In the 1960s, huge fiberglass advertising statues were erected across America, meant to draw attention and traffic to one business or another. These were called Muffler Men, since many of the 18- to 25-foot figures held...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/A-Gathering-of-Muffler-Men/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In the age comfort viewing for shows and films, where some are available with just a simple click on a streaming platform, there are a lot of original a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/Here-s-Why-People-Are-Still-Watching-Friends-and-The-Office-On-Loop-Amidst-Other-Choices/There have been no violent crimes about the ISS, as far as we know. But NASA is looking into whether astronaut Anne McClain may have crossed a legal line in communications from the International Space Station. McClain is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/NASA-Investigating-Possibly-the-First-Crime-in-Space/<p>It all began as a joke. Fraser Harvey, a regular customer at the Sensory Lab coffee shop in Melbourne, Australia taped a flier to the wall of his favorite cafe. It proclaimed him Customer of the Week.<...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/Cafe-Customers-Massively-Overreact-to-Non-Existent-Best-Customer-Contest/Nancy Tuttle, an artist in Oregon, makes extraordinarily vivid sculptures from driftwood. She finds monsters, fairies, beasts, and mages deep within the grains of wood. Tuttle carves eye-popping faces that direct their s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/Nancy-Tuttle-s-Outlandish-Driftwood-Sculptures/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">More than 140 meme-focused accounts on Instagram </span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/08/instagram-hiring-m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/Instagram-vs-Memers-The-Great-Memers-Purge-Of-2019/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">London-based visual artist Max Siedontopf’s latest series </span><a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/08/passport-photos-max...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/This-Is-The-Unexpected-Chaos-Beyond-The-Frame-Of-A-Passport-Photo/In 16th century Bavaria, a professional executioner named Frantz Schmidt kept a diary through most of his life. This left us an extraordinary opportunity to see the world through the eyes of a professional we mostly know...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/What-Was-It-Like-to-Be-an-Executioner-in-the-Middle-Ages/<p>“I cannot believe I am in a relationship with a Chinese guy. Chinese dudes were never my type,” says Jason Hung’s 28-year-old Muslim Indonesian girlfriend almost every other day.</p&...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/The-Cost-of-Dating-a-Chinese-Man-as-an-Indonesian-Woman/<blockquote><strong>"I just kept throwing my right hand to his balls."</strong></blockquote><p>Two muggers in Chicago experienced a major failure in the victim selection pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/Muggers-Attack-Female-Boxing-Champion-Get-Repeatedly-Punched-in-the-Groin/<p>Give a clever woman who has a propensity for puns <a href="https://www.boredpanda.com/sister-label-maker-wedding-gift/" target="_blank">a present that allows her to express her...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/Man-Gives-His-Sister-a-Label-Maker-for-Her-Wedding-and-She-Goes-Wild/<p>Bees contribute enormously to agriculture, as they are necessary for pollinating 75% of the world's crops, according to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style=...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/500-Million-Bees-in-Brazil-have-Died-within-3-Months-Raising-Concerns-about-the-World-s-Food-Supply/Cthulhu Finger Puppet and MagnetCall him the little Great Old One. Call him Cthulhu. Whatever you call him, don't call him late for dinner! Meet the Cthulhu Finger Puppet and Magnet available at the NeatoShop. With...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/Your-Cthulhu-Fridge-Friend/A US military plane crashed in New Guinea, in a remote area called Hidden Valley populated by unknown natives. There were no roads in or out, no place to land a plane, and the elevation was too high for a helicopter. Bes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/The-1945-New-Guinea-Rescue/<p>Cheryl Rogowski’s parcel of land in Pine Island, New York is down a steep slope that opens up into a wide view of the valley. The crops of this season are lettuce, epazote, cabbage, squash, cucumbe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/The-Black-Dirt-Onions-of-Pine-Island-New-York/<p>Miriam Pawel was not expecting to return to their tiny farm in Del Rey, California — at least, not every summer. Yet she found herself there once again, amidst the triple-degree heat in July for th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/Easy-To-Harvest-Hard-to-Grow/<p>Building houses for the homeless takes a lot of time and money. It is a slow and expensive process, and it gets slower and more expensive as the years pass by. Six developers, however, through their resp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/Some-Developers-in-L-A-Say-They-Can-Build-Homes-for-Homeless-People-Faster-and-Cheaper/<p>Child film and TV stars are no longer new to us. Like their predecessors, child stars on social media platforms also attract and fascinate audiences far and wide. Instagram and YouTube are expected to gr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/25/Kid-Influencers-on-Social-Media-Platforms-What-About-Them/
