In 1777, a young woman named Jane McCrea was killed in Fort Edward, New York by Native Americans working for the British military. What exactly happened that day will never be truly known, because reports varied from the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/13/The-Political-Afterlife-of-Revolutionary-War-Martyr-Jane-McCrea/This looks a little like the kind of experiment you do in 6th grade, but it never works because your mother threw it out or it started stinking and your mother made you throw it out. Nestor of HabitatForge does...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/13/The-Complex-World-Inside-a-Jar-of-Water/Much of early television history is lost to us because it was aired live and therefore never recorded or recordings were not preserved. Doctor Who, which first aired in 1963, has this challenge as tapes were rec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/13/Lost-Doctor-Who-Episodes-Rediscovered/Brad Barber is a master LEGO artist who creatively takes LEGO kits and makes them into completely different designs. For example, a gingerbread Star Wars AT-AT becomes the USS Enterprise from Star T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/13/LEGO-Remixes/Jo Cope is a conceptual artist in the UK who has become famous for her red shoes. These shoes are more sculptures than examples of functional footwear. They offer social commentary about conflict or cooperation within so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/13/The-Inventive-Shoes-of-Jo-Cope/(Image credit: Skvader) Today we are embarking on a strange four-day string of "holidays." The only one with a long history is St. Patrick's Day on the 17th. Before that, we have Friday the 13th today, a day associa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/13/Its-Time-to-Prepare-for-the-Saint-Urhos-Day-Celebrations/A new movie about aliens making contact with us? That happens all the time. It hits different when you say it's a new movie by Steven Spielberg about aliens making contact with us. Indeed, some of the images in this trai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/12/The-Trailer-for-Steven-Spielbergs-iDisclosure-Dayi/You might recall the scene in the 1983 movie A Christmas Story where a young boy puts his tongue on a frozen metal pole and becomes stuck. This has been a dare among kids for as long as anyone can remember, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/12/A-Serious-Study-on-the-Real-Danger-of-Tundra-Tongue/Pro skater Andy Anderson (previously at Neatorama) is known for his work promoting skateboarding worldwide and for his emphasis on safety. In the video The Shape of Paris, he takes a tour of (duh) Paris. That description...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/12/The-Shape-of-Paris-is-More-Than-Just-Skateboarding/In the Color Memory Game posted last month, you were challenged to recall a color you saw a few seconds ago. Another game takes the memory variable out of it, but it's still a challenge. In the game What's My &Delta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/11/How-Well-Can-You-Distinguish-Two-Colors/How much do you know about the skeleton inside of you? We know bones are hard, but they take a lot of punishment, too, so about half of us break a bone at some time in our lives. But they can heal, and how they do it is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/11/How-the-Body-Works-to-Heal-a-Broken-Bone/An essential part of the process of turning cream into butter is continous, vigorous motion. That's similar to the up and down motion of long distance running. Runner's World reports that some runners are multit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/11/You-Can-Churn-Butter-While-Running/Berne, the capital city of Switzerland, has an eye-catching coat of arms. According to the legend, the duke who founded the city in the Thirteenth Century caught a bear while the land was being cleared. This bear became...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/11/The-Bernese-Bear-Will-Keep-His-Penis/British builder Tommy Lynch woke up one morning after sleeping for 14 hours straight. A friend woke him up after being concerned that Lynch had slept so long, and found that Lynch was blue. That wasn't anything to do wit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/11/Mans-Skin-Turns-Blue-Can-You-Guess-Why/https://t.co/lpMXnhXomb pic.twitter.com/57hS3Svlr8— Columbus Library (@columbuslibrary) March 9, 2026 Chris Kempczinski, the CEO of McDonald's, produced a viral video when he taste-tested a "product" (his term)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/10/Social-Media-Challenge-Have-a-Library-Director-Eat-a-Book/This story takes a bit of explaining.Wintzell's Oyster House in downtown Mobile, Alabama is a local icon of fine Gulf coast cuisine. It has long had a sign offering free oysters to any man who is 80 years old if that man...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/10/80-Year-Old-Man-with-99-Year-Old-Father-Wins-Free-Oysters/In the event that you haven't seen any of the nominees for Best Picture at the 2026 Academy Awards, you might learn enough about them from the annual Honest Trailer to form some kind of opinion on who should win. Don't l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/10/An-Honest-Trailer-for-the-2026-Oscars/We have long been fascinated with falling cats and their ability to land on their feet. So much so that we've dropped an astonishing number of cats in the name of science over the centuries. Even after the development of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/10/Bendy-Spines-Help-Cats-Land-on-Their-Feet/The 1927 German silent movie Metropolis gave audiences of a hundred years ago a fantasy glimpse a hundred years into the future. So what does Fritz Lang's vision mean in the world of 2026? The movie was gro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/10/Did-iMetropolisi-Predict-the-Future-or-Influence-It/Two million years ago, the area of France that became Le Puy-en-Velay was a huge lake with a volcano. As molten rock rose through the volcano, it cooled, shattered, collapsed, fused, grew, and became a volcanic plug. Ove...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/09/Saint-Michel-dAiguilhe-a-Chapel-279-Feet-Above-the-Surrounding-Village/A couple of other platforms I use (not Neatorama) are always asking me to use AI to write a blog post. That seems infinitely silly because if I typed up what I wanted it to write, the post is therefore written. That's un...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/09/The-Downside-of-Using-AI-for-Everyday-Tasks/Through much of human history, men have been confounded by women. Men were (are often are still) seen as the default, and women as an inscrutable variant. So if something were wrong, or even just different about women, i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/09/A-Diagnosis-of-Hysteria-Once-Explained-Everything/On April 6, 1917, the United States entered the Great War with a very small army and limited equipment. How would the Yank endure and ultimately prevail over the challenges of Twentieth Century warfare?Helmets were in co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/08/Ford-Motor-Companys-World-War-I-Helmet/Etsy seller GremlynRugs (content warning: artistic nudity) makes tufted rugs that you could walk on or hang decoratively. But please don't actually eat them! This piece looks like a grilled cheese sandwich cut...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/08/Stretchy-Grilled-Cheese-Fabric-Art/Would you like to login to this online interface? We'll just need for you to download an app, create a new account with a highly complex password, submit a DNA sample, and participate in a retinal scan.Actor and comedian...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/08/Multi-Factor-Identification-in-Real-Life/Funniest thing happened at Comic Con today. I was walking around as Deadpool (per usual) and a Foggy Nelson cosplayer with a She-Hulk tap me on the shoulder to serve me these papers.I love it LOL pic.twitter.com/vCj5Z3...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/08/Deadpool-Summoned-to-Court/This is a very good thought experiment. Who are the five authors that most 20th c writers have read but most 21st c writers have not?What about 19th c writers? https://t.co/s2ttoUJBrN— T. Greer (@Scholars_Stage)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/08/Which-Popular-19th-Century-Authors-Are-No-Longer-Read/An important part of most marriage vows is the limiting phrase "'til death do us part." That wouldn't be applicable at all when you marry someone who is already dead. In France, that was made legally possible in 1959. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/08/When-France-Made-It-Possible-to-Marry-a-Dead-Person/How do you woo a woman? My advice: find a pretty stone that suits the tastes of your preferred companion, place the stone in your mouth, then deliver it to her nest.Trust me, bros. It works.This is how male gent...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/07/The-Pebbling-of-the-Penguins/A handheld rocket launcher is bad enough, so how about one that carries three rockets at a time? The YouTuber called Current Concept has a 3D printer and plenty of time, so that seemed like a challenge- the kind that wil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/07/He-Built-a-Revolver-That-Launches-Rockets/
