When rare red pandas in China were abandoned by their mother, zookeepers looked high and low for a wet nurse. The farmer's dog pictured was one of three candidates for the wet nurse position. “No one knew she was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/red-pandas-adopted-by-farmers-dog/You are cordially invited to the wedding of Kelly Hildebrandt and Kelly Hildebrandt? You may not be personally invited, but it's true that the two Kelly Hildebrandts are getting married. The female Hildebrandt is from Fl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/kelly-hildebrandt-and-kelly-hildebrandt/Some of the most notorious discoveries and inventions arose by accident, or more commonly, were developed for uses other than what they ended up doing. Listverse looks at ten such products, including trinitrotoluene, a c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/10-useful-inventions-that-went-bad/In August of 1985, Ebony magazine printed an article called Portraits of the Stars: What They May Look Like In The Year 2000. The magazine commissioned Chicago artist Nathan Wright to create the pictures. One of the cele...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/who-is-this-man/Competing a grueling marathon isn't challenging enough for some runners. Woman's Day has a list of ten marathons, some of them run under brutal conditions. The picture above is from Greenland's marathon....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/10-extreme-marathons/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0kMOuMmQ44][YouTube - Link]This baby sea lion at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium isn't too sure about taking the plunge, but finally gets the hang of it. Getting...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/baby-sea-lion-swim-lesson/Now that the summer months are upon us, keeping cool and saving our energy is a top priority. An Australian research group is working towards producing new solar cell windows that will harness energy from the sun and red...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/solar-glass-could-save-energy-and-improve-your-view/Massachusetts photographers have apparently found the only known image of Phineas Gage. Phineas Gage is famous throughout medical literature and folklore because he survived a horrific accident. He was a 25 y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/meet-phineas-gage/The world's cheapest car is set to go on sale in India as the first customer receives the key to the vehicle, handed to him personally by the chairman of the car company.The Tata Nano, created by Tata Motors costs only 1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/worlds-cheapest-car-goes-on-sale/The world's oldest known dinosaur burrow, recently discovered on the southeast coast of Australia, suggests that some dinos went underground to escape extreme weather. 110 million years ago, when this burrow was dug,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/dinos-burrowed-underground-in-cold-weather/Predicting the economy is a lot like reading tea leaves - but a lot less certain. Indeed, economist Edgar Fiedler famously said "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/economists-predict-recession-to-be-over-soon-what-do-you-think/Remember the dealership that gave away handguns if you buy their car last year? Well, they've upped their firepower: Max Motors in Butler, Missouri, is now giving away an AK-47 (technically, a voucher redeemable for one)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/buy-a-truck-get-a-free-ak-47/Sure, teenagers everywhere try to sneak in a beer or two. It's practically a rite of passage, but the city of Milan, Italy is cracking down on teenage drinking because they have a bad problem of underage drinking.How bad...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/a-third-of-11-year-olds-in-milan-italy-have-drinking-problems/Chimps may be portrayed as mischieviously fun but largely harmless by Hollywood, but the truth is anything but. In the wild, chimpanzees are killers that engage in years-long war against one another, and their behavior m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/the-chimps-of-war/Polish Czech artist EPOS257 created this street art exhibition in Prague featuring the Orghoi khorkhoi, or the Mongolian Death Worm. For those of you who are blessedly unaware, the Mongolian death worm is the fiercest cr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/mongolian-death-worm-attacks-prague/Ukrainian artist Yurko Gutsulyak has created what is probably the perfect calendar for pyromaniacs: the "days" made of individual matches that you can tear off and set alight.Link - via Typography Served calend...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/18/calendar-for-pyromaniacs/In this art installation aptly titled Bedroom, Israeli artist Nelly Agassi turned the entire room into a giant bed! Perfect for your next slumber party where you can invite oh, your 100 closest friends or so: Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/18/bedroom-is-itself-a-giant-bed/Obscura IX,1 by Kwanghun Hyun, made with a Tessar lensThere's not much information at Kwanghun Hyun's webpage for his DIY cameras. Ttechnically, they aren't camera obscuras as he titled them, but who cares? They are mech...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/18/diy-camera-by-kwanghun-hyun/Folder Type is a typography created by Emilio Gomariz out of 22,655 color-coded Mac file folders. And here's the kicker: no script was used - he did it all by hand, which proves that his folder-fu is much, much...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/18/folder-type-typography-by-emilio-gomariz/If you [heart] birds, then Josh Coulas has the birdhouse for you! Here's Heart For Bluebirds, a wooden holed heart structure he built for a competition/fundraiser at the Toronto Botanical Gardens.Check out the c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/18/heart-birdhouse-by-josh-coulas/The Tunguska Event, a mysterious explosion over the Tunguska River in 1908, has sparked many speculations as to its cause (A meteor? A Tesla experiment gone wrong? A natural gas explosion?). But this one takes the cake f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/18/tunguska-event-ufo-slamming-itself-into-a-meteor-to-save-earth/A century and a half ago, 20 people died and many other became ill because their local candy distributor knew a bargain when he saw one. On October 23, 1858, William “Humbug Billy” Hardaker, sold peppermint lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/18/the-case-of-the-poisoned-peppermints/(College Humor link) Darth Vader and his Storm Troopers break it down at the dance-off show at Disney's annual Star Wars Weekends. See the entire show at YouTube. -via Buzzfeed Star Wars, disney, MC Hammer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/18/darth-hammer/When I was six, my mother sewed a piece of velcro on an old blue towel. That was my Batman outfit. This is better: a functional set of motorcycle leathers modeled after the Batsuit in the movie The Dark Knigh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/18/batman-motorcycle-suits-for-sale/Fun Tuna has a photogallery of people who have passed out while in yoga positions. Presumably by accident. Link via Bits & Piecesyoga, drunk, intoxication, Fun Tuna...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/18/drunk-people-in-yoga-positions/It had to be done. Threadless member Oxen married two recent internet memes, the Three Wolf Moon Shirt and Keyboard Cat together in this t-shirt design. Link -via Everlasting Blort memes, keyboard cat, wolf moon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/18/three-keyboard-cat-moon-shirt/In an update on the story about the new military robot in development that refuels itself by consuming biomass, Robot Technologies and Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. issued a press release denying that its robot would c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/18/manufacturers-defends-eatr/(YouTube link) Veteran journalist and news anchorman Walter Cronkite died today. Often called "the most trusted man in America", Cronkite set a high standard for television journalism in the 20th century. He was 92...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/rip-walter-cronkite/Forty years later, you can still see the lunar modules, and even footprints, left on the moon by the Apollo missions. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO took new pictures between July 11th and 15th. "Not...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/new-pictures-of-apollo-landing-sites/Problem: photocopiers are expensive, uncomfortable, and generally can't support the weight of an adult human. Solution: the iBum by Tomomi Sayuda: This project came from "impact" brief. My initial concern w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/the-ibum-chair-automatically-photocopies-your-butt/
