You've heard plenty about how the US beat the Soviets to the moon in 1969. There was another lesser-known exploratory scoop in January of 1960, when US Navy marine specialist Lieutenant Don Walsh and oceanographer Jacque...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/the-deepest-ocean-depths/The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century will move across part of the earth tomorrow. You'll be able to see it if you are certain parts of India, China, or Japan. The first who will be able to see it are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/solar-eclipse-wednesday/(YouTube Link) A biotech company named InSightec is developing a surgical technique that uses focused ultrasound waves instead of scalpels to destroy tumors: Machinery like this had previously been used to tr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/ultrasound-brain-surgery/(Video Link) Artist Thomas Thwaites is trying to build a toaster from scratch from the original raw materials -- which he mined himself. Here is a video about his efforts to smelt iron ore at home. He's doing so a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/smelting-iron-in-a-microwave/Can a dramatic prairie dog be fine art? If you're looking for squirrels in underpants or zombies in romantic moonlight, then this oil painting and others like it are for you. They're availabe at McPhee. I can't find a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/internet-memes-as-fine-art/Fast Company has a slideshow of unusual buildings in which people live or work, using unique materials or shapes. These include high-grade bricks made from cow dung, a house made from hemp (pictured), a buildin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/10-oddest-places-to-work-or-live/New signs for a public loo in Winchcombe, England have people scratching their heads. The infographic resembles a skier with poles, or a man on an escalator. The words "ambulant urinal" convey the idea of a urinal that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/baffling-toilet-signs/After winning a horse race, the glory usually goes to the horse instead of the jockey. But the jockey makes a world of difference. A new study from the Royal Veterinary College in London says that how a jockey positions...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/how-to-make-a-horse-go-faster/The post is titled "9 reasons why there wasn’t stress in the good old days". Now, you better believe there was plenty of stress in the 19th and 20th centuries, but people were happy to try everything nature and medic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/stress-relief-from-the-good-old-days/(YouTube Link) Researchers are Carnegie Mellon University are developing touchscreens that are textured to provide a variety of different shapes for users to interact with. If I understand this video correctly, thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/variable-tactile-surface-touchscreens/VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, a biotech start-up, has developed a tiny telescope that has can implanted into the eyes of people suffering from macular degeration: Last week, an advisory panel for the Food an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/a-miniature-telescope-implanted-in-the-eye/The site Not Fooling Anybody is a gallery of business conversions that retain the ghosts of past architecture. For example, this chiropractic office used to be a ...you know. The big bucket still on the sign post shoul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/not-fooling-anybody/In yet another sterling example of interspecies loving, here's a great video of a deer giving sweet kisses to an adorable kitty. I love how into it the kitty gets near the end. Link Via Cute OverloadFunny, Cute, video...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/deer-giving-kitty-heavy-loving/This Simpsons mosaic table is made of leftover tiles and places from a Target clearance sale and leftovers at the local home improvement store by craftster user redflag. She completely freehanded the pictures, which...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/simpsons-mosaic-table/Photographer Burk Uzzle took plenty of photographs of the Woodstock music festival in August of 1969, but none are remembered better than the young couple wrapped in a blanket that became the cover art for the record alb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/woodstock-lovers-still-together/(YouTube link)Lithuanian composer Mindaugas Piecaitis was inspired by Nora the Piano Playing Cat (featured previously at Neatorama) and composed a concerto for her to perform with an orchestra. Nora appears via videotape...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/catcerto/Cracked has the stories of seven horrific injuries that should have killed the victim, but they recovered anyway. Some you may never have heard before, like the story of Channing Moss, who served with the US military in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/seven-fatal-injuries-that-were-survived/Matt Neary of Fargo, North Dakota found that a thief had stolen CDs and his wallet out of his truck -- but he did leave a pleasant note complimenting Neary's taste in music: You have amazing taste in music....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/thief-compliments-victim-in-hand-written-note/When one of the two toilets on the International Space Station broke, io9 blogger Lauren Davis was inspired to write about the toilets (or utter lack thereof) in various science fiction movies, TV shows, and books. She...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/science-fiction-toilets/NASA has created a map of Aldrin and Armstrong's journeys on the surface of the moon to the scale of a baseball diamond. It helps put their activities at the landing site in perspective. Also, we know "Who's on first?"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/map-of-the-first-moonwalk-superimposed-on-a-baseball-diamond/(YouTube Link) This start-up proposes to use robots to carve the lunar surface dust into patterns that could serve as advertisements. I'm skeptical due to the sheer scale of the task -- the number of robots necessa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/company-offers-to-carve-advertisements-on-the-surface-of-the-moon/The first Lit Slits quiz turned out to be quite popular. Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss is volume two. In this quiz, you'll be shown a vertical stripe xeroxed from one page of a book, and you figure out what th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/lit-slits-ii/(YouTube Link) Captain Alpha Male is a new webseries written by and starring Jay L. Lutsky. It's about a man who works in middle management at a superhero agency; like a cross between The Office...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/captain-alpha-male/Psst - there's a verbal virus that's been going around for years and you've probably been infected. But don't worry, it may be annoying but it's absolutely benign: Jeff Benanto, a manager at a marketing company in Bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/the-absolutely-virus/Scientists have been puzzled over the purpose of the Tiger Moth's tymbal organ membrane, which is able to vibrate at ultrasonic frequencies. The consensus is that it serves as a warning to bats, since the moths are able...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/moths-evolve-sonar-jamming-to-outwit-bats/Found in Japan: a dog with real eyebrows. Meet "Panda," a dog born with black spots around his eyes. As he grew older, the spots moved up to be like eyebrows.BuzzFeed has got the video clip (I bet Martin Scorse...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/dog-with-human-eyebrows/Earlier this year, photographers Eamon Lane and Carlo Nicora spent one weekend to photograph one thousand people (Flickr) on the streets of London. They asked the same question more than 1,500 times and succeeded in capt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/one-thousand-portraits-from-barcelona/Woot! (literally) Our pal Adam "Ape Lad" Koford is curating this week's excellent T-shirt selection over at Shirt.Woot to help celebrate the second anniversary of the site's launch.Along Adam himself, Shirt.Woo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/adam-ape-lad-koford-at-shirtwoot/A Russian hobbyist put together a diorama of World War II action figures assembling a terminator to fight the Germans. Oh, this isn't just one scene, but a series of photographs that tell the story. I particularly like...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/russian-terminator/Instructables has a detailed set of how to's to let you convert your computer case into a taxidermy beaver. Nothing says quality technology like dead animals. It's pretty easy, just look at step one: Purch...
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