Embed from Getty ImagesAnytime you go to Twitter and see Betty White trending, you get a feeling in the pit of your stomach. Then you see that she's trending for something she said or because her birthday is coming up....
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/31/RIP-Betty-White/No one wants to hear about an engine failing when you're flying. What could possibly go wrong? But within the first minute of this video, we are assured that it's not all that serious. It's a good thing that commercial a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/31/How-Far-Can-a-Jet-Go-on-One-Engine/Embed from Getty ImagesThe New Year holiday is unique in that it revolves around time itself. All we are really celebrating is a change of date or a new calendar, but we've made it symbolically a holiday of hope and re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/31/The-History-of-the-New-Years-Eve-Countdown/🍺 Getting hamsters drunk is actually next to impossible as they have an insanely high alcohol tolerance. Hamsters can drink 10 times the amount of alcohol humans could drink (when adjusted for body weight) before they...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/30/It-s-Next-to-Impossible-to-Get-a-Hamster-Drunk/When your goth phase isn't just a phase, but a total lifestyle, you might think about buying a house in Lincoln, Illinois. It has two bedrooms and two baths, on a quiet street in a nice neighborhood, room for the kids to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/30/The-Blackest-House/This horse head is now in the the custody of the Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, China. It was excavated from the Sanxingdui archaeological site, and is estimated to be over 3,000 years old. But it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/30/Who-Does-This-Ancient-Relic-Remind-You-Of/In Alaska, you may have some special needs that you need a special pickup truck for. Instead of buying a whole new vehicle, there's usually a way to make what you need. Now, This particular design must have a purpose. Yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/30/This-Truck-has-been-Seriously-Modified/A sufficiently large family gathered around one table makes dining difficult. It can get frustrating to spend too much time passing dishes back and forth instead of shoveling goodies in one's mouth.Matty Action writes th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/30/Using-a-Train-to-Feed-a-Big-Family-at-Christmas/If you didn't get a new calendar for Christmas, you're probably going to buy one this week. And while you're jotting down birthdays and anniversaries on it, you might also want to mark the eclipses and planetary alignmen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/29/Astronomy-Events-to-Look-For-in-2022/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This is scary. Artificial intelligence (AI) </span><a href="https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/ai-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/29/AI-Is-Learning-How-To-Manipulate-Us/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Networks of underground fungi </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/nov/30/worlds-vast-n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/29/World-s-Underground-Fungi-To-Be-Mapped-For-The-First-Time/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A resident from Rutland, England noticed an unusual glimpse of pottery on the ground of their family farm during his walk...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/29/Mosaic-Depictions-Of-The-Iliad-Found-Under-A-UK-Field/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Gamers have been treated to new games, unexpected ports and remasters, and surprising sequels for well-known franchises....
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/29/Games-Killed-In-2021/Drinking games have been with us since ancient times, because they are a somewhat socially acceptable way of getting completely wasted without having to admit that's what you intended in the fist place. An added bonus is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/29/The-Worlds-Weirdest-Drinking-Games/Many pasta shapes developed organically over the centuries as cooks modified preexisting designs to fit new needs. But that's not the approach that Dan Pashman took. He decided to start from scratch after studying the be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/29/Food-Hero-Invents-New-Type-of-Pasta/The annual list of foreign objects that required medical intervention to remove from human bodies is out. Honestly, finding our previous posts for such lists was as easy as searching for the word "orifices" (they are now...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/29/Things-Removed-from-Body-Orifices-in-2021/<p>🐿️ <a href="https://supafluffy.com/p/gray-squirrels-in-maine-seem-to-be-sporting-a-few-extra-holiday-ounces-this-year" target="_blank">Meet the squirrelzilla</a>: Gre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/28/Squirrelzilla-Grey-Squirrels-in-Maine-are-Especially-Chonky-This-Year/Thanks, Coach pic.twitter.com/wnv8W1pIjJ— EA SPORTS (@EASPORTS) December 29, 2021 <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">When one door closes, another opens - and for John Madden, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/28/John-Madden-How-a-Career-Ending-Knee-Injury-Actually-Led-to-Him-Becoming-a-Legendary-Football-Coach/In this video, guitarist Dave Simpson of the Dave Simpson Trio is strumming his own guitar, but fretting the bass. Bass player Carina Powell/CiCi Bass is picking her bass, but fretting Simpson's guitar. While they are pl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/28/Playing-My-Guitar-and-Your-Guitar-Too/The history of human organ transplants is a series of small steps. Skin transplants have been around a long time, but the first successful replacement body organ was a transplant of thyroid tissue in 1883. The possibilit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/28/An-Impressive-Short-Story-The-Black-Patch/I found the cutest little frog in the bottom of my romaine lettuce tonight- it’s too cold to set him outside (27 degrees), but he’s been living in the lettuce in the fridge for several days now- does anyo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/28/Man-Finds-Frog-in-his-Lettuce-Now-has-a-Pet-Frog/Language changes fast, especially in the internet age. But it had always changed. While we have words our ancestors never imagined, we have also lost words. We know how to be ruthless, but at one time we could be full of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/27/Reclaiming-Long-Lost-Positive-Words/Did you know that the word "scientist" didn't exist before 1834? At the time, the term used was "man of science," and that couldn't apply to Mary Somerville, who was a woman. "Mathematician" didn't quite work, either, al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/27/The-Woman-for-Whom-the-Word-Scientist-Was-Coined/Elizabeth Bathory, known as the Blood Countess, was convicted of unspeakable crimes. The story goes that she tortured and killed virgin women and then bathed in the blood of her victims, believing it would preserve her y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/27/Could-Elizabeth-Bathory-have-been-Innocent-of-Murder/In 1949, the Washington Post published an article about a 14-year-old boy who had been cured of demon possession. William Peter Blatty, then a college student, read the article, and many years later wrote the 1971 novel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/26/Roland-Doe-the-Boy-Who-Inspired-The-Exorcist/After a year of delays, closures, and disrupted schedules, movies roared back into theaters in 2021, and new movies debuted on streaming services in abundance. The release schedule hasn't quite caught up with regul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/26/Sleepy-Skunks-2021-Movie-Trailer-Mashup/The war-torn history of Cambodia in the 20th century is told in the ruins of a purpose-built town. Bokor Hill Station was designed as a retreat for French colonists. Of course, it was built by Cambodian labor, with hundr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/26/Abandoned-Bokor-Hill-Station-Cambodia/Your brain is a computer, you've got logic in your soul, Mr. Spock.John C. Worsley (previously at Neatorama) is back with another master edit celebrating Christmas with Star Trek. This time, the characters from...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/25/Youre-A-Mean-One-Mr-Spock/Embed from Getty ImagesMy late mother-in-law was quite superstitious. Every New Year's Day, she waited by the phone, hoping that the first person to call her would be a man. If a woman called first, the year would be a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/25/11-Unusual-Victorian-New-Years-Traditions/Enjoy a new Christmas song by Ingrid Michaelson featuring Zooey Deschanel called "Merry Christmas, Happy New Year." This is from her album Songs for the Season.Also enjoy the video, in which Mr. Needlefelted Rab...
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