George Lucas proved that no matter how much you make in movies, the real money is in action figures. Kids play with them, fans collect them, and others just want to have a souvenir of a movie franchise they really...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/12/Dano-Browns-Action-Figures/The 1984 movie Red Dawn was an action-packed speculative war movie designed to appeal to teenagers. Communist forces from the USSR, Cuba, and Nicaragua parachute into a small town in Colorado and a group of high...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/12/Three-Communists-Weigh-in-on-iRed-Dawni/In 1977, a hospital cook named Ali Maow Maalin came down with smallpox in Somalia. It was a rare outbreak after a global vaccination program restricted the disease to the Horn of Africa, but Maalin recuperated, and 50,00...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/12/The-Last-Victim-of-Smallpox/Quilty is a cat who lives at Friends For Life animal shelter in Houston. He has a wonderful personality and gets along well with both the humans and the animals he lives with. But the shelter has a little problem with hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/12/Quilty-the-Jailbreaker/<p>Scientists regularly capture images of the brain in action by focusing on single circuits, cells, or molecules. Visualizing how these tiny units interact to form complex behavior, however, has been a dif...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/12/The-Dynamic-Brain-In-Action-Captured-By-Yale-Scientists/Tencent is reportedly interested in creating Nintendo-style games with Nintendo characters, according to the Wall Street Journal, which quotes an unnamed Tencent official who says that the multinational conglomerate comp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/12/Tencent-Rumored-To-Have-Eyes-On-Developing-Games-With-Nintendo-Characters/For decades, the Scooby Doo franchise has been popular and well-received by people. Even now, the names Shaggy, Scooby, Velma, Fred, and Daphne still ring a bell for both the old and the young as the “meddling kids...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/12/See-How-Shaggy-and-Scooby-Met-Each-Other-in-SCOOB-Trailer/<p>In Colombia lives a family with the tragic legacy of forgetfulness.</p><p>UC Santa Barbara neuroscientist Kenneth S. Kosik states that the people in this family suffer from Alzheimer’s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/12/A-Woman-Who-Escaped-Alzheimer-s-Clutches/This strange animation by cool3Dworld starts out weird with five green guys riding a tandem bike, then gets exciting when they anger a hot dog man, almost turns tragic, but then ends with a dose of friendship and coopera...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/12/Bicycle/<p>From the top of Huascarán, the highest mountain in Earth’s tropics, the western Andes valleys look peaceful and calming. From there, signs of climate change, such as the melting glaciers in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/12/Thanks-To-Global-Warming-Glacier-Scientists-Now-Have-To-Climb-Higher/(vimeo link) Frans Hofmeester strung together video clips of his daughter Lotte’s face taken every week from birth to twelve years old. Yes, this kind of thing has been done before, but this is a little different. U...
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