We have all seen heist thriller films and most of the time, they are just a ragtag group of individuals who are trying to scrap some cash to get by the next couple of months. They have families to feed and they f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/Metal-Thieves-Pull-Off-100-Ton-Heist-in-Rotterdam/It’s not surprising that the world is a dirty place full of millions of bacteria. What may come as a surprise, though, is what the dirtiest items in your house and in public are! After you read this list, you might...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/The-Dirtiest-Things-You-Touch-Every-Day/Things happen all the time which we don't have any control over and all we can do is hope and pray that something or someone will come out to help us. Two fishermen set out to sail from the coasts of Costa Rica...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/A-Christmas-Miracle-How-A-Cruise-Ship-Saved-Stranded-Sailors-At-Sea/September is most common month for birthdays, and if you count backwards from there, you may think, oh yeah, holiday celebrations and alcohol, long nights and cold weather, sure. That's the conventional wisdom, but Septe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/Why-More-Babies-Are-Conceived-in-the-Cold-Winter-Months/"Auld Lang Syne" is sung or played at New Year's celebrations, but the traditional tune is used around the world for other purposes. The original is Scottish, and few of us know the original words -or even the modern Eng...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/The-New-Years-Song-Explained/The Atlantic has been around a long time. To end 2018, the website is looking back at magazine articles they published 50, 100, and 150 years ago. These include coverage of the Vietnam War protests, the Bolshevik Revolut...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/News-of-the-Past/You might not remember much else about grade school or high school, but you will never forget that time a teacher told the class something that was so obviously wrong that your jaw dropped, even though you were just a ki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/Hilariously-Incorrect-Things-Teachers-Have-Said/It is a custom during special events such as weddings and holiday parties to raise a toast. We think of it as a bonding ritual to drink in hunison. But why is it called a "toast'? There's more than one theory about this,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/Toasting-Your-Friends-Once-Involved-Actual-Toast/I don't know about other families but usually, children are told to do chores so that they can help out their parents at home, and this is done without compensation. Children do it because it would be the least t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/Should-We-Pay-Our-Kids-To-Do-Chores/Just a month or so after the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York City will have one more sight for people to revel at and look forward to, and that is New Year's at Times Square. Spenser Mestel of The New Yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/Celebrating-New-Year-s-in-Times-Square-The-3-000-lb-Confetti-Drop/Is this another plot to stop the truth from getting out? This year has been plagued with so much controversy regarding alternative facts and fake news, and attacks against the free press that it's not even surpri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/An-LA-Times-Printing-Plant-Suffered-Malware-Attack-Delaying-Distributions-of-Several-US-Newspapers/Frames of Reference is a 1960 educational film that was made to be shown in high school physics courses. It features professors Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey of the University of Toronto who illustrate various p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/Frames-of-Reference-1960-Probably-The-Most-Fun-Physics-Lecture-You-ll-Ever-See/Just two days after Colin O'Brady finished his solo ski adventure across Antarctica, British explorer Louis Rudd has also made it toward the end line. >Concluding the most epic polar competition since Roald A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/Louis-Rudd-Second-Person-To-Complete-Antarctic-Trek/It might seem like a no-brainer for us to think that parents who are more involved in their children's lives would positively affect their growth and development. But there have been several studies that show the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/The-Father-Effect-Why-We-Need-Dads-To-Be-More-Engaged-and-Involved-With-Child-Rearing/Let us try to explore how stars and planets form with this [interactive display that NASA's Elizabeth Landau had created](https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/life-and-death/chapter-2/) to show us how our world and other...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/An-Interactive-Online-Gallery-about-the-Life-and-Death-of-a-Planetary-System/We've seen a few year-end movie compilations, but we can make room for one more when it's done by LEGO minifigs! And the movies in this video by Toscano Bricks aren't the critics choices; they are the ones with visually...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/2018-Movies-in-Lego/His name is Clark and his father raised him to be a savior to humanity. He possesses superhuman strength and finely tuned senses. He is the world’s greatest detective, an inventor, chemist, surgeon and mart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/The-Most-Famous-Superhero-You-ve-Never-Heard-Of/This year, there were several studies and researches that have been conducted in the medical field that might give a lot of us a fighting chance and hope to live. [The BBC has compiled a list of all the breakthro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/Looking-Back-at-2018-A-Year-of-Medical-Breakthroughs/Have you, at some point, thought that the holidays have all been excessively commercialized, losing the true meaning of why we even celebrate it? Have you become disillusioned with people simply making Christmas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/Since-the-19th-Century-People-Have-Complained-That-Christmas-Has-Been-Too-Commercialized/Remember our posts about people afraid of being buried alive, and the devices they invented to prevent that? Here, a poor soul rings a bell from his grave, but no one will ever hear him above ground. This automaton sculp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/31/The-Eerie-Automaton-Sculptures-of-Jamie-Winn/The Thinking Machine was the creation of American novelist Jacques Futrelle, one of numerous 'detective' characters inspired during the early Twentieth Century by the popularity of Arthur Conan Doyle's master det...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/30/The-Thinking-Machine/Anne Grimston was a wealthy women, the daughter of an Earl, and lived and died in Hertfordshire, England over 300 years ago. Yet it was what happened after her death that made her more famous than anything that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/30/The-Grave-of-Lady-Anne-Grimston/Mika here knows what he is doing, and knew that he only had one day in which conditions were ripe for running across Ukkijärvi Lake in Kangasala, Finland. According to the YouTube description, the lake is relatively...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/30/How-to-Walk-on-Water/Irene Kuzemko grew up in Ukraine and Russia and had medical tests done when she did not go through normal puberty. That was followed by surgery that she was vaguely told was related to cancer. Kuzemko suffered depression...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/30/She-Only-Discovered-She-Was-Intersex-After-Watching-A-Viral-Video/Our survival instinct is what has kept us going through millennia. No matter what difficult situation we may face or what unexpected obstacles we experience in our journey through life, the human spirit has prove...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/30/Harrowing-Tales-of-How-People-Survived-What-Would-We-Do-Just-To-Survive/For several decades now, one of the buzz words in the medical field has been 'stem cell'. It has been said to aid in treating illnesses like multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/30/A-Closer-Look-At-What-A-Stem-Cell-Is-Our-Cells-Diverse-Regenerative-Capabilities/Queen has released a 43-minute video showing a compilation of performances during their early career in the 1970s. Clips from different concerts include "Liar," "Killer Queen," "Keep Yourself Alive," "Don’t Stop Me...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/30/Queen-In-The-70s/Fruits are living things, but they don't move. They aren't even a whole plant. But what if they did move? Might they resemble some other things that move? Jan Elsner created the animated video ÖBST as a personal pro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/30/How-Would-Fruits-Move-if-They-Could/When Grim Natwick first drew the character that became Betty Boop for Fleischer Studios, a song made popular by Helen Kane was the direct inspiration. Kane had made a career with her high voice, big eyes, and the "boop-b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/30/Tracing-the-Real-Betty-Boop-back-to-a-Notorious-Bootleggers-Club-in-1920s-Harlem/Norwegian artist Caroline Eriksson just finished an epic sculpture of the xenomorph queen from Alien, made of gingerbread! In the reddit thread, she explains that the sculpture is built over an iron structure, h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/29/Gingerbread-Xenomorph/
