*Bonus Post: The Life and Times of (The Great) Jebediah Nephelo

Jebediah Nephelo (J-Neph to his friends), famed inventor of the Nephelometric Turbidity Unit, was born to Sally and Gregory Nephelo, poor cattle ranchers in North Texas in the year 1931. It was a hard, but simple life, and he grew into a strong boy, passing the time wrestling bears and learning the finer points of advanced water chemistry. Once, just to prove he could, he built a functioning spectromoter from nothing but bendy straws, 7 paper clips, a pound of concrete, and half a pound of copper. He was also renowned for his physical strength, and was famous for his ability to bench press a small car. By the age of 14 he had become disillusioned with the country life and set out on his own. He enrolled in UC-Berkeley at just 15 and had completed his first doctorate in just 18 months. Finding the academic life droll, but somewhat too simple for him, he made his mark on society with his studies in limnology- inventing his own method for measuring turbidity while monitoring fish populations in the boundary waters. The Nephelometric Turbidity Unit has since become the standard unit for classifying turbid waters worldwide. Retiring from professional work to pursue his personal interest of obscure extreme sports accomplishments, he became the first person to climb Mt. Everest walking entirely on his hands, the world record holder for the 30kg midget toss (later renamed the 30 kg little person toss) at 37.6 meters, and the only person to hike across the Andes blindfolded. An all around great man, Jebediah died a hero at the age of 73 trying to single-handedly stop a flaming school bus from falling of a cliff in South America (he was able to save all but three of the children before the weight and the flames proved too much for even him).