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- Study: Handsome Men Face Workplace Discrimination
- Forest Spirits - Tenants Of The Trees
- The New Jersey Cemetery Trapped in the 19th Century
- 13 Presidential Palaces around the World
- The Real <i>Goodfellas</i>
- Ten Terrifying Prehistoric Sea Monsters
- Everyday Camo: This Shirt is Intentionally Stained
- Crazy Tentacled Caterpillar
- 634 Corgis Converge for Corgi Beach Day
- The Texting Hat
- Neatly Arranged Food Color Gradients
- 10 Mind Blowing Facts About AKIRA
- Bulldog Loves his Pool
- VOLDY - Don't Fear The Creeper
- Huge Fried Eggs Fill a City Plaza
- This Banana Night Light is SO A-Peelin'!
- Pass the Salt
- Check Out the Name of This Park in Toronto
- New Chocolate Bar Has 7 Different Kinds of Filling
- Disney's <i>Descendants</i>
- What <i>Game Of Thrones</i> Characters Should Look Like, According To The Books
- Trapped Snake Thanks Its Rescuers
- Whodunit: Bye-Bye Bully
- Finn The Punisher - The Bloodshed Never Ends In The Candy Kingdom
- Baby Elephant Seal Cuddles with Woman
- A Bowl Made of Melted Little Plastic Army Men
- World Record for the Rubik's Cube Now Stands at 5.25 Seconds
- Smell-O-Vision: That Movie Really <i>Did</i> Stink!
- "Finally--A Question about Something Important": Stephen Hawking on the Boy Band One Direction
| Study: Handsome Men Face Workplace Discrimination Posted: 28 Apr 2015 04:00 AM PDT
I work online, so it’s less of a problem. But, yes: we rakishly good-looking men endure nothing but sorrow as a result of our superior appearances. Marko Pitesa, a professor of management at the University of Maryland, found that handsome men are less likely to get hired in competitive workplaces. That’s because people tend to think of handsome men as more competent, and thus dangerous competition. You don't want to hire someone who's better at your job than you are, right? The Daily Telegraph reports:
Society must find a way to do justice for the aesthetically-enhanced like us. Well, maybe not you. But me, at least. -via Debby Witt  | ||||||||
| Forest Spirits - Tenants Of The Trees Posted: 28 Apr 2015 03:00 AM PDT They dance by the light of the moon, feeling free to cavort and carry on as they please in their forest home. They are the spirit of the wilds, the kodama who call the woodland trees home and keep the wild places from being cut down by greedy humans. If you hear rattling as you walk through the woods then you know the kodama are nearby, watching you and counting ichi-ni-san as you plod through their sacred groves. Only the one they call Mononoke-hime is truly welcome in their domain, as all other humans make the woodland creatures fear for their lives... You don't have to be a feral princess to appreciate this Forest Spirits t-shirt by 108Stars, but it'll look great on a feral princess or a regular old human Ghibli fan. Visit 108Stars's Facebook fan page, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more geek-tastic designs:
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| The New Jersey Cemetery Trapped in the 19th Century Posted: 28 Apr 2015 03:00 AM PDT A couple of weeks ago, we learned about cemeteries that go out of business. That’s what happened to New Jersey’s oldest cemetery, the Historic Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery, founded in 1831. It had been full for many years, and eventually the board members died out, leaving a history of fiscal mismanagement and neglect. Nature has begun to reclaim a large portion of the graveyard long before that. In 2008, Eileen Markenstein led a group of volunteers determined to clean up the cemetery. Then things got weird.
The underground edifice was a military bunker that was later used to store the deceased when the ground was too frozen to dig graves. Some of them are still there, along with military artifacts dating back to the War of 1812. Read the story of the rise and fall of the the Historic Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery and the unearthing of its secrets at Atlas Obscura. | ||||||||
| 13 Presidential Palaces around the World Posted: 28 Apr 2015 02:00 AM PDT
The United States has the White House and Argentina has the Pink House. That's what the presidential palace in Buenos Aires is called--the Casa Rosada. The color comes from a traditional blending of lime and the blood of oxen. It's been that color since 1870. This one of 13 visually striking presidential residences around the world, including a very modern-styled building in Brasilia and a beautifully blue-tiled building in Seoul. | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Apr 2015 01:00 AM PDT Although the actual release date was in September, there are already tributes to the movie Goodfellas for its 25th anniversary. Martin Scorsese’s film was based on the book Wiseguys, which told about FBI informant Henry Hill and the Lucchese crime family. One of the plot points was the infamous Lufthansa heist of 1978.
The film Goodfellas changed the names of the characters in the nonfiction book, and altered details for dramatic reasons. Den of Geek tells us who is who and what happened to them, in a list profiling the actual gangsters that the characters in Goodfellas were modeled after. While they were quite entertaining onscreen, you wouldn’t want to cross them in real life. | ||||||||
| Ten Terrifying Prehistoric Sea Monsters Posted: 28 Apr 2015 12:00 AM PDT Jaekelopterus rhenaniae | Image: ДиБгд Jaekelopterus rhenaniae is something straight out of a 1950s B movie. This eight-foot-long sea scorpion was a species of the now extinct group of arthropods called Eurypterida, which inhabited the seas approximately 390 million years ago. The fossil shown below was found near Prüm, Germany.
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| Everyday Camo: This Shirt is Intentionally Stained Posted: 27 Apr 2015 11:00 PM PDT If you've ever marred your favorite shirt with blood, grass, red wine, and/or bike oil, Dirt Pattern Material might be right up your alley. It's a shirt with a special pattern, a "camouflage" of the aforementioned stainers. This pattern doesn’t hide the wearer — it camouflages their past. The disruptive coloration allows for new stains to be incorporated, continuing the design process and evolving the pattern over time. Love it. It looks to be a one-up concept by MairWennel, so you'll have to figure out how to make one on your own. I'd start with a glass of red wine. via swissmiss | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Apr 2015 10:00 PM PDT  Jeff Cremer of the Tambopata Research Center in the Peruvian Amazon (previously at Neatorama) tells us about a weird caterpillar with four appendages that resemble tentacles sticking from its abdomen. Entomologist Aaron Pomerantz noticed it when he yelled to his team members, which caused the caterpillar to unfurl its coiled tentacles. Because it reacted to noise, he made more noise. He ended up yelling at a caterpillar for an hour.
Read more about this caterpillar and possible reasons for its behavior at Rainforest Expeditions. Also check out their new Rainforest Journey educational program for kids. | ||||||||
| 634 Corgis Converge for Corgi Beach Day Posted: 27 Apr 2015 09:00 PM PDT
You can remain calm when encountering a solitary corgi. After all, it's harmless by itself, right? But what about when the second one appears? And a third? What would you do if you suddenly found yourself surrounded by no fewer than 634 corgis? Visitors to Huntington Beach in southern California got to experience that terror at the recent Corgi Beach Day. Corgi owners brought their dogs to a huge meetup on the sand. You can see many more adorable/horrifying photos of them at Dogster. -via Jonah Goldberg | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Apr 2015 08:00 PM PDT The Texting Hat is a wonderful new invention that creates the illusion that you are engaged with the person with you in real life, while you’re texting someone else. Eye contact has never been easier- and it’s a great excuse to take more selfies, too! Soon to be seen everywhere, but if you’re texting, you probably won’t actually see them yourself. -via the Presurfer | ||||||||
| Neatly Arranged Food Color Gradients Posted: 27 Apr 2015 07:00 PM PDT Brittany Wright, a photographer in Seattle, thinks of food as an art form--for both the eyes and the mouth. One of her recent explorations of this field includes arranging foods from her garden and grocery into assemblies sorted by color gradient. Each edible canvas is a smooth blend of colors, from light to dark. You can track her progress in the series on Instagram. -via Junkculture | ||||||||
| 10 Mind Blowing Facts About AKIRA Posted: 27 Apr 2015 06:00 PM PDT No animated feature ever made can compare to AKIRA in terms of illustrative detail, mature storyline and originality. Now that might just be my humble opinion, but it’s an opinion shared by many fans of animation (and more specifically anime), and AKIRA has become much more than just a fine example of early anime- it has become the standard by which an animated feature’s style and story are judged. Katsuhiro Otomo created the AKIRA manga as homage to artist Mitsuteru Yokoyama, but by the time it made it to the big screen it had definitely taken on a life of its own, 160,000 single shots of vibrant, animated life. Read 10 Fun Facts About Akira at GeekTyrant | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Apr 2015 05:00 PM PDT Gus the bulldog is so happy to have a pool that he wants to take it inside with him! That way, he can enjoy it anytime he wants. See the gif version here. Then we find out that Gus’ indoor pool didn’t last all that long; see what happened in a video recorded three days later. -via reddit | ||||||||
| VOLDY - Don't Fear The Creeper Posted: 27 Apr 2015 04:00 PM PDT Voldemort has a face even a mother can't love, with disgusting dementor breath to match. You're not supposed to say his name out loud, so Harry has taken to calling him Voldy, which doesn't sit well with ol' noseless. He wants the whole world to OBEY his every wretched whim and dark desire, but it's hard to take the guy seriously when he gets so upset about being called Voldy! Conjure up some smiles with this VOLDY t-shirt by Ikado, it's guaranteed to put a smile on the face of every Potter head you know! Visit Ikado's Facebook fan page, official website and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more wickedly cool designs:
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| Huge Fried Eggs Fill a City Plaza Posted: 27 Apr 2015 04:00 PM PDT Dutch artist Henk Hofstra is known for his huge public installations, such as when he turned a city street into a river by painting it blue. In 2010, he created this massive work that Eugene of My Modern Met describes as "if God threw giant eggs down at us." It's called Art Eggcident and was placed in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden. It's not an act of serious commentary, but a joke based on a Dutch expression. Hofstra explains:
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| This Banana Night Light is SO A-Peelin'! Posted: 27 Apr 2015 03:00 PM PDT See what I did there...in the headline? It says "a-peelin'" and it's a BANANA, because bananas have PEELS. Ok, ok, sorry. It could have been worse, I could have said, "Go Bananas For This Night Light!" or "This Night Light is PEELY Awesome!" In any event, this battery-powered Banana Night Light IS quite cool. It's available at Firebox for ~$20. | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Apr 2015 02:00 PM PDT Mom and Dad don’t think much of their sons using their phones at the dinner table. Dad has his own way of stopping all that, without raising his voice. I remember having to put my foot down about devices used during a family dinner, when the kids were a bit younger. Now family dinners are rare because the kids have other places to be. I can’t complain, though, as it gets me out of cooking. It would be different if we had sons at home, because teenage boys don’t want to miss an opportunity to eat. -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
| Check Out the Name of This Park in Toronto Posted: 27 Apr 2015 01:00 PM PDT This is a screenshot from Google Maps. It's not an error. This city park in Toronto is actually named the Main Sewage Treatment Playground. What fun things can you do at a place named "Main Sewage Treatment"? You can play baseball, rugby, ride a skateboard in its skating bowl, or ride a bike on the trail. From Google Street View, it looks pretty. Let's go! -via reddit | ||||||||
| New Chocolate Bar Has 7 Different Kinds of Filling Posted: 27 Apr 2015 11:00 AM PDT Cadbury has produced a new chocolate bar that will contain no fewer than 7 different flavors inside its chocolate blisters. They are solid chocolate, caramel, almond, fruit and nut, Oreo, almond butter, and Turkish delight. It's called the Dairy Milk Spectacular 7. Food artist Prudence Staite helped Cadbury design this ingenious candy bar. You won't be able to buy it in stores. Cadbury is making only 50 of them, which will be prizes in a contest available to residents of the United Kingdom. -via Home Geekonomics | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Apr 2015 10:00 AM PDT The Disney Channel has taken niche marketing and TV tropes to the next level in a new movie called Descendants. The tropes: make everyone a teenager, recycle classic characters from Disney princess films, make them “next generation,” slot them into stereotypical cliques, and give them a high school soap opera plot. Oh, and of course, the trope of redoing fairy tales in live action format. In Descendants, the children of Disney princesses and villains are all the same age and go to school together. When the “good kids” meet the “bad kids,” it upsets the natural order of things. I have a feeling that viewers will be rooting for the more interesting bad kids. Disney apparently thinks so, too, as they have a video profile of each “villain kid” on the movie's YouTube channel. From comments I’ve seen, there’s bold dividing line by age between those who are excited to see this movie and those who expect a train wreck. Oh, and there are comparisons with Ever After High, which is a toy franchise based on the same idea, that spawned a webseries. Buzzfeed has pictures and a profile of each character. | ||||||||
| What <i>Game Of Thrones</i> Characters Should Look Like, According To The Books Posted: 27 Apr 2015 09:00 AM PDT The makers of Game Of Thrones have tried to stay as faithful to George R. R. Martin's books as possible, but some changes simply must be made when a book is translated into a visual medium. Characters are often changed to make them, and their appearance, more visually appealing to viewers, which is why that imp Tyrion Lannister is still a sympathetic character:
And some characters have their overall look radically altered just so their flamboyant style will flow with the overall color scheme of the show, such as the radical decolorization of Daario Naharis:
See What Game Of Thrones Characters Look Like In The Books here | ||||||||
| Trapped Snake Thanks Its Rescuers Posted: 27 Apr 2015 08:30 AM PDT When people rescue animals, sometimes the animals express their gratitude toward their benefactors. We've previously seen this with a dog, a dolphin, and a sea turtle. And now we can see this expression of thanks from a snake. Two teenage boys in the US found a snake trapped in a net. They patiently cut it free with a knife. When the snake was free, it regurgitated a whole frog that it had swallowed. It was surely a gift offered to the boys to repay them for their kindness. Unfortunately, the video ends before the boys partake of their reward. Content warning: a lot of foul language. | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Apr 2015 08:00 AM PDT The following is a Whodunit by Hy Conrad. These mysteries are from The Little Giant® Book of Whodunits by Hy Conrad and Matt LaFleur. Can you solve the mystery before you read the solution?
A lot of towns have their neighborhood bullies. But few neighborhood bullies were as hated as Pete Weider of Cozy Heights and, luckily for the crime statistics, even fewer wound up like Peter. A passing patrol car heard the screams and responded immediately. They found the burly corpse in his own backyard, with multiple stab wounds. There were signs of a struggle, and blood was everywhere around the fenced-in yard. The officers immediately went to question the neighbors and were surprised to discover that not a single one had heard or seen a thing. "They're lying, of course," the homicide captain said when he heard the news. At least three men on the block had been outside when the murder occurred and the captain insisted on talking to them as soon as possible. Blake Fromm had just finished painting his porch when the captain approached. A young, genial man, Blake wiped his hands on his nearly spotless jeans before shaking hands. The captain immediately noticed the cassette player on Blake's belt and the earphones draped around his neck. 'I've been outside all morning. The porch ceiling took forever. Pete lives two doors away. I really didn't hear or see anything," he added apologetically. Nelson Olson had been in his garden, right next door to the victim's yard. "I was in and out of the house. Weeding. Planting bulbs for the fall." There was dirt on his hands and under his nails. "Inside, I had the air conditioner cranked up. It all must have happened when I was indoors. Sorry." Kenny Kitchner's story was even less plausible. "I was on a ladder, washing my windows," the paunchy, middle-aged man admitted. His T-shirt was still wet. The captain could see that Kenny's yard overlooked the victim's. "I never looked over into Pete Weider's yard, nor did I hear anything. I had other things on my mind." "Two of those guys are just lying," the captain muttered. "Protecting the killer. And I think I know who that is." Whodunit? And what clue gave him away?
In addition to his work in mystery and crime puzzles, Hy was also one of the original writers for the groundbreaking TV series Monk. Currently, Hy is working on mystery novel series "Abel Adventures" as well as the Monk series of novels, starting with Mr. Monk Helps Himself (published by Penguin, order from Amazon here Check out Hy's official website and Facebook page - and stay tuned for more whodunits puzzlers on Neatorama from the master of whodunit mysteries himself! | ||||||||
| Finn The Punisher - The Bloodshed Never Ends In The Candy Kingdom Posted: 27 Apr 2015 07:30 AM PDT Finn was a reasonable fellow, and he tried to keep a level head despite all the apocalyptic madness that surrounded him, but when the villainous Ice King killed Finn's brother Jake the kid gloves came off. The adventure had taken a dark turn, and in no time Finn went from valiant warrior to bloodthirsty vigilante. With his weapon designer BMO by his side and a massive arsenal of automatic weaponry on his back, Finn the Punisher prepared to storm the Ice King's frozen castle... Add some dark animated adventure to your geeky wardrobe with this Finn The Punisher t-shirt by B4DW0LF, it's the stylin' way to show love for cartoons and comics at the same time! Visit B4DW0LF's Facebook fan page and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more geek-tastic designs:
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| Baby Elephant Seal Cuddles with Woman Posted: 27 Apr 2015 07:30 AM PDT
At a mere 200 pounds, this elephant seal is just a little baby. He's been abandoned by his mama, so he's eager for some snuggling. Charlene Fritz, a tourist from Canada, was glad to provide it. While she visited Snow Hill Island off the coast of Antarctica, the little seal crawled over to her and climbed on of her lap. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| A Bowl Made of Melted Little Plastic Army Men Posted: 27 Apr 2015 07:00 AM PDT By laying down a bunch of little plastic Army men toys in a stainless steel bowl, Instructables user N36 melted together a whole new bowl! These gun-toting military men have a new directive: Hold some fruit! YESSIR!! Learn how to make one for yourself over at Instructables. via Foodiggity | ||||||||
| World Record for the Rubik's Cube Now Stands at 5.25 Seconds Posted: 27 Apr 2015 06:30 AM PDT
That's all the time that 17-year old Collin Burns needed to solve a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube. He did so at a competition at Central Bucks West High School in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. This broke a previous world record of 5.55 seconds. It's a very casual scene. People are playfully milling about, unaware that someone is about to perform an astonishing feat. Burns checks out the cube for a few seconds and places it on the table. When he picks it up, the clock starts. -via Gizmodo | ||||||||
| Smell-O-Vision: That Movie Really <i>Did</i> Stink! Posted: 27 Apr 2015 06:00 AM PDT
Hollywood has produced a lot of bad movies over the years, but most of the time when we say we saw a real “stinker,” we don’t mean it literally. Most of the time. Behold the wonder of Smell-O-Vison.
Mike Jr. took over the reins after his father’s death and hired Hans Laube to come up with an improved version of Scentovision. While Laube perfected Smell-O-Vision, Todd set to work on producing a light-hearted chase film called Scent of Mystery to show it off. He told screenwriter William Roos to put “smell-action” into as many scenes as possible. Roos delivered: Scent of Mystery had 40 different scent scenes, an average of one smell every three minutes. • Behind the Great Wall (1959). A few months before Scent of Mystery stank up theaters in 1960, a film distributor named Walter Reade, Jr. bought the U.S. rights to Behind teh Great Wall, an Italian documentary about a trip through China, and added “seventy-two smells from the Orient,” including dirt, wild grasses, firecrackers, horse manure, and burning incense. He also tacked on an opening demonstration scene that featured a man slicing an orange. Reade’s “Aromarama” process consisted of little more than dumping industrial perfumes— like the kind used to make vinyl smell “like real leather”— into theater air-conditioning systems. Bad idea: The scents combined with the Freon in the air conditioner to create a smell that one critic likened to “a subway restroom on disinfectant day.” (Uncle John saw Behind the Great Wall as a kid and can smell the horse manure and orange slices to this day.) • Polyester (1981). Audiences of this John Waters film were given “Odorama” scratch-and-sniff cards that had circles numbered from one to ten. When a number appeared on-screen, the audiences were supposed to scratch the corresponding circle. The smells included airplane glue, gasoline, new-car smell, dirty socks, and poop. (Waters says he loved the idea of his movie fans “paying to smell $#*!”) Rugrats Go Wild (2003) and Spy Kids 4 (2011) also used scratch-and-sniff cards in theaters. The Future of Smell-o-Vision _______________________________
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| "Finally--A Question about Something Important": Stephen Hawking on the Boy Band One Direction Posted: 27 Apr 2015 05:00 AM PDT
On Saturday night, Professor Stephen Hawking took questions from an audience in the Sydney Opera House. The acclaimed physicist addressed an important issue: the abrupt and wrenching depature of singer Zayn Malik from the boy band One Direction. BuzzFeed quotes the questioner:
Prof. Hawking responded perfectly:
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