In any society, or even in small communities, there are a very few people who are totally selfless, and quite a bit more who never think of anyone but themselves. Most of us fall somewhere between those extremes. But are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/24/If-You-Wonder-Whether-You-Are-Selfish/Until a few days ago, the streets of Provo, Utah, were safe at night due to the work of the mysterious hero known as the Fish Bandit. This modern-day Robin Hood filled a desperate need in the city by taping fish to ATMs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/24/Teenager-Busted-for-Taping-Fish-to-ATMs/Michelle Frankl, an American and a chemistry professor at Bryn Mawr, instigated a furor in Britain with the publication of her book Steeped: The Chemistry of Tea. In it, she cast aside centuries of wisdom from t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/24/USUK-Diplomatic-Crisis-Ends-with-American-Capitulation/The Mary Celeste was both a real sailing ship and the subject of an 1884 short story by Arthur Conan Doyle (although he spelled it Marie Celeste). The fictional story soon overshadowed the historical ev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/24/The-iMary-Celestei-and-Other-Unsolved-Mysteries/The draw of the short film The Court Jester is how accurately Pauly Shore impersonates fitness guru Richard Simmons, but the real story is about David, a hapless segment producer on The Ellen Show who i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/24/Pauly-Shore-is-Richard-Simmons-in-The-Court-Jester/
