Rob Williams is a comedian, acrobat, and general stage entertainer in Austin, Texas. Years ago, while working as a regular in an improv show, he needed to quickly come up with a stunt. Making use of his remarkable dexter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/02/Guinness-World-Record-for-Making-a-Sandwich-with-Feet/New Yorker cartoonist and professional illustrator Brooke Bourgeois imagines a more modern Beauty and the Beast story. She comments about her love of the Libby ebook app, especially its collection of au...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/02/Beauty-and-the-Beast-Goes-Digital/Bird's nest fungus sounds like a type of fungus that grows on bird's nests- maybe the kind of thing you'd recognize in the taste of bird's nest soup. But that's not what it is at all. It's a fungus that looks li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/01/Keep-an-Eye-Out-for-Birds-Nest-Fungi/Somewhere along the lines, a long time ago, ruling families got the idea that their blood was better than everyone else's, so they wanted keep reproduction in the family, so to speak. This was also a convenient way to ke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/01/The-Dangers-of-Inbreeding-Among-Royal-Families/Karahan Tepe is an archaeological site near Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, and has been dated back to between 10,000 and 9500 BCE. That would make it the oldest known village on earth. Of course, "known" is doing a lot of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/01/What-People-Ate-in-the-Worlds-Oldest-Village/Jonas Lauwiner isn't just some nut like Emperor Norton of the United States. To borrow a phrase attributed to Napoleon, King Jonas found the crown of Switzerland lying in a gutter.The Swiss Confederation is a republic in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/01/The-Self-Proclaimed-King-of-Switzerland/Forensic linguistics deals with the study of language used in legal cases. Not lawyer talk, but things like figuring out who wrote something when they aren't identified. I've been delving into that type of puzzle just to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/30/The-Strange-and-Fascinating-World-of-Forensic-Linguistics/One of the earlier breakthroughs in fertility treatment was the development of the drug Pergonal in the 1940s, which contained hormones that stimulate ovulation. Most women produce their own follicle-stimulating hormone...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/30/How-Thousands-of-Nuns-Helped-Infertile-Women-Become-Pregnant/Master mixer Bill McClintock (previously at Neatorama) is back with his latest project, which he calls "Psycho-Push-it" by Salt-Knot. It basically uses the instrumental track of Slipknot's 2008 song "Psychosocial" with t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/30/An-Unlikely-Mix-of-Slipknot-and-Salt-N-Pepa/Horsewoman Kate Janicki of Woodland, California is proud of her sister, Hannah, getting a job at a local Dutch Bros coffee shop. She decided to visit Hannah at work. So she saddled up Penny, one of her horses, and t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/30/Taking-a-Horse-to-the-Drive-Through-Window/Since its launch by inventior Ruth Handler in 1959, the Barbie doll (and her fictional universe) was a pop culture behemoth that spawned inumerable accessories and merchandise.In 1961, Mattel released a 45 RPM record in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/30/The-1961-Barbie-Musical-Album/Embed from Getty ImagesWhen Shigeru Miyamoto designed a new game for Nintendo in 1981, he was hoping to use Popeye and his friends as characters, but couldn't get permission. So he concocted a cast of new characters, o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/29/A-Short-Biography-of-the-Worlds-Best-Video-Game-Character/I've never felt good calling myself a language nerd, since I only speak one language. But I can't call myself an English nerd because I'm not English. And I've been making a serious effort to not be a pedant bec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/29/Dumb-Grammar-Rules-That-No-Longer-Make-Sense/Plenty of modern-day meteorologists cite The Wizard of Oz as the childhood inspiration for their careers, as they were transfixed by the cyclone that blew away Dorothy's house in the 1939 movie. They learne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/29/It-Wasnt-a-Cyclone-That-Carried-Dorothys-House-Away/うちのぐるぐるレイアウトもスリップリング経由でレールに給電してます！#鉄道模型 #Nゲージ #Bトレ #ジオラマ https://t.co/Tnngs9844O pic.twitter.com/Btdp3odQYI— B作 (@Bt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/29/Tiny-Train-Circles-Hyper-Realistic-Hill/A Brazilian funeral company is now selling Mario-themed coffinsYou can choose from Mario, Luigi, Toad, Princess Peach, or even Yoshi pic.twitter.com/bEeNrXcKQ6— Dexerto (@Dexerto) April 28, 2026 Eventually, you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/29/Super-Mario-Bros-Themed-Coffins/Most slang words are coined to represent an age group or some kind of community for which outsiders don't know the slang word. As soon as those words go mainstream, they are out of fashion. It happens so fast that you ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/28/One-Slang-Word-is-the-Champion-of-Ubiquity-and-Longevity/The Soviet Union was not known for being a powerhouse of popular culture export products (Tetris being the only exception). But the dictatorship nonetheless tried to make popular entertainment for domestic and foreign ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/28/The-Soviet-Version-of-Mary-Poppins/Cig Neutron and Rannie Rodil, who are masters of special effects makeup, costuming, and mask making, created this cosplay mixing up Sailor Moon with the real sailor man. Do you think that Usagi Tsukino would be willing t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/27/Popeye-the-Sailor-Moon-Cosplay/Citizens attend the Landsgemeinde, a traditional public vote in Appenzell, Switzerland, where historically the only proof of citizenship required for men to vote was the display of a sword or Swiss military sidearm.One...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/27/Bring-Your-Sword-to-Vote-in-This-Swiss-Town/There's a dinosaur-themed cafe in Suwon, a city south of Soeul. Threads user @strayhyuniee visited and took photos. One dessert on sale is attracting a lot of attention on the Internet: a tiramisu dish shaped like the he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/26/Dinosaur-Shaped-Tiramisu/The classic werewolf of the Middles Ages was either a vicious, murderous person or a real beast that killed people, and in the popular mind became a shapeshifter who was both. They had to be in league with the devil! But...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/25/The-Werewolf-Who-Was-On-Gods-Side/Research into Alzheimer's disease has focused on toxic proteins like amyloid-beta and tau, because that's what scientists have found when examining brains of patients after death. It's much more difficult to study patien...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/25/The-Role-of-Dopamine-May-Lead-to-a-Breakthrough-in-Alzheimers-Disease/Everything you encounter in your daily life has a history, but there are some kinds of history that they just skip over in school history classes. For example, what did people do before modern toilets were invented? In m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/25/Doing-Your-Business-Before-the-Modern-Flush-Toilet-Came-About/This photo dating from 1955 shows special slip-on sandals that loggers wore to protect mess hall floors during meal breaks. Lumberjack boots had spikes on the bottom, thus imperiling indoor surfaces.-via Things from the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/25/These-Are-Lumberjack-Sandals/Ten years ago, we linked a story about Shakespeare's grave. A TV production used ground-penetrating radar to get an image of the Bard's remains, and concluded that the skull was missing. Since then, historians have looke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/24/Shakespeares-Missing-Skull-and-the-Possible-Story-Behind-It/Hunter and Jenna Perrin were in their home in Temecula--a city south of Los Angeles--when they received an automatic notification from their security camera system. This was followed by a knock on the door. NBC 4 News re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/24/Hot-Air-Balloon-Accidentally-Lands-in-Backyard/Squid was born with a deformity in his back legs. He lucked out when he came into the care of Drs. Lauren and Daniel Anthony, married veterinarians in Frisco, Texas. They took the kitten in and made splints of different...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/24/A-LEGO-Exoskeleton-for-a-Kitten-in-Need/One way for airlines to reduce costs and maximize profits is to reconfigure seating to pack the largest number of passengers possible into a plane. That's how they got so small and uncomfortable. Alejandro Nú&ntil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/24/The-Evolution-of-Double-Stacking-Airline-Passengers-Has-Abandoned-Its-Initial-Goal/Rivers are the water paths that rain and snow follow from higher elevations to lower elevations until they reach the ocean. Sometimes they end in a lake or another river, but gravity ensures that water flows to a lower l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/23/The-River-That-Breaks-Rules-and-Then-Disappears/
