About a fortnight ago, we showed readers the innovative dishwasher developed by the STS 3D robotics firm and YouTuber Plumber John. That dishwasher cleaned dishes more brutally and effectively than any other dishwasher o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/18/Supercharged-Dishwasher-Made-Only-More-Powerful/You may have seen a blurb or a passing headline about a musician who was still composing and playing music with his brain after his death. These stories are referring to experimental American composer Alvin Lucier, who d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/18/Music-Composed-By-the-Brain-of-a-Dead-Man/How many legs must a robot have to navigate over various obstacles in the terrain? Or does it really matter? Maybe the type of feet matter more than the number of legs. Or maybe the size of those feet are key. The Brick...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/17/Testing-Different-Walking-Designs-in-LEGO/We've read about amazing dogs who can smell cancer and other human conditions, and now we know at least one person who can sniff out diagnoses like diabetes and Parkinson's disease. Joy Milne, 75-year-old Scottish woman,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/17/A-Woman-Who-Can-Smell-Parkinsons-Disease/There are certain species that can walk on the surface of water. Don't try this at home, because humans and most animals are far too heavy to even attempt it. But these insects have found their ecological niche because t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/17/The-Weird-Physics-of-Walking-on-Water/In Novaria di Sicilia, a neighborhood of Messina, people play an unusual sport as part of the Carnival celebrations. It's called Lancio del Mairochino.Traditional Sports explains that residents take a wheel of the local...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/17/The-Sicilian-Sport-of-Cheese-Rolling/English is a weird language. It has evolved over centuries while also incorporating words from other languages until it's become fertile ground producing tons of puns. You'd think someone would try to do something about...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/16/Simplified-Spelling-Turned-Out-to-Be-Comedy/The What If? series from Randall Munroe and Henry Reich (previously at Neatorama) seeks to give serious answers to ridiculous theoretical questions. The most common question they receive, over and over, is "What would ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/16/What-If-Someone-Suddenly-Turned-the-Sun-Off/If you knew nothing about the invention of Graham crackers, you might assume that they were invented by someone named Graham- and you'd be right. Sylvester Graham was born in 1794, the youngest of 17 children. He was sic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/16/The-Strange-Goal-Behind-the-Development-of-Graham-Crackers/The colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamilton), we are informed by the conservation organization Oceana, is the largest invertebrate on Earth. They can measure as long as 46 feet and weigh 1,100 pounds.The colos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/16/First-Colossal-Squid-Recorded-on-Camera/Weird Universe tells us that in 1932, the Lincoln Electric Company (which is apparently still in business) conducted a national essay writing competition about arc welding. The winners received a total of $17,500 in priz...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/16/Steel-Checks-Issued-by-a-Welding-Company/The Golden Girls went off the air in 1992 after seven seasons. The last of our for favorite ladies departed for that great lanai in the sky just over two years ago. But the fanbase for the show remains profoundl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/16/Theres-A-Golden-Girls-Murder-Mystery-Novel/The Western movie Tombstone came out in 1993 and therefore never got an Honest Trailer until now. With the passing of Val Kilmer a couple of weeks ago, a lot of people are thinking about his portrayal of Doc Hol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/15/An-Honest-Trailer-for-iTombstonei/Last month, we brought you a video about murderers who had been featured on television for something besides murder. That was not exactly a complete list. It's happened in the movies, too, when those involved in the prod...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/15/Cast-Members-Who-Turned-Out-to-Be-Killers/This shrimp is a go-getter! Watch him do all the things you wish you had time to do in a day -in only a minute. He gets up early so he can get his exercise, sports, and gaming in before he even fixes breakfast and then g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/15/The-Daily-Life-of-a-Shrimp/The influencer appropriately named Kate Will Try Anything is willing to try any sort of daring culinary experiment. Think of her as the Galileo Galilei of food research.In this video, Kate shows us how to ensure that we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/15/How-to-Dye-Easter-Eggs-in-a-Toilet/Rebecca Gardner is a professional event planner, interior designer, and fashion mogul who operates at a high level. Her elite parties and luxurious accessories are highly esteemed by our social betters.Gardner's shop inc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/15/Just-Look-at-This-Radish-Hat/Dyer County in western Tennessee experienced severe flooding recently. WREG 3 News reports that at least one hundred people in the town of Bogota alone have been evacuated as tributaries that feed into the Mississippi Ri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/15/Family-Builds-Household-Levee-to-Protect-Home-from-Flood/We love medieval doodles, from meticulously illuminated manuscripts to ink paw prints, but especially the humorous images of rabbits and snails doing things you won't find in nature. You have to wonder about the circumst...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/14/The-Smithfield-Decretals-Where-the-Images-Are-Much-Better-Than-the-Text/The RMS Titanic sank on the night of April 14-15, 1912, 115 years ago today. There were 2,240 people aboard, but only 705 were rescued alive when the RMS Carpathia responded to the distress call. Later...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/14/The-Gruesome-Aftermath-of-the-iTitanici-Sinking/When we say a person has a big mouth, it means they talk too much or spill secrets they shouldn't. But some people really have mouths that are larger than normal. You can't tell that Marie Pearl Zellmer Robinson has a bi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/13/Having-a-Big-Mouth-Pays-Off-When-Its-a-World-Record/The Easter Bunny is a symbolic holiday character that doesn't make a lot of sense. What does a bunny rabbit and colored eggs have to do with the resurrection of Jesus? Nothing, actually. We often assume that the Christia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/13/The-Origins-of-the-Easter-Bunny-Arent-All-That-Ancient/Back in 1990, a new show called Law & Order arrived on our televisions. Was it a police procedural or a courtroom drama? The concept was both. One crime got split into two dramas: the part where the police f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/13/The-History-of-the-TV-Show-iLaw-Ordei-And-Its-Expanded-Universe/Yes, scientists could develop flying cars or genetically engineered slaves that would eventually conquer us. But who really needs those developments? We would be content if we could use urinals without getting pee on our...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/13/Using-Physics-to-Reduce-Urinal-Splashing/Being a soldier for France in the Légion Étrangère can be rough. The training and discipline are famously brutal. But the Legion takes care of its own. A 2021 article in France Today reports...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/13/The-Wines-of-the-French-Foreign-Legion/In 1777, John Brand, an English folklorist, published Observations on Popular Antiquities. In it, he described the customs of the people of England that might not be known among the upper classes of that nation....
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/13/The-English-Custom-of-the-Groaning-Cheese/Instant ramen noodles are great when you're hungry, but a handmade bowl of artisanal ramen is a dream come true. In Japan, ramen is the ultimate the ultimate comfort food, with filling noodles, delectable pork or other m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/12/In-Japan-Ramen-is-an-Art-Form/We know how the Nazis operated a system of concentration camps across occupied territory, to incarcerate, use as slave labor, and execute millions of Jews. Each one had its own story, but the notorious Bergen-Belsen camp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/12/Bergen-Belsen-Was-a-Unique-Horror-Among-Concentration-Camps/TikTok user xx..rayray..xx has trained her face into a tool that creates incredibly vivid expressions. Her eyes, eyebrows, cheeks, and mouth dance with precise and cartoonishly funny motions. Her timing is perfect, espec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/12/RayRays-Dancing-Face-Is-Mesmerizing/At one-time in the past, you would hear about bear-proof garbage bins, but no one uses the term bear-proof anymore because you'll see. The best we can do is to call them bear-resistant. But bears don't even like that ter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/11/Grizzle-Bears-Test-Bear-Resistant-Trash-Bins/
