In the September 11, 1852 issue of the New Jersey Herald, an article claimed that a bear attack killed a child. The reader would be left to believe that the bear attack had occured in New Jersey. But the editors had simply lifted and republished an article from an Arkansas paper, which is where the attack took place. When this came to the attention of editors working for the newspaper now, they added a correction to the original article:

Herald Executive Editor Bruce Tomlinson said a reader pointed out the error when the newspaper re-published the story this week. The newspaper then discovered that the original story was first published in Little Rock, Arkansas.

"Boy killed and eaten by a bear!" reads the report from Sept. 11, 1852.

It says that the boy was killed by an "enormous bear" and that "a large portion of the body of the unfortunate youth had been devoured by the savage animal."

Although Neatorama is not a journalistic enterprise, you can be sure that if, in 2176, we discover an error in an article that we published, we shall correct it. I suspect that Miss Cellania, our editor, would resolve that problem personally.

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How do you transport a baby on a long airline flight? During the 1950s, engineers at the British Overseas Airways Corporation (what we now call British Airways), developed the "skycot." High Life, British Airways' in-flight magazine, tells us that parents would hold babies during takeoff and landing, but, while in the air, would place them in these hammocks clamped onto the overhead luggage racks.

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The Nobel Committee has announced the winners of its prizes for 2014. You can see a complete list here. It's a great honor for each recipient, even though it may cause trouble getting through airport security.

Reuters produced this infographic showing which nations have had the highest number of recipients and which prizes they won up to 2013.

There are 6 categories of prizes: physiology/medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and economics. For what other fields would you like to see the Nobel Committee award prizes?

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How will we waste time in the 2020s and the 2030s? Will we watch holographic simulations of computer users from the previous decades using their primitive virtual reality simulators and augmented reality heads-up displays?

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Caine Eckstein is an Australian Ironman champion and a Guinness World Record holder. Recently, on the set of the Today show, he completed 4,210 pull-ups in 12 hours. This secured for him the record for the greatest number of pull-ups in both 12 and 24 hours.

To perform this incredible feat, Eckstein did 6 pull-ups every minute for the first 10 hours of his attempt, then 5 pull-ups every minute for the last 2 hours.

It really tore up his hands!

Maybe Eckstein will try it again sometimes with his pinkie fingers, as this man did.

"Who am I? I'm the Doctor."

James Chapman is a cartoonist who has found a niche by illustrating the words used in many languages for common experiences, such as the sound of frying and the names of Pokémon. We've featured his work extensively at Neatorama.

For his latest project, Chapman shows us what several English-language television shows are called in other languages. A Crazy in the Area sounds like a great name for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air--possibly better than the original.

If you live in the heart of a major city, easy access to public transportation is essential. In New York City, that priority includes the subway system. If you live in Manhattan, how far away from you is the nearest subway station?

Ben Wellington, an instructor in city planning and statistics at the Pratt Institute, is the person to ask. He operates I Quant NY, a blog about geographical and statistical analyses of New York City. Recently, he searched for the apartment in Manhattan that is the furthest away from a subway station. That apartment is the penthouse suite of 10 Gracie Square. It's 0.8 miles away from a subway entrance.

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In 2012, the Spanish government raised taxes on theater tickets from 8 to 21%, leading to a sharp decrease in the number of patrons at comedy clubs. In order to make up for lost revenue, the Barcelona comedy club Teatreneu has installed a new system that will charge patrons by the number of laughs that they experience while attending a performance.

The advertising agency The Cyranos McCann developed the system. On the back of each seat is a camera hooked into a facial recognition system. As patrons laugh, the program calculates their bills. Cadie Thompson of CNBC writes:

Each giggle costs approximately 30 Euro cents ($0.38). However, if a patron hits the 24 Euros mark, which is about 80 laughs, the rest of their laughs are free of charge.

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Sorry, Boss, but there's nothing that I can do to escape these cuddles. I'll have to shelter in place until he wakes up. I'm sure that my co-workers will understand.

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Do remember how hard it was to learn how to drive? It was scary for you, but even scarier for your instructor. Now imagine that coming of age experience in the future, when cars can fly. That's the premise of Crash Course, a funny short film produced by students at the Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand.

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It's reminiscent of this scene from The Naked Gun.

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The Scorpion Chair is ideal for formal occasions. But you can't be "on" all of the time. Sometimes, you need to retreat to your cozy corner to relax after a hard day at work. Etsy seller Chic Sin Design has just the right chair for that purpose.

We've previously seen that company's beanbag chair shaped like a sleeping bear. This one will get you in a similar mood. It's a soft, plush chair shaped like a human skull. Just sit in the jaws and chill.

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The Mars Bar is the signature chocolate candy of the Mars chocolate company--a firm that has not only international but also interplanetary reach. Of course, on Mars, it's necessary to market the same product under a different name. The focus groups were clear about that. Artist Rafik Emil H. illustrates the result.

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It's called the Aromafork. Molecule-R, a company in Montreal, is marketing it as a way to make food tastier. The premise is that if food smells better, it will taste better. The hole in the fork has a space for a scent-infused slip of paper. Bringing the fork to your mouth to eat brings the paper to your nose, filling your nostrils with that scent instead of the smell of the food.

The company currently sells 21 different aromas, including mint, strawberry, wasabi, and cheesecake. What flavors would you like to smell in your fork?

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Last Friday, we told you about a wonderful word problem written by 8th grade student Cody Swanek. It's about the troubles that J.J. Abrams, the director of the next Star Wars movie, faces during production. Pictured above is his original manuscript. It reads as follows: 

J. J. Abrams is making Star Wars Episode 7. He rented three speeder bikes which was 700 imperial credits to start. He must pay 100 imperial credits to keep his speeder bikes daily. If he does not pay daily, Prince Xizor and other Black Sun members will kidnap J. J. Abrams, bring him to Mustafar, and sacrifice him.

J. J. Abrams is also paying 5 bounty hunters to keep separatist spies out. That costs 200 imperial credits to start, then 50 imperial credits for each bounty hunter every time they capture a spy. The Separatists send 2 spies every day.

In how many days does J. J. Abrams spend the same amount of imperial credits on speeders and bounty hunters?

Abrams has undertaken the monumental responsibility of creating the Star Wars movie and is thus not a man to shirk from a challenge. Topless Robot reports that Abrams solved Cody's problem and mailed him a handwritten explanation of his reasoning.

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This is how William Toomey's ring-tailed lemur, Koko, traverses a hallway. There's no need for him to touch the floor.

Can you do this? Please record your efforts and post the videos in the comments. 

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