It's a modern tradition for Jewish people to eat at a Chinese restaurant on Christmas (and then go to the movies). You might have assumed that it's because Chinese restaurants are open on Christmas Day, and are less crow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/The-Fascinating-History-Behind-Why-Jewish-Families-Eat-Chinese-Food-on-Christmas/Janelle Shane (previously at Neatorama) tried to train a neural network to understand cookie recipes, with varying success. In this picture you see some of the new cookies it came up with. One neural network I use,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/Artificial-Intelligence-Cookies/Often, we see geniuses and other intellectually gifted people in media portrayed as weirdos, who have certain eccentricities that make them stand out in the minds of other people. They may be awkward but they do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/Josiah-Gregg-s-Last-Journey-An-Expedition-to-Uncharted-Californian-Wilderness-in-the-Gold-Rush-Era/We have all been stuck in traffic and it is pretty annoying. But there doesn't seem to be a system that could ease our agony and suffering from heavy traffic and traffic jams. If only we could have flying cars...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/Can-AI-Help-Solve-Traffic-Jams/Looking at outer space and our universe really feels like a dream. It seems like a distant place, too far from our reach. But with the expeditions being sent out into different parts of space, we are able to see...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/Dive-Over-Jupiter-s-Cloud-Tops-with-NASA-s-Juno-Craft/Artist Matthew Plummer Fernandez created this monstrosity entitled 'Every Mickey' by combining every model of Mickey he could find online into one 3D printed sculpture. via [Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net/2...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/A-Terrifying-3D-Model-of-Every-Mickey-Mouse-Found-Online/On Wednesday [Fast Company](https://www.fastcompany.com/90278206/the-hot-new-conference-swag-favored-by-lyft-wordpress-and-twitter) published an article revealing that vegetables and fruits embossed with logos ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/Branded-Fruit-Is-The-Hottest-New-Tech-Company-Trend/It has almost been 50 years since man touched the surface of the moon and many other interstellar missions have been conducted since then. We have reached Mars, the Sun, and even Jupiter. Going to the outskirts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/A-Quick-Look-at-Every-Apollo-Mission-in-History/Einstein's name is synonymous to genius. His fame is known the world over for his revolutionary ideas in physics. But nobody told us he had [a very interesting backstory](https://qz.com/work/1494627/einstein-on-t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/Einstein-s-Miracle-Year-How-He-Produced-Four-Groundbreaking-Papers-in-a-Year/This video of a wild turkey chasing a small child is hilarious. We're bad people for thinking it, we're OK with that, & we're not wrong - it is hilarious. It turns out the turkey is a well known terror in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/Hilarious-Video-Of-A-Wild-Turkey-Chasing-A-Small-Child/If you ever wanted your home to smell like delicious fried chicken for the Holidays, and lots of people apparently do, KFC has made your dreams come true with the KFC Firelog. Unfortunately, it's already sold out...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/KFC-Made-Scented-Firelogs-They-Sold-Out-Almost-Immediately/This is a short amazing video of Yolka, the helpful eagle owl, waiting at caretaker Nika Zubra's window to deliver a letter. Based on the amazing penmanship, I can only assume it's for official Hogwarts business....
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/Patient-Owl-Waits-At-Window-To-Deliver-A-Letter/We all have regrets, what ifs, and other things that we wish we could change in the past. If only we could go back and do things differently. A lot of people have asked the question of whether time travel into...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/Traveling-Back-Into-the-Past-Is-It-Just-Fiction-or-Can-It-Be-Reality/With a volume of 13 million cubic meters, Boeing's Everett Factory is by far the biggest building in the world. That would be enough to fit 13 Wembley Stadiums. The Everett Factory is where Boeing produces its j...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/Life-Inside-Boeing-s-Everett-Factory-the-Biggest-Building-in-the-World/Science has proven that no living thing will ever be happier than this chinchilla enjoying his massage. Via [Jukin](https://www.aol.co.uk/video/view/chinchilla-rabbit-enjoys-a-massage/5c135d5f8fcaa975fb03c69d/?g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/Chinchilla-Enjoys-Massage-More-Than-Anything-Has-Enjoyed-Anything-Ever/It might sound exciting to put on a completely different face and identity but it takes a whole lot of effort to actually get into character. The business of disguise for spies is actually very dangerous work....
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/Former-CIA-Chief-Explains-How-Spies-Use-Disguises/We have dug up quite a lot of artifacts dating from the Stone Age but this might be the first time that we have seen a chewed up tar that could very well be from that era containing human DNA. >Ancient DNA fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/Ancient-Chewing-Gum-Contains-Traces-of-Human-DNA-Which-Could-Show-What-Life-Was-Like-in-the-Stone-Age/For some of us, after a hard day's work whether in the office, at school, or at home, we deserve some much needed rest. Having good sleeping habits can do wonders for our physical, emotional, and mental well-bein...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/To-Sleep-or-Not-to-Sleep/This Samoyed Enzo is perfectly comfortable in the snow, & repeatedly refuses requests from his owner to come inside, even while he slowly turns into a giant snowball. Via [Digg](http://digg.com/video/dog-re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/Dog-Refuses-To-Come-Inside-Slowly-Turns-Into-A-Giant-Snowball/Visitors in Jackson Hole, Wyoming recently got to experience nature in an up close & personal way when a huge bull moose got a little too close for comfort while checking them out. Via [Viral Hog](https://w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/17/Curious-Gigantic-Bull-Moose-Gets-Very-Close-To-Car/
