Imagine a scenario in which the Milky Way galaxy is full of alien civilizations that are advanced enough to travel and communicate with each other, but they don't pay any attention to us here on Earth. That idea can be f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/17/What-If-the-Milky-Way-Had-Thousands-of-Alien-Cultures/It's Barbiecue sauce! Get it?The Mattel and Heinz companies have secretly developed a Barbie-themed sauce in honor of the doll's 65th anniversary "after a huge public demand." It's a vegan mayonnaise that is tainted...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/17/Heinz-Inflicts-upon-the-World-a-Barbie-Flavored-Sauce/Travertine is a type of limestone that has become quite popular for home decorating because of the interesting natural patterns in it. Redditor Kidipadeli75 went to see the new travertine tiles his parents installed in t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/17/Could-There-Be-a-Neanderthal-in-Your-Bathroom-Tile/Young Cal Clifford has been obsessed with octopuses since he was two years old. By the time he was nine, his parents knew that it wasn't a passing fad and decided to get him a pet octopus. They procured Terrence, a two-s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/17/Terrence-the-Oklahoma-Octopus-and-Her-Many-Children/We all recall that memorable scene in the movie Happy Feet when all the young emperor penguins go to sea for the first time, driven by instinct. They are terrified, but eventually the first one jumps in, and let...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/16/Emperor-Penguins-Introduced-to-the-Sea-the-Hard-Way/An archaeological excavation of a Viking burial ground in Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea, revealed three adult women who had a feature not seen in Viking graves- skulls that had been shaped to produce a long...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/16/The-Viking-Women-with-Elongated-Skulls/The literal translation of tegelwippen is "tile wiping." In this context, it means getting rid of tiles. See, most homes in Dutch cities have their yard covered with tiles to make a patio. This makes lawn care e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/16/The-Latest-Dutch-Craze-Tegelwippen/Al Condominio, a restaurant that opened last month in Verona, Italy, would like for its patrons to fully enjoy the social aspects of public dining. This requires putting away phones and, hopefully, talking to other human...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/16/This-Restaurant-Offers-Free-Wine-if-You-Put-Away-Your-Phone/Would you like to smell like McDonald's French fries? The company clearly thinks so and is marketing its smell broadly, including, most recently, branded perfume. It's also counting on the smell of its food to be so reco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/16/McDonalds-Erects-Billboards-That-Smell-Like-French-Fries/In the early 1960s, an American adventurer named Burt Kerr Todd fell in love the with the isolated and impoverished Himalayan nation of Bhutan. He wanted to help the nation economically develop and so proposed that the k...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/16/Bhutan-Produced-Stamps-That-Were-Functional-Records/Disney Parks are going full Star Wars with a new line of Star Wars-themed food and drink items launching on Star Wars Day, which is, of course, May the 4th. The new items aren't limited to Gala...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/15/Weird-New-Star-Wars-Food-Coming-to-Disney-Parks/Remember a video from a few months ago in which different species of birds raced to show us how fast they can go? Red Side has made the same type of video for terrestrial animals. They are all shown moving at their speci...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/15/An-Animated-Comparison-of-Animals-in-a-Hurry/There are many thousands of caves that nature carved into the limestone of France. Neanderthals found shelter in them a half-million years ago, and later Homo sapiens did the same. In fact, people lived in those...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/15/The-Cave-Villages-of-France/In February, the US Patent Office granted Craig Wallace Coulter rights for this design for a unique version of the classic game. It consists of two 8x8 boards next to each other and wrapped around a cylinder. Four c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/15/Chess-Played-on-a-Cylinder/When I was in school, history class was about the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II, every other year until the sixth grade, when we spent a year studying World War II because my teacher's husband fought...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/14/How-Different-Nations-Teach-About-World-War-II/We all know at least one person who can magically find their way through an unfamiliar city, and at least one person who get hopelessly lost every time they leave familiar territory. Maybe you are one of those folks. Are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/14/Why-Some-People-Can-Navigate-the-World-While-Others-Get-Lost/Aalish started finding flowers that had been left in her home, or near the door. A secret admirer? Her partner didn't know what she was talking about, so it was a mystery until she caught a stray cat in the act of bringi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/14/Cat-Shows-Her-Love-Language-Flowers/Antarctica doesn't get a lot of fires, but it's the windiest and driest continent in the world and thus fires are always a potential source of danger. Given the extreme weather conditions of the place, it's necessary tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/14/Firefighting-in-Antarctica/John Albert Thompson emigrated from Norway and eventually made his way out to the western US during the Gold Rush, where he was a subcontractor for the postal service for 20 years. Thompson was called "The Viking of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/13/The-Mailman-with-a-100-Mile-Route/The latest video from Action Lab gave me new things to think about. Somehow I missed the fact that astronauts on the International Space Station are now drinking out of cups instead of squeeze bottles with straws. How do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/13/How-Astronauts-Drink-From-Cups-in-Space/Scientists have long been fully aware that Uranus is filled with gas -- a lot of gas. But exploring deeper inside reveals more. Live Science reports that a recently published study describes a mushy substance de...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/13/Scientists-Find-Something-Deep-inside-Uranus/Normally competitive jujitsu takes place in a gym on a mat or an otherwise fairly open space. But car jitsu contests take place entirely within the confines of a car. One competitor must compel the other to submit. There...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/13/Car-Jitsu-Is-Jujitsu-That-Takes-Place-inside-a-Car/You meet someone new, and if you are an American, one of your first questions is what do they do for a living. If it's something that sounds really cool, you might be jealous. But if all you know of that profession is wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/13/Work-Secrets-of-What-Sounds-Like-a-Dream-Job/What do you do when your cat wails as if the world is going to end? Get the camera, capture a video, and go viral! Maybe you'll end up in a remix and indeed become a star. Meanwhile, ahem, your cat is lonely. An orange c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/12/Cat-Sings-I-Go-Meow-with-The-Kiffess/Writing out HELP or SOS while stranded on a desert island is such a cliche that it has its own TV Tropes page. The US Coast Guard says that it actually happened when, on Tuesday, it rescued three men who...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/12/Desert-Island-Castaways-Spell-HELP-to-Get-Rescued/In 1978, Patrick Moriarty was in his first year of teaching science to ninth graders. He told them that there would be a solar eclipse across their location in Upstate New York on April 8, 2024. Moriarty proposed that th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/12/Teacher-Meets-with-Students-after-46-Years-to-Watch-the-Eclipse-Together/Death Comes Lifting is a unique gym in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The decor, ambiance, and even the fitness routines reflect a fascination with the macabre. People don't so much join as members so much as enlist in an arm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/12/Death-Comes-Lifting-A-Horror-Themed-Gym/The 30-year hunt to find the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus: ‘My jaw was on the ground’ https://t.co/RNqgnPdmKm— The Guardian (@guardian) April 11, 2024 The 1994 Australian movie The Adventur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/12/Queen-Priscilla-Found-30-Years-Later/Curb Your Enthusiasm wrapped up twelve seasons with the series finale last Sunday night. The episode, entitled "No Lessons Learned" was a callback to the 1998 Seinfeld finale, which David wrote. The *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/12/How-Legally-Realistic-Was-the-iCurb-Your-Enthusiasmi-Finale/A group of biologists from the Thackeray Wildlife Foundation in the field in Tamil Nadu, India, have discovered a new species of gecko with a unique look. The male of the species is dark blue with light blue spots on its...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/11/New-Species-of-Gecko-Named-for-Vincent-Van-Gogh/
