Sure, you know some famous Canadians, but those people you know aren't on this Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. You'll be given fifteen names, and you determine if those people were born in Cnada or not. It's harder tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/are-they-canadian/(YouTube link) The couple in Maryland who made the fire-breathing snowman have their own dragon busy at work melting snow. Wouldn't you love to have neighbors like this? -via Gizmodofire, homemade, dragon, flamethrowe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/snow-melting-dragon/Someone mentioned that John Coker's homemade rockets looked like crayons, so he ran with the idea. His crayon rockets were launched all together from a crayon box! Well, OK, half of them worked. See how he made them in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/crayon-rockets/Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York are cooking up a recipe that may reach seven trillion degrees Celsius at its peak! It's called the Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction eXperiment, or PHENIX...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/the-hottest-science-experiment-on-the-planet/In 1867, the United States bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. At the time, the acquisition was popularly dismissed as "Seward's Folly" (Seward was Secretary of State at the time), as the frozen land was conside...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/was-the-alaska-purchase-a-good-deal/For a class project, nine mechanical engineering majors at Yale built a bicycle with a spokeless back wheel. One of them, redditor zhoalander, described the design in a thread at reddit: It's a single speed s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/a-spokeless-bicycle/Want to go to a good college? Besides doing your homework, studying hard, and acing the SAT, it sure helps if you weren't born Asian.While this isn't exactly a new phenomenon ("overachieving" Asians have been b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/is-the-asian-ceiling-a-necessary-evil/A new cleaning technology could replace or supplement the soap, water, and disinfectants used at hospitals to wash hands. Plasma gas sprayed on hands through machines developed by researchers in Germany can kill bacteri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/wash-your-hands-with-plasma-gas/(YouTube Link) Chris Scott is training to be a 911 operator. His wife, at home with their infant son, found the child choking. She called 911, Scott answered the phone, and calmly talked her through the problem....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/mother-calls-911-while-baby-is-choking-operator-talks-her-through-it-operator-is-babys-father/Photo (origin unknown) via Dark Roasted Blend's pretty nifty article Lots of Snow! Engineer Jeff the Baptist and victim of the recent Snowpocalypse has a problem: he's got a huge pile of snow in front of his house. Being...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/whats-the-best-way-to-melt-lots-of-snow/Thanks to technology, beleaguered school bus drivers have a new tool to control rowdy students: give 'em the Interwebs to surf.Students endure hundreds of hours on yellow buses each year getting to and from school in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/wi-fi-helps-control-rowdy-students-on-school-bus/[caption id="attachment_29505" align="aligncenter" width="468" caption="Photo: Barry Bland/Bancroft USA"][/caption] Forget about the "Hog." If you really want to look cool on the roads, buy this motorcycle custom ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/benny-ohrmans-gatorbike/60 Minutes ran an interesting piece on Olympic snowboarding sensation Shaun White last night. Informative as always, and full of facts about the athlete, the neatest part had to be near the beginning when he showed B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/shaun-whites-private-halfpipe/Becky Stern makes scarves that match the emission spectra of different elements. The term "emission spectrum" is defined by The Larousse Dictionary of Science and Technology as "wavelength distribution...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/spectrographic-scarves/(YouTube Link) This Russian-language (?) video shows a handy car accessory. Drive up on the treads, remove your wheels, attach the axle to the treads, and you have a functional tracked vehicle. via DVICE | Previ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/strap-on-tank-tracks/(YouTube Link) It was bound to happen sooner or later. Cubestormer is a robotic device from The Lego Mindstorms that can solve any randomly mixed up 3x3x3 cube in under 12 seconds. via UniqueDailyrobotics...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/cubestormer-destroys-any-rubiks-cube-challenge/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tyaXaemxsA][YouTube - Link]This is different - a cover of Queen's We Are The Champions by a group of Tatars willing the Russian team on to victory in the Winter Olympics....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/we-are-the-champions-in-tatar/The Sundaland clouded leopard, a little understood species of leopard located in Borneo, has been filmed for the first time. It was only classified as a separate species a few years ago, and listed as endangered in 200...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/new-leopard-species-caught-on-film/Reddit user biophilia curiosis of Operation Wallacea spotted this specimen in Buton, Indonesia. While participating in a herpetology study we stumbled across this female laying eggs in a nest. She was found in the L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/indonesian-dragon/Photographer Cédric Delsaux (previously at Neatorama) began the project Dark Lens with the intent of photographing suburban decay in Dubai, but the addition of Star Wars characters made it something special. Link to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/dark-lens/(YouTube link) Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration by T.J. and the Revo is a parody of the song Apologize by Timbaland featuring OneRepublic. A perfect video for President's Day. Link -via reddit mu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/too-late-to-apologize-a-declaration/The Mathias quadruplets of Lexington, North South Carolina captured our hearts by laughing in unison in a clip featured on America's Funniest Home Videos. Grace, Emily, Mary Claire, and Anna will turn ten years old o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/laughing-quads-turn-ten-tomorrow/Jeff Ondash of Cranfield, Ohio set a world record by giving 7,777 hugs in a 24-hour period on Valentine's Day in front of a casino in Las Vegas: The previous record of 5000 hugs in one day was set last year by Sio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/15/man-sets-world-hugging-record-with-7777-hugs/Giving chocolates, roses, and diamonds are only the current customary gifts for Valentines Day. At other times and places, the holiday entailed very different activities for finding or expressing romantic love. Or some o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/14/ten-out-of-the-ordinary-valentines-day-customs/Logorama is an Oscar-nominated short film by François Alaux and Herve de Crecy about a world populated entirely by corporate logos. The peace of daily life in this world is shattered when a deranged, murdero...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/14/logorama/This valentine, made out of palladium atoms, is eight nanometers across. It formed spontaneously this week while researchers Zhiwei Wang and David Pearmain of the University of Birmingham’s Nanoscale Physics Resea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/14/worlds-smallest-valentine/(YouTube Link) Hi! We're Neatorama, and we're in the adorable cat video business. Currently at bat is Guitar Kitteh, who used a guitar as a scratching post while one of his servants (YouTube user FlashDams) was pl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/14/guitar-kitteh-uses-guitar-for-free-scratches/(YouTube Link) "If I Didn't Have You (I'd Have Somebody Else)" is an amusing song by Tim Minchin. It points out that, contrary to the wisdom that there's one perfect romantic parnter out there, if he wasn't with th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/14/a-statistically-accurate-and-consequently-unromantic-love-song/Missed connections, looking for marriage, let's meet, in addition to rooms for rent, cars for sale, and job openings. Sounds like Craiglist, but these kinds of ads have been around in newspapers as long as there have bee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/14/the-victorian-version-of-craigslist/Artist Alexandria Neonakis created Valentines inspired by the TV show Lost. At the link, you'll find her deviantART gallery, which also contains valentines for The Office, Left 4 Dead, and Te...
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