<p>This is a LEGO recreation of the “Wind God and Thunder God”, a famous 18th century painting by Rinpa artist Ogata Korin. The said recreation can be seen at the LEGO store located at Narita Ai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/This-18th-Century-Japanese-Painting-Just-Got-Recreated-in-LEGO/How many movies have you seen in the past ten years? Louis Plamondon, better known as Sleepy Skunk, does an annual end-of-the-year mashup of movie trailer clips. Here he looks back at the best films of the last ten*/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/Movie-Trailer-Mashup-of-the-Decade/<p>The car culture blog Jalopnik brings to our attention <a href="https://jalopnik.com/nascars-the-cup-is-the-greatest-motorsport-innovation-o-1840732348" target="_blank">The Cup&l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/This-Simple-But-Brilliant-Invention-Lets-You-Drink-without-Blocking-Your-Vision/<p>During the 1980s, American security engineer Charles Gandy knew that the Soviets had found a way to electronically spy on the US Embassy in Moscow. Americans had already discovered antennas hidden inside...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/The-Ingenious-Way-That-Soviets-Hacked-an-American-Embassy-Typewriter/In June 1909, Placer County, California, Alma Bell was dumped by her fiancé, Joe Armes. In response, she confronted him and shot him dead.One of Joe's brother's claimed to have heard her say, "Goodbye Joe," after...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/Alma-Bell/You've probably seen the film clip of NASA's 1960 Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch attempt in compilations of failures. Nothing much happens, but the rocket does not slip the surly bonds of earth. Not by a long shot.As you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/The-Four-Inch-Flight-A-Lesson-from-History/This award-winning animation features two characters made of yarn who fall in love. It's not just attraction; they commit to giving of themselves to each other. Yarn, that is. Over time, it causes them to become more con...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/A-Love-Story/Elizabeth Rona received a PhD from the University of Budapest in 1912. She spent her life studying radiation and various radioactive elements and isotopes, contributing greatly to the body of knowledge about those substa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/Elizabeth-Rona-the-Wandering-Polonium-Woman/It was an eventful year. Vox reminds us of the news events, culture, trends, media, and memes of 2019, both in America and around the world....
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/2019-in-6-minutes/At first glance, it might seem to be just a bunch of electrical cords. But, when you take a closer look, a baby serpent can be found hiding in plain sight.The tiny reptile was spotted by an Australian snake catcher, who...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/Venomous-Snake-Camouflaged-In-Electrical-Cords/According to researchers, it might. So if you can’t remember something, wait until later in the day and maybe you’ll be able to remember.Researchers identified a gene in mice that seems to influence memory re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/Does-Forgetfulness-Depend-On-The-Time-of-Day/<p>This is Rose, a romney ewe from a small farm in the Auckland area. When she became pregnant with her triplets, she began to produce massive a high volume of milk, which damaged her udders’ suspenso...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/Why-This-Sheep-Is-Wearing-Human-Bra/<p>Good news: A team of scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have calculated how long it would take a spacecraft to get from our own Solar System to the next system over.</p><p>...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/How-Long-Does-It-Take-To-Reach-Distant-Stars/<p><em>Yip yip yip yip. Hello. Christmas!</em></p><p>Novelist Dot Hutchinson tweets <a href="https://twitter.com/DotHutchison/status/1209870964298846210" target="_b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/Yip-Yip-Christmas-Stockings/A daughter has recently left university and entered the corporate world, taking on a temporary office job. She phoned home in tears, however, just at the end of her first week, complaining to her mother that it was horri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/The-Many-Psychological-Benefits-Of-Working-Less-Hours/<p>Charlie McMillian is everyone's friend and is thus a natural-born politician. He's just getting started on his political career, having been inaugurated as the mayor of the small town of <a href="...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/The-Youngest-Mayor-in-America-is-7-Months-Old/In the video, we see Dorothea Taylor coming in to the music store. The store worker glanced at her and immediately said that “the pianos and violins are just that way" (talk about judging a book by its cover). She,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/This-Badass-Grandmother-Just-Performed-A-Cover-Of-Down-With-The-Sickness/When cognitive neuroscientist Luke Miller was toying with a curtain rod in his apartment, he came upon a strange realization. When he hit an object with the rod, even without looking, he knew where the rod made contact a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/When-Objects-Become-Extensions-Of-Your-Body/Scientists state that they have figured a way to completely transition 143 countries to clean energy sources thirty years from now. This plan could cut global power demand by more than half if successfully implemented, w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/01/Total-Transition-To-Clean-Energy-Possible-By-2050-Scientists-Say/<p>In 1910, Thomas Jennings fled a murder scene. However, he left behind a decisive clue that would be his undoing — a perfect impression of his fingerprints in the drying paint of a railing, which wa...
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