If all you know about working at a museum comes from Ross on the TV series Friends or the movie Night at the Museum, then you don’t really know what it’s like to work at a museum. Museums va...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/12-Behind-the-Scenes-Secrets-of-Museums/People tend to forget that Japan isn't called Japan in Japanese (it's called Nihon) or that Germany is actually the Budesrepublik Deutschland to the Germans, but these endonyms are an important part of a country's identi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/Map-Shows-Countries-As-Named-In-Their-Own-Languages/Okay, I admit it, all my knowledge of high culture comes from Bugs Bunny cartoons. Some of yours probably does, too. Bugs has been around so long it isn’t easy to find out where he really started, and his influence...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/Bugs-Bunny-The-Origins-of-an-American-Icon/The Dudeoir photo trend has brought us some amazing(ly hairy) moments we'll likely never forget, and a few which were so horrific they made us want to burn out our eyeballs.But the average dudes who dare to get sexy and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/Dudeoir-Photography-Back-To-The-Beach-Edition/Wubba Lubba Doo! by RaffitiRick has gone to all kinds of far out places thanks to his Microverse Battery powered ship, but for some reason he felt most at home in the Stone Ages. Maybe he watched too many episodes of th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/Wubba-Lubba-Doo-Wipe-That-Dinosaur-Crap-Off-Your-Feet-Before-You-Come-In/Violet Ogea is two years old, but she’s destined to become a star. She’s singing the alphabet song as if it’s opening night at the Metropolitan Opera. People have compared her singing to Barbra Streisan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/A-Serious-Performance-of-The-Alphabet-Song/It's safe to say our gorgeous National Parks are some of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States, and in accordance with the American dream they're best experienced while on a road trip.In honor of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/Data-Scientist-Creates-Perfect-Road-Trip-Map-To-See-Every-National-Park/Remy noticed a trend in broadcast journalism, particularly CNN, that everyone else has also noticed and wrote a clever song about it. If that’s not the formula for a viral video, I don’t know what is.[https:/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/This-is-CNN/A marine ecology department team from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada conducted a research dive to study starfish off the coast of Bamfield when students Tella Osler and Beau Doherty came across somet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/Researchers-Find-Camera-With-Working-Memory-Card-At-Shipwreck-Site/Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world. We’ve posted about the island before. Now you can take a little tour of island life with Stewart McPherson. Resident Harold Green says it’s q...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/Life-on-Tristan-da-Cunha/The Joker is an iconic comic book character and it's not surprising that some actors with a geeky side long to play the villian. Most notably, Robin Williams almost got to play The Joker in the 1989 film, but Jack Nicolo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/Actors-Who-Almost-Played-the-Joker/Have you ever had a moment of panic when you heard about a food recall and realized it was something you had in your home? Often, recalls are limited to a particular production run from a relatively small manufacturing p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/The-10-Biggest-Food-Recalls-in-US-History/Mexican jumping beans are a prank store classic- a packet full of “beans” that move and jump around on their own which pranksters use to startle their victims.They're generally sold without explanation or lis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/The-Reason-Mexican-Jumping-Beans-Jump/The following article is from Uncle John’s Factastic Bathroom Reader.While researching an article on taxidermy recently, we discovered Carl Akeley, a man widely considered to be a pioneer in the field...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/Carl-Akeley-The-Great-White-Hunter/[https://youtu.be/MN23lFKfpck] (YouTube link)When pop songs all started sounding the same to me, I though it was just because I was getting old. But according to musician Patrick Metzger, it may be because there’s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/The-Millennial-Whoop/Anatomy of an Axolotl by Sophie CorriganMost people can't even spell axolotl, much less know what it is, but that hard to spell little critter is actually a pretty interesting specimen. They sport ferns on their heads,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/30/Anatomy-Of-An-Axolotl-A-Spelling-And-Biology-Lesson-In-One/
