Historians will study how bad this book is. English teachers will hold this book aloft at their students to remind them that literally anyone can write a book: Look at this, it’s just not that hard to do.That's how...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/21/The-Years-Most-Scathing-Book-Reviews/Hey, remember that time McDonald's opened a chain of coffee shops? They wanted to get in on what Starbucks was selling, but it didn't work out. Weird History Food usually goes through the whole timeline of chain restaura...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/20/The-Fast-Flameout-of-CosMcs/Peppermint is a flavor often associated with Christmas and peppermint-flavored candy canes commonly appear in Christmas decorations and gifts. Sweets master Elizabeth LaBau--known on the internet as the Sugar Hero--propo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/20/35-Peppermint-Desserts/The image above, titled "High Five" has made photographer Mark Meth Cohn the overall winner of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards for 2025. He spent four days in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda shooting gorilla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/20/The-Nikon-Comedy-Wildlife-Photographer-of-the-Year-for-2025/This guy has a long way to go and plenty of time, so how about some beans for lunch? No need to stop! Mmm, bike beans! And it would be uncivilized to eat them cold. I kept wondering what his backpack looked like as he pu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/20/An-Extreme-Version-of-Lunch-on-the-Go/As he's done for the past ten years, Chris Barker has compiled a collage of famous people who died in the previous calendar year arranged into a recreation of the iconic cover for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/19/Chris-Barkers-iSgt-Pepperi-Salute-to-Those-We-Lost-in-2025/Artist Tom Jung got his start in film illustration in the 1950s. In 1977, he composed this image to promote the first Star Wars film. We've all seen this image or parts of it since that time. The original is a h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/19/This-Painting-is-the-Highest-Priced-Item-of-Star-Wars-Memorabilia-Ever-Sold/Nature magazine has published their picks for the best science images of 2025. The image above you will recognize as a tardigrade, but what are those dots? Those are a contender for the world's smallest tattoo....
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/19/Awesome-and-Award-winning-Science-Images-from-2025/The first step to cleaning your pet Himalayan marmot is to acquire a Himalayan marmot.If you have a Himalayan marmot, lay the creature on the floor of a drainable area. The marmot is very good at lying flat; I suspect th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/19/Using-a-Paint-Roller-to-Clean-a-Marmot/There are already vending machines that use AI, but they are limited in scope. This one is a test drive of artificial intelligence in business management. Anthropic built an AI named Claudius to run a retail business, me...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/19/Can-AI-Run-a-Business-Lets-Start-With-a-Vending-Machine/In the late 19th century, the Vanderbilt family owned the railroad passing through Park Avenue in New York City. In response to complaints about the noise and smoke of the coal-powered steam locomotives, they constructed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/18/The-Tragedy-That-Kick-Started-New-Yorks-Subway-System/The formula works this way: 1. Christmas song becomes popular.2. Christmas song gets played a lot. An awful lot.3. People hate Christmas song. Now, Batman and Superman are often portrayed as best friends, or at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/18/Superman-and-Batman-Save-Christmas/The 1946 Frank Capra movie It's a Wonderful Life is a beloved Christmas classic today, but the film had a hard road getting there, mainly because no one liked it. It was based on a 1939 short story that no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/18/15-Surprising-Tidbits-About-iIts-a-Wonderful-Lifei/Or, to be more precise, it's a didgeridoo with a curved shape that resembles a saxophone.The Strawberry Man is a musician who got is name by wearing strawberry-themed outfits early in his career. When he encountered the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/18/The-Saxo-Didge-Combines-the-Saxophone-and-the-Didgeridoo/If you recall the original Predator movie from 1987, the alien was ugly, but we didn't know that for most of the movie. It used a cloaking device that rendered itself invisible. All we could see were some s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/17/The-Hidebehind-and-Other-Monsters-You-Cant-See/You might recall reading about President Andrew Jackson's 1829 inauguration party that turned into a drunken brawl. The story of Jackson's final White House party is just as wild, and much stranger, as it revolved around...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/17/Andrew-Jacksons-White-House-Cheese-Eating-Party/Nathan Yau, a statistician who runs Flowing Data, created an interactive chart that illustrates how are we connected to the people that we spend time with over the course of a typical day. Yau used data from the American...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/17/Who-Do-We-Spend-Time-With/When a young man receives a Christmas gift that he doesn't like, it's time for a story. And it's a beautifully animated story about a wolf -the very first wolf- who finds he has no friends. Like the description says, "It...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/17/Wolf-is-Unloved-Until-He-Changes-His-Ways/On Japan's Mount Zao, winter snows will form huge snow monsters, shown above. They are huge, and in some areas can resemble an army of monsters. These snow monsters are completely natural, and are formed by specific weat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/16/Six-Bizarre-But-Natural-Snow-and-Ice-Formations/The 1997 movie Anaconda sent a bunch of movie stars into the Amazon, but some of them weren't yet stars at the time. The story is about a world-record-size anaconda, a type of boa constrictor. In other word...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/16/An-Honest-Trailer-for-the-Original-iAnacondai/Every December, various dictionary publishers pronounce the trendiest word of the past year to be the Word of the Year. Whether we will still be using these words five years from now is anyone's guess. Merriam-Webst...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/16/And-the-Word-of-the-Year-for-2025-Is/Remember the story of The Ugly Duckling? If you ever wondered what happened to the subject of that tale, this song will continue the story after he rides off into the sunset. Except here, he remains a duck instead of a s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/15/The-Ballad-of-Bird-Cowboy/The Hanford Site in Washington state was built in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project as a facility to refine plutonium for atomic bombs. Plutonium production continued there until 1971. The nuclear waste produced at t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/15/The-Beginnings-of-a-Long-Overdue-Nuclear-Cleanup/The challenge is to concentrate as many Christmas lights into a small space as possible, or so it seems. Why else would you decorate a tiny room with no furniture? Watch as Justin strings lights in a closet and adds extr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/15/Installing-a-Festive-Christmas-Closet/Minnesota may be the land of 10,000 lakes, but at one time it was also covered with magnificent forests with dozens of species of trees that were several hundred years old. Then the lumber boom of the late 19th and early...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/14/The-Lost-Forty-The-Error-that-Left-Minnesota-a-Pristine-Old-Growth-Forest/Nice Peter and Epic LLOYD of Epic Rap Battles of History (previously at Neatorama) only release a new video maybe once or twice a year now, but they put a lot of thought into each one. Not only is this one clever, it's s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/14/Whos-More-Badass-The-Red-Baron-or-White-Death/History is full of fascinating stories, and you'd do well to find something you didn't know by sticking your finger in a random page of a world history book. But which book? And how many books do you need to find a subje...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/14/The-Globe-of-History-Lets-You-Surf-the-World-Through-Time/Valerie Musser knows bearded dragons- she has five of them! She sometimes dresses them up and poses them in miniature kitchen scenes for fun, as you can see at Instagram.Winny came as a rescue when she was abandoned in f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/13/Disabled-Bearded-Dragon-Overcomes-the-Odds-Stacked-Against-Her/Some people find the 6-7 meme frustrating. My teenage children found it amusing until I started working it into every conversation that we had. Then they stopped using it. Victory!The only way to defeat being ambushed by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/13/In-N-Out-Burger-Removes-Number-67-from-System-in-Response-to-6-7-Meme/Black Death refers to a pandemic of bubonic plague that swept Europe in the mid 14th century, killing up to half the population. The disease, carried by fleas on rats, had been around for thousands of years, and the viru...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/13/A-Volcanic-Eruption-May-Have-Led-to-the-Black-Death/
