When you approach the North Pole, compasses don't work properly because the difference between the geographic pole and the magnetic pole are more pronounced than elsewhere. So the Catlin Arctic Survey, currently en route...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/lacy-lingerie-helps-find-north-pole/Shoe designers have been busy incorporating the latest technology into shoes. This list has shoes embedded with iPod transmitters, CDs, MP3 players, GPS trackers, and headlights. Others have springs or computer-enhanced...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/12-coolest-geeky-shoes/Just reading this article can be painful. It has descriptions of the horrible treatments that were often the only thing available for what ailed you in the Middle Ages. It was not a pleasant time to be a patient, b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/10-excruciating-medical-treatments-from-the-middle-ages/(Vimeo link)Sound designer Diego Stocco recorded different sounds made by sand, then turned them into music!I had some sandbags in the backyard that I used in November during a rainy day. I was moving them to a diffe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/music-from-sand/Dieting. Personally, I suck at it, as do many people throughout the world. But it doesn't mean we don't try. Of course, some of us try to eat less and exercise more and some people jump on the bandwagon of any fad diets,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/10-craziest-diets-in-history/A simple, weatherproof camera designed for the garden or wildlife enthusiast. It can be programmed to take photos at variable intervals for the creation of time-lapse movie files.It can focus as close as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/29/garden-camera-with-timelapse-capability/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=491KMo-Ckg8][YouTube - Link]Maya says a few solemn words about Lucky the goldfish before flushing him down the toilet, even though her mom keeps cracking up. - via arbroathFrom the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/29/luckys-funeral/As I'm sure you've noticed, there are some pretty universal state symbol categories: the state bird, the state flag, the state flower, even the state gemstones. But since those declarations are left up to the individual...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/29/10-interesting-state-symbols/Warp coils and photon torpedoes aside, have you ever thought of the weird fact that there's no money in Star Trek? Or how people get stuff done in real life when they can just ... erhm, enjoy what the holodeck can offer?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/29/the-problem-of-money-in-star-trek-economy/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJdwzY1o7k8][YouTube - Link]Filmed from the front of a trolley, this 7-minute film evokes what life was like before automobiles and trucks dominated the streets. - via darkroastedb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/28/ride-through-the-streets-of-barcelona-in-1908/(Vimeo link) Air guitar is something we all do at one time or another, but some folks take it to another level altogether! Watch some of the preliminary qualifiers for the International Air Guitar Championship, compet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/28/competitive-air-guitar/Patrick Abbazia attends his class bound in blue duct tape. He's not doing it just to be weird - instead, he's protesting a strange policy of the East Shore Middle School in Milford Connecticut: a "no-touching' polic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/28/student-protest-schools-no-touching-policy/Normally, you'd fight fire with water, but not at Jesse and Amee Ellsworth's home. They have so much natural gas, leaking from nearby gas wells, in their water that they can light it on fire!Link (with very impressive vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/28/flammable-water/David Letterman never did anything this cool on his "Will It Float?" skit: here's one from the BBC involving a cannonball and a bath (!) of mercury.Link (embedded YouTube clip)You probably guessed what happened...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/28/cannonball-in-mercury-will-it-float/Wow. My gingerbread decorations = two blobs for eyes and a curved line for a smile. Talented Craftster Woolylogic made detailed likenesses of Russian literature greats. And they're good. That's Dostoyevsky i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/28/russian-lit-greats-in-gingerbread/Is this a great way to save public funds or a step down the slippery slope? KFC wants to fix potholes in city roads, then paint the company's name on top. They've already begun work in Louisville, and have offered the se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/28/a-chicken-in-every-pothole/Seinfeld was the ultimate show for water cooler conversations. With a countless number of inside jokes, nicknames, characters, and story lines, it didn't take long for the show to develop it’s very own social lan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/28/99-seinfeld-references/My sweet tooth must be in full effect tonight because I somehow keep stumbling upon posts about donuts and cupcakes and Cadbury Creme Eggs. Last year, Cadbury held a contest for fans to submit videos of the delicious ch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/27/cadbury-creme-egg-deaths/Craftster user Lethargic made these back in October for the season premiere of Dexter, but other clever Craftsters immediately came up with lots of other uses for them (divorce party). The actual cake is red ve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/27/delectable-but-deadly-cupcakes/This one is fascinating, though if you're a little squeamish about human anatomy, this isn't for you. Here's a video clip of Dr. Christopher Chang performing a transnasal fiberoptic stroboscopy to evaluate the vocal cord...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/27/how-your-vocal-cords-make-sound/After determining the biological basis of why teenagers don't like doing chores, science turns it attention to another of life's great mystery: why toddler don't do what they're told.Are you listening to me? Didn't I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/27/science-explains-why-toddlers-dont-listen/Photo: Charlotte ButtonAfter Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, school teacher Jane Elliott wanted to teach her third-grade class about racism. Rather than a lengthy discussion about it, she decided to show...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/27/jane-elliotts-blue-eyesbrown-eyes-experiment-on-racism/University of Hertfordshire psychologist and researcher Richard Wiseman (he wrote The Luck Factor book featured previously on Neatorama here) is interested in scientific research into the paranormal.So he asked people to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/27/ghost-images/It doesn't sound very appetizing. But the Cow Protection Department of the Rashtriya Sawyamseval Sangh wants to make a cola from cow urine, claiming that the soda would taste good, be healthy and could cure disease...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/27/cow-pee-cola/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_oDdGmKyA][YouTube - Link] Miniatur Wonderland in Hamburg, Germany is the largest model railway in the world. With 7 miles of tracks in an area of over 16,000 sq ft, 200,000 p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/27/miniatur-wonderland-worlds-largest-model-railway/Not so good news for crustacean lovers. According to a research from Queen's University Belfast researchers, crabs not only feel pain, but also remember it. Professor Bob Elwood and Mirjam Appel, whose study...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/27/crabs-feel-pain-and-remember-it/The flea circus sounds funny, but it was once a serious (if strange) performance type. The fleas are actually trained to 'behave' and 'perform' in certain ways - even harnassed with tiny wires. Of course, for every such...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/27/victorian-flea-circuses-a-lost-art-form/Craig Damrauer uses math equations to illustrate concepts that aren't math. For example: Cleanliness = Godliness - 1 Crazy = Talking to oneself - ( cell phone + ear piece ) Nagging = reminding + reminding +...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/27/more-new-math/Hundreds of detectives in Germany spent two years trying to track down a mysterious female serial killer whose DNA was collected at 39 different crime scenes. When no progress was made in the cases, police offered a 300,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/27/serial-killer-mystery-solved/This list of manly sports include a couple I've never heard of, including Calcio Fiorentino. This Italian sport originated in 16th century Florence. Called Bareknuckle Football, it’s a manlier version of, well,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/27/8-of-the-manliest-sports/
