A couple of years ago, Quinn at BlondiHacks thought it would make things easier for her if she got an automatic food dispenser for her cat Sprocket. While the amount of food Sprocket would get would be the same as she go...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/The-Battle-of-Wits-Between-a-Human-and-a-Cat/<p>The life of a musician is one fraught with challenges as they seek to hone their craft. Leo Driehuys had a promising career in Europe as an oboist and pianist. But he gave that up in exchange for <a h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Into-the-Life-of-Leo-Driehuys-How-a-Small-Group-of-Part-Time-Musicians-Became-a-Grand-Orchestra/<p>There are eighteen songs in Taylor Swift's new album "Lover" which has just been released and for some people, that might be overwhelming. Not to mention, the themes and subject matter that her...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Songs-from-Taylor-Swift-s-New-Album-Lover-Explained/<p>When I first watched the original Matrix trilogy, it got me thinking about the nature of our consciousness and the way we perceive reality apart from ourselves, and whether we can even rely on the inform...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/The-Matrix-Returns-Discussions-on-Reality-Artificial-Intelligence-and-a-Data-Centric-World/<p>NASA's human space flight program retired in 2011 as intended however, there haven't been any successors to the program since then. NASA has expressed their interest in renewing such programs and they ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Veteran-Astronauts-Train-To-Go-on-Boeing-s-Starliner-Spacecraft/What happens when a relatively unknown actor takes the villain's role in a movie that becomes a classic? It becomes hard for everyone from children up to casting directors to see you in any other kind of role. And that w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/The-Curse-of-Playing-the-Wicked-Witch-of-the-West/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Residents in Virginia woke up to a surprise gift at their front door - an old TV. The gift only gave birth to more questions and intrigue, as no one kne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Man-Dressed-As-An-Old-TV-Drops-Old-TVs-Outside-Homes-2/<p>As researchers find out more about our genetic material and come up with ways to engineer our genes to enhance certain traits or prevent certain diseases from emerging, the less we should worry about gen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Genetic-Medicine-May-Help-Prevent-Genetic-Diseases-But-At-What-Cost/<p>Humans would do anything to survive but we're not the only ones. Many animals have different strategies for survival and in this particular case, bobcats from southern Texas find an interesting place to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Bobcats-Find-Ways-to-Survive-Despite-Threats-of-Human-Encroachment/<p>Known for creating Monopoly and GI Joe, toy and board game company Hasbro, <a href="https://www.apnews.com/a38a0115205348c792ed4d69d578494d" target="_blank">for $4 billion</a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Hasbro-To-Own-Peppa-Pig/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Robb Manes called it “</span><em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Great Mattress Migration of 2019”. </em><sp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Gone-With-The-Wind-Mattresses-For-An-Outdoor-Movie-Event-Fly-Away-With-The-Strong-Wind/The tentpole series for the streaming TV service called Disney+ is The Mandalorian. He's not Boba Fett, nor Jango Fett, but another warrior from the same planet. According to Wikipedia, it takes place in the *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/The-Mandalorian-Trailer/On the surface, the job of a restaurant critic seems like heaven. You get paid to eat at restaurants. You may have the power to make or break a business. You get to express yourself. Great job, huh? Sure, but there's a l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Inside-the-Weird-World-of-Restaurant-Critics/<p>Have you ever used an e-scooter? They're a popular form of transportation in many urban environments. If you've ridden one recently, you may have noticed a message in Braille.</p><p>Don't wor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Why-Are-There-Braille-Messages-on-E-Scooters/<p>This rankles my librarian soul. On the other hand, a newly-minted <a href="http://www.ala.org/educationcareers/accreditedprograms/directory" target="_blank">library school</a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Unique-Profession-Personal-Book-Curator/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Who doesn’t love to throw pillows at friends or roommates during sleepovers or school trips? Japan takes the long-lasting tradition of pillow figh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Competitive-Pillow-Fighting-The-All-Japan-Pillow-Fighting-Championship/The lizard probably thought that it has its next lunch as he planned to lunge at a nearby praying mantis. However, the mantis decided to pull a cunning counterstrike hold the lizard’s jaws apart. One wou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/This-Praying-Mantis-Just-Made-Some-Serious-Martial-Arts-Move-On-A-Lizard/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Indiana State Police Sergeant Stephen Wheeles </span><a href="https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/08/20/Diaper-tossed-out-window-on-the-high...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Diaper-Hits-A-Trooper-s-Patrol-Car-After-Being-Tossed-Out-Of-A-Window/<p>Several analysts have already pointed out the dangers of the gig economy and how it verges on exploitation of workers. Despite being able to work anywhere and have more control over one's time, freelanci...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Confessions-of-a-Freelancer-Why-the-Gig-Economy-is-a-Capitalist-s-Dream-Come-True/<p>Then & Now Movie Locations is an amazing blog consisting of the travels of Paul, cinema fan, to the locations of famous movie scenes. <a href="http://www.thennowmovielocations.com/2019/08...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Movie-Locations-for-i-Return-of-the-Jedi-i/Starfleet Engineering Notebook Pocket Notebook We don't know where your voyage will take you, but we do know that you like to be prepared. You take pride in your work and your ship. Now you can look like the miracle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Starfleet-Engineering-Notebook-Pocket-Notebook/Arcangelo Ambrosi is an Italian woodworker who specializes in handcrafted smoking pipes. Each one is a whimsical work of art. Simple pieces of wood become fantastic beasts at play and work. For Ambrosi, the pipe "is an o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/The-Fantastic-Pipes-of-Arcangelo-Ambrosi/"When a mommy zombie and a daddy zombie love each other very much...." Well, no, zombies aren't real as a physical manifestation, but they are a real element of folklore and pop culture. Where did the idea come from? *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Where-Zombies-Come-From/To find a great restaurant in a faraway city, you'd turn to a travel guide. Before buying a car, you might check out J.D. Power. But if you wanted to find a good prostitute in 18th-century London, there was no better gui...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/The-18th-Century-Guide-to-Londons-Prostitutes/Morris Animal Refuge in Philadelphia posted pictures of their newest adoptable cat, Mr. B, and found themselves going viral. Beejay, or more formally Mr. B, is a large cat, a real megachonk, big-boned and meaty. He weigh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/24/Big-Chonk-Mr-B-is-a-Star-Needs-a-Home/
