In the last few days before the season premiere of Game of Thrones, HBO teases us with an alternate version of the show’s intro. And it’s interactive! Nudge the scene around and you’ll see it&r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/Game-of-Thrones-Opening-Credits-360-Video/Snapchat is a social media app that lets people share photos. It includes fun filters that let users edit the images, such as giving people animal ears.Twitter user @twentyonedorks applied them to her hamster, Murphy. No...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/Snapchat-Filters-on-a-Hamster/You may’ve heard the story: Atari was so ashamed of the horrible game they released based on the movie E.T.: The Extraterrestrial that in 1983, they buried the existing supply of cartridges at a landfill i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/Uncovering-the-Legendary-Buried-Atari-Games-of-New-Mexicos-Chihuahuan-Desert/(Photo: Studio Sebert)In the deuterocanonical Book of Judith, the pious Judith cuts of the head of the Assyrian general Holofernes. In the Sixteenth Century, the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/Family-Finds-Long-Lost-Caravaggio-Painting-in-Their-Attic/When Tony Stark realized he could create specialized suits of armor that would help him take down the biggest and baddest opponents in the Marvel Universe he went to town.He made Hulkbuster suits, Hydro Armor for superhe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/When-Iron-Man-Armor-Becomes-A-Bit-Too-Specialized/(Image: McAndrew and Koehnke)What does it mean to be creepy? We recently looked at cartoon illustrations. Now let's look at the science of creepiness. Francis T. McAndrew and Sara S. Koehnke of Knox College recently publ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/The-Psychology-of-Creepiness/The most common story about the origin of the ice cream cone has its debut at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. A waffle maker was set up next to an ice cream vendor when the vendor ran out of ice cream cups. The wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/The-Murky-History-of-the-Ice-Cream-Cone/Cockatoupee by Sophie CorriganPlumage is a mighty important part of bird life, so when you start going bald on top it can really put a crimp in your cockatoo style. That's why the Pretty Birdy company out of Walla Walla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/Cockatoupee-Never-Let-Them-See-You-Molt/Chaco the Owl lives a quiet, domesticated life. But this only conceals his inner cowboy who is ready for wild west adventures. He mounts his trusty steed, which is a singing toy horse, and prepares to battle gunfighters,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/Owl-Riding-a-Toy-Horse/We got to see a few minutes of some old friends in The Force Awakens: R2D2 and C-3PO. But the golden droid had a red arm! What’s up with that? We were told the answer would be revealed in a Marvel comic bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/Why-C-3PO-Has-One-Red-Arm/(Photo: Tom Phillips)What's in a snout? A lot. Jon Tennant, a doctoral researcher at Imperial College London, surveyed the shapes of the snouts of different cud-chewing animals. He found that both blunt and pointed snout...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/You-Can-Tell-a-Lot-about-an-Animal-by-Its-Snout/If there is one thing that the internet generation has in common, it’s Star Wars. From the first movie in 1977, kids have enjoyed the movies, toys, clothing, decor, and most of all, the make-believe play f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/I-Grew-Up-Star-Wars/Phil Collins has been making music for over forty years and yet he still manages to garner new fans every time he releases a new album, even if that new fan connection is sometimes facilitated by cartoons.But Phil's look...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/Phil-Collins-Recreates-Original-Album-Covers-With-His-2016-Face/[https://youtu.be/TkVsdsIn3EA] (YouTube link)John Green returns to the mental_floss List Show this week to tell us about strange wedding traditions. These traditions come from all over and different periods in history. I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/21-Weird-Wedding-Traditions/Censorship is scary, and too much censorship results in very normal human things becoming alien and terrifying to eyes which have been shielded from the truth for too long.But in the case of the collection known as the F...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/The-FSA-Black-Hole-Photographs-Censorship-As-Accidental-Art/Inky the Octopus was a popular exhibit at the National Aquarium in Napier, New Zealand, since 2014. But Inky no longer lives there, as the aquarium has revealed that he made his escape earlier this year. One day, staff n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/The-Great-Octopus-Escape/(Jim Benton)Of course, thanks to the internet, you can have the full range of interpersonal experiences while remaining at home. You don't need to actually see people to get to know their personalities. Jus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/Be-a-People-Person/[https://youtu.be/Wpjk0oGjiME] (YouTube link)Warning: earworm. Toronto musician Aaron Ridge (@Dopeusmaximus) had a little fun on Snapchat by constructing a song around cooking a meal, Disney-style. He assembled all the p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/Steak-and-Eggs/Rock Paper Scissors by SamielThere are certain people you don't want to compete against in a game of rock-paper-scissors, because they'll wrap you up, smash you out and cut you down to size so fast you won't even rememb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/Rock-Paper-Scissors-Dont-Let-His-Bladed-Hands-Fool-You/(Image Link)Working in the hospitality industry can be grueling, demeaning, and downright disgusting, but at least those who are exposed to humanity's gross side have some amazing stories to tell! When I was a housekeep...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/Hotel-Worker-Horror-Stories-That-Will-Turn-Your-Stomach/Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.It was sometime in 1934 and the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico and Harpo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/A-Night-at-the-Opera-the-Marx-Brothers-Masterpiece/(Photo: Diego Delso)It's called an income-share agreement (ISA). Selected students at Purdue University in Indiana can offer shares of their future earnings in exchange for money for tuition now. If a student earns littl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/Instead-of-Taking-out-Student-Loans-You-Can-Sell-Shares-of-Future-Earnings/Embed from Getty Images You’ve read our reports on more than one robot restaurant opening in Asia. After a few years and a few more restaurants trying the concept, it looks like the robot apocalypse has been...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/13/Chinese-Restaurants-Fire-Robot-Servers/Teens have always participated in the latest trends in order to fit in with their peers, and whether it's the latest style of clothing, music or food product, teens will always follow the trends no matter how stupid.The...
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