Dorothea Lange captured some of the iconic images of the Great Depression. As such she became one of the founding figures of the golden age of American photojournalism. From sharecroppers to the Salvation Arm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/27/the-depression-era-photography-of-dorothea-lange/Michael Heagerty was already well known locally as the incumbent Syracuse Common Councilor. Now that he won't be running for re-election as a Democrat, he is perhaps a little better known. Mr. Heagerty fell shor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/27/democratic-incumbent-couldnt-run-on-party-ticket-because-he-didnt-sign-his-own-petition/The robotics lab at Ben Gurion University in Israel has created a robot that walks on the ceiling. SpiderBot has suction cups tethered to the ends of its four legs. It aims a leg at a spot on the ceiling, then sho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/26/spiderbot-walks-on-the-ceiling-by-shooting-retractable-suction-cups/Paul Elkins built this lightweight travel trailer for his trip to the Burning Man festival. It has a roof-mounted wind turbine for electical power, as well as a solar cooker and water heater. It weighs only 100 pou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/26/an-eco-friendly-bicycle-hauled-travel-trailer/(YouTube Link) Tezcatlipoca is a three-minute animated short film by Robin George that uses music from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake to tell the story of the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca: Like other Aztec deities, he cou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/26/tezcatlipoca/Visitors to the Bristol Zoo can read all about the species Homo sapiens in this plaque hung by the window of the zoo’s cafe. It says, in part: After a gestation period of nine months, humans usually liv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/26/new-species-at-the-bristol-zoo/(YouTube Link) Sixteen-year old Daniel Pelletier is paralyzed from the waist down and has endured twenty-five surgeries during his recovery, but he doesn't let that stop him from being an accomplished skateboarder....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/26/daniel-pelletier-paraplegic-skateboarder/Flying these days is about as pleasant as a root canal, with security hassles, delays, poor service, expensive or nonexistent food, and cramped seats. But was it always this way? The answer, of course, is no. And...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/26/air-travels-glory-years/Officials acting on a tip searched a bus in Tarapoto, Peru for cocaine. They had been alerted that the cocaine was in a crate of turkeys, but they didn’t see any. However, the two live turkeys appeared bloated. Police...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/26/live-turkeys-stuffed-with-cocaine/Pull a petal off this lovely flower and you have a light! If you play “he loves me, he loves me not,” be careful not to get burned. It’s just one of a collection of artful and innovative matchboxes at Crooked Bra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/26/match-and-matchbox-designs/(YouTube Link) YouTube user macjonesnz programmed his CD-ROM tray to repeatedly open and close. Then he tied a string between the tray and his child's car seat. Result: sleeping baby. Via Bits & Piecesbaby, L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/26/linux-baby-rocker/Attach this spout to a bottle of liquor. As you pour, a LED light will illuminate the liquid. Unlike similar gadgets, it only lights up when liquid pours through it, adding a cool visual effect to bartending during i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/26/electrapour-illuminates-your-drinks/Two couples from Norfolk, England got married in a double wedding dressed as characters from the TV show The Flintstones! Andrea and Simon Bean, aka Fred and Wilma Flinstone, and Richard and Jill Noble, aka...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/25/flintstones-wedding/Some animals have been bred in space, but not mammals. Japanese researchers are looking into the possibility, and doing experiments with mice on earth that mimic lower gravity space conditions. To test these effects...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/25/making-babies-in-space-may-be-difficult/David Austin made a chainmail chessboard in 2001, and a few years later completed the chess pieces to go with it, also out of chainmail. The result is a game fit for a medieval king! Link -via Unique Daily chess, ch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/25/chainmail-chess-set/You may think you have a difficult, greedy, egotistical boss, but you haven’t met anyone like the boss who locked his employees inside a factory, or the boss who paid in script only redeemable at his stores, or the one...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/25/the-6-most-horrific-bosses-of-all-time/I'm afraid that this product is exactly what it looks like: a bracket that holds a stringed plastic bag while attached to your dog's tail. At the expense of your dog's sense of dignity, you get to avoid scooping up...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/25/the-poo-trap-an-alternative-to-scooping-up-after-your-dog/A company called Evergreen sells wood-faced LED-lit alarm clock radios with speakers. There are two versions available, with either one or two speakers. It sells for about $25, but so far, only in Japan. More info at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/25/wood-faced-clock-and-speakers/Photo: John Locher In 2005, pastry chef Jean-Philippe Maury created this enormous 25-tiered chocolate fountain for the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas. It's 27 feet tall and circulates 120 quarts of chocolate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/25/the-worlds-largest-chocolate-fountain/Photo: Times of London Bank Machine, an ATM operator in Britain, now has five cash machines in London that offer users the opportunity to conduct their business in the cockney dialect. It's a promotional gimmick desi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/25/cockney-atm/826LA is a non-profit organization in southern California that teaches kids how to engage in creative writing. It's known for innovative workshops and clever marketing. We previously featured their time travel stor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/25/time-travel-propaganda-posters/Now you can make your own keyboard cat that plays his own little papercraft keyboard when you crank the handle! TubbyPaws has a pattern and a cute video tutorial. Link -via Metafilter papercraft, diy, keyboard cat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/25/keyboard-cat-papercraft/Have you ever wondered where comic books writers get their ideas for super heroes? In this t-shirt by Chop Shop, they are named after Photoshop effects! The results are at least as believable as anything DC or Marvel h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/25/filter-heroes/The percentage of new pharmaceutical products that fail their effectiveness trials is growing. The culprit is the placebo effect, which appears to be stronger than in years past. If a drug cannot provide relief significa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/25/placebos-are-becoming-more-effective/Kaitlin at Whisk Kid made this cake as a treat for the eye as well as the palate! The recipe is posted with the warning that you will need more frosting than you think. Link -via Digg Cake, recipe, rainbow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/25/rainbow-cake-2/Photo: Vince LauroPigs may never fly, but they certainly can swim! Vince Lauro won National Geographic Traveler's Great Outdoors Photo Contest with this awesome photo of the Caribbean swimming pig. From the Intelligent T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/25/caption-monkey-63-swimming-pigs-of-the-caribbean/A list of the biggest dog breeds in the world, including the usual suspects and such marvels as the Deerhound, the Neapolitan Mastiff and the Leonberger. Strange how the bigger the dog, generally the softer and daf...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/25/there-be-giants-the-biggest-dogs-in-the-world/Illustration: Reilulf Ramstad Architects Norway plans to construct a wooden building 16-17 stories tall with carbon neutral construction techniques. The Norwegian Barents Secretariat will use it for a cultural center...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/24/plans-for-the-worlds-tallest-wooden-structure/Jeffrey Thomas is a California-based artist and character designer. He plays with pop culture in twisted and amusing ways, such as his latest series on eleven of the Disney Princesses. Pictured above is an Ariel mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/24/twisted-disney-princesses/Frankie Flood is an artist and professor of jewelry and metalsmithing at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He makes custom pizza cutters inspired by American motorcycles, such as the one above apparently mod...
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