<p>Assigning household chores is deemed to be an essential component when it comes to child-rearing. However, it turns out that they may not help in improving children’s self-control, a new study publ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/Do-Household-Chores-Help-In-Children-s-Self-Control-Development/<p>Some 921 to 1,050 people sleep in public spaces like parks and unenclosed lobbies on any given night, a landmark study on homelessness in Singapore discovered. Most of these people are older men who slee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/About-1-000-People-Sleep-Rough-Every-Night-in-Singapore/<p>If you woke up on Thursday welcomed by a weird text message, you’re not alone. Overnight, a mysterious wave of missive swept America’s phones, and largely unintelligible messages were sent to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/A-Wave-of-Messages-Delivered-Months-Late/A new study finds that invasive grass species make wildfires more frequent in much of the United States. Bethany Bradley, a professor of environmental conservation at the University of Massachusetts, state that there are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/What-Makes-Wildfires-More-Frequent-in-the-U-S/<p><a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191106.html" target="_blank">This is the M101</a>, a beautiful spiral galaxy that is found some 170,000 light years across. It is alm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/The-Pinwheel-Galaxy-A-Galaxy-Almost-Twice-The-Size-of-The-Milky-Way/Harry Potter pumpkin is a part of a hospital pumpkin decorating contest in Brampton, Ontario....
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/Pumpkin-Potter/Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Police pulled over a drunken, Sunday driver with a chicken on his shoulder. Officers responded after receiving reports from other drivers of a man swerving over the road with a bird on his person.A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/Wisconsin-Drunk-Driver-Arrested-for-Driving-Fowly/<p>Piranhas are known to be notorious killers of both humans and animals. However, this <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/it-s-viral/fish-species-in-amazon-wears-natural-bulletproof-vest-to-th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/This-Fish-Has-A-Natural-Bulletproof-Vest-Protection-From-Piranhas/This ad parody from The Kloons is what we used to call a shaggy dog story. Go ahead and laugh at it, when you finally get to the punch line. However, it does illustrate studies that show how acquiring possessions, no mat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/The-Most-Depressing-Commercial-Ever/Embed from Getty ImagesIn most professional sports, the role of the team doctor is pretty sweet: besides performing regular checkups and giving health lectures, you get to attend all the games and only go to work when...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/The-Ugly-Gory-Bloody-Secret-Life-of-NHL-Dentists/Yes, but only if you approach it from the right angle. Don't try a Riker Maneuver on this one.This uniquely-designed chair, when placed correctly, looks impossible to sit on. I'm tempted to build one, although it looks e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/Can-You-Sit-in-the-Optical-Illusion-Chair/The staff at MIT’s Biomimetics lab took their nine Mini Cheetah robots outside to play. Aren't they cute? They run around, play soccer, do some calisthenics, show off to each other, and have a great time on the gro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/Taking-the-Mini-Cheetahs-Out-to-Play/Sobański palace is a lovely French castle in the tiny Polish town of Guzów. That in itself implies there's quite a story behind it, which goes back to the 1700s. The same wealthy local family owns the palace now...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/Saving-Sobaski-Palace/Niffler Fantastic Beasts HatDo you have a penchant for shiny things? Do you have a nose for treasure? You need the Niffler Fantastic Beasts Hat from the NeatoShop. This striking chapeau is designed to look like your favo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/Niffler-Fantastic-Beasts-Hat/<p>Caitlin Kirby strode into this great battle of her academic career wearing a <strong>skirt made of rejection letters for scholarships, publications, and academic conferences</strong>. To earn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/What-to-Wear-to-Your-Doctoral-Dissertation-Defense/<p>Who said that only kids would make perfect flower girls? Well, if you did, <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/four-grandmas-flower-girls-wedding_us_5da49fb4e4b0400ea60f1464" tar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/These-Four-Grandmas-Were-Flower-Girls-At-A-Wedding/This personal story is a bit different from what you'd usually find at Collectors Weekly. Twenty-five years ago, Ben Marks' young son inspired an interview with the creator of a fairly new game that was becoming popular....
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/How-My-Kid-Lost-a-Game-of-Magic-to-Its-Creator-But-Scored-a-Piece-of-Its-Original-Art/<p>András Arató, an electrical engineer in Hungary, never expected to become an internet meme. But then a photographer asked him to pose for a set of stock photos. That image became an interne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/The-Man-Behind-the-Meme-Hide-the-Pain-Harold/<p>The board of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District unanimously voted in favor of the installation of steel-cable nets 20 feet beneath the east and west edges of the bridge that are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/Remembering-the-Golden-Gate-Bridge-s-Half-Way-to-Hell-Club/<p>One of the least engaging aspects of modern economy is the mania to quantify and rank the performance of individuals and groups of people.</p><p>“Rankings send out powerful signals, whi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/08/Performance-Ranking-Reduces-Meritocracy-A-Numerical-Model-Suggests/<p>“Poulanka is the center of Finland,” says Tommi Rajala, a Poulanka pessimist. “Here,” he continues, as he gestures his hand toward a rock with inscriptions. He looks back to the c...
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