Food Inc. didn't win Best Documentary this year, but its message is clear: farming in America is not what it used to be. Thankfully, the passion for farming for a living, and doing it right, still motivates some...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/10/the-nolan-family-dairy-farm/In 1934, electrician and hobbyist Frank Skroback built the first airplane that could be driven on a road. Or the first car that could be flown. It has six wings and an overall width of seven feet, so it can fit ins...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/10/oldest-flying-car-up-for-auction/Doctors told Belinda Waite of Bampton, UK that she had Irritable Bowel Syndrome. After she went into labor and three hours before her daughter was born, Waite was informed that she was instead pregnant: Miss Wait...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/10/woman-gives-birth-three-hours-after-learning-that-she-is-pregnant/(YouTube Link) The comedy duo BriTaNick created this trailer for a hypothetical movie that would be guaranteed to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. All of the dialogue is replaced with common movie tropes....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/10/epic-movie-trailer/The Inverse Graphing Calculator takes words and converts them into equations that would express them graphically: The Inverse Graphing Calculator (version beta-1) is like a backwards graphing calculator. Normally,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/10/inverse-graphing-calculator/Artist Chris Domino made this cuckoo clock inspired by the horror movie The Shining. Every hour on the hour, Jack Nicholson's head pokes through the door and says "Here's Johnny!" Then the Shelly Duval fig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/10/the-shining-cuckoo-clock/We're going to be running a FUN contest over on our Facebook page this coming Friday! You won't find it here on the blog, just on the Facebook page. So if you haven't yet, please become a Neatoramanaut Fan now: www.F...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/10/the-nerdfighterneatoramanaut-facebook-fan-page-contest/Michelle Bese of Salida, Colorado was sitting at the table with her five-year-old while her other child slept in another room. One her five dogs came in through the dog door and was followed by a cougar! Bese grabbed her...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/10/mountain-lion-invades-home/In the opening sequence of the Academy Award-winning film The Hurt Locker, a soldier wears an explosive ordnance disposal (OED) suit pretty close to the spot where a bomb goes off. Can a soldier survive such an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/10/how-bomb-proof-suits-work/The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) were volunteers who learned to fly during World War II to supplement the US military, which was suffering from a shortage of pilots. A few more than 1,100 young women, all...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/10/the-original-fly-girls/(YouTube link) Teddy bears attempt to cross a busy street. Another gem from the incomprehensible but fertile mind of Cyriak. Link to artist's website. -via Arbroathteddy bears, animation, cyriak...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/10/cycles/Someone has taken scenes from the Battlestar Galactica science fiction series and used these to recreate the music video for the song Sabotage by Beastie Boys. You can also watch both videos side by side at YouTub...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/10/battlestar-sabotage/In 1556, a man calling himself 'Martin Guerre' had returned to his home village after disappearing without a trace for several years. He lived with Guerre's wife and son for three years. But he was not Guerre.On Sep...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/10/the-two-faces-of-martin-guerre/There has been a rash of corporate scandals and greed over the past decade, but it is hardly new. Here are a few financial scandals that made news long before Enron and Worldcom.Back in 1864, Credit Mobilier wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/10/5-financial-scandals-long-before-enron/
