<p>Augie, along with his mom, Katina Behm, loves to make fun of his uncle Aristotle Polites, who works as a model, by recreating Polites's photos. And because Polites is a model, Augie gets to have a lot of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/31/Toddler-Recreates-His-Uncle-s-Photos/<p>Would you keep a leech as a pet? For many of us, the answer would be no, but believe it or not, there are some people who keep leeches as pets. To make things even weirder, these people even let these le...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/31/Leech-Keeping-Is-A-Thing-Apparently/<p>Wouldn’t it be nice if we could see tardigrades in action with our naked eye? Perhaps that’s what the guys Archie McPhee had in their minds when they decided to make these cute racing tardigr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/31/Racing-Tardigrades-Because-Why-Not/Two robots, both of which have brains that have evolved for over 300 generations, can be seen in the video. Both of them have one leg broken as well. However, only one of them can walk upright, while the other struggles...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/31/This-AI-Robot-With-A-Broken-Leg-Can-Still-Walk/<p>After taking off on his powered parachute near a school in Rio Linda, California to deliver candy canes to children in his community, a man dressed up as Santa found himself in a maze of power lines and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/31/In-California-Man-Dressed-As-Santa-Gets-Suspended-In-Power-Lines/Footage from a trail cam at a beaver dam just south of Voyageurs National Park shows us a variety of animals using it as a river crossing. Over a year's time, we see wolves, bears, deer, beavers (of course), and other cr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/31/One-Year-on-a-Beaver-Dam-in-Minnesota/<p>I had no idea that UPS invested so much time and resources in calculating the movements and actions of its drivers. The delivery company is already famous for <a href="https://www.neatorama.com/2...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/31/How-UPS-Trains-Its-Drivers/View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lubalin (@lubalin_vibe_emporium) <p>In the old days, before the internet, if you wanted to encounter the rantings of angry, semiliterate peopl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/31/Internet-Drama-Turned-into-Songs/Minnesotastan has been running a series of pictures of his readers' bookcases at TYWKIWDBI. You can learn a lot about someone by looking at the books they keep and how they display them. The picture here of Bruce and Car...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/30/Nice-Bookcase-Toppers/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I can’t even hold a regular pan properly without fearing I might spill its contents. This chef takes cooking to a higher level, as she spins her w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/30/Chinese-Chef-s-Amazing-Wok-Spinning-Skills-Go-Viral-Online/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mitosis (not the biological process) is a sustainable architectural concept that focuses on regenerative sustainable living and urban development. The s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/30/This-Structure-Is-A-Flexible-Living-Organism-In-Itself/Nick Drummond and Patrick Bakker bought an old house in the small town of Ames, New York, and set out to repair and renovate it. The house had once been owned by "Count" Adolf Humpfner, who was rumored to have been a boo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/30/Prohibition-Whisky-Found-While-Renovating-the-Bootlegger-Bungalow/The Knights of Renesmee, from Tauranga, New Zealand, spent three years making a shot-for-shot Sweded version of the entire Star Wars prequel trilogy. You may ask, "why?" but I have no answer for that. It's actua...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/30/The-iStar-Warsi-Prequel-Trilogy-Sweded/Boston Dynamics gives us a New Year greeting in the form of dancing robots. This is terrifying. If robots can dance this well, is there anything they can't do? -via reddit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/30/Youve-Never-Seen-Robots-Dance-Like-This/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A new discovery has been made in Pompeii! Remains of a hot food and drink shop has been uncovered by archaeologists. The shop, also known as a thermopol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/30/Ancient-Street-Food-Shop-In-Pompeii/If 2020 were a movie, this is what it would be. And the critics would have a field day with the believability factor. Screen Junkies takes movies we've seen and tells us everything that's wrong with them in their Honest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/An-Honest-Trailer-for-2020/Through most of history in general, rich people wore nice clothing and poor people wore what they could afford. But sometimes, an ambitious person from a lower social station could become wealthy and dress in expensive g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/When-Your-Outfit-Is-Made-Illegal/Arcangelo Ambrosi, a craftsman of smoking pipes, recently made this whimsical mushroom. It's composed of maple with an acrylic mouthpiece. I can imagine Papa Smurf or, perhaps, the Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderlan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/Mushroom-Pipe/In the Roaring Twenties, boxing was huge. There were reputations and money to be made, and people came out of the woodwork to watch their favorites go at each other. In Shelby, Montana, real estate developer (and the may...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/Pugilism-on-the-Plains/In 1995, a group of four chess enthusiasts were devastated when their opponents took their queen in a very public New Year's Eve match at Madison Square Garden. Exactly 25 years later, they are staging a rematch, online...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/Celebrate-New-Years-Eve-with-a-Friendly-Game-of-Chess/Rosemary Mosco, a naturalist, science writer, and cartoonist, proposes that Santa consider replacing his reindeer with other magical animals. I would personally go with the anglerfish and do not consider their lack of fl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/Santa-s-Alternatives-to-Flying-Reindeer/This time of year you'll find tons of lists of the best and worst things of 2020, but the most interesting are the ones that focus on the odd, strange, and bizarre. A list at LiveScience will entice you to read all ten s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/The-Strangest-Medical-Cases-of-2020/When interpreting literature (or, more broadly, narratives), what should be the role of the author in the interpretation of that work? Carl Jung said that "Poets are humans to, and what they say about their work is often...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/There-s-A-Lot-More-to-the-Death-of-the-Author/I don't know what they expected, riding bikes down a ski slope, but you know what to expect, you just don't know when. When it starts, it's all downhill from there, so to speak. You can see the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/Bicycles-on-a-Ski-Slope/Rik Villanueva posted a Star Wars timeline that corresponds with earth years. These aren't the years that these movies actually happened, because we were told right off that it happened "a long time ago, in a ga...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/A-Relative-Timeline-of-Star-Wars-Events/Redditor emkay95 made a full-size apple rose tart for Christmas and wanted to show it off. Isn't it lovely? She said it was so labor-intensive she probably wouldn't ever make another. It's a good thing she took a picture...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/28/Apple-Pie-Art/<p>To what would you compare a home run? For this commentator, he would compare it to an ex-girlfriend. Did he just break up with a girl when this happened? Was it recent that time? Only he knows.</p>...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/28/Is-The-Commentator-All-Right/<p>Scientists from UChicago have created a groundbreaking tool called Voltair that allows researchers to measure voltage differences between organelles. Scientists knew that there were voltage differences i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/28/We-Can-Now-Measure-Electricity-In-Cells/Can you picture your first grade classroom? How about that restaurant where you had your first date? For many of us, it would be easy, but for some, it is extremely difficult.These individuals have a rare condition calle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/28/When-It-s-Difficult-To-Create-A-Mental-Image/<p>If you want to be great at games, consider paying attention to Albert Einstein’s advice, which is to learn the rules of the game, and then play better than anyone else. Of course, this is easier sa...
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