The RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on the night of April 14, 1912. The nearest ship, the Carpathian, arrived in time to rescue 706 people, which left 1522 dead, either floating among the wreckage o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/19/This-May-Be-the-Iceberg-That-Sunk-the-iTitanici/A project called Cat Royale explores the possibilities of enriching cats' lives by having a robot play with them. It is a collaboration between the art collective Blast Theory and scientists from the University of Nottin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/19/Cats-and-Robots-Science-Art-or-Entertainment/France continues to march forward in grandeur nationale, bearing the baguette as its symbol of collective pride. Last Thursday marked a special occasion for that leavened nationalism. It was the feast day of Sai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/19/Scratch-and-Sniff-Baguette-Postage-Stamp-Smells-Like-a-Baguette/Fredrik Backman is an acclaimed bestselling author. He is also the very embodiment of Swedish humor. He was asked to speak at Simon & Schuster's 100th anniversary celebration on the subject of his work life. In a ver...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/19/The-Life-of-a-Swedish-Writer/Embed from Getty ImagesDutch Schultz was a notorious gangster who rose to prominence and made a fortune in bootlegging during Prohibition, then afterward continued to enrich himself with racketeering, loan sharking, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/18/The-Buried-Treasure-of-Gangster-Dutch-Schultz/In the Harry Potter stories, the Hogwarts Sorting Hat was used in a ritual to assign each new student to the house they would belong to. The inspiration for this ceremony might have been a graduation ritual at the Univer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/18/The-Graduation-Ritual-of-the-Medieval-Space-Bonnet/Trials cyclist Danny MacAskill (previously at Neatorama) has given us thrills for years with his bike antics. In this video, he reveals how he got so good at what he does by going out on a ride with his crazy friends in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/18/Extreme-Mountain-Biking-Near-Inverness/Major General John Charles Frémont led US troops in California and had forged an army of crack troops who were experienced in war (the Mexican-American War), exploration, fighting Indians, hunting buffalo, and set...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/17/The-Jessie-Scouts-Civil-War-Special-Forces/There are certain towns that always show up on lists of odd town names, often because they sound dirty, or because they've capitalized on the name to cultivate notoriety and draw tourists. Here's a list that goes beyond...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/17/The-Stories-Behind-Americas-Odd-Town-Names/Like football, high school graduation is a big deal in the South. The schools are enormous, the moms are crying, and the dads are bored out of their minds. Matt Mitchell lays it all out for us, including the once in a li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/17/Graduation-Season-in-the-South/The waters between the Farallon Islands and the San Francisco mainland are extremely dangerous. They're cold, often populated by sharks, and are prone to brutal currents. Only six people have successfully swam the 30 mil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/17/55-Year-Old-Grandmother-Is-the-First-Person-to-Complete-Brutal-San-Francisco-Bay-Swim/On the left is the Muppet named Pepe the King Prawn. He's not supposed to be pretty; he is supposed to be a shrimp. But the abomination on the right is supposed to look like Pepe, and it does not. Would you buy this plus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/16/The-Ugliest-Muppet-Toys-in-Existence/Ze Frank manages to keep focused on nothing but scientific facts about pigeons for the first two minutes of this video, which are about how pigeons keep their vision steady, with information on how we do it ourselves. Af...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/16/Pigeons-Get-a-True-Facts-Video/Are hot dogs sandwiches? Are Pop-Tarts sandwiches? These are questions that remain unadjudicated. But now we do know that tacos and burritos are sandwiches--at least in the State of Indiana.WISH TV 8 News in Fort Wayne r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/16/Judge-Rules-That-Tacos-and-Burritos-Are-Sandwiches/Back in the day, attending college was an accomplishment possible for a rare few, and graduation for even fewer. Along with the accolades from your family, you could be subjected to scathing insults from your classmates...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/16/The-Class-of-1909-Had-to-Have-Thick-Skins/When you first look at Nimble, you instantly recognize a border collie, but she's so tiny! She is a mixed breed dog. The Westminster Kennel Club calls them "All American dogs," which sounds better than calling them mutts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/15/Nimble-Lives-Up-to-Her-Name-at-Westminster/("Hard Workers" by Atsuyuki Ohshima)The Comedy Pet Photography competition is brought to you by the same people who stage the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, except these are for domestic animals that live with us. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/15/The-Comedy-Pet-Photography-Awards-Finalists-2024/Now wait just a minute here. Why is Screen Junkies making an Honest Trailer for a movie that came out, uh, 25 years ago? Oh, I see. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace opened on May 16, 1999, which means its...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/15/An-Honest-Trailer-for-iThe-Phantom-Menacei/We've all had the experience of signing up for something on the internet and tearing our hair out trying to get through the process because they put so little effort into making it easy for the user. At a regular website...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/14/The-Most-Frustrating-User-Interface-on-the-Net/"Pull my finger."In Germany, this request usually has a different connotation. The Associated Press tells us that fingerhakeln is a traditional sport from southern Germany and the alpine region of Austria.Two men face ea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/14/Fingerhakeln-The-Sport-of-Finger-Wrestling/Someone call a carpenter, because there is obviously something very wrong with the stairs leading off the concert stage! When someone falls down a flight of stairs in real life, we might hear plenty of banging and scream...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/14/Falling-Down-Stairs-With-Style/The 1975 movie Jaws was based on the 1974 bestselling novel by Peter Benchley, but to make the film, Steven Spielberg had to condense, adapt, and flesh out the visuals. For research, he went to the Shark Lab at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/14/Meet-Reef-Nelson-the-Marine-Biologist-Behind-Jaws/When a parent or partner calls you by a pet name, they are either trying to be exclusive and intimate, or else they can't recall what your name is. You know which one it is. People use odd terms of endearment in all lang...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/13/Sugarpie-Honeybunch-Where-Pet-Names-Come-From/We don't know what this tiny ground spider calls itself. But we humans should refer to it by its official taxanomic identifier, which is Hotwheels sisyphus. It lives in southwestern China and is one of three rec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/13/This-Insect-Is-Literally-named-Hotwheels-Sisyphus/Embed from Getty ImagesSurgeons have an intimate relationship with the human body, and particularly their patients' bodies. Their efforts are mainly to save their lives, but when a patient is dead, that relationship is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/13/An-Organ-Donors-Final-Surgery/The reason they call it fight choreography is because it's like a dance. And because it's like a dance, each cinematic fight has its own rhythm. However, a fair amount of these fight scenes you remember from your favorit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/13/Fighting-to-the-Beat/In the age of printers, e-books, the Amazon marketplace, and expiring copyrights, it's really easy to sell a book that one didn't write, and there is no shortage of people taking advantage of the opportunity. Anyone can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/12/Public-Domain-Book-Covers-That-Completely-Miss-the-Point/We look back at fashions of the past and wonder what they were thinking. A little research and some common sense tell us that high heels were developed to hold one's feet in the stirrups while riding a horse, but became...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/12/All-About-Elizabethan-Collars/The Boy Scouts of America organization is changing its name to Scouting America, as an attempt at rebranding and because they have 176,000 girls in their ranks. They will still have merit badges for certain achievements,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/12/Relevant-Merit-Badges-for-Middle-Aged-People/Since 1977, kids have gathered at Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatres to eat technically edible pizza and play arcade games. Part of the background ambiance has been the animatronic band that company founder Nolan Bushne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/12/The-End-of-the-Chuck-E-Cheese-Animatronic-Band/
