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/Canadians take maple syrup seriously. To be legally labeled as maple syrup, the product has to be 100% maple syrup. Otherwise, it is called table syrup. And no one in Canada takes maple syrup more seriously than Quebec....
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/23/A-Major-Maple-Syrup-Case-in-Quebec-Offends-Canadas-National-Pride/Michael Billington, a theater critic for The Guardian, ranks from worst to best all of the plays of William Shakespeare. He identifies 35 of them, but scholars dispute that number, raising higher or lower due to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/23/Ranking-All-of-Shakespeares-35-Plays/Two guys who go by the name Taste Buds came up with the most enjoyable (to produce) YouTube series imaginable. They embarked on a quest to try the food of every country in the world, without leaving New York City! They p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/23/A-Quest-to-Try-Every-Cuisine-in-the-World-All-in-One-City/If you know anything about General Hideki Tojo, it's that he commanded the Japanese military during World War II. He rose through the ranks to become commander of the army, and also served as Japan's prime minister from...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/22/That-Time-the-Americans-Saved-Tojos-Life/Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly cancers, with a 13% survival rate at five years. But the ability of scientists to custom-design therapeutic vaccines using mRNA technology may change that. A trial from Memoria...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/22/Early-Trial-of-mRNA-Vaccine-for-Pancreatic-Cancer-Shows-Potential/The long-awaited Coyote vs Acme is finally going to see the light of day. Based on a 1990 story, the film is a combination of animation and live action, and it's a courtroom drama. The Coyote, after untold...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/22/The-First-Trailer-for-iCoyote-vs-Acmei/Kent is a craftsman in Japan who makes hats that look loaves of bread, cakes, and other foods.The felt hats are remarkably realistic. They look like warm loaves fresh out of the oven. But don't bite down on one, especial...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/22/Hats-That-Look-Like-Bread/There are practical uses for brassieres. For example, if a horse suffers an eye injury and the owner needs an eye patch in a hurry, a bra wrapped around the horse's head will suffice. One horse rescue operation suggests,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/22/Bras-Can-Serve-as-Eye-Patches-for-Horses/
