Robin Duska is a volunteer at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, working on cataloging the museum's bird specimens. She discovered a snow bunting labeled as being found on May 29, 1872, by Emil Bessels...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/24/Cold-Case-a-150-year-old-Suspected-Murder-in-the-Arctic/The comedy troupe Foil Arms and Hog portrays two suitcases moving along a baggage conveyor belt at an airport. This time it's just Foil and Hog, because suitcases don't have Arms. One is highly upset about an insult they...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/24/if-airport-baggage-could-speak/Lydia Faber and her husband live on a houseboat in Amsterdam. When they adopted a kitten named Nimis, they put him in a feline life jacket, because in some places, the city's canal walls are too steep for a kitten to cli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/24/Nimis-the-Police-Cat-of-Amsterdam/If you've ever had a small fly annoy you in the shower, you've met Clogmia albipunctata. It's a species of drain fly bigger than a fruit fly and smaller than a house fly. You might have wondered where that fly c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/23/What-You-Should-Know-About-Drain-Flies/Have you ever wondered how in the world audio artists like Bill McClintock and DJ Cummerbund make those marvelous song mashups out of very different songs from different genres? The secret is the chord progression. If tw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/23/This-is-How-to-Make-a-Song-Mashup/Americans in the early-to-mid 20th century developed a taste for salad that was actually dessert. It wasn't their fault that the manufacturers of Cool Whip, marshmallows, Jell-O, and pudding mix came up with recipes that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/23/The-Holidays-are-the-Time-for-a-Cloyingly-Sweet-Salad/As the saying goes, frog pizza is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. The Independent reports that this is an option at some Pizza Hut restaurants in China. The thick crust pizza is topped with a b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/23/Pizza-Hut-Offers-Frog-Pizza/Embed from Getty ImagesEvery year, Babycenter reveals the top names for new babies in the preceding year. How they do this is a bit of a mystery, since the definitive list from the Social Security Administration won't...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/22/Baby-Name-Trends-Didnt-Change-Much-in-2024/Television, before it was fractured into a million channels, was a great language leveler. In elementary school, I noticed that my classmates who did not have TVs couldn't shake their hillbilly accent, while those who wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/22/How-Television-Affects-Language-Acquisition/The Los Angeles Times published an account of a dragon attacking a Southern Pacific Railroad train crossing the Colorado Desert on its way to Los Angeles on January 17, 1882. The dragon resembled a snake with wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/22/The-Dragons-of-the-American-Frontier/Elle Cordova is a musician and comedian who specializes in one-woman sketches in which she personifies different objects. In the past, we've seen her conversation among different fonts. Most recently, she brings together...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/22/Designating-a-New-Legendary-Artifact/Hoyte van Hoytema, the cinematographer behind Her, Interstellar, Dunkirk, and Oppenheimer, brings to us this long-form narrative commercial for Volvo's XC90 SUV.The point is, of course...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/22/A-Moving-Car-Ad-about-Be-a-Parent/A levitating frog, a necrophiliac duck, taxi drivers’ brains — the Ig Nobel prizes have shined a spotlight on offbeat workHere’s an inside look at how winners feel about this sometimes unwanted &lsquo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/21/How-an-Ig-Nobel-Prize-Can-Change-a-Scientists-Life/To understand the context of this Letters Live performance, you need to know the cast of characters.Dr. Serge Voronoff transplanted glands from monkey testicles into human men in the 1920s, in order to "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/21/An-Irate-Letter-from-a-Chimpanzee-to-a-Scientist/for my last lunch in paris i went to a bistro where, at the end of your meal, they bring you card and a fountain pen to write yourself a letter which they will send in a year’s time 🤎 pic.twitter.com/h4hsahQub...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/21/The-Restaurant-That-Lets-You-Send-a-Letter-to-Your-Future-Self/Imagine you are a chemist, working hard to find a synthetic replacement for shellac. You mix some chemicals together and get a blob of gunk that's not liquid enough for your purpose. But instead of throwing it out, you f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/21/Laboratory-Accidents-That-Led-to-Unexpected-Inventions/Wouldn't it be nice to be as fashionable as a cop? Miami Vice was the hottest show on TV from 1984 to 1989. The series focused on two very stylish police officers fighting the war on drugs in the Art Deco neon g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/20/Miami-Vices-Galaxy-of-Guest-Stars/Memento mori translates from Latin to mean "remember that you will die." It alludes to a common artistic theme that began in the medieval period featuring skeletons and other symbols of death. To bring that idea in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/20/Memento-Movi-Tags-Your-Place-in-Life-with-Films/The science fiction drama Megalopolis was supposed to be Francis Ford Coppola's magnum opus. Coppola wrote, directed, and produced the movie using his own funds, to bring to life an idea he had been nursing sinc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/20/An-Honest-Trailer-for-Megalopolis/My family always made cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving by putting fresh cranberries and oranges through a grinder, and then adding sugar. My husband and his kids always bought canned cranberry sauce, served in slices, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/19/Jellied-Cranberry-Sauce-or-Freshly-Made-Why-Not-Both/Spock's death in The Wrath of Khan in 1982 featured an emotional scene between Spock and Captain Kirk. Then Spock was brought back to life in the next Star Trek film. That wasn't going to work when acto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/19/Kirk-and-Spock-in-an-Emotional-Goodbye/When the Statue of Liberty was unveiled in 1886, Matilda Gage shouted from a megaphone that it was a travesty to portray liberty as a woman when women didn't have the right to vote. Gage was part of the trio who launched...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/19/The-Suffragist-Who-Inspired-the-Powerful-Women-of-Oz/Cassowaries are scary birds. They are a part of the ecosystem of Australia, where the wildlife wants to kill you. These "murder turkeys" have five-inch claws, may grow up to six feet tall, can run at more than 30 mph, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/18/Cassowaries-Magnificent-Unpleasant-and-Somwetimes-Lethal/Frisk Me Good is a fashion designer who creates original and innovative outfits from other objects, such as bodysuits and corsets made from shoes.She is catching eyes with this bustier made out of tape measures. It's pri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/18/Bustier-Made-from-Tape-Measures/Embed from Getty ImagesMaria Victoria Kjær Theilvig was crowned Miss Universe Saturday night, the first woman from Denmark to wear the title. But as usual, those of us who missed the pageant only care about the s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/18/The-International-Costumes-of-the-2024-Miss-Universe-Pageant/Can cats see into the future? In this case, it may be a matter of a persistent cat making his destiny happen. Dudley had a home and a family who loved him, but when Jen Richardson and her husband moved into the neighborh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/18/Fluffy-Neighborhood-Cat-Pulls-the-Long-Con/This is driving me nuts. It’s from a Christmas set but I’m stumped byu/RbbyAick inwhatismycookiecutter A mystery cookie cutter is driving the subreddit What Is My Cookie Cutter insane. RbbyAick found this i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/17/The-Case-of-the-Curious-Christmas-Cookie-Cutter/Have you ever thrown a party that people talked about for years afterward? I once threw a going-away party for a co-worker who was temporarily living with me. I didn't invite anyone (she did), but before the night was ov...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/17/Seven-of-the-Wildest-Parties-in-History/An "almost perfectly preserved" saber-toothed cub has been unearthed in Russia's Sakha Republic, 35,000 years after it died. The cat is of the species Homotherium latidens, a distant relative of the more familia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/17/Remarkably-preserved-Saber-toothed-Kitten-Found-in-Siberia/Comedy duo Austin & Colin stopped shaving and went to the National Beard and Moustache Championships in Everett, Washington, a couple of weeks ago. They had a wonderful time as you can see in the video footage they s...
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