Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets! This is what happens when you put a bunch of scientists together on the track. The petri dish track, that is: In a tongue-i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/worlds-first-cell-race/We've all -- and by 'we' I mean my more inebriated co-bloggers at last year's Christmas party -- would like to avoid being photographed while relaxing in public. So this beer holder developed by the Argentine ad agency D...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/a-beer-holder-that-blocks-incriminating-facebook-photos/A long time ago when I actually created artwork, stipple compositions with fine point pens were among my favorite media. But I never created anything remotely resembling the scale that Miguel Endara does. He duplic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/stipple-portrait-composed-of-3-2-million-dots/Sara Asnaghi made nine life-size human brains from different foods. This one is made from ground chili peppers, which is good, because having chili on your mind constantly is a respectable state of affairs. http:/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/brain-food/Doctor Who iPhone 4 Cases - $35.95 (sold separately) Attention Doctor Who fans! Are you looking for a unique way to protect your phone and declare your love of everything Doctor Who? You need a Doctor Who iPhone 4 Cas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/doctor-who-iphone-4-cases/The ad agency Leo Burnett, maker of clever campaigns like landmine stickers and human billboards, designed this glorious billboard. It is shaped like a fry box. Yellow lights projecting upwards like a pillar of fire...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/mcdonalds-billboard-projects-fry-like-beams-of-light-into-the-sky/Russian industrial designer Tembolat Gugkeav has some quirky furniture designs, such as this piece entitled Tectonic Bookcase. It's perfect for people who keep messy desks. Link -via Dornobbookcases...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/after-the-earthquake/(YouTube link) Ralph ‘Whistler’ Giese performed "Georgia on My Mind" on the Detroit talk show Kelly & Company in the early '80s. The audience reaction is priceless. See more of Giese's video at Dail...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/whistling-on-my-mind/You've seen them (or maybe you are one): holier-than-thou urban bicyclist who think they're better than their environmentally destructive, car-driving brethren. Will Doig of S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/are-urban-bicyclists-snobs/It's certainly inconvenient if your password is hacked and your identity stolen. But if the CIA's password is hacked, it may mean a death sentence for its covert operatives. R...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/cias-password-pizza-hacked/Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on the long-running '60s TV series Gilligan's Island, begins a run in a new play in Chicago tomorrow. And she still gets recognized wherever she goes. “I can’t go anywhere,â€...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/mary-ann-still-acting-at-73/Daniel Valdez of Smeeon modded this motorized wheelchair to look like a steampunk version of X-Men's Professor Xavier's wheelchair. Fantastic! Check out the video clip over at R...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/steampunk-professor-x-wheelchair/When things are tough, excuses plenty, and you're ready to give up, read this inspiring story about Peter Winkler and his red plastic chopstick. In the virtual world, Wink...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/red-plastic-chopstick/(YouTube link) Man, that looks like a lot of fun! I would ride this playground slide, which is somewhere in Japan, but only once unless I could drive back up the hill. -via College Humorjapan, slid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/playground-slide/I had to laugh when I first saw this Twaggie posted at the Neatorama Facebook page. See, my old microwave doesn't have recipes on the buttons (yeah, I finally got rid of my dial microwave), but my mother's does*/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/recipe-buttons/(YouTube link) An LSU cheerleader wore a GoPro camera during the November 25th LSU-Arkansas football game. Be warned that she is a "flyer," one of the smaller cheerleaders who stand on top of the pyramids, so this m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/cheerleader-pov/Each of us have more microbes on and in our bodies than we have cells of our own. Some are beneficial; others we'd like to do without. Then there are millions that are neither, but may be profitable someday. Sou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/who-owns-the-rights-to-our-germs/(YouTube Link) Just a concept now (although one that can be demonstrated), buildings of the future might be put together by flying robots. Which sounds like a great idea, but I'd still want a real human building ins...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/flying-robot-construction/On July 14, 2015, the spacecraft New Horizons will come within 7,767 miles of (former planet) Pluto. The probe has been traveling for six years already, covering a million kilometers every day, and broke a record on Frid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/closest-spacecraft-to-approach-pluto/This Star Wars-themed Christmas tree has gone to the Dark Side. I believe the only light is the light saber! This picture is just begging for puns, which you can find in the reddit thread. Link -via @johncfa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/darth-conifer/In Japan, snowball fighting isn't just a pleasant winter pastime. It's a serious competitive sport known as Yukigassen or "snow battle." Two teams square off on a field about the size of a hockey rink. Victory comes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/competitive-snowball-fighting/Clifton Vial of Nome, Alaska, set out in his Toyota Tacoma to see where a road went, but ended up stuck in a snowdrift on a deserted road that doubles as a snowmobile track. He was 40 miles from town, out of cell phone r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/stranded-man-survives-on-beer/(YouTube link) The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra asked its fans to Tweet their tips for keeping warm in the winter. Then the chorus sang those Tweets to the tune of O Fortuna! -via the Presurfer Previo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/singing-tweets/These adorable brownie bites wear little Santa hats made of strawberries! You'll find instructions for making your own at daisy's world. Link -via BuzzfeedSanta, hat, strawberry, brownies...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/santa-hat-brownies/This lovely sculpture by artist Tomoo Yamaji changes from a dragon to a ring of flowers without removing any parts. He presents it as a spiritual companion: When we are threatened by evil, "it" will appear before...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/dragon-sculpture-transforms-into-ring-of-flowers/(YouTube link) Misery Bear buys a "happiness machine" in hopes of relieving his misery. But you know that's not going to happen. He gets a new friend, whose true nature you will recognize before Misery Bear does. A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/the-teddynator/Stop playing with that brick! It's not a toy, but a tool. Buses in Xian and Harbin, China come equipped with brightly painted bricks that can be used by passengers to smash open windows in the event of an emergency....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/some-buses-have-emergency-bricks/(YouTube link) The moral of the story is: if you are going to sail off the coast of Wales on December 5th, you may want to change your name to Hugh Williams. But is this a true story? Any records from these incidenc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/the-strangest-coincidence-ever-recorded/The following is an article from the newest volume of the Bathroom Reader series, Uncle John's 24-Karat Bathroom Reader. If you’ve ever visited the Hawaiian islands, you may already kno...
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