Last December we showed you the teaser for James Gunn's Superman, which will open in theaters on July 11. We were quite delighted to see that this Superman film shows the heroics of Krypto the Superdog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/06/Krypto-is-Superdog-But-Hes-Still-a-Dog/Does your country have more immigrants or emigrants? Immigrants are people who move in from another nation, while emigrants are people born in a country and then move out. Brilliant Maps crunched the numbers for all the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/06/The-Countries-That-People-Are-Moving-Into-and-Out-Of/Churches are built as an act of faith and worship, but some builders also know the value of novelty. If you can get people to come and visit out of curiosity, they may stay for worship. That's not the only reason some ch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/06/Seven-of-the-Worlds-Most-Unusual-Churches/Starting in the 1960s, Richard Scarry set a standard for the adult world in his Busytown books. These manuals taught children what to expect when they became independent, working adults in the world outside of their home...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/06/Richard-Scarrys-Cheese-Car-as-a-Toy/It shouldn't surprise us that records of money and court cases are so often prioritized over records of human lives, which is the case of Eulalie Mandeville. No documented records of her life exist outside of the three-y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/05/An-Inheritance-Fight-Told-Through-Court-Records/The Soviet Union had, on a small scale, a domestic production of video and arcade games. Tetris, is, of course, the most famous Soviet video game, if not the most successful cultural export of the Soviet Union. Many of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/05/This-Soviet-Arcade-Game-Simulated-Pulling-up-Turnips/You've heard the phrase "don't think about an elephant." It is impossible to achieve, because the word elephant implants that concept in our heads, despite the word "don't" that we understand. Understanding that negative...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/05/Negation-A-Difficult-Language-Concept-We-All-Understand/Many British castles earn their maintenance costs by flaunting their ancient history. If a king once lived there, or a famous battle took place there, the more tourists that a castle will draw, even if it is in ruins. Ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/04/The-Legacy-of-the-Monty-Python-Castle/Passover, or Pesach, is April 12 through the 20th this year. The Jewish a cappella group Six13 (previously at Neatorama) has released their annual Passover pop parody song, and this one is set to the tune of "Ap...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/04/Put-a-Little-K-Pop-in-Your-Passover/Would you eat escargot-flavored ice cream? It might be a good way to prepare for your stay in Paris.The New York Post reports that EasyJet, a British discount airline, is offering snacks befitting the destinatio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/03/Airline-Offers-Snails-and-Garlic-Ice-Cream-to-Paris-Bound-Passengers/It's time to class up this shindig. Yes, a champagne fountain is nice, but it's also expensive and does not defeat the ennui of the modern party scene. But a pickle fountain will make sure that people talk about your par...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/03/Pickle-Fountains-Are-the-Ultimate-Party-Food-Presentation/Hello, Antarctica.Unlike previously anticipated, from 460 km above, it is only pure white, no human activity is visible. pic.twitter.com/i7JawFYzW2— Chun (@satofishi) April 2, 2025 Chung Yang, a billionaire inve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/03/For-the-First-Time-Humans-Have-Viewed-Antarctica-from-Space/In their What If? video series (previously at Neatorama), Randall Munroe of XKCD and Henry Reich of MinutePhysics look into wild theoretical questions from fans, no matter how stupid they are. Now, we know that the earth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/03/The-Earth-If-It-Were-Rotated-90/Which of Hayao Miyazaki's films is depicted above? Yes, it's Spirited Away!The palette of a film's most dominant colors can help us recognize it, sometimes instantly. NYC-based illustrator and graphic designer H...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/31/Can-You-Identify-This-Ghibli-Film-by-Its-Color-Palette/With all the medicines, remedies, and supplements available to cure what ails ya, the name Dr. Buckland’s Scotch Oats Essence stands out as being particularly benign and natural. What could be more wholesome for yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/30/Dr-Bucklands-Scotch-Oats-Essence-Was-Not-What-It-Seemed/It is a truth universally acknowledged that men, as a broad generalization, enjoy gazing upon the bosoms of fair maidens. Why is this so? One popular belief is that some cultures sexualize human breasts and thus impose l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/30/Psychologists-Wonder-Why-Men-Like-Looking-at-Breasts/The Grand Prize winner in the 22nd annual Smithsonian Photography Contest shows us a scene from a horror film, in which a giant praying mantis has won a battle against another of its species, having bitten its head off....
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/30/The-Winners-of-the-Smithsonians-Annual-Photography-Competition/The explosion of channels that came with cable TV more than 40 years ago meant that suddenly there were hundreds and hundreds of people on TV every day, working to fill those channels with 24/7 content. It only stands to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/29/Seven-Killers-Who-Appeared-on-TV-Before-They-Were-Caught/Embed from Getty ImagesThe 26 letters of the Latin alphabet have been around a long time and aren't liable to change anytime soon. The last letter was added to it around 400 years ago, but it's not Z, even though that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/29/The-Newest-Letter-in-Our-Alphabet/Laurence Brown of Lost in the Pond takes a look at the US map and addresses the quirks of state boundaries, namely those dangling rectangles that we call panhandles. These are even stranger than the squiggly lines of tho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/29/The-Mysteries-of-Americas-Geographical-Panhandles/Great Britain prosecuted many women for witchcraft under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. That act was actually a reformed version of earlier laws, making a claim of magical powers punishable by prison instead of death. Still...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/28/Winstin-Churchill-and-the-British-Witch-Trial-of-1944/Many people don't realize that William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Macbeth was inspired by a real king named Macbeth, or formally Macbethad mac Findláech. He was a Scottish king from 1040 until 1057...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/27/The-Real-King-That-Inspired-iMacbethi/Ross Island in Antarctica has a bus that transports people between the airport, McMurdo Station, and New Zealand’s Scott Base. But this is no ordinary bus. This transport vehicle is 46 feet long, and 12.5 feet wide...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/27/The-Adventures-of-Ivan-the-Terra-Bus/Candace Hicks works primarily with fabric arts, notably embroidery on canvas. Her use of this long-established medium is highly innovative as we see in her faux composition notebooks.They're not static images. You (or, b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/27/Embroidered-Composition-Notebooks-by-Candace-Hicks/What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings?I spent $250 in Kling credits and 9 hours re-editing the Fellowship trailer to bring that vision to life—and I’ll show you exactly how I did it 👇🏼 pic....
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/27/iThe-Lord-of-the-Ringsi-as-a-Studio-Ghibli-Film/When I heard a new record was set for the longest tail on a cat, I first thought about measuring my cat's tails, because they are pretty long. But when I got a glimpse of Pugsley Addams, I knew there was no point in doin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/27/New-World-Record-Set-for-Longest-Cat-Tail/In Buddhism, the word "buddha" means "enlightened one." Then there's the Buddha, a man named Siddhartha Gautama who was the founder and sacred embodiment of the religion. We honestly don't know many facts about...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/26/In-Search-of-Buddha-in-Lumbini-Nepal/When I read how this animated sequence was made, I was impressed. But is the finished product any good? Yeah, it's the story of a miniature man who must save his miniature puppy from an evil Roomba. Now for the technical...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/26/Motion-Capture-3d-Printing-and-Stop-Motion-Animation-All-in-One-Cartoon/You may or may not have heard the term squircle before, but if you are in the design business, you certainly already know that a squircle is a shape between a square and a circle. But that doesn't mean it's a square with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/26/Do-You-Know-What-A-Squircle-Is/When we go to another country, we often get recommendations for vaccinations that will protect us from diseases we don't worry about at home. It would be the same for time travelers, depending on what era of history they...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/25/Considering-the-Diseases-That-Would-Threaten-Time-Travelers/
