Photo: Scarlett Hooft GraaflandPhotographer Scarlett Hooft Graafland spent 4 months living with the Eskimos in the remotest part of north Canada and documented her experience in her photograph series "You Winter, le...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/07/living-with-eskimos/Are you miserable where you live? How does your city rank in misery as compared to others in the nation? Forbes has come out with their annual list of the most miserable cities in America. This list is based on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/07/americas-most-miserable-cities-of-2009/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujm5qdn9m0Q][YouTube - Link]Andy Blaylock invented a device to help ice hockey players in honing their skill level for a specific skating maneuver, the crossover. It's probab...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/07/crossover-flywheel-for-training-ice-hockey-players/Photo: New England Aquarium How do you keep your octopi from getting bored? The New England Aquarium in Boston decided to give 'em a little puzzle to solve:Truman, a 7-foot-long, 30-pound octopus at the New England...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/07/houdini-octopus/Enjoy a roundup of ten truly amazing gardens from around the world. Some of these are unreal!Keukenhof, which literally translates to kitchen court garden, has been around since 1949 and is the world’s largest an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/07/the-most-extraoridinary-flower-gardens/Photo: russosThere's an odd fad taking off (jumping off?) in Russia: jumping off a bridge en masse after tethering yourself to a rope! For even more fun, wait till the train is passing by ... Link - via kottkeBridge, jum...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/07/group-bridge-jumping/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA2iU7ofcS4][YouTube - Link]What would the TV hit series COPS be like if it were made for kids? Sunset Television explores the possibilities ... - via sunsettelevisionFrom the Upco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/07/cops-for-kids/We've all seen technology improving at a breakneck pace over the last couple of decades. While it's nice to have fresh and shiny new gadgets that work better, we are discarding outdated electronics in alarming nu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/07/modern-fossils/It was a terrible time and difficult for us to imagine, when people froze to death and cooked soups from their belts and wallpaper glue just to stay alive. So how do we put ourselves in their shoes and see into the pas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/past-war-and-present-peace-the-siege-of-leningrad-then-and-now/Abandonments can be amazing to visit, but are all the more fascinating when they are located on the edges of the known world. One of the things that sets antarctic abandonments apart from other abandoned towns and cities...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/the-ghosts-of-antarctica-abandoned-stations-and-more/Bizarre notices have been popping up on lampposts around Melbourne. On the surface they seem like legitimate notices you'd see on community noticeboards: items for sale, lost and found, and invitations to join groups w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/craigs-other-list-guerrilla-graffiti-brings-humor-to-the-streets/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Excessive Ping Pong Score Celebration Footballers do it, soccer players do it, so why not celebra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/videosift-clips-of-the-week-21/Photo: occam [Flickr]That's the condominium building on 290 Mulberry Street in Manhattan, New York, designed by SHoP Architects. The rippled brick facade and the way light shines on it results in a different look for the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/how-to-annoy-bricklayers/If chipper and optimistic people annoy you, here's a finding that will make you hate them even more: they'll outlive everyone else ...A study of 100,000 women presented at the American Psychosomatic Society's annual...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/secret-to-longevity-optimism/Desiderio Fortunato is a stickler for courtesy and respect. But when the Canadian man asked a US Border agent to be polite and say "please," he got something unexpected: pepper spray to his face! He said h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/canadian-man-got-pepper-sprayed-in-the-face-for-asking-us-border-agent-to-say-please/The British Home Office's effort to crack down on illegal immigrations has an unintended consequences of sort: Britain is experiencing a clown shortage!"My season started in February," says Martin Lacey, ow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/britains-clown-shortage/An exhumation of a mass grave of plague victims in Venice, Italy yielded the skeleton of a woman who was probably considered a vampire in her time. She was buried with a brick in her mouth. The skeleton was found by Matt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/vampire-found-in-italy/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaUIjf53SWE][YouTube - Link]Amazing CCTV footage of a Turkish man who narrowly escapes a collision with a truck and a train. File under "Lucky".From the Upcoming ueue,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/man-survives-truck-train-crash/Many university and public libraries house special collections, often donated by wealthy patrons or accumulated over decades. This list takes a look at 15 of the most unique special collections from around the world, wit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/15-incredible-library-special-collections/Gazelle Boy In 1960, Basque anthropologist Jean-Claude Auger received a tip from nomads in the Sahara that a child was running free in the desert. He went to inv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/kids-gone-wild-shocking-stories-of-feral-children/Forget the teenage audio repellent we posted about on Neatorama before. A mall in New Zealand will use Barry Manilow songs instead to get rid of its pesky mall rats:"The intention is to change the environment in a po...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/barry-manilow-music-to-deter-mall-rats/Photo: Naoya HatakeyamaJapanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama has been chronicling limestone operations since the early 1980's. In 1995, using remote controlled cameras, he started taking pictures of blasting opera...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/limestone-quarry-blasts-by-naoya-hatakeyama/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzFpg271sm8][YouTube - Link]"World Builder" is a short film by Bruce Branit (co-creator of "405") in which a man uses holographic tools to create a virtual worl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/world-builder/I like beer, and I like popcorn, but I'm not sure I like the two of them together. As in, mixed together. University of Missouri senior Cary Silverman saw some kids sneaking liquor into a movie theater and a light bulb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/05/beer-popcorn-pub-corn/Absolutely stunning pictures of Venice taken from the air. The 'city of water' is located in northern Italy, spanning 118 islands in the Venetian Lagoon. If I didn't know these pictures were real, I'd assume I was look...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/05/venice-from-above/[YouTube - Link] Even though this is an ad for the ADG Conference the underlying message is very neat. To be a freak maybe different but then again we are all different so does this make us all freaks in the end?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/05/freaks/This adorable video is brought to you by The Cooks Den. In trying to evaluate whether organic veggies and fruits actually taste better, they decided to try an unbiased judge -Hammy the Hamster. How semi-scientific of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/05/hamster-perfers-organic-veggies/This is a neat little flash game for those who have a musical ear. Just copy the song by pressing the correct bubbles.Link - via cheesygoodnessFrom the Upcoming ueue, submitted by BustyMcLeod....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/05/touch-the-bubbles/We've all heard someone complain about the stereotypes and sexism associated with Barbies, but now Democrat Jeff Eldridge wants to have the dolls banned in West Virginia. He claims the dolls encourage girls to focus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/05/lawmaker-wants-to-outlaw-barbies/A trip to the Smithsonian Institution inspired a post on the history of meteorite veneration at Curious Expeditions. In a tomb in Mexico, a 2.5 ton iron meteorite was buried with its owner as a treasured possession. An...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/05/rocks-from-heaven/
