Embed from Getty ImagesI've sometimes used the sad but common adage "there is no problem that can't be solved by throwing enough money at it." I'm sure you have seen that played out in real life, but Howard Hughes had...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/02/Howard-Hughes-Had-His-Own-Private-TV-Station-Programmed-for-His-Pleasure/We love to laugh at medieval bestiaries, with their odd images drawn by clueless artists from secondhand descriptions and the accompanying text that appears to be based on assumptions swallowed whole or just made up on t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/02/An-Abundance-of-Beasts-is-a-Medieval-Bestiary-Generator/Mila is a Maine coon cat that was rescued from a breeder who was also an animal hoarder. She looked like a worn out cat, but she was only four years old. That's what happens when a cat has too many litters of kittens at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/02/Exhausted-Breeder-Cat-Thrives-in-a-Loving-Home/Mattel's Hot Wheels toy line has long offered 1/64 scale models of existing cars. Sure, they're toys, but adults collect them, and even people who aren't collectors like to have a Hot Wheels version of their real car. It...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/02/A-Hot-Wheels-Car-We-Can-Relate-To/Ken Shirriff saw an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art titled Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction and saw the the Navajo woven tapestry shown above by Marilou Schultz. The pattern looked stra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/02/When-Traditional-Art-Meets-the-Modern-Electronics-Industry/We are familiar with the term "gaslighting," where a nefarious character tries to convince a victim that they are going insane. In this story, the poor fellow who can't pass a Captcha test starts to think he's losing his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/02/If-You-Fail-the-Captcha-Test-You-Just-Might-Be-a-Robot/
