We all recall that memorable scene in the movie Happy Feet when all the young emperor penguins go to sea for the first time, driven by instinct. They are terrified, but eventually the first one jumps in, and let...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/16/Emperor-Penguins-Introduced-to-the-Sea-the-Hard-Way/An archaeological excavation of a Viking burial ground in Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea, revealed three adult women who had a feature not seen in Viking graves- skulls that had been shaped to produce a long...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/16/The-Viking-Women-with-Elongated-Skulls/The literal translation of tegelwippen is "tile wiping." In this context, it means getting rid of tiles. See, most homes in Dutch cities have their yard covered with tiles to make a patio. This makes lawn care e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/16/The-Latest-Dutch-Craze-Tegelwippen/Al Condominio, a restaurant that opened last month in Verona, Italy, would like for its patrons to fully enjoy the social aspects of public dining. This requires putting away phones and, hopefully, talking to other human...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/16/This-Restaurant-Offers-Free-Wine-if-You-Put-Away-Your-Phone/Would you like to smell like McDonald's French fries? The company clearly thinks so and is marketing its smell broadly, including, most recently, branded perfume. It's also counting on the smell of its food to be so reco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/16/McDonalds-Erects-Billboards-That-Smell-Like-French-Fries/In the early 1960s, an American adventurer named Burt Kerr Todd fell in love the with the isolated and impoverished Himalayan nation of Bhutan. He wanted to help the nation economically develop and so proposed that the k...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/16/Bhutan-Produced-Stamps-That-Were-Functional-Records/
