A seventh-grader in California has collaborated with her grandfather to produce a genealogical chart demonstrating that Barack Obama is related to all previous United States presidents (except for Martin Van Buren).Â...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/descent-from-antiquity-genetic-trivia-or-a-profound-truth/Seeing-eye dogs, police dogs, and cutting horses: they have nothing on these unexpected employable animals. Some animals have very dangerous jobs. Well, certainly more dangerous than mine!Since the late 1950s the U.S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/unexpected-employable-animals/Money is the Root of All Evil - $11.95You've heard the common saying "Money is the root of all evil," and now it's been conclusively proven with mathematical precision. From the Neatorama Shop: http://shop.neat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/money-is-the-root-of-all-evil-t-shirt/(YouTube Link) Darth Vader did not approve of how the conductor of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra was leading a performance of The Imperial March, so he stepped in to do the job himself. In the links, you'll fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/darth-vader-conducting-an-orchestras-performing-the-imperial-march/YouTube Link How do you liven up the Frankfurt Book Fair, and simultaneously get your company's name out there? Â Publisher Eichborn (with a fly as its logo) released 200 flies with lightweight banners, attached with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/fun-with-flies-in-frankfurt/So says Mathue Shell of Geekstir, who is (presumably) the creator of this photoshop. It's an adaptation of John Trumbull's 1795 painting "The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton", owned by th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/lightsabers-make-everything-cooler/(YouTube Link) This video is a promotional gimmick for the British rock band Kasabian. It begins with craftsmen creating enormous functional buttons on the wall of a London warehouse. These and additional visual e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/a-giant-version-of-guitar-hero-played-with-soccer-balls/In 2003, Wake Forest University students Nazila Alimohammadi and Anna Clark built this picnic table in the shape of the periodic table of elements. From a campus newspaper: The two women students created the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/periodic-pinic-table/UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock remembers sending the first message over the Internet 40 years ago this week; the first word sent host-to-host was supposed to be "login," but the receiving computer crashed after the first two l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/lo-the-internet-turns-40/(YouTube link) Professor Matthew Weathers went the extra mile for his math lecture Wednesday at Biola University. Who says math isn't fun? -via Cynical-CFunny, halloween, Video, math, college, lecture, mathematics, ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/halloween-math-lecture/Photo: KMO Studio This item has already sold on Etsy, but you can still see images of KMO Studio's enormous and detailed cut paper maps of all five boroughs of New York City. When the four sections are put together,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/detailed-cut-paper-maps-of-new-york-city/Photo: Scott Jarvie But I wouldn't suggest sitting in it -- it's an art piece rather than functional furniture. Scott Jarvie made the Clutch Chair out of 10,000 drinking straws after "a microscopic observation of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/a-chair-made-out-of-drinking-straws/Photo: Robonable This is Nissan's prototype for a personal mobility device. Just step on to the footpads and lean in the direction that you want to go: The device has two foot boards, both of which are balance...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/rolling-skis-as-a-personal-mobility-device/Photo: Stephen Alvarez / National GeographicNatGeo photographer Stephen Alvarez took this amazing shot of the Stephens Gap Cave in Alabama. As you can see, you'd need to rapel down the sunlit entrance to the left, or sim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/caves-of-the-deep-south/This has got to be the worst disguise ever: Carroll, Iowa police apprehended two men who decided to color their faces with permanent marker in order to disguise themselves!Police received a call Friday night that two...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/the-worst-disguise-ever-the-permanent-marker-disguise/Not getting enough sleep? If you live in West Virginia, there's a good chance that you're part of the 20% of the population who suffer from insomnia:West Virginians' lack of sleep was about double the national rate,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/30/sleepless-in-west-virginia/Every geek knows that "A" is for Apple, but I bet not many know that Apple had a "third founder" who gave up his stake for $800 (it would've been worth at least $17 billion today). Or that Cisco was named for S...
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