Archive for November 3rd, 2020

What’s Your Favorite Horror Game?

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Spooky season might be over, but that doesn’t mean we can no longer engage in spooky activities! There’s no harm in playing a thriller or a...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/What-s-Your-Favorite-Horror-Game/

Building The Ultimate Breath Of The Wild Playhouse

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If my parents made me such a cool playhouse as a child - wait, scratch that. If someone builds me such an epic game-inspired playhouse or a small hut fo...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/Building-The-Ultimate-Breath-Of-The-Wild-Playhouse/

A New Approach to the Human-Brain Interface

How does the brain work? Nobody knows for sure. But we know that through the signals that our brain sends and receives, we can move, speak, and do many tasks within the day.Sophisticated imaging technologies like functio...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/A-New-Approach-On-The-Human-Brain-Interface/

New Amazon Patent Plans To Make All Toxic Gamers Play With Each Other

<p>It is a common experience to be matched up with or against a toxic player in an online game. Of course, we don’t like it when it happens. But we’re not quitters, and so we just bear with it u...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/New-Amazon-Patent-Plans-To-Make-All-Toxic-Gamers-Play-With-Each-Other/

The 55 Best Christmas Movies of All Time

We've reached the point where Christmas season begins as soon as Halloween is over. There are three houses on my drive home with holiday lights up already. In fact, I spent Halloween evening watching a Hallmark Christmas...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/The-55-Best-Christmas-Movies-of-All-Time/

Existential Troopers

It's long been a given among Star Wars fans that stormtroopers have terrible aim. This is, of course, necessary to keep the main protagonists alive, but over all these decades it's become altogether ridiculous...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/Existential-Troopers/

Dad Builds 50-Foot Long Pirate Ship for Halloween

Tony DeMatteo of Churchville, New York loves Halloween. Every year, his Halloween celebrations get bigger and better. He's been on a pirate theme since, three years ago, his daughter asked for a Pirates of the Caribb...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/Dad-Builds-50-Foot-Long-Pirate-Ship-for-Halloween/

The German-Japanese Village Where The Most Fearful Weapon Was Tested

The Allies were using jellied gasoline as an incendiary weapon at the beginning of World War II, but a shortage of the necessary ingredient latex drove the search for a substitute. That's when napalm was developed. We te...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/The-German-Japanese-Village-Where-The-Most-Fearful-Weapon-Was-Tested/

Is This Shower Hack Really X-Rated?

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hey, the mom just wanted to help out her kids who wanted to bring their iPhones in the shower. If her kids’ iPhones get broken,that would be expen...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/Is-This-Shower-Hack-Really-X-Rated/

No, That’s Not A Painting, That’s An Air Purifier!

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Designers never stop making new innovations, huh! On the latest edition of appliances trying to be as unobtrusive as possible, here’s the Sauberai...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/No-That-s-Not-A-Painting-That-s-An-Air-Purifier/

A Mason’s Hidden Portrait Found After 900 Years

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I’m sure the anonymous mason would have wanted his peers to find out about his masterpiece sooner than 900 years after, but hey, people found it!...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/A-Mason-s-Hidden-Portrait-Found-After-900-Years/

Should Daylight Saving Time Be Ditched?

Countries which observe Daylight Saving Time have switched their clocks back to standard time once again because it’s November. For almost a century, countries in Europe as well as North America have followed this...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/Should-Daylight-Saving-Time-Be-Ditched/

An Honest Trailer for National Treasure

The 2004 movie National Treasure made no sense whatsoever, but it was an action film that starred Nicolas Cage. As Screen Junkies points out, it also checks off all the necessary formula points for a blockbuster...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/An-Honest-Trailer-for-iNational-Treasurei/

The Native Alaskan High Kicking Contest

<p>Pictured above is a Native Alaskan participating in a high kicking contest from 1950. The object is to kick a leather ball hanging from several feet off the air. The ball is gradually raised until only t...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/The-Native-Alaskan-High-Kicking-Contest/

Japanese University Offers Ninja Studies Degree

<p>This past June, Mie University in central Japan graduated its first ninja. That's right, Genichi Mitsuhashi, who is pictured above, holds a master's degree in that field. He's chopping wood because farm...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/Japanese-University-Offers-Ninja-Studies-Degree/

People Leave Sticks On This Dog’s Gravestone Because He’s A Good Boy

The Green-Wood Cemetery is a cemetery located in Brooklyn, New York City. It is the resting place of many famous artists and musicians like Leonard Bernstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat. But of all the many famous figures b...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/People-Leave-Sticks-On-This-Dog-s-Gravestone-Because-He-s-A-Good-Boy/

Yemen’s Ancient ‘Manhattan Of The Desert’

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Yemen’s ancient city of Shibam, a UNESCO World Heritage site, has a big chance of collapse. The ancient city, also called the ‘Manhattan of...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/Yemen-s-Ancient-Manhattan-Of-The-Desert/

Platypuses Are Apparently Biofluorescent

We know that platypuses are weird enough that even scientists are baffled by their existence, but can these egg-laying mammals get any weirder? It turns out they can. When scientists put platypuses under UV light, they d...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/Platypuses-Are-Biofluorescent-Apparently/

The Pumps That Must Run Forever

The Ruhr Valley in Germany has been mined for coal for 170 years. Over that time, they took so much material out from underground that the surface sank, and now the valley is completely dependent on Emschergenossenschaft...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/The-Pumps-That-Must-Run-Forever/

The Overlooked Amendment

How long does it take an amendment to become part of the the US Constitution? However long it takes to be ratified by three-fourths of the states (that's 38 as of now)  ...unless there is a deadline attached to the...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/The-Overlooked-Amendmen/

Is This The World’s Prettiest Vegetable?

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Beauty is subjective, of course. You might look at Romanesco, a vegetable that looks like the prettier cousin of broccoli and cauliflower with its geome...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/Is-This-The-World-s-Prettiest-Vegetable/

Reviving America's Forgotten Boozy, Fruity Election Cake

Maia Surdam is a historian who runs a bakery. As such, she is delighted to bring back recipes from history. In 2016, she spurred a revival of the Election Cake, a traditional American recipe for an enormous cake shared a...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/Reviving-Americas-Forgotten-Boozy-Fruity-Election-Cake/

15 Cameos Played By The Relatives of Famous Actors

If you're the child of a Hollywood star, or a cousin or sibling, you might get to skip casting calls and auditions and go to work on set just like that. If your parent is a director or producer, you've got a very good ch...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/15-Cameos-Played-By-The-Relatives-of-Famous-Actors/

Green Spaces Could Reduce Rates of Smoking

<p>It would seem that living in green spaces is very beneficial for us. In <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-01/uoe-gsd010314.php" target="_blank">a study</a...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/11/03/Green-Spaces-Could-Reduce-Rates-of-Smoking/




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