It's time for our weekly update from Sift parter Neatorama.com. There are too many great stories to just select a handful. Check out not only the neat stories
below but lots of great stories at Neatorama (including material to submit to the Sift .


George Washington’s Boyhood Home has been Found

Excavations at Ferry Farm in Virginia have turned up the foundation of George Washington’s boyhood home. Half a million artifacts have been uncovered and are being studied for clues about Washington’s early life. ...

The Origins of Your Favorite Muppets

Many of the Muppet characters were inspired by real people or other fictional characters. Some Muppets changed over time as they became viewer favorites. Read the stories behind ten of them...

Satellite Imagery as Art

Satellites take pictures of the earth for mapping, weather, science, and security. Art is a low priority when you’ve spend this much money to launch the camera! But the earth is a beautiful place, and the pictures sometimes are works of art....

Translucent Ocean Creatures

This. Is. So. Very. Cool! Just the kind of things you expect from the good folks at NatGeo … here’s a very neat photo gallery of translucent sea creatures...

Nike’s New “Air McFly” Sneakers


Can it possibly be? Is Nike finally making the ubercool sneakers that Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future II?

Last year, Neatorama teamed up with the Michael and Charles Maloof of The Official McFly 2015 Project to, um, … nudge Nike to make the sneakers worn by Michael J. Fox in the 1989 film Back to the Future.

It seemed that the grassroots campaign worked...