Creating nanomachines can be unprofitable because of the time necessary to create and then assemble the components. But researchers at Columbia University have found a way to make machines assemble themselves: *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/23/scientists-design-self-assembling-nanogears/With all of the confusion recently on the internet about music and copyright, you may not know what's what. Here's something to help you learn about how music royalties work.Considering how much “education”...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/23/music-royalties-for-dummies/AskMen has just released the results of their second annual Great Male Survey, involving more than 50,000 of their readers worldwide, to find out what the modern man is thinking about.As with their first survey last year...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/23/askmens-great-male-survey-2009/Listverse has information about 10 strange studies that scientists have conducted, such as how breasts bounce while women jog, can sheep recognize each others' faces, and flatulating fish. From the latter: ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/23/10-bizarre-scientific-studies/Barry Shell of Brampton, Ontario could call it his lucky day -or his unlucky day. He won $4.4 million dollars in the Canadian Lotto drawing July 18th. Monday, he went to pick up his winnings at the Ontario Lottery and Ga...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/23/collect-4-million-go-directly-to-jail/Keep your dogs off the charcoal in style with this Cthulhu hot dog roaster from Roast My Weenie. Only $35, a bargain for diehard Cthulhu fans. http://www.shop.roastmyweenie.com/product.sc;jsessionid=72496F1DA0788681339...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/23/cthulhu-weinie-roaster/You've read the stories about eating contests, and you've wondered how in the world can people stuff that much food into themselves. Now you can see how its done, with ten videos of various food contests, including glimp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/23/the-10-craziest-competitive-eating-moments/Payday loans can have a annual interest rate of 400%, but people who take them don't look it it that way when they borrow $100 and pay back $115 in two weeks. Many fall into the trap of taking a second, third, or more lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/23/why-do-people-fall-for-payday-loans/That stands for "vertical take off and landing", not in the way that a helicopter does, but more like the tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey in the U.S. military inventory. As the U.S. Air Force is moving toward a greater role for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/23/a-vtol-unmanned-aircraft/Cartoonist Arthur Jones writes stories through text and doodles on Post-It Notes, then reads his stories live to audiences as his cartoons scroll in the background. There are a few on his site, but my favorite is actual...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/23/post-it-note-stories/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Mitchell and Webb Take on Gordon Ramsay This is a hilarious skit that sends up the foul-mouthed kitchen coach. (language NSFW) Link *s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/23/videosift-clips-of-the-week-33/This week's collaboration with the always awesome What Is It? Blog brings us this strange object - can you guess what it is for? Place your guess in the comment section - no prize this week, so you're pl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/23/what-is-it-game-106/If you've seen the new movie Public Enemies, you already know how John Dillinger died (and if you haven't seen it, you probably knew anyway - Neatoramanauts are smarter than the average bear). What you may not...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/23/how-five-gangsters-met-their-makers/NASA managed to put a man on the moon and broadcast the event live to half a billion people on earth. The footage wasn't great, but we were glad to see it anyway. It turns out that the images from the moon to the earth w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/one-giant-screwup-for-mankind/[http://youtu.be/4-94JhLEiN0] (YouTube link)The wedding party enters the sanctuary in an unconventional fashion. Say what you will about the staging; this is obviously a joyous occasion for all concerned. -via reddit*str...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/wedding-processional/Ron Douglas was challenged by his wife to crack the super-secret blend of 11 herbs and spices in the KFC recipe. He now has a website (and a book deal) spilling the beans on how to make your very own restaurant food...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/dont-tell-the-colonel-man-duplicates-kfc-recipe-maybe/Artist Franco Brambilla depicts scenes of pleasant, everyday life during and after aliens have conquered the Earth. To do so, he superimposes aliens over actual postcards of serene landscapes. It's like Norman Rock...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/everyday-life-under-our-alien-overlords/Since scientists are out to kill us again, what with flesh-eating robots, ethicists and roboticists have called for revisions to Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics: A human-robot co-existence society could emerge by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/roboticists-argue-for-robot-system-of-ethics/Daniel Suelo lives in a tiny cave in Utah. Instead of working for money, he spends his time foraging for food because he believes that living without money is a better way. Nine years ago, after volunteering with the Pea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/doing-without-money-on-purpose/German daredevil Dirk Auer established a new world record when he raced down a 860-meter wood roller coaster track in under a minute. He maintained an average speed of 56 mph on custom skates that he built himself:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/skating-down-a-roller-coaster/Charles Darwin was fascinated with the Venus Flytrap and other carnivorous plants. How did such a thing arise through natural selection? Botanists Don Waller and Thomas Gibson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison beli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/how-the-venus-flytrap-evolved/As an assignment, Professor Daniel Fletcher of the University of California at Berkeley instructed students to build a functional microscope from a cell phone and a few lenses. When they completed the project, Fletcher...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/the-cellscope-a-microscope-adapter-for-your-cellphone/(YouTube Link) The Schweeb is an experimental transit system in New Zealand that combines the bicycle and a monorail track. Users lie down individual pods and work the pedals to move forward: Our proposal to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/the-shweeb-a-human-powered-monorail/Here is a collection of 20 quirky, bizarre and historical maps, covering many areas of the world. War maps, demographic maps, William Clark's hand-drawn map, and the island of California. What?Believe it or not, expl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/the-island-of-california-and-other-fascinating-ancient-maps/What are the rules that you have to follow when you want to be a busker? Which songs can or shouldn't you play? This funny blog is your guideline, including a diary of an unfortunate busker. Consider this excerpt from a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/the-buskers-handbook/A British man and his Spanish sweetheart have finally married after 16 years apart, brought together by a love letter thought lost. Steven Smith and Carmen Ruiz-Perez, both 42 years of age, first met 17 years ago when...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/lost-love-letter-reunites-couple/It's a question you might find yourself pondering on a wet weekend - why do raindrops come in so many different shapes and sizes? Scientists think they have the answer after filming a single water droplet falling through...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/the-amazing-pictures-that-explain-why-no-two-raindrops-are-alike/If you were impressed with the dog who wet nursed the red panda cubs, just wait till you read about the dog who adopted these tiger cubs. The page also has photos of a dog in the same area that adopted two lion cubs....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/dog-nurses-tiger-cubs/If you love Mario, you may be interested in learning how to make your own Super Mario Mushroom from a radish. Perfect for bento boxes or party treats, although, if you're like me, it's nothing you'd ever want to ea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/make-a-radish-into-a-mario-mushroom/(CNN video link) This intense video was shot as a group of neighbors and passers-by rescued a mother and her two children from their burning SUV in Milwaukee. The mother and baby daughter were brought out first, but t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/strangers-save-family-from-burning-car/
