Some people don't get out of the house much because they suffer from depression, loneliness, social anxiety, or they don't have the means to go anywhere. And then there are those who are fine but they just prefer*/em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/31/Some-People-Are-Homebodies-and-Thats-Okay/Let's say that you passed on while alone at home, perhaps due to a fatal blogging accident. Would your dog or cat, cut off from outside support, eat you? How soon would they reclassify you from human companion to food so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/31/Would-Your-Dog-or-Cat-Really-Eat-You-if-You-Died-Alone/Embed from Getty ImagesSome people who live in cold regions like to celebrate the new year by going for a swim in icy waters. In Canada, they've been doing the Vancouver Polar Bear Swim on New Year's Day for 105 years...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/31/What-a-New-Years-Polar-Plunge-Does-to-Your-Body/How reliable and safe is Tesla's autonomous driving program? The New York Post reports that one owner recently traveled in a completely autonomous mode from Los Angeles to South Carolina, thus completing the fir...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/31/The-First-Coast-to-Coast-Autonomous-Car-Ride/Matt Nelson of We Rate Dogs has been introducing us to the goodest boys and girls for ten years now. Yes, every dog gets a rating, but they are never less than 10/10, and usually much higher. Every week he ranks the top...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/31/We-Rate-Dogs-Names-the-Top-10-Dogs-of-2025/Risk is a fun board game, but Instructables user madkins9 suggests building a spherical board for a "more frustrated, expensive, and time-consuming" experience. Fortunately, he's done the planning work, which is where mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/31/Playing-Risk-on-a-Globe/In a fan-favorite scene of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jones must flee from a huge boulder rolling toward him as he, er, performs archaeological research in a tomb.That stunt came remarkably c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/31/Indiana-Jones-Stunt-Becomes-Real-When-Boulder-Prop-Rolls-Toward-Audience/Embed from Getty ImagesNeatorama readers are familiar with Led Zeppelin's habit of covering old songs and taking writing credit, from "When the Levee Breaks" to "Stairway to Heaven." You most certainly know about the t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/30/15-Songs-That-Borrowed-from-Surprising-Sources/They made sure to append the title of Wake Up Dead Man with A Knives Out Mystery in its marketing materials so that the fans of the previous two films would at least hear about it. The previous two...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/30/An-Honest-Trailer-for-iWake-Up-Dead-Mani/You should have a new calendar by now, and you can start filling it up with important events: family birthdays, your next teeth cleaning, the Olympics, and some important stargazing events you won't want to miss. If...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/30/Mark-Your-Calendar-for-the-Celestial-Events-of-2026/I own a globe that could have only existed for 6 months in 1939 pic.twitter.com/IL6Slm4bOX— DJ Branhamđź—˝ (@DJBranham) December 30, 2025 X user DJ Branham shares a photo of an unusual globe that he found at an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/30/What-Was-the-Brief-Period-When-This-Globe-Was-Accurate/The koala bear is not a bear, the raccoon dog is neither a raccoon nor a dog, and the horned toad is no toad at all. So is a red panda actually a panda? Yes! We call it a red panda to distinguish it from the giant panda,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/29/The-Many-Names-of-the-Red-Panda/You've heard about boys joining the army in the Civil War who were so young that they weren't given weapons but played a drum instead. Perhaps you saw the 1963 Disney TV movie Johnny Shiloh. The film was fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/29/The-Real-Johnny-Shiloh-Civil-War-Drummer-Boy/Yesterday, French artist and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot died at the age of 91. Her passing prompted this X post: Brigitte Bardot’s death means there are now just three people mentioned in @billyjoel&rs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/29/Only-3-People-Mentioned-in-We-Didnt-Start-the-Fire-Are-Still-Alive/Mary Berry is an English chef and food writer who's been on British TV for many years, including as a judge on The Great British Bake Off. Here she smoothly raps about anything and everything, thanks to the magi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/29/Swedemason-Returns-with-Berry-Bars/Ice is slippery. We all know that and take precautions when we have to walk across even a small amount, but when we put on ice skates, something magical happens. While ice skating uses many of the same skills and techniq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/28/The-Weird-Physics-That-Enable-Us-to-Skate-on-Ice/The McMansion arose in the 1980s and took over the suburban landscape: huge custom-built houses on too-small lots that defied design rules and contained all the dream elements of the family within. A new trend in archite...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/28/The-Architectural-Abomination-of-2025-The-McModern/Every year since 1966, the residents of Gävle, Sweden, erect a giant yule goat made of straw to celebrate the season. The Gävle Goat has proven to be a huge tourist draw, and an entire festival grew up around i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/28/The-Sad-Fate-of-the-2025-Gvle-Goat/Every year, Barry Petchesky (previously at Neatorama) sifts through the records of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's database of emergency room visits, looking for cases of foreign objects stuck in body orifi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/27/The-Annual-Roundup-of-Items-Stuck-in-Body-Orifices-for-2025/It's common enough to get a couple fortune cookies delivered with the bill at the end of a meal at a Chinese restaurant. But TAO Asian Bistro goes much, much further. Its iconic fortune cookie is a complete dessert cours...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/27/The-15-Largest-Desserts-Served-in-Restaurants/Earlier this year, New York City banned cell phones in classrooms through high school. The results are mostly positive. Teachers report that students are more likely to get to class on time. The downside is that they rea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/27/Is-Reading-an-Analog-Clock-an-Outdated-Skill/In 2023, millions of fans went to stadiums to see Taylor Swift's Eras tour. Most of the fans were young ladies, many of them too young to drive to concerts. Tickets were very expensive, and often out of reach for entire...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/27/A-Parking-Lot-Full-of-Swiftie-Dads/Lucky for us, modern commercial food production is governed by laws on food safety and regulations ensuring fair trade practices. For the most part. But it wasn't always so, and some iconic brands have sad or cutthroat o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/26/A-Dozen-Perfectly-Normal-Foods-with-Shady-Origins/In 1989, Star Trek: The Next Generation introduced us to the Borg, a collective of cyborgs that work together as one unit to capture and assimilate the universe's beings and technology for their own purpose...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/26/The-Horrifying-Philosophy-of-the-Borg/Exotic, amazing, and totally untrue tales from faraway lands come through many paths. Locals like to troll visitors with scary stories, like that of the snipe or drop bear. Returning travelers like to impress people by b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/26/The-Truth-Behind-the-Man-Eating-Tree-of-Madagascar/Christopher B. Buck, Ph.D., is a virologist with the National Institutes of Health's Laboratory of Cellular Oncology. Science News reports that he has lately experimented on himself and his brother by br...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/26/Virologist-Makes-a-Beer-Thats-Also-a-Vaccine/The headstone for the grave of Joan Wytte in Cornwall, UK, is quite intriguing. Her birth date, death date, and burial date are in three different centuries! And the last line is quite sad- "no longer abused." Who was Jo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/25/Died-in-1813-But-Buried-in-1998/Chesty is a bulldog who serves as the official mascot of the United States Marine Corps. He's named for Lt. Gen. Lewis "Chesty" Puller (1898-1971).* This particular bulldog is the sixteenth to bear the title of Chesty wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/25/A-Day-in-the-Life-of-the-Marine-Corps-Mascot/Oxford's Mathematical Institute reports about the development of shapes that can physically exist only in zero gravity. These "soft shapes" lack corners and are partially available as biological tissues. But recreating t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/25/This-Shape-Can-Exist-Only-in-Zero-Gravity/Barry's Borderpoints is a website featuring photos and maps of national borderpoints visited by Barry Arnold, the Vice President of the International Border Research Group--an organization of border enthusiasts.Arnold's...
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