World’s Strangest

World’s Smallest Postal ServiceThe World’s Smallest Postal Service (WSPS) is a teeny tiny transcription service and roaming post office based in the San Francisco Bay Area and also available online.Lea Redmond is the Postmaster, setting up her tiny mobile office in cafes and shops where passers-by can write a letter and have it turned into [...]

Remember the I Love xkcd animated music video (inspired by the Discovery Channel promo I Love the World, drawn by animator Noam Raby and sung by Olga Nunes) posted previously on Neatorama? Well, Olga Nunes and Elaine Doyle have teamed up to create the real life version of the song, titled We Love xkcd featuring the [...]

The British Library has announced that the Klencke Atlas will have its first-ever public showing this summer as part of a map exhibition. It is almost absurdly huge – 1.75 metres (5ft) tall and 1.9 metres (6ft) wide – and was given to [Charles II] by Dutch merchants and placed in his cabinet of curiosities. At the [...]

The last member of a 65,000 year-old tribe has died aged 85 taking one of the world’s earliest languages with her. Boa Sr was the last of her tribe fr…

In what is nominally a book review, chess grandmaster (and lately, politician) Garry Kasparov discusses how computers have changed chess. Famously defeated by IBM’s Deep Blue in 1997, Kasparov railed against computer chess in the 80’s and 90’s, but now he has some perspective on the matter, and shares his deep knowledge of the subject [...]

This week’s Late Movies is a bit more serious than usual. I’ve been really interested lately in how the ubiquity of cameras — in phones, in iPods, small enough to tuck into a shirt pocket — have changed the way we see the world. It’s removed part of the filter of “mainstream journalism” through which [...]

Later this year the world’s most powerful laser will attempt to achieve a self sustaning nuclear fusion reaction. Often regarded as the holy grail of …

If we were to ever have direct contact with an intelligent alien race what would happen to our world’s religions ? It is a question that has often bee…

If there’s one food that most people in China simply haven’t developed a taste for, that would be chocolate. Given that China represents over a billion potential customers, that simply won’t do, according to the chocolate industry (if there’s such a thing). So, what do they do to promote chocolate? Behold the World Chocolate Wonderland, the [...]

In a world first scientists have managed to determine the colour of a dinosaur, the sinosauropteryx has turned out to be ginger. The small dog-sized f…