What's left of the British Empire is no longer a monarchy, technically. The government is run as a democracy, although the British have retained the royal family anyway, and the Queen has many duties. They are mostly cer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/Could-Queen-Elizabeth-Get-Away-with-Murder-Legally/All that sleeping and eating may make your cat a little chubby. However, there’s finally a way to get your lazy cat to exercise (and enjoy it)! >Called The Little Cat, the smart treadmill isn’t th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/Treadmill-For-Kitties/Researchers have found that humpback whales that are separated by almost 3000 miles have been [remixing each other’s songs!]( https://mymodernmet.com/male-humpback-whale-songs/) These whales usually tend to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/Humpback-Whales-The-Oceans-DJs/It's not often that a top-rated TV series is cancelled unceremoniously, but strange things happened in the 1960's, and in this case the victim was the series _The Wild Wild West_(TWWW). TWWW premiered in 1965, t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/The-Wild-Wild-West/Which condiments, syrups, and sauces do you really need to keep in the refrigerator? Your bottle of ketchup says "refrigerate after opening," but diners leave ketchup on their tables all day long. Americans keep mustard...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/Which-Condiments-Need-to-be-Refrigerated/British explorer Robert Falcon Scott wanted to lead the first expedition to the South Pole. In January of 1912, he made it to the Pole, but Norwegian Roald Amundsen's team left evidence that they had been there in Decemb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/The-Deadly-Race-to-the-South-Pole/The plant named Monstera deliciosa presents a conundrum: how can a plant be a monster and delicious, too? In this case, Monstera means monstrous size, but deliciosa means just what you'd think....
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/Monstera-Deliciosa-the-Risky-But-Delicious-Fruit/A ball of yarn gets a corporate office job in this new short from Pixar. She tries her very best to fit in with the bro culture, but it ain't easy. Is acceptance from these guys really worth it?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/Purl/Shocking, I know. But researchers have looked into various data from multiple studies that tried to compare whether eating or skipping breakfast could help lose weight and increase metabolic rates throughout the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/Breakfast-Not-the-Most-Important-Meal-of-the-Day/We have done much progress in the field of psychology and research has helped us uncover many disorders and imbalances that occur in our personality, our thought processes, and our overall mental state. But bac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/Dr-Watson-s-Infant-Experiments/The custom of waiting for everybody to be seated on the table and have their food served before eating is a deep part of Asian culture. There are various reasons why such norms are considered sacred in differen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/The-Unspoken-Rule-of-Asian-Dining-Etiquette/Astronomers have recently detected space debris that is moving erratically, almost randomly much like the nickname it was given, an 'empty trash bag' drifting in space. [The object is called A10bMLz.](https://www...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/The-Floating-Empty-Trash-Bag-In-Space/Though black holes have been enigmatic things to say the least, we are not completely in the dark about them. In fact, [black holes aren't really as terrifying as we would think them to be.](https://www.livescien...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/Stunning-Computer-Simulation-of-Black-Holes-Shooting-Plasma-Jets/Once upon a time, long, long ago, when _Saturday Night Live_ was actually funny (there really was such a time, honest), one of its recurring sketches involved a clay character known as Mr. Bill. From Wikipedia:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/The-Life-and-Times-and-Deaths-of-Mr-Bill-1976-1982/Wanna go to Mars? Well, do you think someone should do it? We know we can get there, because we've sent robots. Right now, getting back is a problem, but we'll figure that out eventually. As it is, the first peo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/Building-a-Mars-Base-is-a-Horrible-Idea-Lets-Do-It/When I saw the title of this video, I thought of Badfinger, the band that had a Beatles sound because some of their hits were produced by Paul McCartney and George Harrison. But this is the story of Klaatu, a band that c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/The-Band-Everyone-Thought-Was-The-Beatles/The folks at Bad Lip Reading do this every year. We don't know what the NFL players, coaches, and refs are really saying, so random guesses will do, as long as they fit the lips. Don't watch this while drinking liquid!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/A-Bad-Lip-Reading-of-The-NFL-2019/Depending on your age, you might know Howie Mandel best as a judge on America's Got Talent, or as the host of the game show Deal or No Deal, or from his frenetic early standup comedy, or when he took hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/04/How-A-Pathological-Fear-Of-Germs-Helped-Launch-Howie-Mandels-Career/
