miss Georgia, turned down the prize and gave up her title after just hours of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/miss-georgia-turned-down-crown-to-teach-middle-school/A newly released recording from a British control room monitoring lunar activity in the late 1960s revealed that the Russian actually tried to beat the Americans in the race to the Moon: just hours before the Apollo 11 l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/russians-tried-to-beat-apollo-11-in-the-race-to-the-moon-by-crash-landing-a-spacecraft/Meet DustCart, a real-life Wall-E, created by Italian scientist Paolo Dario and colleagues at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna University. The robotic trash bin can revolutionize trash collection in small Italian towns wit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/dustcart-the-real-life-wall-e/Sculptor Antony Gormley of One & Other's summer art project is loads of fun: he asks the people of London to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, usually reserved for statues of kings and generals. Eve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/poo-man-on-the-fourth-plinth/If you, for some weird reason or another, have any interest in signing up to WalMart's Twitter feed, be prepared to agree to a 3,379 word long (lord only knows how many characters) Terms of Use. Personally, I'm not...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/walmart-fails-at-twitter/Fail Whale is the delightful image of a flying whale that Twitter uses when the site is down for one reason or another. The whale, designed by artist Yiying Lu, became so popular that folks made their own versions, ran...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/homage-to-fail-whale/Why use your arm in a food fight when you can rig up a tiny little catapult? This project is made from a mint tin, a measuring spoon, and a rubber band. What more fun can you have than to fling candy at your kids! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/mint-catapult/Landlord of the Flies is a blog about Gabe and his dealings with his landlord Gary. Gary sends emails and leaves notes and is in quite a bit of trouble with the police, all seemingly for our amusement. When Gabe receiv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/the-worst-landlord-ever/Angry Octopus is a webcomic featuring an octopus that always becomes angry by the final panel. It's a summer project from Mike and his eight-year-old daughter Zoe. The pictured comic is entitled "Beware of Fugu". Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/angry-octopus/I received a mysterious package in the mail yesterday. I'm always expecting something from eBay, but I didn't order anything lately that would come in a package this big. Continue reading if you are interested in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/the-mysterious-swag-box/w00t! It's time for this week's collaboration with the always fascinating What is it? Blog. Can you guess what the strange object above is for?Place your guess in the comment section - no prize this week...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/what-is-it-game-104/34-year-old Hu Binjun of Chengdu, Sichuan province, China was reportedly been doing drugs when he threatened to commit suicide. He also dangled his three-year-old daughter out the window of their eighth-story apartment b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/daring-eighth-floor-rescue/Although not common, some people exhibit allergic reactions to some strange and hard-to-avoid things, like heat, cold, sunlight, sweat, and vibrations. Vibrations? Once again it is the body having a strange reaction...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/odd-allergies/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Train vs. Tornado Hundreds of tons of steel vs. one of nature's fiercest phenomenons. Once the rain starts coming down, there's no turning bac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/09/videosift-clips-of-the-week-31/Does your boss insist that everybody in the office think of himself as a friend first, and a boss second? Do his attempts at humor often end up inappropriate or even downright offensive, yet without malice? You may be wo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/08/my-boss-is-michael-scott/[YouTube - Link] North Korea is world-renowned for its crippling poverty, saber rattling and wanton firing of missiles left, right and center. It is also known for its strict TV practices where all televisions are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/08/north-korean-beer-advertisement/Photo via Duo de Hale [Flickr] A man in Kenya found his dog had ate eaten his rent money. To get even, he brought his dog to the police station and ordered the police to arrest his dog. When they wouldn't do it, he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/08/officer-arrest-this-dog/These helmet toppers are a great way to get kids to actually wear their helmets while they ride their bike. The bunny one is my favorite. What's yours? http://www.innoprousa.com/helmet_toppers.htm Via Nerd Apporve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/08/cute-animal-helmet-toppers/This great needlepoint work was created by Tennessee artist, Jacquelyn Royal. If you like her work, there's more on the site, but I don't think any of them look nearly as real as this one. Link Via Craftzinecrafts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/08/graffiti-needlework/This is a cool and innovative stop motion animation by PES. It features some sweet tricks too. Linkvideos, PES, stopmotion, Arts, skateboarding...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/08/human-skateboard-animation/Flickr user scrumptiousdelight created a throw pillow based upon the sarlacc monster from The Return of the Jedi. On this pillow, you will learn a new definition of comfort as you are slowly soothed for ove...
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