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Two teachers in Winnipeg, Manitoba were suspended from their jobs after performing a lapdance at a high school pep rally:

WINNIPEG — A pair of teachers engaging in risque business set off a media riot after a video of a simulated lap dance from a school event went viral.

The video, taken last Wednesday during a well-attended pep rally for Grade 9 through 12 students at Churchill High School, shows students giggling, gasping and screaming as a female teacher receives a strip club-style lap dance from a male teacher.

By Thursday afternoon, students were spreading a minute-long video of the dance among each other on Facebook. On Monday afternoon, clips from the video were aired on CBC television.

Tuesday night, one parent of a Churchill High student groaned after learning that the video had gone national. “They so, so crossed the line,” said the parent, whose daughter showed her the video last week.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2010/02/24/winnipeg-teachers-suspended-after-lap-dance-goes-viral.aspx -- Thanks, Jeremy Barker!

Fernando and Humberto Campana designed this shirt, made entirely of copies of the alligator logo of the fashion brand Lacoste. The physical work was done by a women's co-op in Brazil and the Campanas hope to promote its mission through this project.

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I'm not really sure what is going on in this video, but it appears that two musicians on a turntable and a drum set are using speaking, holographic human heads as instruments. That's all of the information that I can immediately find. Warning: some NSFW language.

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It's pricey at $7,500, but this 11-foot tall, 22-foot long tyrannosaurus rex garden statue would look great in any front yard. Better than a gnome, anyway. It's a custom job, so don't expect overnight shipping.

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The Aspiral Clock is a new type of clock developed by two London-based tinkerers, Will Aspinall and Neil Lambeth. The entire clock itself turns slowly over a twelve-hour period and a loose ball inside marks the current time.

Link via Make | Video about the Clock | Image: Aspiral Clocks

Action Comics #1 was the first comic book that featured Superman. It was sold in 1938 for 10 cents. A high-quality copy was just sold for a record-breaking price of $1 million, making it the world's most expensive comic book:

The transaction was conducted through the auction site ComicConnect.com. Stephen Fishler, the co-owner of the site and its sister dealership, Metropolis Collectibles, orchestrated the sale.

Fishler said the seller was a "well-known individual" in New York with a pedigree collection and the buyer had previously bought an Action Comics No1 of lesser importance.

"It [Action Comics No1] is considered by most people as the most important book," said John Dolmayan, the comic book enthusiast and dealer best known as the drummer in the rock band System of a Down. "It kind of ushered in the age of the superheroes."

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(edit by Alex) Previously on Neatorama: World's Most Valuable Comic Books

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This is a stop-motion animated video imagines baking cookies using a computer application like Photoshop. It was made by Vimeo user Stafania, a recent graduate of the European Institute of Design in Milan.

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It looks like a slab of bacon on a cutting board, but it's actually a cake. Food artist Debbie Goard has a flickr stream filled with her amazing work, including cakes that look just like a can of Spam, a steak, and a beer keg.

Link via Albotas | Artist's Website (warning: self-starting sound) | Previously on Neatorama: Hello Kitty Zombie Cake, Yoda Cake

For the opening of a new Puma shoe store in Chicago, the design firm Wilson Brothers (Oscar, Ben, and Luke) made this formula 1 race car out of Puma shoe boxes. More pictures at the link.

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Johnny Kelly, a London-based illustrator, made this video describing all the ways that we put off doing what needs to be done. It was his graduation project at the Royal College of Art in 2007.

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New York-based designer Ji Lee's Redundant Clock uses hands oriented toward the hour markings for its hour markings.

Browsing around Lee's website, I also found this interesting work of guerrilla art. Lee puts empty speech bubbles over public advertisements and then photographs what people write in them.

http://pleaseenjoy.com/project.php?cat=1&subcat=&pid=18&navpoint=16 via OhGizmo!

TopTenz.net has a list of the ten smallest accredited colleges in the U.S. The largest on the list has 260 students, and the smallest has 38. In the #3 position with 84 students is the Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire:

It is a Roman Catholic college and all students spend one semester in Italy, living in a monastery and studying at the Rome campus, just five miles away from St. Peter’s Basilica. According to the college’s website, students will have “visited over 100 baroque churches, Roman architectural sites, Renaissance palazzos, or catacombs” and “translated over 1,000 lines of Homer, Cicero, or other Classical authors” after four years of study.

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Yitta Schwartz of Kiryas Joel, New York, died last month at the age of 93. She left behind 15 children, more than 200 grandchildren, and so many great and great-great grandchildren that her family guesses that she could claim 2,000 direct descendants. In The New York Times, Joseph Berger writes:

Mrs. Schwartz was a member of the Satmar Hasidic sect, whose couples have nine children on average and whose ranks of descendants can multiply exponentially. But even among Satmars, the size of Mrs. Schwartz’s family is astonishing. A round-faced woman with a high-voltage smile, she may have generated one of the largest clans of any survivor of the Holocaust — a thumb in the eye of the Nazis.[...]

She was born in 1916 into a family of seven children in the Hungarian village of Kalev, revered as the hometown of a founder of Hungarian Hasidism. During World War II, the Nazis sent Mrs. Schwartz, her husband, Joseph, and the six children they had at the time to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.[...]

With so many children, Mrs. Schwartz had to make six loaves of challah for every Sabbath, using 12 pounds of dough — in later years, she was aided by Kitchenaid or Hobart appliances. (Mrs. Mayer said her mother had weaknesses for modern conveniences, and for elegant head scarves.) For her children’s weddings, Mrs. Schwartz starched the tablecloths and baked the chocolate babkas and napoleons.

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Stanford University students Derrick Davis and Tom McFadden made this rap video about metabolism. It's called "Oxidate It or Love It/Electron to the Next One" and is a parody of 50 Cent's "Hate It or Love It" and Jay-Z's "On to the Next One."

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Mother Nature Network has a photo gallery of ten animals with very long lifespans, including the red sea urchin:

The red sea urchin or Strongylocentrotus franciscanus is found only in the Pacific Ocean, primarily along the West Coast of North America. It lives in shallow, sometimes rocky, waters from the low-tide line down to to 90 meters, but they stay out of extremely wavy areas. They crawl along the ocean floor using their spines as stilts. If you discover one, remember to respect your elders — some specimens are more than 200 years old.

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