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/Embed from Getty ImagesBritain has an awful lot of stone circles, but Stonehenge stands head and shoulders above them all, not just for its size, but for its mysterious origins. Other British circles are constructed wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/25/The-Long-Distance-Stones-of-Stonehenge/One of the great things about having children or pets is that they give you an excuse to play with toys and build things. Making videos for YouTube is another great excuse. Half-Asleep Chris takes full advantage of this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/25/Comparing-Ten-Different-Types-of-Cat-Forts/Airports are huge, and provide many services for millions of people every day. You could spend quite a bit of time in one if you had to, and many of us have spent more time there than we wanted to. You may be familiar wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/24/Why-Would-Someone-Choose-to-Live-in-an-Airport/Joseph Hersher of Joseph's Machines (previously at Neatorama) is known for making super elaborate Rube Goldberg contraptions that perform everyday tasks. This one is quite elaborate, but there's no "everyday" about it. H...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/24/LEGO-Mario-Kart-Navigates-Real-Life-Game-Obstacles/The British Antarctic Survey has been conducting studies of the ice covering Antarctica for decades, and have now released the most accurate map yet showing what the bedrock is like underneath the ice. With 27 million cu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/23/What-Antarctica-Looks-Like-Without-All-That-Ice/Any opportunity to own a home in California for less than a half a million dollars is quite rare indeed, but this one is special. Sure, it's away from the cities, but that means less light pollution for your astronomical...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/23/A-Home-That-Strives-To-Be-Out-of-This-World/It's hard to say whether the website Learn the World Map is a game, quiz, or just a learning opportunity, but it's fun, and will suck up quite a bit of your time. It made me feel good to know I can locate so many countri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/23/Challenge-Yourself-to-Learn-the-World-Map/You've heard the advice about taking care of your household stuff: If it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40. That's why every home has both. We've covered the history of du...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/22/The-History-of-the-Miracle-Liquid-Known-as-WD-40/An awful lot of our science fiction stories depend on the ability to use deadly weapons in space, but we never let things like physics and reality spoil a good story. Meanwhile, space scientists and engineers are always...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/22/Can-You-Shoot-a-Gun-in-Space/In the 2000 movie American Psycho, Patrick Bateman and a few colleagues pull out their business cards and compare them. The scene sets up the characters as a collection of empty suits who are bent on one-upmansh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/21/The-Business-Cards-in-iAmerican-Psychoi-Werent-All-That-Special/Yes, the sharktopus is a ridiculous fantasy creature from the movies, but strange things can happen between two very different species in real life, too. Do you recall the picture of a weasel riding on the back of a flyi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/21/A-Sort-of-Sharktopus-Spotted-in-Nature/Every war gives us horrific casualties and medical advances. In World War I, doctors were able to save many soldiers whose faces were permanently disfigured, which led to breakthroughs in plastic surgery pioneered by Dr....
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/21/Facial-Restoration-by-Hidden-Heroine-Anna-Coleman-Ladd/Perception is the way we experience the world. Our perception is made up of the signals that come into our bodies through our eyes, ears, and other sensory organs, but is also made up of our brain's interpretation of tho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/20/What-Your-Brain-Does-to-Reality/
