If you have a food processor at home, you can easily make delicious homemade peanut butter with nothing more than peanuts. But if you really want something delicious, albiet slightly less nutritious, try throwing some Oreos into the mix to make Oreo peanut butter.

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CDZA presents 50 years of guitar solos, performed by Mark Sidney Johnson. How many so you recognize? I knew all of them through the mid-90s, then I was lost. -via Viral Viral Videos

Mushroom Eater by Naolito

Forget the evil wizard - The mad plumber is back! And he's eating our houses! Naolito mashes up two great pop culture references to arrive at this bit of gem. Visit Naolito's official website and Facebook page, then visit his NeatoShop page for some awesome shirt designs.

Three More Wishes	Surprise Box	Coffee Time	Pokeggball

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Many people who suffer from Parkinson's Disease can't stop trembling, making eating difficult. This wonderful spoon invented by Anupam Pathak and his colleagues at Lift Labs offers a partial solution. Stabilizing technology inside it cancels out the trembling so that the spoon remains stable compared to the hand holding it. Clinical trials have shown that it cancels out up to 70% of shaking.

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The Royal Observatory in Greenwich has announced the winners of their Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. The photograph shown here is "Moon Silhouettes" by Australian photographer Mark Gee, which won the award in the People and Space category. You saw this image earlier in Gee's video Full Moon Silhouettes. Gee also won the overall competition with a photo called "Guiding Light to the Stars." See all the winners at the Royal Museum. Link -via Bad Astronomy

Christopher Jobson (left) is the mind behind Colossal, one of Neatorama's favorite art blogs. In an interview by the National Endowment for the Arts, Christopher described an early encounter with art. His teacher, Donna Bryan Goetz, found him and his friends getting a wrong impression from classical nudes. Her response was brilliant:

In second grade my buddies and I went to the school library and found an old art history book. Flipping through the pages, we discovered large fold-outs of classical oil paintings that depicted nudes in various poses, and, as you might expect from a group of little boys, we started snickering and fighting over the book. At that moment, our teacher came over and caught us. Without saying a word, she grabbed the book and carefully removed several of the fold-out spreads. We were shocked. And embarrassed. And a little terrified. Apparently, it was okay to tear apart books with “inappropriate” images.

Later that day, when we came back to class after lunch, all the pages of nude paintings had been laminated and were now hung on the walls where they remained for months. That might have been the moment I truly began to recognize and respect creative expression. It was an extremely important lesson about art and context that made a huge impression on myself as well as all the other students.

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Sockness Monster Socks

There is a legend that lurking beneath a sea of well hemmed trousers and jeans is a Sockness Monster. If you are quick and cunning you might be able to capture a pair of these mythical Sockness Monster Socks from the NeatoShop. Think of the pride you will have knowing that you spotted sported the wild beast.   

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Batdad is a Vine user with four kids and a Batman mask. That leads to some ridiculous 6-second videos, compiled here for your amusement. More at Vine. Link -via reddit

The eBay seller calls the AT-ST"life size." But the Geekologie writer, who is a rigorous researcher, points out that a real AT-ST is 28 feet tall. Still, it's potentially useful and worth visiting, since other photos show the Hulk and the TARDIS in the background.

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Now that the song "The Fox" is a bona fide hit (40 million YouTube views) and Ylvis has been on The Ellen Degeneres Show, the question remains: What does the fox say? We don't know!

Fortunately, some people do, and they’ve recorded foxes making those sounds. Wired points us to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library, which catalogs audio and video of thousands of species.

So, what does the fox say? Like other animals, foxes have a lot of different calls that they use for different situations.

...none of which roll off the tongue as easily as “Gering-ding-ding-ding-ringerdingering.”

Hear audio clips of what foxes actually sound like, which vary depending on species and purpose, but all defy translation into human language. Do not neglect to read the comments at mental_floss. Link

He's sort of like Plastic Man in that he can mold and shape his beard into anything. This isn't photoshopped. Incredibeard really did make his beard into a ramen bowl. You can see more photos of his heroic work at the link. Warning: clean-shaven men will leave his site feeling ashamed and inadequate.

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Blue whales are the biggest animal to ever exist -but it's an animal. But what's the biggest living thing of any kind? It depends… is that biggest in width, height, mass, or weight? The crew from Minute Earth breaks it down for you. -via Geeks Are Sexy

Branding a Baby? Although it doesn't burn as much as branding cattle, the principle and purpose is the same. In 1938, some hospitals used ultraviolet light to "sunburn" the parent's initials onto a baby to ensure that the right babies left with the right parents. A plastic bracelet works just fine these days. This not-so-bright idea is part of a gallery of 11 Terrifying Childcare Inventions From The Early 20th Century at PopSci. Link -via Boing Boing

Artist Toby Allen created an series called Real Monsters, meaning psychological conditions that haunt real people, illustrated as monsters. It's a work in progress, with more to be added. Link -via Laughing Squid

Sony Pictures Entertainment is taking advantage of the fan frenzy leading up to the Breaking Bad series finale by auctioning off some of the props used in the show. You can buy Hector "Tio" Salamanca's wheelchair! The pink teddy bear! Skyler's car! Laboratory equipment! Walt's underwear! And even the inscribed copy of the book Leaves of Grass! There are some items that may provide spoilers to recent episodes, so go see them at your own peril. Link -via Buzzfeed

Time Wars - by Fuacka

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ... there was a Doctor and his trusty companion. Celeberate the end of the Last Great Time War with this awesome T-shirt by Fuacka. Check out Fuacka's Facebook page then check out his NeatoShop page for more cool shirts.

The North Never Forgets	Summer is Coming	Teddy Mercury	Hunter

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Mario and Fafa test the ShamWow and the Slap Chop. I've never used either product, but the first time I saw the Slap Chop, I thought about how difficult it would be to use and wash compared to, say, a knife. From Glove and Boots. -via Tastefully Offensive

Doctor Who Christmas Ornaments (sold individually)

Oh, we know what you are thinking. What! Christmas stuff already! It isn't even Halloween yet.

Okay, you can stop feigning disgust. We know for a fact that several of you have already started your Christmas shopping. So to those well organized and delightful individuals, who can't contain their excitement about the upcoming holidays, we present the Doctor Who Christmas Ornaments from the NeatoShop. Everyone else please close your eyes, and no peaking! 

The Doctor Who Christmas Ornaments are made of glass and feature hand-painted details. They are available in TARDIS and Dalek. Buy both and make your Doctor Who fan very merry.   

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Doctor Who items.

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Sure Pokemon aren't real, but what if they were? And what if, instead of being modern creatures, they were actually prehistoric monsters? If that were the case, they would probably look pretty darn close to DeviantArt user arvalis' Pokemon illustrations.

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It's not easy being green. An unnamed 24-year-old man from Zhejiang Province, China, was hospitalized because he was turning green.

He began to complain of severe abdominal pain about two months ago, but did not seek medical attention until his body started to show some very strange symptoms.

His skin and the whites of his eyes began to turn green.

Concerned, he visited several hospitals in the province of Zhejiang, but he was not be properly diagnosed until he admitted himself into the Guizhou Aerospace Hospital in Guizhou.

"I was afraid of my own reflection, I looked like The Incredible Hulk," the young man said.

Doctors finally diagnosed the man with an infection caused by parasitic river worms that attacked his liver, which he had ingested with river snails. He admitted that he had been eating a bowl of fried snails every night. Link  -via Fortean Times

We've all seen pictures from all variety of camera angles, but this one is still probably new -tracking the goings on from the perspective of the bouquet. San Francisco bride Danielle worked her GoPro into her bouquet and while she hasn't put the pictures up yet, it will be interesting to know how they turn out.

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This photo from 1964 shows an unusual and awesome seesaw in Tokyo. One child pulls down and the other flies into the air.

Okay, I understand why most kids were never allowed to play on these risky toys. But now that I'm legally an adult, can I have one? Please?

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These kicks are some of the sweetest Nightmare Before Christmas shoes I've ever seen. That's even more the case because they are totally custom painted by DeviantArt user 13LeeLee.

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Households are constantly falling apart because the cat knocks things off the table. Admittedly, some of these cats were tempted for the camera, but it's still natural behavior. Cats just like to watch things fall. (via Daily Picks and Flicks)

In the episode "His Hero," Jake dropped a bit of wisdom on Finn. He said, "Dude, sucking at something is the first step to being sort of good at something."

Hannah Hughes embroidered these important words--words that we should all remember.

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Karl Taro Greenfeld was concerned about the amount of homework his eighth-grade daughter was doing -several hours every night. She wasn't getting enough sleep. Was the homework that hard? So he decided to find out in the most personal way possible: he would do the same homework every night for a week. It was an eye-opening experience, as homework was different when he was a student.

In Southern California in the late ’70s, it was totally plausible that an eighth grader would have no homework at all.

If my daughter came home and said she had no homework, I would know she was lying. It is inconceivable that her teachers wouldn’t assign any.

What has changed? It seems that while there has been widespread panic about American students’ falling behind their peers in Singapore, Shanghai, Helsinki, and everywhere else in science and mathematics, the length of the school day is about the same. The school year hasn’t been extended. Student-teacher ratios don’t seem to have changed much. No, our children are going to catch up with those East Asian kids on their own damn time.

Other parents were concerned about homework, too, but when Greenfeld discussed it with them, he was admonished by the vice-principal. Check out his week of homework assignments and see if you could keep up. How much homework does your child do each night? Link -via Digg

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Sleeping, refusing to walk, letting others pick on them, these dogs are simply the laziest around -but that doesn't make them any less cute.

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Contrary to schoolyard rumors, no one created the periodic table just to torture you—it all started with the elements.

It's Elemental

As early as 330 BCE, Aristotle created a four-element table: earth, air, fire, and water. (We'd sign up for a test on that periodic table, no problem.) But it wasn't until the late 1700s that Antoine Lavoisier wrote the first list of 33 elements. He classified them as metals and nonmetals, though we now know that some were compounds or mixtures. Other chemists found 63 elements through the mid-1800s, including their properties and compounds, and during that time, scientists also started noticing unexpected patterns in the properties.

For example, Johann Dobereiner discovered that the atomic weight of strontium fell exactly between the weights of calcium and barium, and all three had similar properties. From this, he created the Law of Triads, which said that in triads of elements, the properties of the middle element would be the average of the other two, if you ordered the elements by atomic weight.

When other scientists tested the theory, they basically found that the triads weren't really triads but parts of larger groups. (For instance, fluorine was added to the halogen "triad.") The main drag on their research was inaccurate measuring tools—if you're trying to order the elements by weight to figure out their relationships, it would have helped to know the correct values.

Shoddy measuring tools didn't stop progress, though. Enter French geologist A.E. Beguyer de Chancourtois, who lined up the elements on a cylinder in order of increasing atomic weight. By stacking the closely related elements, he noticed that their properties repeated every seven elements. The chart had one major flaw: it included ions and compounds as well as elements.

A year later (in 1864), John Newlands created the Law of Octaves. Newlands noticed the same pattern that de Chancourtois did—repetition within columns. He also arranged the elements in order of atomic weight and observed similarities between the first and ninth elements, third and eleventh, etc. Much like de Chancourtois, Newlands had one major oversight in his table: he didn't leave any spaces for elements that hadn't been discovered yet.

Symbol Minded

Five years later, we got not one, but the first two, full-fledged periodic tables. Working independently, Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Mendeleev both developed periodic tables. Meyer had published a textbook in 1864 that included an abbreviated version of a periodic table, demonstrating periodic changes in relation to atomic weight. He completed an extended table in 1868 and gave it to a colleague—who obviously took a bit too long to review it. During the review time, Mendeleev's table was published (1869), and Meyer's didn't appear until the next year.

Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Mendeleev.

To be fair, Mendeleev's thought process also appears to have been a little bit different than Meyer's. After noticing several patterns, he decided to create a card for each of the 63 known elements that would include the symbol, atomic weight, and chemical and physical properties. He arranged the cards on a table in order of atomic weight and grouped elements with similar properties. The table ended up showing not only group relationships, but vertical, horizontal, and diagonal relationships as well. (Alas, poor Mendeleev came only one vote away from being awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize for his work.) Unlike Meyers, Mendeleev was able to use the gaps in his table to make predictions about yet-to-be-discovered elements, and remarkably, many turned out to be true.

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The article above by Liz Hunt was reprinted with permission from mental_floss' book In the Beginning.

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