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- Bionic Penguins And More
- Escape From North Korea
- Popular and Unique Soft Drinks From Around the World
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- Nerdiest Oven Mitt Ever: Bake It So!
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| Five Celebs Who Belong to Mensa (and one who doesn’t) Posted: 29 May 2009 07:41 PM PDT We all know them - the celebrities who are certainly pretty to look at but would probably be better off keeping their mouths shut lest they expose their stupidity. But they aren’t all that way - here are five famous people who are so smart they belong to Mensa, an international intelligence society that only lets people who score in the top two percentile of their approved intelligence tests (the Stanford-Binet is one, the Cattell is another). Translation: they’re really dang smart. Asia Carrera
Julie Peterson
James Woods
Geena Davis
Glenne Headly
Sharon Stone
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| Posted: 29 May 2009 07:40 PM PDT  I could spend hours looking at the unique creations of furniture and industrial designers. Here is a wonderful collection of twenty strange, unusual and modern design bookcases. My favorite is this ‘Round Sofa’ - which is yours? From the Upcoming
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| The World’s Weirdest Vending Machines Posted: 29 May 2009 07:17 PM PDT
 People buy the craziest things, especially when they come from a machine. Pictured is the Dog-o-matic, which will wash your dog while you wait.
Previously at Neatorama: Strange and Wonderful Vending Machines From the Upcoming
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| Posted: 29 May 2009 04:40 PM PDT Festo, has been shown here on Neatorama several times in the past and each time their robotics and bizarre creations blew our collective minds…our Neatorama Hivemind to be exact…but that’s a story for another time. In this video you’ll get to see creepy blue LED robotic penguins swimming about in a large pool. Also, you’ll see it’s more lighter cousin who probably is the envy of every penguin in being able to fly/float and much more in terms of various robotic creations. Really fascinating stuff! More info here - Link For older Neatorama Festo links: Festo's Upside-Down Hot Air Balloon
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| Posted: 29 May 2009 08:42 AM PDT
 The heavily guarded Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea is impossible to cross alive, so if you want to escape from North Korea, you have a better chance taking the more circuitous route of sneaking into China, and then slowly and cautiously making your way across the country to freedom in South Korea. But this route presents plenty of obstacles. Defectors have 2,000 miles of China to cross, and if they are discovered by Chinese police, they will be deported in handcuffs and chains back to North Korea, where they will spend 10 years doing hard labor in a prison camp. Writer Tom O’Neill went undercover to meet some of these North Korea defectors hiding in China, and reported their stories (with names & escape routes changed) in this article in the February issue of National Geographic. Some 50,000 North Korean escapees are thought to be hiding in China, many of them virtual prisoners of exploitative employers who can blow the whistle on them at any time if they protest. Many of them never make it to South Korea. From the Upcoming
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| Popular and Unique Soft Drinks From Around the World Posted: 29 May 2009 08:39 AM PDT
 I’ve never had fungus tea, the cloudy juice left from the fermentation process of kimchee, or fermented dandelion and burdock roots, but I would be willing to try it. Some look downright tasty, like the cinnamon aroma of Guaraná Jesus from Brazil, or the ice cream soda from Pakistan, Pakola.
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| Nerdiest Oven Mitt Ever: Bake It So! Posted: 29 May 2009 05:53 AM PDT Crafster user Bethany Joyce came up with what has got to be the geekiest oven mitt ever, combining Star Trek and a love for baking. Behold, the Bake It So oven mitt. Link | More Star Trek Crafts at this Crafster post Similarly, over at Neatorama’s Online Store: Pac-Man HotHead Ove Mitt
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| Scrabble Board Game Photo Frame Posted: 29 May 2009 05:52 AM PDT |
| Posted: 29 May 2009 05:51 AM PDT Is the swine flu hysteria over yet? Here’s a clever poster by Work for Food reminding you to keep calm and carry on: Link - via BB-Blog Similarly, in Neatorama’s Online Shop: Swine Flu: Bacon’s Revenge T-shirt
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| Deforestation of the Amazon from 2000-2008 Posted: 29 May 2009 05:26 AM PDT
 NASA’s Earth Observatory has some amazing satellite photos of the deforestation of the Amazonian rainforest over the past 8 years. At the link, click on the years posted below the picture to see the progression.
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| 15 Most Alien Looking Caterpillars on Earth Posted: 29 May 2009 05:22 AM PDT  Caterpillars are more vulnerable to predators than their later butterfly stage, so many have developed scary appearances for protection. These can scare anyone!
(image credit: Flickr user Thrillseekr) From the Upcoming
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| Posted: 29 May 2009 05:19 AM PDT  "The place is like a museum. It’s very beautiful and very cold, and you’re not allowed to touch anything."~ Ferris Bueller The home that once served as the set for Ferris’ friend Cameron’s home, in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, is for sale. You can refresh your memory by watching this scene. The Ben Rose Home in Highland Park, Illinois, was designed by architects A. James Speyer and David Haid, and constructed in 1953. It is being listed by Sotheby’s for $2.3 million. More images are available here. From the Upcoming
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Some of you might be familiar with porn star Asia Carrera and some of you might not be. You don’t have to identify yourselves. But just because she’s in the pornography industry doesn’t mean she’s not smart. As a kid, she got grounded every time she got a “B” in school. Her grades and SAT scores were so high that she got a full ride to Rutgers, but turned to stripping to make some cash during school. She soon found her way into porn and became a big hit in the industry, but I bet you not many other big porn stars learned HTML so they could design and program their own website. Asia did. Her IQ, she says, has tested at 154 and 156.
Julie Peterson was the Playboy Playmate of the Month in February 1987, but she’s done a lot since then as well. For starters, she’s now Dr. Julie Peterson and has her own chiropractic practice now. For four years, she had a syndicated radio show for CNN called “Health Watch” that she produced, wrote and recorded. She’s an active member of The Society for Neuroscience. And, obviously, she’s a member of Mensa. But we might have guessed at her intelligence by her Playboy profile - her favorite books include Shibumi, Maia, Ramtha, and East of Eden. To compare, Anna Nicole Smith’s favorite authors were “The people who write my favorite soaps.” I know, I know, that’s not a very fair comparison.
If you go back way before James Woods was involved in film and television and check out his college and high school accomplishments, it's really no surprise that he is a member of MENSA. His SAT scores put mine to shame (and probably yours, too), coming in at 1580, including a perfect 800 in the verbal section. After high school he moved on to MIT, where he was planning on majoring in political science. He didn't quite make graduation, though – after joining the school's drama troupe and acting in and directing a number of plays, James decided to drop out of MIT just shy of graduation to jumpstart his acting career. “It was a very wrenching and painful decision for me–in my senior year at MIT, on high dean’s list and full scholarships–to decide that maybe I wanted to be an artist," he said. "Whether I’m making 30 grand a day or union scale, I have found something that I truly love, and that is something [my father] would have admired.” He dropped out of school in 1970 and just two years later he had his first major film role in Elia Kazan's The Visitors. He followed that up with The Way We Were the next year and hasn't really been hurting for roles ever since, so it looks like his decision to switch careers worked out.
It’s not enough that she’s gorgeous and a successful actress - Geena Davis is also an accomplished athlete and, yes, a Mensan. She’s fluent in Swedish and her I.Q. has been reported at about 140, which is on par with George Washington. OK, we obviously don’t know Washington’s I.Q. for a fact, but a study was conducted in the 1920s that estimated the intelligence quotient of a bunch of leaders and scholars from the past. And when you think about it, isn’t being the lead actress in Earth Girls Are Easy just as brilliant as developing and leading the United States? (I kid.)
Yep, Tess Trueheart is super smart. Glenne is another member of the multiple languages club - she’s fluent in French and Spanish. She’s probably pretty well versed in American Sign Language as well, because she studied it intensely for her role in Mr. Holland’s Opus. Also, this has nothing to do with her intelligence (or does it?), but she was married to John Malkovich for six years in the ’80s. I don’t know about you, but I never would have made that connection.
Despite popular belief, Sharon Stone is not a member of Mensa. After she started to get a reputation as a bubbly blonde, Sharon told reporters that she was so smart that she belonged to the society that only admits people who score in the top two percent of their intelligence test. She maintained the story until 2002, when Jim Blackstone, Mensa’s national marketing director, called her out. After admitting that she wasn’t actually a member, she claimed that she did, however, go to a Mensa school. Blackstone says that couldn’t be true either, because no Mensa schools have existed since the early 1960s - Stone was born in 1958. That’s not to say that she wouldn’t qualify for Mensa, Blackstone pointed out - she reportedly has an I.Q. of 156 (higher than Abraham Lincoln’s supposed score).
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