Jason Kottke posed a question on his blog this morning: What is the longest monosyllabic English word you can think of? It's a curious question, since we think of words with one syllable as being all the same length. To...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/10/Long-Words-That-Still-Have-Just-One-Syllable/Weird Universe tells us that Joseph Pilates (1883-1967), the developer of the popular exercise program that bears his name, invented numerous pieces of exercise equipment. He had a holistic approach to fitness, which pru...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/10/Pilatess-V-Shaped-Bed/Warning: this video will produce involuntary butt-clenching and possible vertigo. The 2025 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships are being held right now in the Valais canton in Switzerland. Canadian cyclist Jackson...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/10/A-New-Downhill-Mountain-Bike-World-Champion-Frightens-Viewers/We all know how Beethoven went deaf later in his life, yet kept composing. Lesser known is the story of Johann Sebastian Bach's sight, which was always weak but he eventually went blind before he died. Bach underwent cat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/10/Johann-Sebastian-Bach-and-His-Incompetent-Ophthalmiater/
