If you're determined to change your life, January first is probably a good day to do it, right? There are myriad reasons that New Year's Day is possibly the worst day to initiate big changes. We do it because we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/31/The-Total-Lack-of-Logic-in-New-Years-Resolutions/Long before Joseph Pujol took Europe by storm with a his all-fart stage performance, Roland the Farter made an even better living in 12th-century England. In some ways you could call him a court jester, because he perfor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/31/Roland-the-Farter-Paid-His-Rent-in-Flatulence/The use of tamed elephants in human warfare dates back to at least the Sixth Century BC in what is now India and were used by the Chinese as late as the Fifteenth Century AD in what is now Vietnam. In the ancient Mediter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/31/Hellenistic-War-Elephants-May-Have-Gone-into-Battle-Drunk/The tiny Principality of Liechtenstein is, on a per capita basis, a very wealthy nation. But with a population of only 39,000 people, there are certain features common among larger nations that it lacks, such as airports...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/31/Kinder-of-Berge-Liechtensteins-Only-Feature-Film/Dancing like no one is watching byu/UrbanCyclerPT innextfuckinglevel You've heard the saying "dance like no one is watching." In this case, it's more like "give it everything you've got because everyone is watching!" A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/31/Seven-year-old-Dances-His-Heart-Out/Embed from Getty ImagesCave paintings dated back to 25,000 or so years ago have been found in many French and Spanish caves. A common motif among these paintings are handprints and silhouettes of hands, and a concernin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/30/Prehistoric-Handprints-with-Missing-Fingers-May-Tell-a-Gruesome-Story/We see plenty of lists of the best movies of 2023, and we are drawn to those because we will want to check out those we haven't seen. On the other end of the spectrum, there are movies we want to avoid seeing at all cost...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/30/Rotten-Tomatoes-Ten-Worst-Movies-of-2023/It is particularly tragic when a great many people die from something as simple as a nutritional deficiency because the cause was unknown. Scurvy is the most familiar of these stories, because many sailors died before Ja...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/30/The-Medical-Mystery-That-Devastated-Switzerland/Researchers from the University of Southern California, in partnership with the San Francisco-based non-profit Miracle Messages, wanted to study the effects of giving homeless people a monthly stipend to see where the mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/30/After-Giving-Homeless-People-750-per-Month-This-Happened/I used to charge my phone overnight because it's a bit of a hassle to wait for it to reach 100% before going to sleep, but then I started to realize that my phone's battery gets quickly drained after just a few hours. No...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/30/Why-You-Shouldn-t-Charge-Your-Phone-Beyond-80/I bet we have all had some embarrassing and hilarious family photos through the years. Many of which we probably won't willingly share with the public, but the website Awkward Family Photos has compiled more than 9,000 f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/30/Awkward-Family-Photos-Traveling-Museum-Exhibit/<p>Joseph Kittinger was a US Air Force pilot who made history by being the first person to make the highest skydive at 102,800 feet in 1960. Of course, he wasn't just an adrenaline junkie looking for a thri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/30/Why-Joseph-Kittinger-Skydived-from-Space/<p>Different people have their traditions and preferences on what to do on New Year's Day. Some people may simply want to rest at home after a busy holiday week, but others may want to get the ball rolling...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/30/First-Day-Hikes-at-Texas-State-Parks-to-Start-the-New-Year/Many people love coffee and the bursts of energy it gives. For those whose professions are highly stressful and sometimes requires people to work very long hours and sleepless nights, coffee is their best friend.We have...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/30/A-Study-Tests-How-Caffeine-Affects-Our-Decision-Making/There's almost 8 billion people in the world and in the US, there's over 300 million people. The chances that one person will have the same birthday as someone else in the same neighborhood, town, or city, for example sh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/30/The-Most-Common-Birthdays-in-the-US-2/<p>There has been a long-held belief that sports teams playing in their home court experience better performances which could be one of, if not the deciding factor in winning the game. This effect on the ps...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/30/The-Science-Behind-Home-Field-Advantage/In a few days, we'll be ushering in the new year with some fireworks displays, lots of noise, and good ol' merriment with family and friends. Except for our pets, who will probably be searching for shelter or some place...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/30/How-We-Can-Help-Pets-Cope-with-Fireworks/<p>The world population hit 7 billion on October 31, 2011, more than a decade ago. This past year, estimates have shown that the world population grew by 75 million people, and by New Year's Day, <a href...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/30/By-January-2024-We-ll-Be-at-8-Billion/<p>A little bit of backstory on Mamoru Samuragochi, who had once been dubbed as Japan's "digital-age Beethoven" as he claimed to have been totally deaf and was credited for composing music for vid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/30/Japan-s-Fake-Beethoven-Finally-Made-His-Own-Music/<p>Oliver Muensterer had a job interview for which he had to travel a few hours away from his home in Leipzig, Germany. Having packed all his essentials, he left and arrived the evening before his schedule....
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/30/How-a-Hotel-Clerk-Helped-a-Man-Who-Forgot-His-Shirt-for-a-Job-Interview/Lemon Pig, Lemon Pig, Lemon Pig! 🍋 🐖🪙🥂 pic.twitter.com/kua0CzUnD7— 🧷Wren 🔜 FurSquared🌻🪵🍄 (@Wren_the_ferret) December 27, 2023 I don't know how I missed it, but a roundup of New Year tr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/29/Are-You-Making-a-Lemon-Pig-for-the-New-Year/What do you do when a volcano begins to erupt on your island? You flee! But what if you are a bird couple and you have four eggs to protect? These avians do their best, but the father is a birdbrain, and the mother turns...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/29/iBOOMi-An-Animated-Short-That-Combines-Terror-and-Hilarity/I AM DYING pic.twitter.com/TkX2O25H8i— Fr. Ryan Hilderbrand (@FrHilderbrand) December 29, 2023 Dreams have long inspired the creative energies of people. Salvador Dali found much of his inspiration in unconsciou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/29/Love-Honk-The-Musical-Application-of-the-Car-Horn/YouTuber The Paint Explainer uses MS Paint to create simple illustrations to help explain complex concepts, such as logical fallacies. In this video, he quickly and succinctly explains 76 formal and informal fallacies, s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/29/76-Logical-Fallacies-Explained-in-11-Minutes/Query: how long could Miss Cellania and I do this at the Neatorama corporate campus before we were caught?A lot would depend upon the facilities themselves. For these two men (of course) in Nara, Japan, their workplace i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/29/2-City-Workers-Caught-Building-Secret-Fort-at-Work/When we think of tarot cards, our first thoughts range from casual fortune telling to tools of the occult. A deck of cards with medieval art showing unfamiliar symbolism that takes lots of study to understand seems just...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/29/The-Not-so-Mysterious-Origins-of-Tarot-Cards/<p>Susan Moeller has been writing <a href="https://www.capeandislands.org/in-this-place/2023-12-26/i-know-what-i-bought-you-for-christmas-in-1978" target="_blank">a journal of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/29/This-Woman-Has-Kept-Tabs-on-What-Christmas-Gifts-She-Gave-Since-1975/2021 pic.twitter.com/9cV5vIcuDH— psychotronica (@psychotronica_) December 18, 2023 <p>Director of the films <em>Multiple Maniacs</em>, <em>Pink Flamingos</em>, <em>Fema...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/29/A-Gallery-of-John-Waters-Hand-Made-Christmas-Cards/<p>We all like counting down toward the New Year. It's fun, especially when you're in a room filled with other people, who are doing the same thing. There's just something about doing traditions that we hum...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/29/The-Origins-of-the-New-Year-s-Eve-Kiss/It has been 26 years since the Guédelon Castle project started, with over 70 craftspeople and artisans working, and they say that it might take at least 20 more years before the entire castle will be constructed,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/29/How-to-Build-a-Castle-from-Scratch-Medieval-Style/
