Sixty years ago, Boris and Anna Kozlov were married for only three days before he had to ship out with his Red Army unit. When he returned, Anna and her family was gone - exiled to Siberia by Stalin's purges.Then one day...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/couple-reunited-after-60-years/Bob Partington of Keystone Design Union designed this morbidly cheeky Blood Pen. The pen has a battery-powered mechanism to dispense blood drawn by a syringe. so for your next batch of important documents, don't just sig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/blood-pen/For the really, really, really sound sleeper (or in case you want to wake up the entire neighborhood), Alan Parekh of Hacked Gadgets Forum cobbled together this masterpiece: an alarm rigged up to a fire alarm be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/fire-alarm-clock/Etsy seller CraftyHedgehog's knitting project is a blast from the (high school biology) past: a frog dissection, with a hand-knit frog and needle-felted innards!And as a touched of added realism, the piece isn't glued do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/knitted-frog-dissection/...then try making this guy: It's a pecan pie-cosahedron from turkey tek at Instructables. I can't even do simple swan origami, so this is definitely out for me.pie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/if-regular-pies-just-arent-challenging-enough/If you're anything like me, there are certain business words or phrases in that will make you scream if you hear them uttered from anyone's lips just one more time. Buzzword Bingo has swept across Corporat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/leveraging-our-core-competencies-to-dispose-of-corporate-buzzwords-we-loathe/When we are little children, we know that most all the classic nursery rhymes and fairy tales are horrible stories (at least before they've been Disneyfied). Then we get over it and forget the awful imagery, until we bec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/depressing-violent-and-tragic-nursery-rhymes/Have you ever wondered about the song "15 Men on a Dead Man's Chest"? The chorus originated in Robert Louis Stevenson's story Treasure Island. Fifteen men on the dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/dead-mans-chest/Before the 1972 TV show In Search of Dracula, few people outside of Romania had heard of Vlad the Impaler. Even now, many think of the 15th century ruler as the inspiration for the Dracula character. He wasn’t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/vlad-the-impaler/In high school, would be computer scientist Donald E. Knuth (later known as the "Father of Analysis of Algorithm), developed a Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures, after a running gag in Mad magazine....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/the-potrzebie-system-of-weights-and-measures/From The Book of Lists by David Wallenchinsky and Amy Wallace, here is the 9 People Who Died Laughing. For example:1. CALCHAS (Greek soothsayer, c. 12th century BC)Calchas, the wisest sooths...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/9-people-who-died-laughing/The Brothers Brick blog is starting what I believe will be a very neat series: historical figures ... in LEGO minifigs!This one, if you haven't guessed it already, is Mohandas Gandhi.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/mohandas-gandhi-lego-minifig/Palaeontologist Emily Rayfield of the University of Bristol used computer modelling to show that the dinosaur Baryonyx, which skull looked like it was part-crocodile, actually did eat like a modern day croc. *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/part-dinosaur-part-crocodile/Here is the Top 100 greatest quotes culled from fundamentalist Christian chat rooms, as compiled by FSTDT (Fundies Say the Darndest Things!) forum. Like this gem, for example:One of the most basic laws in the univers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/100-greatest-christian-fundamentalists-quotes/Online gaming - meaning playing actual shoot-'em up games and the like, not gambling - may be big business but to its fans, it's also serious business.So, in order to avoid newcomer ("noob") faux pas,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/the-golden-rules-of-online-gaming/(Metacafe link) This ad from Hewlitt Packard features a group of office workers performing Mozart on coffee cups and office equipment. I waited in vain for someone to spill water on a laptop. -Thanks, Jan!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/office-orchestra/The volunteer's face muscles contract, and his body begins to convulse. His breathing becomes spasmodic, and he makes a series of involuntary, repeated vocalizations. For one informative moment, the EEG's mechanical...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/gelotology/Christiane Zschommler takes wonderful pictures, some abstracted, like the one above and others less so, but with an eye both for bold and su...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/christiane-zschommler-photographs/Today kicked off a year of 50th anniversary celebrations for the little blue creatures called Smurfs. The Smurfs originated in Brussels, Belgium. The late cartoonist Pierre Culliford, best known by his pen name, "P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/happy-birthday-smurfs/A rat heart in three stages of decellularization. In the left photo, the heart chambers are labelled. Ao: aorta. LV: left ventricle. RV: right ventricle. LA: left atrium. RA: right atrium. Middle Photo: arrows indicate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/bestill-my-beating-heart-scientists-created-beating-heart-out-of-a-dead-shell/This is so cool (well, technically, it's hot!): here's a guide on how to make your own magic fireball. Just don't get burned, okay... Hit play or go to Link [Metacafe] - via Gizmodo, thanks John Wiersma!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/how-to-make-a-magic-fireball/For the past 22 years, Canadian artist Zube has worked on a house in Whistler, Canada, named The Mushroom House.The Mushroom House basks in pure sunlight. The external design of The Mushroom House was inspired by the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/the-mushroom-house/A female shark in a Hungarian aquarium has just given birth without ever mating! Director Attila Varga said: "When I saw the baby shark lying on the bottom of the tank I thought it was a joke. I was amazed whe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/virgin-birth-of-a-shark/Kids, this is the reason your mom told you never to wave or stick your arm out of a car window: A 20-year-old man is stable after undergoing surgery on his arm that was partially severed as he waved out a car window...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/why-you-should-keep-your-arms-inside-the-car/We've posted about the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, a controversial "behavioral modification" school that uses electric shock in attempt to change children's behaviors. (Photo: The cover story of a Sept...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/school-pranked-into-administering-electric-shocks-to-students/Last year, Dave of Miss(ed) Manners and his brother Danny built the awesome diorama of Battle of Helm's Deep (from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings) with gummy bears and other candies.The duo have followd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/lotr-battle-of-pelennor-fields-candy-diorama/NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope photographed a phenomenon called "Einstein ring" where, predicted by Einstein a long time ago, gravity can "bend" light rays:The phenomenon, called gravitational lensing,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/einstein-ring-photographed-by-the-hubble-telescope/PETA had placed a tombstone in the Louisville cemetery in which the founder of KFC was buried. It turns out that the gravemarker, which was approved by the cemetery, contained a hidden message:At first glance, the to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/petas-anti-kfc-tombstone-prank/Meet Ed Gardner, who just turned 20 years old and is Britain's youngest commercial pilot for Titan Airways:Holidaymakers flying from Stansted airport since October may have been unaware that the reassuring voice from...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/ed-gardner-the-doogie-howser-of-aviation/The Los Angeles Times has a very interesting article about American women who married Saudi men and must now obey strict Islamic laws. Or at least on the face of it. Apparently, it's not all negative:Most non-Muslim...
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