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- 40 Actors and Celebrities That You Didn't Know Appeared in <i>Star Trek</i>
- Big Dog vs. Little Dog
- New Tunnels Can't Be Built In Brussels Because Mice Ate Master Plans
- 10 Law-Abiding Facts About <i>Raising Arizona</i>
- Seven Professional Travelers Share Their Travel Horror Stories
- Rage Yoga Involves Screaming, Swearing and Obscene Gestures. Also Yoga.
- Irish People Try To Identify The American States
- Nuhtendo! - At Least He Isn't Playing A Game On His PC!
- How Much Would It Cost to Buy One of Everything on Amazon.com?
- The Blue Poison Dart Frog
- What the Cast of <i>Pretty in Pink</i> Has Been Up To Over the Last 30 Years
- Trompe L'Orange
- Scientists Use Lights To Battle Addiction In Cokehead Mice
- Safety Pin Comes Out of Nose 6 Months Later
- Instead of <i>Mad Max</i>, Seth Meyers Offers Us <i>Reasonable Max</i>
- Ways A Gamer's Relationship With A Video Game Is Just Like With Their Partner
- 26 Facts about the Science of Friendship
- Cat Survives 8-Mile-Ride While Stuck In The Grill Of A Car
- Hokusai Cthulhu - Surf 'Til You're Insane
- Seven Annoying TV Characters We Grew To Love
- A Supercut Of David Schwimmer Saying "Juice"
- Daddy Cat Adopts 7 Chihuahua Puppies
- Bizarre Conspiracy Theory Claims Katy Perry Is Actually JonBenét Ramsey
- Year in Space Mission Returns to Earth
- Painting with Wine
- Bathrooms With An Amazing View You Can See From The Toilet
- Martin Molin’s Marvelous Mechanical Musical Marble Machine
40 Actors and Celebrities That You Didn't Know Appeared in <i>Star Trek</i> Posted: 03 Mar 2016 04:00 AM PST "Manhunt," an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, featured two characters belonging to the Antedean species. Worf referred to them as a "handsome race" -- and with reason. Beneath that makeup was Mick Fleetwood of the rock band Fleetwood Mac. He's one of many celebrities that has appeared on Star Trek, often under heavy makeup. Uproxx has a round up of 40 of them, including King Hussein of Jordan, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Iggy Pop, and Kirsten Dunst. | ||||||||
Posted: 03 Mar 2016 03:00 AM PST The robot Big Dog was the first robot from Boston Dynamics we featured on Neatorama years ago. The model has been improved since then. This one is the only Big Dog in civilian hands, and as he was put through his paces, a real dog noticed and did not like it a bit. The standoff lasted as long as it took until one of them backed down. -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
New Tunnels Can't Be Built In Brussels Because Mice Ate Master Plans Posted: 03 Mar 2016 02:00 AM PST People have been digitizing their paper files since at least the 80s, trying to ensure they aren't destroyed either by accident or on purpose and making sure they're around for the rest of our digitally enhanced lives. But sometimes important documents never make it to the scanner, and the loss is felt decades after the documents are destroyed. Brussels, Belgium is home to the worst traffic in Europe, which is partly due to the poor condition of the roadways that have been badly in need of repair for decades. Even worse than the roads are the underground thoroughfares that are literally falling apart and subject to yearlong closures, and it's all because mice chewed up the original tunnel plans back in the 90s:
Now where have I heard that excuse before... -Via mental_floss | ||||||||
10 Law-Abiding Facts About <i>Raising Arizona</i> Posted: 03 Mar 2016 01:00 AM PST The 1987 movie Raising Arizona was the Coen Brothers’ second movie and first comedy. And it was a riot. Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter can’t produce children, so they kidnap one from a set of quintuplets because “They got more than they can handle.” While you no doubt enjoyed the movie, you might not know some of what went into it.
Not bad for a movie that was produced for only $2 million. Read the rest of the trivia about Raising Arizonaat mental_floss. | ||||||||
Seven Professional Travelers Share Their Travel Horror Stories Posted: 03 Mar 2016 12:00 AM PST
"When I was 18, I traveled solo to Tanzania to volunteer in a rural school. One weekend, when school wasn’t in session, a few other volunteers and I took a trip to a town on the coast for a little rest and relaxation. Before leaving, two of the volunteers and I decided to take a walk down the beach. The beach was very flat and wide and there was almost no one around. We passed two local fishermen who were dealing with a net and kept walking until they were far in the distance. As we turned around to head back, a lone man who was sitting on a dune started to approach us quickly from several hundred yards away. He wore a pair of tattered pants and held his shirt in his hands, which was concealing something underneath. Read more scary travel stories told by professional travelers here. | ||||||||
Rage Yoga Involves Screaming, Swearing and Obscene Gestures. Also Yoga. Posted: 02 Mar 2016 11:00 PM PST
You will exercise your middle fingers a lot while participating in Rage Yoga. Seriously, that's a major part of the movements. Lindsay Istace developed the practice and teaches it at her studio in Calgary, Alberta. In the dimly lit pub basement that serves as her studio, she blasts loud heavy metal music. It helps set the mood for her students. She says that the music and the movements help her students vent their anger. CBC News reports:
-via Weird Universe | ||||||||
Irish People Try To Identify The American States Posted: 02 Mar 2016 10:00 PM PST In this video, people in Ireland try to identify states in the U.S. on a map. This should be funny, right? After all, they’re not even Americans, and there are a lot of states on that map. And this is from the same production company that brought us Irish People Taste Test American Beers. Well, it is funny, but they know the states! How do they do that? I understand how people in other countries can be familiar with the different state names from movies and songs, but to identify them on a map, when it’s not even your own country… that’s impressive. We have plenty of Americans who can’t do that. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
Nuhtendo! - At Least He Isn't Playing A Game On His PC! Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:00 PM PST What does Sonic the Hedgehog like to do when he's not running around gathering golden rings? He plugs in his old NES console and gets down with a great game like Super Mario Bros. or Contra. This may seem like brand mutiny to some folks, but Sonic isn't stupid enough to think Sega is the ultimate gaming company, but if any corporate killjoys from Sega ask he'll tell them that Alex Kidd made him do it! Spark some console gaming controversy with this Nuhtendo! t-shirt by JoeRocks1981, it's sure to tick off brand purists but everybody else will get a big kick out of this hilarious design! Visit JoeRocks1981's Facebook fan page and official website, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more geek-tastic designs:
View more designs by JoeRocks1981 | More Funny T-shirts | New T-Shirts Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama! | ||||||||
How Much Would It Cost to Buy One of Everything on Amazon.com? Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:00 PM PST (Photo: Alan Levine) It would cost $12.86 billion USD. That's the answer on Quora from Kynan Eng, an expert on artificial intelligence and something called neuromorphic engineering--whatever that is. To sum up: he's a math guy who is much smarter than you or me. He's also the guy who once calculated how much money we spend rescuing Matt Damon over and over again. Eng explains in great detail over at Quora how he arrived at $12.86 billion. He found a way to randomly generate a sample of Amazon.com products, then created a price distribution of them for his statistical model. He did not include the price of shipping. -via Conan O'Brien | ||||||||
Posted: 02 Mar 2016 08:00 PM PST Isn’t this a lovely frog? Such a lovely shade of blue! This is the blue poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius), which needs no camouflage because its skin exudes a toxin that not only tastes bad, but can be lethal to predators. Animals in the rainforest learn quickly that odd colored frogs aren’t the best things to eat. That’s not the only things that’s weird about this frog -it doesn’t have webbed feet and doesn’t swim well, so it usually stays on land. However, its young must have water, so when the blue poison dart frog’s eggs hatch, the parents must transfer the tadpoles to a nearby body of water. Learn more about the blue poison dart frog at the National Aquarium. -via the Presurfer | ||||||||
What the Cast of <i>Pretty in Pink</i> Has Been Up To Over the Last 30 Years Posted: 02 Mar 2016 07:00 PM PST Molly Ringwald in 2015 (l) and 1985 (r)| Image: (l) Getty, (r) Paramount via Uproxx The 48-year-old redhead was a frequent John Hughes collaborator before becoming Andie, and preceded her role with both Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. . | ||||||||
Posted: 02 Mar 2016 06:00 PM PST (Photo: Ashby Design) In about 1925, the Parisian perfumer Parfums de Marcy packaged its perfume in this unique arrangement. Each bottle takes the shape of a segment of the orange. Parfums de Marcy was noted for its clever bottle designs. You can see more of them at Cleopatra's Boudoir. -via Nag on the Lake | ||||||||
Scientists Use Lights To Battle Addiction In Cokehead Mice Posted: 02 Mar 2016 05:00 PM PST The great funk god Rick James once said "cocaine is a hell of a drug", but it's unclear whether he meant that as a good or bad thing. However, there's no denying that cocaine use has detrimental effects on the brain, and addiction destroys lives, but finding a cure means testing new methods and drugs on a brain while it's under the influence. Researchers from the University of Oxford have been testing an interesting new(ish) technique called optogenetics that may make it possible to cure addiction using light:
Read Scientists Use Light To Alter Memories Of Cokehead Mice here | ||||||||
Safety Pin Comes Out of Nose 6 Months Later Posted: 02 Mar 2016 04:00 PM PST The reason for her mystery illness came to light six months after the fact. Five-year-old Khloe Russell of Hemet, California, developed a runny nose that smelled awful. Her mother Katelyn Powell took her to three different doctors who diagnosed a sinus infection and gave her antibiotics, which didn’t help. The family even consulted a dentist. The reason for her problems was revealed last week when her uncle had her blow her nose again.
Katelyn Powell clarified the story in a comment at another news story.
Khloe is feeling much better now that the source of her trouble has been eliminated. -via reddit | ||||||||
Instead of <i>Mad Max</i>, Seth Meyers Offers Us <i>Reasonable Max</i> Posted: 02 Mar 2016 03:00 PM PST Comedian Seth Meyers is one of Immortan Joe's War Boys from Mad Max: Fury Road. Joe has ordered his War Boys to prepare for an expedition from the Citadel to Gas Town to get gasoline. Meyers has an important point to make: these expeditions--of which there have been so many--waste vast amounts of gas on heavy vehicles that literally shoot fire. They are extremely fuel inefficient. There can be and in fact are more sustainable alternative forms of transportation that make best use of scarce resources to build a better society. The other War Boys are, as you can expect, tired of listening to this killjoy. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
Ways A Gamer's Relationship With A Video Game Is Just Like With Their Partner Posted: 02 Mar 2016 02:00 PM PST As an admitted video game addict I know how much a game means to me when real life starts to rub me raw, and I find myself looking forward to coming home to the comfort of that virtual world. Starting a new game is often just like a relationship- you become intrigued, invested and eventually frustrated by your new love's seemingly illogical nature, and that's when you know you'll be sticking around until the bitter end. Because both gamers and lovers know that if there's no passion, no fire and no intrigue then there's probably no future. Dorkly's Julia Lepetit drew up this side-by-side comparison that shows all the ways our personal relationships are like a gamer's relationship with a video game. If only the game companies could come up with a game I still enjoy playing eight plus years later... -Via Dorkly | ||||||||
26 Facts about the Science of Friendship Posted: 02 Mar 2016 01:00 PM PST Who knew there was so much scientific research about friendship? Real friendship, not just the number of Facebook friends you have. The results we have so far are pretty interesting. You already know having close friends is good for you, but now we know some specific benefits. John Green tells us about it, on this week’s mental_floss List Show. | ||||||||
Cat Survives 8-Mile-Ride While Stuck In The Grill Of A Car Posted: 02 Mar 2016 12:00 PM PST Cats love to crawl into the engine compartments of parked cars, so when you know cats in your area are prone to crawling into the engine compartment conscientious people check under the hood before they drive off. But some people don't think or bother to check, and terrible things happen to those poor dumb kitties stuck in the compartment when the engine starts running, unless they're extremely lucky. A cat named Gnocchi from Santee, California proved he's one of the luckiest cats in the world by surviving an eight mile trip while hanging halfway out of the car's grill/bumper. Good Samaritans stopped the driver who was completely oblivious to the poor cat trying to claw his way out of the grill, and lucky little Gnocchi was returned to his grateful owner. -Via LAist | ||||||||
Hokusai Cthulhu - Surf 'Til You're Insane Posted: 02 Mar 2016 11:00 AM PST Many people have traveled across the globe to surf the epic waves off the Japanese coast, but that was before they discovered to their horror that the Great Old One Cthulhu was lurking beneath the surface of the sea. People first noticed something wasn't right about the area now known as Lovecraft beach when all the surfers started wearing hooded robes and preferred to surf by moonlight, but nobody could have predicted how red those waters would run when Cthulhu awoke, hungry and enraged... Surf 'til you're insane with this Hokusai Cthulhu t-shirt by Mdk7, and watch out for monster waves! Visit Mdk7's Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more kart-errific designs:
View more designs by Mdk7 | More Horror T-Shirts | New T-Shirts Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama! | ||||||||
Seven Annoying TV Characters We Grew To Love Posted: 02 Mar 2016 11:00 AM PST Some characters in TV shows are written to be annoying, either to introduce conflict or as comic relief. Over time, though, these characters can become quite popular. Either they become standouts, and the show must ride on them to survive, or sheer longevity softens their rough edges. Or writers bow to viewers’ demands and make them more human over time. An example from long ago is Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on M*A*S*H, who was brought in to replace the annoying Frank Burns, but eventually showed a depth of character we could all respect. Can you think of characters from newer series that fit the bill? Read about seven of them at TVOM. With video evidence. | ||||||||
A Supercut Of David Schwimmer Saying "Juice" Posted: 02 Mar 2016 10:00 AM PST I'm not sure whether the real Robert Kardashian enjoyed calling his friend O.J. Simpson "Juice" fifty times a day, but according to David Schwimmer's portrayal of Robert in the FX series The People V. OJ Simpson he was all about the juice. And even though the miniseries isn't even over yet YouTuber Nicholas Martin was able to put together a minute long supercut of David Schwimmer saying "Juice" about a billion times. I wonder how long the next "Juice" supercut will be when the season is actually over? -Via People | ||||||||
Daddy Cat Adopts 7 Chihuahua Puppies Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:00 AM PST Richie the cat doesn't think that cats and dogs can't be friends. When his humans brought long-haired Chihuahua puppies into their home, he welcomed them. He doesn't hesitate to snuggle with them and provide care. Together, they're the Yuta Family. Sometimes the puppies have discipline problems, though. | ||||||||
Bizarre Conspiracy Theory Claims Katy Perry Is Actually JonBenét Ramsey Posted: 02 Mar 2016 08:30 AM PST If you're looking for a crazy conspiracy theory to read there are some real corkers online, and one of the newer theories that caught my eye claims Katy Perry is actually child pageant queen JonBenét Ramsey, who was murdered in 1996. There's obviously very little proof to support this claim, other than the fact that Katy kinda looks like what JonBenét might have grown up to look like. Also there's a lot of proof that Katy is actually Katheryn Elizabeth "Katy" Hudson born October 25th, 1984 in Santa Barbara, California, which would have made her twelve at the time of the murder. (Warning- this video is full of crazy rambling) But the proof these online conspiracists are presenting is rock solid- JonBenét and Katy kinda look alike, and sorta have the same eyebrows, their parents look kinda similar too. Oh, and they both know the lyrics to God Bless America, which as we all know is an extremely rare talent, and get this- Katy referenced JonBenét in one of her biographies. Say, that is compelling evidence! Read more about this bizarre conspiracy theory at Huffington Post | ||||||||
Year in Space Mission Returns to Earth Posted: 02 Mar 2016 08:00 AM PST NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly is back on earth along with with cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko after they both spent 340 consecutive days in space on the ISS. Now Kelly will undergo tests to see how a year in space affected his physiology as compared to his identical twin, retired astronaut Mark Kelly. Cosmonauts Sergey Volkov also returned, after a shorter mission. The landing was early morning March 2 in Kazakhstan. It’s a long video, so you might want to skip ahead. The undocking occurs at 4:30, the view from earth begins at 7:30, and they emerge from the capsule at about 9:30. Kelly fought the forces of gravity he isn’t used to in order to give a thumbs up. -via Digg | ||||||||
Posted: 02 Mar 2016 07:30 AM PST Sanja Jankovic is a Serbian artist who uses wine to paint beautiful watercolor-like scenes. You can almost smell the wine off the images of her work. Many of her works are recreations of other famous works of art, such as this one showing The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Ellen Ripley from the 1979 movie Alien At Bored Panda, Jankovic explains the artistic effect of wine:
Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones An original portrait -via Rocket News 24 | ||||||||
Bathrooms With An Amazing View You Can See From The Toilet Posted: 02 Mar 2016 07:00 AM PST Bathrooms aren't built with an amazing view in mind so bathroom windows often look out on nothing in particular, so when you come across a WC with a magnificent view of the world it's okay to share a potty pic. It must feel amazing to sit down on the porcelain throne and behold the entire kingdom of man or beasts below you, looking down on Laos from up high or staring at the beach while you do your business in this University of California, Santa Barbara bathroom. But as you'll see when you peruse this list of Amazing Toilet Views From Around The World the great view often works both ways, and if people can see you using "the most scenic toilet in Peru" you might become a bit gun-shy. And only the bravest, or most desperate, pooper would dare use the throne on Mt. Whitney, where the great view is of you going number two! | ||||||||
Martin Molin’s Marvelous Mechanical Musical Marble Machine Posted: 02 Mar 2016 06:00 AM PST Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan built a delightfully complex machine that uses over 2,000 metal balls to play a vibraphone, drum, and a bass guitar, while he provides the power by crank. You might notice that one ball is black, in order to show the progression of the balls. If this reminds you of “Pipe Dreams” by Animusic, you’re not alone. Except this one isn’t animated! It took about 14 months to design and build the machine -he says much of that time was spent picking balls up off the floor. There are quite a few videos showing the build process, but not many words. You’ll find more discussion on Facebook, such as the plans to automate the machine in order to use it in the band’s live performances. -via reddit |
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