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- But Do They Have Any Nuka Cola?
- Mars Curiosity Has Landed
- Can These Kicks Help You Traverse Through Space & Time?
- This Pup Just Got Scarlett Lettered
- If Salvador Dali Took On Batman
- Monster Jeans Patch
- Cups and Ball Device
- Why does it hurt so much when I stub my toe?
- The Olympic Full Moon
- The Karate Kid Rehearsal and Lost Footage
- Edison's Cradle
- The First Photo From Space
- Welcome to the New Neatorama!
- Get Down Little Porcupine
- Jason Segel, Jack Black and Will Ferrell as the Hitchhiking Ghosts
- Why Hemingway Used to Dress As A Girl
- Punched Ticket Art by Mia Liu
- What Happens When You Electrify Plants?
- Z Machine: Meet the X-Ray Generator That Can Melt Diamonds
- Walter White's Lab Safety Chart
- Circles Optical Illusion
- Wealth Distribution: America or Equalden?
- The Ultimate In Absurd Dog Luxury
- Prescription Rx Shot Glasses
- Steam of Consciousness
- Penis Snake
- Baby’s First Butcher Shop
- To Err is Human, To Really Foul Things Up Requires a Computer: Trading Firm Lost $440 Million in 45 Minutes Due to Software Bug
- Talking Turkey
- 24 Photographs of Abe Lincoln Being Awesome
| But Do They Have Any Nuka Cola? Posted: Looks like they're fresh out of Nuka Cola, but you'll probably take in less RADs if you try an Espresso Royale or an Italian soda. Link Via Geeks Are Sexy  |
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NASA pulled off its most complicated Mars explorer landing ever, which has been called Seven Minutes of Terror. The Mars Curiosity explorer touched down on the red planet this morning and is already sending back photographs. This one is terrestrial, showing the jubilation at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory when the successful landing was confirmed.
A video of the actual descent and touchdown is expected later today. Link -via Bad Astronomy Blog (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) |
| Can These Kicks Help You Traverse Through Space & Time? Posted: Yes, I know, bigger on the inside...but silly TARDIS joke aside, these shoes are seriously awesome -especially in how simple the design is. You can actually get your own over on Etsy -if you've got an extra $100 for some Chucks. Link Via The Daily What |
| This Pup Just Got Scarlett Lettered Posted: Sometimes a bop on the nose just isn't enough, sometimes you must just punish them emotionally through embarassment. |
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| Posted: If you're going to put a patch on your jeans, you may as well be creative with it! This cute hole monster will bring a smile to whoever sees it. The instructions are at ReFashion Co-Op. Link -via Boing Boing |
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| Why does it hurt so much when I stub my toe? Posted:
"First, our feet and hands are our interface to the world. As such, they are highly innervated with nerve endings that provide sensory feedback to our central nervous system, which uses this information to guide our actions. With our toes and feet, this is as simple as sensing the shape of the ground, the incline, the pressure that our shoes create on our feet, or the slipperiness of the surface we are standing on — all very important information if we are to successfully navigate our world. That's just the beginning of the explanation, so read the rest at the college's site. Link -via Metafilter |
| Posted: Photographer Luke MacGregor caught a great sequence of shots Friday night, following the full moon as it rose through the Olympic Rings hanging beneath Tower Bridge in London. See the moon at different points in a gallery at Reuters. Link -via reddit (Image credit: REUTERS/Luke MacGregor) |
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Those questions get answered and more. So you don't have to wade through all 13 segments, Slate has posted a synopsis of each, with links, do you can pick and choose which part you want to see. Link -via mental_floss |
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For her senior thesis, art student Yasutoki Kariya turned Newton's Cradle into an "Edison's Cradle":
Spoon Tamago has the video clip: Link - via My Modern Met |
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The grainy black and white photo above was the very first photo from space. It was taken from an altitude of 65 miles by a 35 mm camera aboard a V-2 rocket on October 24, 1946. The US military launched dozens of these V-2 rockets, captured from the Germans at the end of World War II, from the White Sands Missile Range. They wanted to learn about how to build their own rockets, but invited scientists to hitch along instruments to study the Earth's upper atmosphere while they're launching them anyway. Before this, the highest photo of Earth ever taken was from the 1935 Explorer II balloon, which went up 13.7 miles (the Kármán line of 100 km or 62 miles is considered the boundary of outer space).
The first photograph from space that captured Earth in full view was taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft as they left Earth's orbit to fly to the Moon. The three astronauts aboard the spacecraft took turns taking photos, and no one knew for sure who took the photo above. We do know that astronaut Eugene Cernan said "I know we're not the first to discover this - but we'd like to confirm, from the crew of America, that the world is round." NASA archivist Mike Gentry later remarked that the iconic image, dubbed "The Blue Marble," is the most widely distributed image in human history. |
| Posted: [Updated - see below if Neatorama looks unformatted in your browser] Hello, Neatoramanauts! I'd like to welcome you to the new Neatorama (all you RSS readers, come and take a look). We've been working on this version for quite some time and we're excited that it's finally here. The new blog is not simply a redesign - it is actually the biggest change since the inception of this blog. Our developer Rommel Santor has built a new blogging engine from the ground up. As a result, we now have a custom software system that will enable us to do new and neat things in the coming months. There are quite a few changes, so let me give you a tour:1. Larger photos and easier to read text 2. Love a post or a comment? Heart it! Click on the grey heart in the post or comment to show your appreciation - we'll use this metrics to help improve Neatorama's postings and reward great comments. 3. Built-in Poll New built-in polling capabilities will let us do quick and fun surveys to see what you guys are thinking. 4. Comments on the homepage The comment thread is nested two levels deep. You can reply to an existing comment, or start a new comment thread on a different topic. We've also updated our Comment Policy, so please take a minute to read it. To begin with, you can only post text comments, but with participation, you'll be able to post links and images, as well as embed video clips in your comments. 5. Keyboard shortcuts If you're reading this on a desktop or a laptop, give this a try: Hit J/K to go forward and backward a post, and hit C to open and close a post's comment window on the homepage. 6. Neatorama Account Registration is easy, and you can use a pseudonym/screen name or real name if you'd like. You do, however, need a valid email address as we will email you an activation code to verify your account. After you register an account, we'll send you an activation code via email: You can also sign in with Facebook or Twitter. If you sign in with Twitter, you'd have to provide a valid email address afterwards so we can send you the activation code. One big benefit of registering an account is that you won't see banner ads when logged into the blog ;) 7. User Dashboard The Dashboard also has a feature called "My Discussions," which lists all replies to your comments in one place. You can reply to these comments there (just hover your mouse over the comment), so it's easy to maintain conversations going across different posts: You can change your commenting preference - for example, whether to get email notification when someone replies to your comments and whether to automatically follow a discussion by replying to a comment, at the Dashboard's Preference page. 8. User Profile 9. More Neat Stuff to Come! ----- There will, of course, be bugs. Layouts of many of the blog posts will be off, and many comments will be missing (we're working to fill them all back in). If you found a bug, please email bugs @ neatorama dot com. Please let us know in as much detail as possible what you encountered, as well as a screenshot (if appropriate) and browser details. That will help us out a great deal. I'd like to thank Rommel for the long hours and great effort that he has put into the project. I'd also like to thank a lot of other people who helped as well. Robert Nienhuis of Nienstudios provided input on some of the styling elements in the new blog. Many Neatoramanauts who participated in the alpha release helped us tremendously by testing it out. Lastly, I'd like to thank all of you who read this blog regularly - your continued support makes this blog possible. Update 8/5/12: Neatorama looks unformatted? You probably need to clear your browser's cache. Here is Google's guide on how to clear your cache in Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. If this doesn't work for you, it maybe an issue with our static content server not resolving for your browser. We're on it! |
| Posted: Talk about a party animal, this little guy not only has some sweet moves, he even has his own theme song. Via I Can Has Cheezburger |
| Jason Segel, Jack Black and Will Ferrell as the Hitchhiking Ghosts Posted: For its new ad campaign, Disney engaged famous photographer Annie Leibovitz to feature comedians Jason Segel, Jack Black and Will Ferrell as the Hitchhiking Ghosts from its Haunted Mansion ride. Yahoo's Shine blog has the behind the scenes photos: Link |
| Why Hemingway Used to Dress As A Girl Posted:  It sounds almost slanderous to accuse someone as manly as Ernest Hemingway to have ever worn women's clothing, but it's true -even if it wasn't actually his choice. You see, Ernest's mother always wanted to have twins, so when Ernest was born only 18 months after his older sister, mummy dearest decided that was close enough: Submitting to her twin fantasies, she started dressing Ernest up in Marcelline's old clothes, despite the fact that they were little girl's clothes—lacey white dresses with pink bows and the like. Soon his mom was buying two of everything and dressing her children in identical pink gowns and flowered hats. She would refer to the kids as her "sweet Dutch dollies" and actually tell strangers that they were her twin girls. To perpetuate the twin fantasy, Grace even held Marcelline back a year in school so that she and Ernest would be in the same grade together. Oh, and his mother so treasured the fantasy of Ernest being a little girl that she sometimes referred to him as "Ernestine."If you've ever wondered why the author placed such an importance on masculinity, hopefully that bit of trivia will help answer your question. Link |
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Taiwanese artist Mia Wen-Hsuan Liu took thousands of admission tickets to the Guggenheim Museum and punched holes into them to create this wonderful piece of art.
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| What Happens When You Electrify Plants? Posted:  If you're photographer Robert Buelteman, you get absolutely gorgeous works of art. Of course, it's not just a matter of hooking a plant up to a battery. Buelteman shocks the plants with 80,000 volts of electricity and then uses a fiber optic wire to light paint the image, making it look even more shockingly beautiful. Link Via Laughing Squid |
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Diamond is one of the hardest material in nature, but it's no match for the Z Machine at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It can create electromagnetic pulse that is strong enough to light 100 million light bulbs and melt diamonds: Link |
| Walter White's Lab Safety Chart Posted:  99% of all infographics are made by companies trying to get links to their websites, but that last 1% are often fantastic, like this one, by artist Kevin Tong, depicting all the rules one must follow while working in Walter White's meth lab in Breaking Bad. The chart is so perfect it actually looks like something that could hang on the lab wall, just so it can be referenced whenever Jesse messes up again. Don't miss the full chart at the link. Link Via io9 |
| Posted: I saw this on @Todd_Roy earlier today via @DiscoverMag, who wrote "Oh this? Its nothing, just a picture of 2 perfectly round concentric circles that ur brain will refuse to see." Of course, I had to confirm immediately: See it for yourself |
| Wealth Distribution: America or Equalden? Posted:
The ongoing debate of one-percenters versus the rest of us notwithstanding, what is the ideal wealth distribution for America? To find out, Dan Ariely, author and Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics from Duke University, and his team asked over 5,000 Americans to create a wealth distribution that's ideal to them. Surprisingly, the result is about equal across gender, income, and political affiliation. That's right - both Democrats and Republicans chose the same:
Read more at The Atlantic: Link |
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| Posted:  I get you can't get any more steampunk than an actual steam-powered skull, can you? The kinetic sculpture Steam of Consciousness is from artist Christopher Conte. A miniature steam engine runs the movements under the polyurethane skull encased in a nine-inch-tall glass dome. Link -via Laughing Squid (Image credit: Liza Conlin) |
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It's an exciting discovery for science ... and an arousing news for the Interweb who couldn't stop giggling because the animal, named Atretochoana eiselti, looks just like a ... ehm, penis. Experts demurely called it the "floppy snake," but it was quickly renamed the Man-aconda by The Sun, "trouser snake" and "penis snake" by others. MSN Now asks its readers to whip out their best puns. The Daily Mail, surprisingly, limped out and asked everyone to stop sniggering. At least stop sniggering long enough to learn that the animal is actually not a snake, but rather a type of caecilian, a limbless and blind amphibian that is thought to be aquatic and lacks lungs (it breathes through its skin instead). More photos here:Photos by Juliano Tupan/Divulgação. |
| Posted:  In Victorian times, a toy like this detailed butcher shop from 1840 wouldn't be all that unusual. It's just one of several such butcher shops, dollhouses, and other adult scenes that were common playthings for children whose families could afford them, featured at Collector's Weekly. You'll even see a detailed dollhouse dating back to 1673! Link-Thanks, Ben! |
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It's been a bad week for Knight Capital Group, a New Jersey brokerage that has been an unapologetic advocate for automated electronic trading when a software bug caused it to lose $440 million in just 45 minutes. That's a lost of about $10 million per minute, or $160,000 a second!
This, of course, reminds me of the funny saying "To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer." |
| Posted: A guy sees a yard of turkeys and pulls over to hold a conversation with them. I don't know what country this is in, but some phrases are universal: "Gobble-gobble" and "hahah!" -via b3ta |
| 24 Photographs of Abe Lincoln Being Awesome Posted:  Abraham Lincoln broke ground for U.S. presidents in many ways, one of them for being photographed. Photography was still in its infancy, but we can go back and see how the man actually looked as he ran for congress, campaigned for president, supervised the Civil War, etc etc. I really like this picture of Lincoln with a serious case of bedhead. He was famous for not wanting to look at himself in a mirror, after all. See Lincoln in his many different phases at mental floss. Link |
If you don't look where you're going, you could bash a knee, or bark your shin, or bang your elbow. But stubbing your toe will bring tears to your eyes, and may hurt for quite some time afterward. Why is this so painful? At Marquette magazine, the answer comes from Chris Geiser, clinical assistant professor of exercise science and director of Marquette's athletic training program.
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Biologist Juliano Tupan discovered a rare species of wee animal in the Amazon that looks quite happy to see him.
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