Archive for December 29th, 2020

An Honest Trailer for 2020

If 2020 were a movie, this is what it would be. And the critics would have a field day with the believability factor. Screen Junkies takes movies we've seen and tells us everything that's wrong with them in their Honest...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/An-Honest-Trailer-for-2020/

When Your Outfit Is Made Illegal

Through most of history in general, rich people wore nice clothing and poor people wore what they could afford. But sometimes, an ambitious person from a lower social station could become wealthy and dress in expensive g...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/When-Your-Outfit-Is-Made-Illegal/

Mushroom Pipe

Arcangelo Ambrosi, a craftsman of smoking pipes, recently made this whimsical mushroom. It's composed of maple with an acrylic mouthpiece. I can imagine Papa Smurf or, perhaps, the Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderlan...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/Mushroom-Pipe/

Pugilism on the Plains

In the Roaring Twenties, boxing was huge. There were reputations and money to be made, and people came out of the woodwork to watch their favorites go at each other. In Shelby, Montana, real estate developer (and the may...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/Pugilism-on-the-Plains/

Celebrate New Year's Eve with a Friendly Game of Chess

In 1995, a group of four chess enthusiasts were devastated when their opponents took their queen in a very public New Year's Eve match at Madison Square Garden. Exactly 25 years later, they are staging a rematch, online...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/Celebrate-New-Years-Eve-with-a-Friendly-Game-of-Chess/

Santa's Alternatives to Flying Reindeer

Rosemary Mosco, a naturalist, science writer, and cartoonist, proposes that Santa consider replacing his reindeer with other magical animals. I would personally go with the anglerfish and do not consider their lack of fl...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/Santa-s-Alternatives-to-Flying-Reindeer/

The Strangest Medical Cases of 2020

This time of year you'll find tons of lists of the best and worst things of 2020, but the most interesting are the ones that focus on the odd, strange, and bizarre. A list at LiveScience will entice you to read all ten s...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/The-Strangest-Medical-Cases-of-2020/

There's A Lot More to the Death of the Author

When interpreting literature (or, more broadly, narratives), what should be the role of the author in the interpretation of that work? Carl Jung said that "Poets are humans to, and what they say about their work is often...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/There-s-A-Lot-More-to-the-Death-of-the-Author/

Bicycles on a Ski Slope

I don't know what they expected, riding bikes down a ski slope, but you know what to expect, you just don't know when. When it starts, it's all downhill from there, so to speak. You can see the...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/Bicycles-on-a-Ski-Slope/

A Relative Timeline of Star Wars Events

Rik Villanueva posted a Star Wars timeline that corresponds with earth years. These aren't the years that these movies actually happened, because we were told right off that it happened "a long time ago, in a ga...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/29/A-Relative-Timeline-of-Star-Wars-Events/




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