A dumpster-diving teenager found a notebook in 1970 and kept it for many years. It was full of varied and detailed illustrations, but the artist was not named. The only clue as to its provenance was the fact that it was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/07/The-Curious-Case-of-the-Notebook-from-State-Lunatic-Asylum-No3/<p>It is a truth universally acknowledged that all things are improved with the addition of bagpipes. Thus it is right and meet that managers of a McDonald's restaurant in Sacramento, California are bringin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/07/Thoughtful-McDonald-s-Restaurant-Playing-Loud-Bagpipe-Music-24-Hours-a-Day/<p>One of the better Second of Video a Day projects out there -- you can watch the wedding get planned, go down on Memorial Day (exact middle of the year) and then the honeymoon and the couple living togeth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/07/Man-Records-One-Second-of-Video-Every-Day-the-Year-He-Got-Married/It doesn't matter that you aren't a Phish fan, you'll enjoy this story. Phish played an elaborate New Year's Eve concert at Madison Square Garden in which each band member was elevated on a separate platform high above t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/07/Spinal-Tap-in-Real-Life/In traditional Western culture, women's fashions change with the seasons, as fast as designers can produce something women will buy and wear. Men's fashions, on the other hand, change glacially. The basic suit and tie ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/07/The-Anti-Imperialist-History-of-the-Untucked-Shirt/You've probably seen this photograph somewhere on the internet in the last couple of weeks. It appears that the devil himself is rising from the ocean. Is it an omen? Maybe. Is it a Photoshop? No. Amateur astrophotograph...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/07/Behind-the-Evil-Sunrise-Photograph/You already know that the first child born via in-vitro fertilization (IVF) was Louise Brown in 1978. She was the result of research that went back to the 1940s. Dr. John Rock (who would later develop the birth control p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/07/The-Scientist-Who-Changed-Fertility-Forever/Victor Ribeiro made a simple city builder web toy called Iso City that lets you place streets, buildings, and trees wherever you want by clicking your selection and then clicking on the grid. The neighborhood I construct...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/07/Iso-City/If you truly want to be both economical and environmentally-friendly, the best thing you can do with a car is to drive it forever. That negates the manufacture of a new car somewhere, and avoids car payments for you. If...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/07/Low-Budget-Habits-And-Goofy-Tricks-I-Use-To-Keep-Old-Cars-Alive-Longer/The world is full of wonders, and that includes some that even scientific research hasn't figured out yet. But curious scientists are working on them. Some are fairly inaccessible and difficult to study, some have been s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/07/7-Mysterious-Geological-Formations-That-Still-Baffle-Scientists/
