You all have seen the viral "BBC Dad" clip, where Professor Robert Kelly's TV interview was gatecrashed by his two adorable little kids. But how would a working mom handle it? Why, she would take care of it without even batting an eye!
Now this is a backyard firepit fit for Conan the Barbarian! Forget firelogs - keep yourself warm with fires fueled by burning the skulls of your enemies. But there's no need to vanquish Thulsa Doom and his armies - you can buy these skull "logs" over at Amazon - via The Awesomer and Valhalla's Chosen.
We've showcased many light paintings on Neatorama before, but photographer Derek VanAlthuis took technique to the next level with this lovely photo of a Phoenix with wings of fire.
The tool used was based on Zach [Smidt]’s fire technique, which involves wrapping and stapling a 100% cotton t-shirt around a wooden dowel. The shirt is then soaked in BBQ fluid and then lit. I used this technique on my own wing-shaped tool to get the effect and look that I wanted.
It is important that your shirt is 100% cotton, any kind of blended fabrics can melt and cause burns. If you attempt this, PLEASE take all the proper precautions and be safe. I recommend wearing flame resistant gloves and shooting at a place with plenty of water nearby
In the movie The Godfather, Don Vito Corleone said that "A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."
But recently, an archbishop in Sicily has given the real world mafia an unmistakeable "Sicilian message" by banning them from becoming real godfathers and participating in baptisms.
"The mafia has always taken the term godfather from the Church to give its bosses an air of religious respectability," Archbishop Michele Pennisi said as reported by the BBC, "Whereas in fact, the two worlds are completely incompatible."
Pennisi, a vocal anti-mafia critic, decreed that anyone convicted of "dishonorable crimes" is banned from acting as a godparent.
We've posted about the quokka on Neatorama a couple of times before. If you haven't seen it before, however, its worth visiting instaquokka, an Instagram page dedicated to "the happiest animal on Earth." Instant mood lifter!
Seriously, folks - quokkas can't look sad or grumpy even if they tried. No wonder they love taking selfies!
Basketball isn't the only type of March Madness going on this month .. but we'd wager that you wouldn't guess the craze: turns out that March is also vasectomy season!
"We had Vasectomy Madness, so to speak," urology professor Dr. Kelly Chiles told The Washington Post.
"It is very, very busy, and we absolutely make extra room for it," Dr. David Gilley, a urologist at Urology of Indiana told Bob Kravitz of WTHR, "It's a very popular time – now and right at the end of the year when deductibles are met. It's more than double what we normally do."
Good marketing may have something to do with it. Jennifer Hargis of Urology of Indiana added that the practice aired ads promoting vasectomies as an excused vacation: Come on in, have the 45-minute procedure done, swallow an aspirin ... place a bag of frozen peas ..., kick back and tell the wife and kids you're not available for a couple of days.
Don't have two hours to watch the upcoming Disney's live action Beauty and the Beast?
Be our guest and watch this instead: a fantastic 5-minute Beauty and the Beast a capella medley by BYU Vocal Point, featuring Lexi Walker as Belle. You'll be happily humming the tunes for the rest of the week!
When wildlife expert Caitlin Raynor spotted a bird mesmerized by its own reflection in a window, she thought that people might be worried about what it was doing. So Raynor posted a little note that reads, "I'm a Bush Stone Curlew. I'm fine. I just like to stare at myself in the window."
Little did Raynor knew that she'd be launching the bird into Internet stardom, with images of the "Narcissist bird" rattled 'round the web. But Raynor said that the behavior was actually quite normal for this bird species.
"They're primarily nocturnal so they're not used to seeing their reflection," she told the BBC, "They're not being aggressive. They're just fascinated with the 'other bird' in the reflection."
If I were that cute, I'd stare at myself that much, too!
Whether you're a sunbathing human or seal seeking rest and refuge from the ocean, a spot on the beach sure can be hard to find. Aerial photographer Mike Page snapped this photo of thousands of seals and cormorants on Scroby Sands, a shoal off the coast of Great Yarmouth in England.
Page, 76, was flying over the sea near Great Yarmouth when he spotted something unusual around Scroby Sands. "‘So I thought we’ll go and investigate – well thousands and thousands of seals," the pilot said to Metro. "I've never seen so many in 40 years of flying."
Can you guess how many seals there are selling seashells by the seashore?
Embattled President Nicolas Maduro has sent government inspectors and soldiers into the bakeries of the country's capital in search for illegal brownies (no, not that kind) and other pastries, as part of a new "bread war."
Breadmakers blamed the government for the shortage of wheat, and the government has struck back with a rule that 90% of wheat must be made into loaves of bread instead of pastries.
During this week’s inspections, two men were arrested as their bakery was using too much wheat in sweet bread, ham-filled croissants and other products, the state superintendency of fair prices said in a statement sent to media on Thursday. ...
Another two were detained for making brownies with out-of-date wheat, the statement added, saying at least one bakery had been temporarily taken over by authorities for 90 days.
“Those behind the ‘bread war’ are going to pay, and don’t let them say later it is political persecution,” Maduro had warned at the start of the week.
I wonder what Marie Antoinette has got to say about Venezuela's anti-pastries rule.
Did you find a four-leaf clover this St. Patrick's Day? Was it Luck o' the Irish? ... Or was it science?
Four-leaf clover is rare: only about 1 in 10,000 clover plants grow four leaflets. But thanks to science, that may be changing.
Wayne Parrott, a researcher at the University of Georgia, has identified the area where the gene for the four-leaf trait is located in the genome of the common clover species. The gene itself is yet to be identified, Parrott pointed out to Inside Science, "You know it's inside this locked trunk and we don't have the key to open it."
Parrott didn't set out working on helping out St. Patrick's Day revellers - instead, he had focused on trying to breed clovers as ornamental plants. Unfortunately, rabbits love to munch on clovers, so Parrott's lab worked on creating rabbit-deterring clover which contained almost all four-leaf varieties.
You'd think that people would be happy to find Parrott's four-leaf clovers, but Parrott said that people's reaction was overwhelmingly negative. "We had taken the entire mystery and excitement out of it. The value comes from the fact that they're rare, and if they're not rare, it does take the fun out."
Meet Carmelo AKA Fray Bigotón or "Friar Mustache," an abandoned stray schnauzer who just joined (er, adopted by) a Franciscan monastery in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
"His life is all about playing and running," fellow friar Jorge Fernandez told The Dodo. "Here, all of the brothers love him very much. He is a creature of God."
What time is it? Don't ask kids ages 6 to 12 in one Oklahoma City school to read analog clocks, because chances are, they can't.
Caitlin Carnes of Boys & Girls Club at Santa Fe South Elementary was working to teach kids in after-school program, when she realized that 4 out of 5 kids didn't have any ideas on how to read analog clocks:
"I think the exposure to technology, everyone's so used to seeing digital," Carnes told KFOR. "They all have cell phones and tablets so they don't have to look at a clock very often that's analog."
My kids didn't even need to look at digital clocks - they just ask Siri what time it is ...
Oakland, California, resident Phoebe Calef noted that someone recently cut down a tree near her home and turned it into a rustic chair ... and the perfect canvas to bring the last lines of Shel Silverstein's classic children's book "The Giving Tree" to life.