Every year The New York Times editors look back in their rearview mirror and pull out "the most clever, important, silly and just plain weird innovations we carried back from all corners of the thinking world."  I have missed a bunch of them this year and haven't heard about them until now. For example, did you know cows with names make more milk? Didn't think so.

Here are some of my favorites:

1. Cows With Names Make More Milk
2. The Glow-in-the-Dark Dog
3. Massively Collaborative Mathematics
4. Advertisement That Watches You, The
5. Artificial Car Noise

Here is the entire list. Certainly worth spending some time reading all of them.