The winners have been announced for the 2017 Nature Photographer of the Year competition. The winner is Jayaprakash Joghee Bojan, who took this photograph of an orangutan in Borneo. The caption says,A male orangutan peer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/31/National-Geographics-2017-Nature-Photographer-of-the-Year/Dorkly posts some of the best geeky comic strips in the biz, and that's because their artists Julia Lepetit, JHALL, Andy Kluthe and George Rottkamp are geeks in real life so they know what they're joking about.And this y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/31/Dorklys-Best-Comics-Of-2017/(Image credit: Ches)Russian graffiti artist Evgeny Ches discovered other artists doing a new urban art form called "cellograffiti," in which the subject is painted on industrial-strength cellophane stretched between two...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/31/Cellograffiti-by-Ches/Actors often have a hard time maintaining their composure while filming death scenes, and DVD extras are full of BTS footage of actors cracking up after trying to keep it together until they've finished filming the scene...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/31/Hilarious-Bloopers-That-Happened-While-Filming-Death-Scenes/Residents of St. Petersburg, Russia, are dealing with snow, which is not unusual for the city, but the snow that feel on Tuesday was strangely blue. Parents were apprehensive about letting children play in it because the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/31/Dont-Eat-Blue-Snow/Every single state in the Union had its own state bird, state flower and state flag, but did you know they all have their own signature alcoholic beverage too?Well, except for those pesky dry states, where the state drin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/31/Drinking-Every-States-Most-Iconic-Alcoholic-Beverage/Magically Delicious by CharamathYou know how people say you don't want to see how the sausage is made or you may lose your appetite? Apparently the same goes for seeing how jelly beans, fruit loops and other rainbow-c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/31/Magically-Delicious-Steaming-Piles-Of-Deliciousness/The New Year holiday is an elaborate party to celebrate the hanging of a new calendar. But different traditions have grown around the celebration in different countries. For example, in Brazil you should dress all in whi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/31/10-of-the-Worlds-Most-Entertaining-New-Years-Customs/Ask anyone to quote their favorite lines from movies and TV shows and they'll hit you with all kinds of lines like "Say hello to my little friend!", "Keep the change, you filthy animals!" and "I'll be back!".But do you k...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/31/Movie-And-TV-Lines-Nobody-Ever-Says-In-Real-Life/New Year's Eve is the one occasion where you might feel an obligation to party. Everyone else is celebrating, and it may be the only opportunity to let your hair down for a long time. It doesn't always turn out how you e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/31/Tips-for-a-Fun-New-Years-Eve/A few years ago, a group of 12 Star Wars fans held a serious discussion on Twitter about the socioeconomic conditions on Tattooine. It is the home planet of both Anakin and Luke Skywalker, full of sand and senti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/31/The-Peoples-History-of-Tattooine/Paint can radically transform the look of a building, brightening and cleaning it up by covering all the cracks and imperfections to make it look almost new again.And, as the French street art duo Blesea and Baby K have...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/31/Graffiti-Artists-Transform-Blockhouse-Into-Shenron-From-Dragon-Ball/In 1986, Waldemar Anguita acquired a patent for a helmet with cactuses inside. The idea behind the greenhouse helmet is quite reasonable, but the execution leaves much to be desired. From the description:A principle obje...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/31/The-Greenhouse-Helmet/All animals sleep, although we really don't know why. We have several theories, but there is no consensus on the matter. Animals don't all sleep the same way. Elephants sleep only a few minutes at a time, while cats slee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/30/How-The-Animal-Kingdom-Sleeps/On stage and in silent films, appearance was everything. Costumes became bigger and bolder to be seen from the back row, and in the 1920s they were influenced by early science fiction. A gallery of outrageous stage and s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/30/Style-Inspired-by-the-Queen-of-Mars/The Pet Collective has issued their retrospective of the best pet videos of 2017. These aren't just dogs and cats, either (although there are dogs and cats). Enjoy watching raccoons, foxes, geckos, hamsters, ferrets, bir...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/30/The-Best-Pet-Videos-of-2017/Many companies keep secrets they expect their employees to keep as well, even after they've left the company, but unless the employee signed a non-disclosure agreement they're under no obligation to keep those company se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/30/Company-Secrets-Ex-Employees-Are-Not-Supposed-To-Share/Goddess of Death by ddjvigoComing face-to-face with a goddess can be terrifying, but meeting Hela the goddesss of death is enough to make even the mighty Thor soil his shorts! Hela had a bone to pick with her father Odi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/30/Goddess-Of-Death-Shes-Back-And-Shes-Badder-Than-Ever/Are you starting to make your New Year resolutions? Remember, the secret to success is to keep your standards and expectations very low. After all, you can't fail if you don't try! Also, it helps to go with what's always...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/30/A-New-Years-Winning-Streak/NOW: The Blackpool Tower still remains but the ferris wheel has been replaced with other attractions in the present day.English society has changed dramatically since the Victorian era, and if someone from that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/30/Beautiful-Victorian-Postcards-Show-How-Little-UK-Landmarks-Have-Changed-Over-The-Last-180-Years/You may start watching this thinking that they are lip-synching to a record, but no, this woman's voice is just that good. And at the end of an all-night wedding reception. [https://youtu.be/1oFQ76ctfS0] (You...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/30/The-Rattlin-Bog/(Image Link)New parents often ask more experienced parents for advice on how to cope with the trials and tribulations of raising a kid, and no matter how much you prepare before your kid is born there's always more to le...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/30/A-Cool-Collection-Of-Clever-Parenting-Tips-And-Tricks/Redditor jorgeadguez is a special events photographer. He let us in on some of the magic that goes on behind a spectacular portrait. He's the one on the ground, making the magic work through effort and experience. The ti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/30/The-Magic-of-Photography/Cats are strictly individual in their eating habits. One cat will gobble everything in a hurry while another nibbles slowly. Still another turns his nose up to salmon because it's not tuna, then eats a spider just for th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/30/Simons-Cats-Guide-to-Cats-Eating-Habits/I Love Mondays by Hillary WhiteWe look forward to the future while thinking about how far we've come with each New Year , and we all look forward to having a fresh start of sorts and leaving the bad of the past year behi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/30/Start-The-New-Year-Off-Right-With-A-New-Tee-Or-Hoodie-From-The-NeatoShop/He goes by Dobby Cat on Facebook because he looks so much like the Harry Potter character, but his real name is Teddy. Teddy is an oriental shorthair who lives in a household with three other cats of the same br...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/30/Meet-Dobby-Cat/Like any kid reading comic books, you've probably wondered at one time or another where your favorite superheroes go when they have to go. Kerry Callen (previously at Neatorama) gives us a short tour of the urinals used...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/29/Urinals-of-the-Justice-League/It's been two weeks since the newest Star Wars movie hit theaters -is it too soon to post a LEGO scene from The Last Jedi? If you are trying to avoid spoilers, don't watch this video. But if you haven't...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/29/The-Last-Jedi-Throne-Room-Scene-in-LEGO/Things That Go Bump In The Night by BiotwistWhenever horror movies talk about "things that go bump in the night" they make those things sound so ominous and scary, but what if all that bumping we hear is just monsters...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/29/Things-That-Go-Bump-In-The-Night-Good-Clean-Scary-Fun/When American Colonists threw boxes of tea into Boston Harbor in 1773, they were protesting taxation without representation. But you might be surprised to learn that the tea they dumped would have been worth about $2 mil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/29/When-Whimsical-Anti-Theft-Tea-Caddies-Protected-the-Worlds-Most-Precious-Leaf/
