This is one well-trained pug puppy. Who needs a nanny when you can just have your baby and dog go out on a walk together? Link Via I Has A Hot Doganimals, dogs, pugs, strollers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/05/pug-pushing-stroller/You might know beans are delicious. You may even remember all the words of the schoolyard rhyme about them, but what else do you know about the fruit? Most people take beans for granted because they seem to be such a sim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/05/7-things-that-make-beans-magical/The Minneapolis StarTribune hosted their first annual Hot Dog Dressing Contest for Independence Day. The weiner winners included the pictured entry entitled "Dog Gone" by Mel Ferrer and Joanne Haas. You can see all the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/05/winning-weiners/In 1971, Juliane Koepcke was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed 91 people over Peru. She fell two miles and landed in the rain forest. The 17-year-old Koepcke then walked for ten days through jungle terrain t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/05/plane-crash-survivor-tells-story/Geodesic domes are fascinating structures that are used for any number of purposes - museum, sports arenas - even homes. They follow strict physical rules but somehow look as if they must be breaking them, or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/05/geodesic-magic-theres-no-place-like-dome/You know the honeymoon is over when this happened: when the husband found out that his new wife took too long in the airport restroom, he decided to get on the plane without her!The woman in question, a teacher, had...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/05/taking-too-long-in-the-bathroom-get-a-divorce/Daily Affirmation may have worked for Stuart Smalley, but psychologist Joanne Wood and colleagues found that repeating positive statements about themselves don't work for people with low self-esteem. In fact, they actual...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/05/im-good-enough-im-smart-enough-and-doggone-it-i-feel-worse/What do you think this little guy is dreaming about? Feilds of food and fluffy bedding? Whatever it is, it certainly seems to be delicious and fun. Link Via Cute Overload Video, sleep, hamster, dreaming...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/04/hamster-dreaming-in-his-sleep/For those of you who love animals in costumes, WebEcoist has a collection of 20 great pet cosumes. There's bunnies, kitties, doggies and more. I personally perfer the Harry Potter cat above. What's your favorite? Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/04/glorious-pet-costumes/If you're more into eating circuit boards than walking on them, then this candy circuit board might be just what you sweet-toothed geeks are looking for. This one is based on an iphone circuit board. Link Food, tech...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/04/circuit-board-candy/To remind drivers to drive carefully during the rain in Papakura, New Zealand, the local government put out a rather disturbing billboard that bleeds when it rains. The billboard may be terrifying, but apparently it's ef...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/04/bleeding-billboard/Image: xenonofarcticus [Flickr], modified from bacon photo by YogmaJust in time for Fourth of July, here's American Bacon by Chris Hanson of Pocket Bacon. Who says that pork products can't be patriotic? bacon, Fourth of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/04/american-bacon/If the American Bacon above isn't for you, then perhaps this is more your alley: a collection of Fourth of July covers of The Saturday Evening Post throughout the decades: LinkHappy Fourth of July, everyone!magazine, Fou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/04/the-saturday-evening-posts-fourth-of-july-covers-throughout-the-decades/You may not have the psionic power of X-Men's Professor X, but Carmaker Toyota and research lab RIKEN have created the closest thing in real life: a wheelchair that can be controlled by thought.The device scans brain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/04/mind-controlled-wheelchair/Say Peru and the wods Machu and Picchu will often spring to mind as the tourist destination. Yet the north of the country, often neglected by tourists, has remarkable sites of it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/04/the-secluded-secrets-of-northern-peru/Many people who meditate regularly have better focus and control over their emotions, reduced levels of stress, and bolstered immune systems, but does meditation do anything to the brain structure itself? Eileen Lude...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/04/meditations-can-build-a-bigger-brain/It was one of the most contentious debates in the history of environmental issues: what was causing wild frogs to develop with missing limbs? During the late 1980's and early 90's, researchers received reports of wild...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/04/the-mystery-of-legless-frogs-solved/Photo: Thomas BirkePhotographer Thomas Birke went to Japan in 2008 to take photos of "the future" - and he didn't go away disappointed. Thomas' large format photography reveals how much Tokyo resembles the dyst...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/04/tokyo-the-blade-runner-city-by-thomas-birke/The Standard Grill in the Standard Hotel in New York has a very unusual floor: it's made of pennies! I guess if you're a couple of pennies short on tips, just pry them off the floor!Linkmoney, penny, floor, Standard Gril...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/04/the-money-floor-alas-only-pennies/In 1946, famed surrealist artist Salvador Dali and Walt Disney became unlikely collaborators, and set to work on a short film called Destino. The project was ultimately abandoned with less than 20 seconds of film shot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/03/destino-a-cartoon-short-by-disney-and-dali/The Oops Design Awards have taken it upon themselves to do something that should have been done a long time ago -they have created an award for the ugliest, silliest and most useless product designs of the year. As y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/03/ugliest-product-of-the-year-contest/(YouTube link) This is a music video for "Hibi no Neiro" (Tone of everyday) by Sour. The people in it are fans of the band, and the whole thing was shot on webcams all over the world. At first, you think that using fa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/03/fun-with-webcams/90-year-old Rachel Veitch of Orlando, Florida has been driving the same 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente since it was new. Now she has racked up 557,000 miles on the odometer -and it's still going great! Unlike her thre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/03/557000-miles/Three new species of diniosaur have been found in the Australian outback. Two plant-eating species were nicknamed "Clancy" and "Matilda". The third dinosaur is a carnivore dubbed Australovenator Wintonensis, but...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/03/a-dinosaur-named-banjo/Researchers in Japan and Spain have made an interesting discovery: the Argentine ant, originally native to South America, is now found on every continent except Antartica thanks to humans. This super colony m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/03/ants-rulers-of-the-world/Photo: Eric Long / Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum It goes without saying that the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has some of the neatest collection of planes in the world, but this one is particular...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/03/fly-powered-aircraft/Think your health care plan is bad? Consider yourself lucky that you don't live back in the middle ages when "advanced" surgeries were done using these 20 seriously scary surgical tools. Yikes. This one to t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/02/terrifying-surgical-tools-of-old/We hardly ever look at ceilings, but they can make a world of difference in the mood of a room. Architecture fan deputy dog has a roundup of beautiful ceilings from all over. He is still looking for an explanation of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/02/10-beautiful-ceilings/(YouTube link) Sweet, safe, and delicious fireworks, from PES. -via BuzzfeedPES, animation, candy, fireworks...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/02/candy-fireworks/Humans have always been fascinated with the salamander's ability to regenerate lost limbs. Now scientists studying salamander genes have discovered that the process isn't quite as complicated as once thought. By tr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/02/salamander-discovery-could-lead-to-human-limb-regeneration/
