Last week when I wrote about the guy who turned blue, I knew there were two reasons for people to turn blue, but I couldn't recall what the other one (besides colloidal silver) was. Now I remember! It's methemoglobinemia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/18/Tylenol-Reduces-pain-But-We-Dont-Know-How/When we think about an uprising of the common people against ruthless overseers, we think of the French Revolution or maybe the Haitian Revolution, but one story from medieval Spain illustrates the concept well, whether...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/18/The-Mutiny-of-the-Trout-Pitted-Commoners-Against-the-Nobility/The board game Monopoly was invented by Lizzie Magie in 1904. She called it The Landlord's Game, and it was designed to illustrate the evils of capitalism. Charles Darrow stole the idea and made Monopoly to appeal to a p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/18/Youve-Been-Playing-Monopoly-Wrong-All-These-Years/People who are born blind and have their sight restored at a later age tend to not look at people's faces when they speak to them- they instead look at their hands. That's because they have built their sensory world arou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/17/Newly-sighted-People-Have-to-Learn-How-to-See/I had to look up a lot of terms to understand this video, but you don't really have to understand it to be impressed. The sarabande is a dance that dates back about 500 years that is notable for being three times as fast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/17/The-Worlds-First-Perfect-Game-of-Sarabande-Co-Op/Disney animated movies are not all sweetness and light. A good drama tugs at your heartstrings, and Disney has perfected the art of building up your hopes and dreams by making you care about the characters, and then yank...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/17/Pinning-Down-the-Moments-When-Disney-Breaks-Your-Heart/Once, as a child, I visited the Louvre in Paris. There was a crowd around the Mona Lisa--a surprisingly small painting--but not around other works.It's the most famous painting in the Louvre, so it attracts a lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/17/What-Is-the-Mona-Lisa-of-Other-Museums/In the frozen northern lands comprising Canada, automotive brake parts are the natural prey of the North American Porcupine. Visitors in Valhalla Provincial Park in British Columbia have taken to protecting their vehicle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/17/Protect-Your-Brakes-from-Porcupines/A superhero's costume must be skin tight, colorful, and come with a cape. But superhero costume designer Edna Mode says, "No capes!" and therefore some of the more modern superheroes don't. So why do the old school heroe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/16/Why-Some-Superheroes-Wear-Capes-and-Others-Dont/Embed from Getty ImagesOn March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket in Massachusetts. It was a small rocket that flew for a short time and crash-landed, but it reached a height of 184 fe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/16/100-Years-Ago-Today-The-Launch-of-the-Rocket-Age/Michael Jackson is second on the list of the most successful recording artists in history, behind only The Beatles -whose music Jackson bought in 1985. That musical legacy was tarnished by the very weirdness of his perso...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/16/Michael-Jackson-Had-a-Seriously-Messed-Up-Childhood/When a franchise has been running for 49 years, the kids who were fans from the start grow up, and some of them end up with enough clout to talk themselves into being in another movie. Casting a Star Wars f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/15/Everyone-Wants-to-Be-in-a-iStar-Warsi-Movie/We've heard plenty of stories about offices, stores, and other work places that adopted a cat or a dog, but this tale is a bit more offbeat. A hen wandered into the Public Works department in Truman, Minnesota, about a y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/15/A-Minnesota-Town-Has-a-Public-Works-Chicken/The common brushtail possum is native to Australia, but is an invasive species in New Zealand, where they threaten both agriculture and native bird species. Trapping or poisoning possums is a problem because some are too...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/15/Selena-Gomez-Has-a-Role-In-Controlling-New-Zealands-Possums/When you can choose your own name for the internet, the temptation can be overwhelming. Many people learned their lesson years ago about the names they chose for an email address in the 9th grade when they later had to u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/14/Gamer-Usernames-You-Dont-Want-to-Pronounce/At 42, with three young kids, I got a diagnosis that would have me dead in a year. That was, somehow, just the beginning. https://t.co/KWx2pdbiWo— Slate (@Slate) March 13, 2026 Longtime Neatorama readers might r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/14/Cancer-Gave-Him-a-Roller-Coaster-Ride/You've probably noticed that the hair on your head grows a lot longer than the hair on, let's say, other parts of your body. Hair follicles each have their own terminal length, meaning how much time they spend on growing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/14/Why-Your-Hair-Grows-the-Way-It-Does/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/
