There has been talk for years about looking into the time when Obi-Wan Kenobi stayed in a cave in Tatooine, watching over young Luke Skywalker from a distance as he grew up. Jamie Costa has produced a 15-minute fan film...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/KENOBI-A-Star-Wars-Fan-Film/Scientists who study the natural world have to spend at least part of their time in that world. The work can be grueling and uneventful, but spend enough time outdoors and something memorable will happen ventually. Like...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Scientists-Share-Their-Wildest-Experiences-in-the-Field/<p>Twitter user Schadenfreudelish calls it a "<a href="https://twitter.com/aggierican/status/1209630060061310976" target="_blank">Baby Yodarita</a>". Just add two b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Baby-Yoda-Margarita/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In an ironically waggish plot twist, firefighters in Lathrop, California, came to the rescue of a German shepherd that wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Dog-Chases-Cat-Up-a-Tree-Gets-Stuck/<p>Yule log videos are helpful if you don't have a fireplace but would still like to experience the sights and sounds of a warming fire. We've seen cat internet star <a href="https://www.neatorama....
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/This-Christmas-Watch-Darth-Vader-Burn-for-5-Hours/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Guardian gives us a list of the 13 worst trends from the past 10 years, which “were full of questionable ideas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Ranked-Worst-Trends-From-the-2010s/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The year is not over yet and there is more to come before we bid 2019 a final farewell. An annual solar eclipse is expect...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Third-Eclipse-of-2019-Is-So-Dangerous-It-Could-Make-You-Blind/Up in the chilly Arctic, the frozen bodies of woolly mammoths can be so well preserved that they still have blood in their veins. With their flesh still pink, it is no wonder why some people have thought of eating meat f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/How-Mammoth-Meat-Tastes-Like/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A woman from the U.S. shared this heartwarming </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/romy.mccloskey/post...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Butterfly-With-Deformity-Gets-Prosthetic-Wing-Sewn-On/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Glenn Druery entered his Tonkinese cat, Gus, as a wild-card contender in the Scotland Island dog swimming race, which has...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Gus-the-Cat-Enters-Dog-Swimming-Race/Re-post cause it blew up on tiktok, which way is he facing? pic.twitter.com/hG4DY9rg0v— T U P P E R (@ectupper) December 22, 2019 Eric Tupper posted an old video he took of a guy on a swing set in Fairbanks, Ala...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Which-Direction-is-This-Guy-Swinging/“From out of the forest I appear, to proclaim that Christmastime is here!” Santa — real name Tim Zander — exclaims as he arrives at a workshop in Berlin to train a handful of newbies how to act li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/The-Reason-Behind-Germany-s-Santa-Shortage/<p>7-year old Sean was visiting a zoo in Ireland with his family. The hungry tiger decided it was lunchtime and didn't notice the glass barrier. He lunged at Sean, much to the amusement of Rob, his father....
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Tiger-Lunges-at-Boy-Visiting-the-Zoo/<p>Hayley Garbutt, a 52-year-old end-of-life carer from England, has figured out a way to make feeding her family more affordable — by charging them for dinner. She does this for good reason, however,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/This-Grandmother-Charges-Her-Family-45-A-Head-For-Christmas-Dinner/<p><a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Christmas-Island" target="_blank">Christmas Island</a>, Australia, is home to about 1,800 people and, annually, 50 million migrat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/This-SUV-Has-Been-Modified-to-Avoid-Running-Over-Crabs/This is a story about a cat, and Christmas, and it's a horror story. That's Jólakötturinn, the Icelandic Yule cat. It's not pronounced anything like you'd guess. -via Laughing Squid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/The-Wicked-Feline-Murder-Floof/On December 23, 1927, 14-year-old Woody Harris was driving his family around Cisco, Texas, in their Oldsmobile. He had no idea that this Christmas would be different. And unforgettable. At a stoplight, Woody looked...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Criminal-Kringle-The-Santa-Claus-Bank-Heist-of-1927/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Minneapolis’ ‘Green To Go Ordinance’ has managed to inadvertently ban your favorite holiday cups. The Green To Go Ordinance...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Minneapolis-Bans-Starbucks-Holiday-Cups/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mortal Kombat is an ongoing video games series, a fighting-themed game. It’s gruesome, violent, and filled with murderous characters. While some w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Who-Is-Mortal-Kombat-s-Best-Cuddler/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In NASA’s efforts to map the Milky Way galaxy, scientists captured an image of the galaxy’s central zone. The central zone is highlighted by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Cosmic-Candy-Cane-Seen-Within-Milky-Way/It appears that in Jerusalem, Santa Claus rides a camel. Santa Claus in Jerusalem? The nation of Israel is a Jewish state, and the Christians who make the pilgrimage to the Holy Land in December are focused on the birth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Meet-the-Only-Certified-Santa-in-the-Ho-Ho-Holy-Land/Photographers Kelly Pratt and Ian Kreidich love dogs and love dancers. Every year, they do a photo shoot with the St. Louis Ballet, who perform The Nutcracker every year, and dogs and cats from Stray Rescue of S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/The-Muttcracker/Gargoyles are statuary carvings that serve as downspouts on buildings. In freezing but wet weather, they grow icicles in a hurry! And when a gargoyle looks funnier than usual, someone is going to be ready to take a pictu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Vomiting-Statues/Stanislav Petrov was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces and served at Serpukhov-15, a Soviet base. The aforementioned base monitored early warnings of ballistic missile launches.Come the night of Septe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/The-Night-When-The-World-Could-Have-Ended/<p>These are Christmas toy parodies made by Jeff Wysaski. He has them distributed in local stores. Why? Because it’s hilarious.</p><p>Some of these toys I can buy for my enemies, such as t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Christmas-Prank-Toys/Architecture flirts with nature in expressive but subtle ways. Oftentimes, the idea behind this is to harmonize and not dominate the landscapes. When faced with steep slopes, cliff faces, and mountainsides, this could pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Houses-Built-In-Impossible-Places/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">After the recent incidents involving selfies, the US National Park Service wants to reinforce good and safe photo etiquet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/These-Gingerbread-Cookies-Will-Convince-You-To-Take-Safer-Selfies/<p>Christmas time primarily means two things: reunions, and giving and receiving gifts. That, and it also means that there are etiquette landmines that await you. How do you respond when you receive a gift...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/Advice-For-The-Holidays-From-Mr-Manners/70-year-old Robert Fox already knew where he wanted to spend his Christmas —where his daughter is. He has a problem, though: he doesn’t know how any of that could happen.As he sat down on a bench in downtown...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/25/A-Homeless-Man-s-Wish-This-Christmas/<p>I'm muddling the headline a bit because there's quite a lot of unpack. <a href="https://cb.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.michael-siegrist.html" target="_blank">Michael Siegrist&l...
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