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Whoa! Where did the time go? I’d like to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you for reading Neatorama – the blog won’t be as fun without its loyal readers and commenters
(My wife and I lovingly call the cake above, which we got from the local supermarket, our ...
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These little critters, known as puggles when they babies, are notoriously hard to breed, but the Perth Zoo in Australia has managed to successfully breed them three years in a row. The zoo thinks it’s now ready to start working on a reproduction program for their critically endangered ...
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Lincoln
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According to a new study published in Nature , our skin helps us decipher the sounds we hear with our ears. Blindfolded volunteers listened to the “pa”, “ta”, “da”, and “ba” sounds. Unknown to the participant, a puff of air, softer than would be ...
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Jalopnik asked its readers for suggestions on what vehicles would be best for surviving and traveling in a post-apocalyptic world. Nine existing vehicles and one semi-fictional vehicle made the cut. Pictured is the Dobbertin Surface Orbiter.
Built out of an old milk tanker, the Orbiter ...
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Life isn’t easy for a long-legged wading bird with only one leg, but this one got help to live a relatively normal life. A stork named Dietmar has become the world’s first stork with a prosthetic wooden leg. The stork is under the care of a bird sanctuary in Saxony, Germany. Medical ...
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We all know about the Puritans and the Indians, and we love to stuff ourselves with turkey and cranberry sauce. But how much do you really know about this popular holiday? For instance:
Although the official proclamation was to celebrate Thanksgiving on every fourth Thursday of ...
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Doing some Black Friday shopping? Make sure you get your caffeine, have plenty of cash and checks on hand, and program your doctor’s office on your speed dial. As the day and the deals have gotten more hyped up over the past several years, stampedes and fights have broken out in the frenzy, ...
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There’s a blog devoted exclusively to the autocompletion feature in Google search. It reveals what will happen if you start to type in a phrase such as “Google won” or “How to ra”. Answers below.
Try it yourself and see.
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Gizmodo broke the news, and despite the throng of doubters crying, “Photoshopped!”, ILM has confirmed that Artoo can definitely be seen floating through space as the Romulan ship attacks Vulcan (Star Trek 2009). From ScienceFictionStuff :
*Update, some people online are saying ...
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Photo: Qiao Chang
Qiao Chang of SmugMug is a commercial photographer who creates origami figures as a hobby. One of her works takes the form of a mathematical puzzle called a Soma cube:
A solid dissection puzzle invented by Piet Hein during a lecture on Quantum Mechanics by Werner ...
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Murder Ink Sticky Notepad and Pen – $7.95 | More Fun Office Supplies
Here’s a new and gruesomely nifty sticky notepad and pen combo over at the Neatorama Shop: Murder Ink . For just $7.95, it’s a neat stocking stuffer for Christmas!
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This Christmas
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Trevor Boyd and Steve Ilett remade the slow-moving bullet-dodging scene from The Matrix . Their official website goes into detail about how they executed the project:
By “frame accurate” we mean that we took all of the video frames from that part of the ...
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Yesterday, Neatorama featured a Muppet version of Queen’s iconic song “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Lindsey Weber of Urlesque has compiled fifteen unusual and creative cover version of that song, including this ukulele version by Ukulele Bartt. Others include a ...
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Jonathan Wolfe makes delicate puzzle boxes out of acorns. Each one opens only when a particular area is tapped or a wire is pulled. One in the video takes the form of a Matryoshka doll with a smaller acorn puzzle box inside.
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Thinking about seeing The Road , the new movie based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy? Take note of some of the locations they filmed in, as they utilized existing devastated areas to serve as the cataclysmic setting.
Windy Ridge, which is on the east flank of Mt. St. Helens in Southern ...
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Viggo Mortensen
Hebert’s Specialty Meats can supply your Thanksgiving entree complete with alligator dressing. Order it with your turkey, duck, chicken, quail, or rabbit. From the description, it sounds delicious!
Sauté onion, bell pepper, and that wonderful Cajun seasoning, smother alligator meat in ...
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How did whales manage to grow so big? And is there a limit to how big they can get? Scientists looked at the mechanics of how whales feed, especially those species that consume tiny krill. They call what they discovered “lunge-feeding”, which is detailed in an article at Discover ...
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I can’t imagine how cold it would have to be to freeze such a large, fast flowing river and falls. These pictures were taken in 1911 before there was a dam in place, so the water would have been much higher and much faster.
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A nanny goat led a herd on a break for freedom during rush hour, and German police had to stop them in order to allow traffic to move. What to do? Identify the perpetrator, and handcuff her to a fence!
Hapless police didn’t have a clue how to herd the goats back to their farm and so ...
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American know about Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, but you probably aren’t familiar with all the Native Americans from the history of the early United States profiled in this slide show. Red Cloud is ranked at #8.
Without a doubt, one of the best Native American war leaders the United ...
