If you're on a long-term disability because of depression, perhaps it's a good idea not to post photos of yourself having fun on Facebook:Nathalie Blanchard has been on leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Quebec, f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/23/woman-lost-disability-benefit-because-of-facebook/Twenty three years ago, a car crash left Rom Houben totally paralyzed. Doctors gave him a battery of tests and concluded that he was in a vegetative state or a coma. Except that they were wrong: he was conscious the whol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/23/man-actually-conscious-throughout-two-decades-of-coma/Illustrator Christoph Niemann looks at the identification of leaves in a whole new way. See a collection of leaves from trees you never knew existed, like the Fast Forwood and the Alder Ego. Link -via Swiss Misspuns,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/22/bio-diversity/A first edition of Charles Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" was discovered on a bookshelf in the guest bathroom of a house in southern England. Only 1,250 of the books were printed when the book was first re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/22/rare-darwin-book-found-in-the-loo/Is there such a thing as "too smart" or perhaps too smart for your own good? Bruce G. Charlton states a common observation that "high IQ types are lacking in ‘common sense’ – and especially when it comes to deali...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/22/the-curious-case-of-rick-rosner/(YouTube link) A cat spruces up a fennec fox. -via YesButNoButYes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/21/my-what-a-dirty-fox/John F. Talarico of the podcast show Bloodthirsty Vegetarians created two 20-sided dice out of stained glass and black and copper patina. The orange one is called "Fire." There are more detailed images in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/21/stained-glass-d20/Emily Berezin made a woman from eleven loaves of Wonder® Bread and the bags they came in. The result is, of course, Wonder® Woman! See more pictures in her Flickr set. Link - via twitter From the Upcoming ueue...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/21/wonder%c2%ae-bread-wonder%c2%ae-woman/Mmmm, beaver! Bug Girl posted these beaver recipes from a 1960 pamphlet entitled Good Eating from Woods and Fields, which also includes instructions for cooking muskrat. Link -Thanks, ersatz soubriquet! S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/21/beaver-recipes/British citizen and experienced sailor Laura Hughes and her friend John Cochrane were battling gale force winds off the Turkish coast when a rope got caught in her boat's propeller and killed the engine. She sent a Mayda...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/21/she-saved-the-puppies/The folks who bring you the Merriam-Webster dictionary select their top words of the year not by how trendy or new they are, but by which words are the most looked up in their online dictionary. This year, nine of the to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/21/merriam-websters-top-words-of-2009/Remember A Glorious Dawn, the awesome auto-tuned Carl Sagan (and Stephen Hawking) video clip that went viral? What could be better than that? Well, John Boswell of Symphony of Science made another song, this time featuri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/21/symphony-of-science/It's no wonder that Neatorama reader Guy won the recent Bent Objects caption contest - turns out he's one of the guys behind Brevity, a darn funny syndicated comic strip. This one above, titled Medieval Tron, is my favor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/21/medieval-tron/Trigger Finger of Santa GuerraWhen I die and become Saint Neatorama, I'd like sculptor Al Farrow to make me a reliquary to treasure one of my body parts. Presumably my blogging pinkie. Al has made some 40 unusual reliqua...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/21/al-farrows-guns-ammo-reliquaries/It's been a long and undoubtedly strange journey for Galileo Galilei's various body parts. Some of you will recall that when his body was reinterred in 1737, his middle finger was removed, along with several other bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/galileos-other-finger-tooth-and-thumb-have-been-found/What you smell may be a marker for their slow death. After noticing that professional conservators smelled paper while doing their assessments, researchers from University College London's Centre for Sustainable Herita...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/do-you-love-the-smell-of-old-books/(Video Link) Pedro M. Cruz, a graduate student in information visualization and interaction design, created this time-elapsed representation of the rise and decline of the British, French, Portuguese, and Spanish ov...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/visualizing-the-rise-and-fall-of-four-empires/Charlie Sorrel has an article at Wired exploring the potential development of LED-lit tattoos. New chips are small enough to be placed under the skin, mounted on a sheet of silk that dissolves into the body:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/led-tattoos/Conductor/composer Andre Rieu showcases Il Silenzio (commonly known as a variation of Taps) with trumpet solo by 13 year old Melissa Venema. The song is much more beautiful when played in its entirety, as opposed to wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/il-silenzio/This is a functional mug made out of woven strips of bacon, filled with melted cheese. I have not yet been able to find the name of the genius responsible for this holy creation. Will s/he step forward and claim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/bacon-mug/Strong emphasis on the word "early." A research team at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada was able to temporarily stun worms with an ultraviolet light: The animals that scientists experi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/phasers-in-early-product-development/In a new comic, cartoonist Patrick Moberg compares various web 2.0 social networking tools to intoxicating drugs, including tumblr, twitter, vimeo, and myspace. But don't think that he holds these utilities in low r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/web-2-0-as-intoxicants/Photo: Gentle Giant Studios The Star Wars cantina bookend set is currently out of stock, and at a cost of over $150.00 it's definitely for those with money to burn. Neatorama sells cool bookends for far less. Howeve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/a-collection-of-neat-bookends/Remember the Dramatic Chipmunk Internet meme? Well, I don't know what took so long, but the chipmunk (or prairie dog if you want to be technical about it) has made a come back of sorts.Behold the Dramatic Chipmunk Messen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/dramatic-chipmunk-messenger-bag/(vimeo link) Some things are so obvious, it only took a quarter-century for someone to think of this. (via b3ta)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/close-encounters-of-the-redneck-kind/This 1936 ad for Camel cigarettes encourages you to stop and smoke between each course of your Thanksgiving feast. Link to Flickr page (full size). -via Metafilter thanksgiving, vintage, ads, cigarettes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/camels-for-digestions-sake/Can't decide what kind of pie to serve after Thanksgiving dinner? Make them all in one pie pan! Cakespy at Serious Eats experimented with pecan, apple, and pumpkin pie recipes to make this triple threat. The best res...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/pumpkin-apple-pecan-pie/Video Link Relive the past 9.8 years in news stories condensed into seven minutes, peppered with snark and wit. via AcidCow.Odd News, decade, aughts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/the-decade-in-seven-minutes/Maité Roël of Bovekerke, Belgium is the youngest victim of the first World War. As a disabled war victim, she carries a veteran's card that entitles her to reduced train fares, but gets suspicious looks when she uses i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/Photo: Design Fetish In 1997, home developer Kaufman & Broad built a house in Henderson, Nevada that looks exactly like the house that the Simpson family lives in, both inside and outside, including furniture and pict...
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