People around the world have stereotypes of Americans. We're overweight, rich, armed, loud, and we smile all the time. An exaggeration, of course, but Americans do smile more than other cultures. Why is that? Surely we a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Why-Do-Americans-Smile-So-Much/[https://youtu.be/I6IO1iY1hQI] (YouTube link)Mazzy is two-and-a-half years old, but she is learning to cook. She even has a cooking show on YouTube! In this video, she helps her daddy make boba milk tea. It's a pretty st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Mazzy-Makes-Boba-Milk-Tea/In case you need a little more nightmare fuel, scientists have been studying a fish eyeball parasite. Diplostomum pseudospathaceum infects a fish's eye as a larva. While the larva grows, it causes the fish to sw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Parasite-Living-Inside-Fish-Eyeball-Controls-Its-Behavior/As someone who has worked third shift, and even now naps in the daylight hors, I consider blackout blinds a miracle. They sure beat taping aluminum foil over the windows (which I never did, but had to live with at one ti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Cityscape-Blinds/Flooding this week in Reyno, Arkansas, brought the river up as high as the bridge. That spelled trouble for a cabin that was floating downstream. It became stuck between a rock and a hard place. That is, between the rush...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Cabin-in-a-Flood/Kill Them All by Tom TragerWhen the Titans returned and started their all out attack against the city people began to fear for their lives, and when twenty percent of the population was lost in an effort to halt their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Kill-Them-All-Were-Just-As-Bloodthirsty-As-The-Titans/It must be really frustrating to ship a product which the delivery companies see as unbreakable because they stop handling your package with care and therefore make you look bad to your customers.So in order to make sure...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Bicycle-Company-Disguises-Their-Shipments-As-Flat-Screen-TVs-To-Avoid-Shipping-Damage/If you need an excuse to watch the trailer for The Last Jedi again, we've got you covered. For Star Wars Day, Antonio Toscano (previously at Neatorama) redid the trailer for The Last Jedi in LEGO.[https...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/The-Last-Jedi-Trailer-Remade-in-LEGO/(Image Link)Full grown hippos can be fearsome and dangerous creatures despite their pleasantly plump appearance and the fact that they look like they're smiling when they open their maws, but baby hippos are just plain a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Let-These-Photos-Of-Baby-Hippos-Cure-What-Ails-You/Jürgen Horn and Mike Powell are in Saigon For 91 Days. They got to take a peek at the Tay Son lacquer factory, which turned out to be more of an artist's studio than what we normally think of as a factory. They were...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/The-Tay-Son-Lacquer-Factory/The Gong Show is one of the most bizarre TV competition shows ever made, so it's only natural that the producers of the show's reboot would want to capture the bizarre and manic energy of the original.But here's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Will-Arnett-Introduces-New-Gong-Show-Host-Tommy-Maitland/For Star Wars Day, BL Burgers in Australia is offering a limited edition burger called "Return of the Chedi." For $17 (not that outrageous in Australia) you get a beef patty, smoked cheese kransky (that's a sausage), two...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Star-Wars-Burger-Return-of-the-Chedi/When you first see the image above you probably just think "cute little girl with a creepy look on her face", and if you look a little closer you'll notice her neck and upper torso look odd.But aside from the creepy look...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/This-Little-Girl-Is-Not-What-She-Seems/With eight movies now, the Star Wars cast has grown considerably. And they all went to school when they were young. Wasn't Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi) a cutie with his French horn? See more of the Star Wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/A-Collection-of-Star-Wars-Cast-Member-Yearbook-Photos/Looking to write the next big alien thriller but need a few ideas to get you going? Then you won't want to miss this plot generator Wired created using two James Gunn films and two Ridley Scott creations. Of course, you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Create-Your-Own-Scifi-Thriller-With-This-Handy-Plot-Generator/This year marks the 40th anniversary of Star Wars. The world has changed a lot in those years, so it's nice to have a familiar world of light side vs. dark side, Jedi vs. Sith, and Rebel vs. Empire to submerge o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Space-Adventures/Parallel World by daletheskaterYou know that song about the guy who has the whole world in his hands? Well, Newt has something even cooler- he has a magical world full of fantastic beasts tucked away inside his suitca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Parallel-World-A-Wizards-Suitcase-Is-A-Fantastic-Place-To-Visit/Neatorama is proud to bring you a guest post from Ernie Smith, the editor of Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. In another life, he ran ShortFormBlog.(Image credit: Flickr user Rom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/Ill-Have-Water-Please/The real estate market is ridiculous these days. Even a dump costs way more than it should. What can a young adult do if they want to buy their own home? Save, shop, and still be rejected. The choices are unaffordable or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/04/The-Millennial-Home-Buyer/
