Archive for March 8th, 2020

Sleeping With the Devil: Medieval Illuminations of Demonic Sex

In early Arthurian legend, Merlin was the product of a conception between a demon and a virtuous sleeping woman. This idea was apparently popular, as it made its way into a lot of medieval art. The devil could be blamed...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/Sleeping-With-the-Devil-Medieval-Illuminations-of-Demonic-Sex/

How Long Should You Wash Your Hands?

<p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The spread of Coronavirus has caused a spread of misinformation as to how people can avoid catching the contagious...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/How-Long-Should-You-Wash-Your-Hands/

World’s First Cephalopod Atlas

<p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Carl Chun led a deep-sea expedition in 1898 that led to findings that contradicted the belief that life could not...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/World-s-First-Cephalopod-Atlas/

Coffee Alarm Clock

<p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The best way to wake up in the morning is with a cup of coffee. That means that we have to muster our strength to...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/Coffee-Alarm-Clock/

Cat Sneaks Into This Family’s Car Amidst Morning Chaos

Another day, another hectic morning for Melina Marama Waite and her family. Unbeknownst to her, this seemingly ordinary day would turn out to be a crazy one. As she loaded all of her kids inside the car, she did not noti...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/Cat-Sneaks-Into-This-Family-s-Car-Amidst-Morning-Chaos/

The Woman Who Found a Snail in Her Soda and Launched a Million Lawsuits

Many times we've heard about personal injury lawsuits as examples of overreaction and entitlement, with the most famous example being the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit. Often the facts behind these "frivolous lawsuit" ca...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/The-Woman-Who-Found-a-Snail-in-Her-Soda-and-Launched-a-Million-Lawsuits/

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Here is a glorious example from 1941 of how to name a club. You can imagine what their meetings are like, but experience shows that a meeting of like-minded people does not necessarily have to stick to the subject. You'l...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/PPPPPPPPPP/

A Statistics Professor Trolls His Students

<p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A college student was looking for her statistics class’ online materials when she found a link that was surp...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/A-Statistics-Professor-Trolls-His-Students/

Sailor Moon Boots Spotted!

<p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Want to dress up like your childhood cartoon character idol? Here's good news for you: t</span>hese cute pairs of Sailor Moon sho...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/Sailor-Moon-Boots-Spotted/

The 2020 Minnesota State High School All Hockey Hair Team

It's that time of year! Time to announce the 11th annual Minnesota State High School All Hockey Hair Team. The YouTuber known as Game On! Minnesota considered retiring from making the list, but the hair pulled him back i...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/The-2020-Minnesota-State-High-School-All-Hockey-Hair-Team/

The Anger of Niche Twitter

please tell me about an extremely niche section of twitter that you never knew existed until you made them angry. one time i made Feed Swans Bread Twitter angry after i suggested food alternatives. FOR MONTHS I got ang...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/The-Anger-of-Niche-Twitter/

The Brothers Who Documented The Construction of NYC’s Subway

<p>Being a photographer is a difficult job. You’d have to go to uncomfortable places and shoot at inconvenient angles just to capture the perfect shot. This was the same experience that the brothers P...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/The-Brothers-Who-Documented-The-Construction-of-NYC-s-Subway/

Apparently, Coffee Won’t Make Us Creative

<p>Caffeine is popularly known to enhance creativity. It seems that this claim is not true, however, according to this new study. But while it may not enhance creativity, <a href="https://www.fastco...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/Apparently-Coffee-Won-t-Make-Us-Creative/

Davie504 Finally Eats Pineapple Pizza

On his laugh reveal, Italian YouTuber Davie504 announced to his followers that on reaching 6 million subscribers, he will be eating pineapple pizza, which, as you may know, is something Italians really hate. True to his...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/Davie504-Finally-Eats-Pineapple-Pizza/

A Scientific Adviser On Contagion Said People Should Have Taken The Film More Seriously

When Tracey McNamara was a veterinarian at the Bronx Zoo, she was part of the team that discovered West Nile Virus. Later, she was tapped as a science advisor for the 2011 movie Contagion. McNamara, now a profes...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/A-Scientific-Adviser-On-iContagioni-Said-People-Should-Have-Taken-The-Film-More-Seriously/

Otter Disbelief

Oh man, they sent a camera-equipped robot otter out into a river to film a colony of real otters! The otters are kind of baffled, but soon get used to the weird stranger. The BBC TV series Spy in the Wild got so...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/Otter-Disbelief/

Couple Makes Fake Lap For Their Cat

This cat named Ziggy loves to sit on his owners’ laps and snuggle them. But when Alex and Rebecca (Ziggy’s owners) became busy as they transitioned to working at home, Ziggy snuggling them became a bit of a p...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/08/Couple-Makes-Fake-Lap-For-Their-Cat/




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