The modern world is ripe for global viruses thanks to the relative ease of travel, but we also have tools on our side, like vaccines and infectious disease experts who monitor viruses around the world. Sure, the viruses...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/11/The-Viruses-of-2026-What-Infectious-Disease-Experts-Are-Watching/Like all morally decent and right-thinking people, I enjoy pineapple on pizza. But that's not the only fruit that can do well on pizza. The Takeout has a list of 10 others, including pears. Pictured above is a pizza...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/11/Pears-and-10-Other-Fruits-That-Belong-on-Pizza/How many soldiers does it take to cut down a tree? In this case, it was 813, in a convoy of 23 heavily-armed vehicles supported by helicopters, fighter jets and bombers, and even rafts. While that sounds absurd on the su...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/11/An-Elaborate-US-Military-Mission-to-Kill-a-Poplar-Tree/The first Social Security numbers were issued in November of 1936 as part of the New Deal. It didn't take long for people to start appropriating numbers that were not assigned to them. In 1938, a wallet manufacturer incl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/11/The-First-Major-Social-Security-Number-Doxxing-Case/Cities and states have climates and cultures attached to their names, and then it's easy to get a totally incorrect idea of where it is. The same happens when you take a piece of a round globe and straighten it out on a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/10/A-Few-Map-Quirks-of-the-United-States/In 1862, John Gilleland was a 53-year old carpenter in Athens, Georgia. He was too old to serve in the Confederate Army, but he was a private in a home guard unit. Determined to find some way to counteract the Union's ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/10/This-Is-a-Double-Barrelled-Cannon/Yes, the base of this table is exactly what you think it is. Papaya Studios is an antique store and design studio in Thailand. In fact, it's the largest antique store in that nation. The size allows for a variety of unus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/10/Childbirth-Model-Coffee-Table/When you want to watch a movie but you don't want to pay for streaming services or cable, you can turn to the internet and pull up a full-length feature film that's perfectly legal to watch at WikiFlix, a depository of p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/10/A-Huge-Collection-of-Public-Domain-Movies-You-Can-Watch-Online/The British TV series Doctor Who has been around since 1963, and in all those years he (or she) has always had plenty to say. You can imagine that someone who transcends time and space has picked up a fair amoun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/09/The-Doctors-Advice-Timeless-Quotes-from-iDoctor-Whoi/In the early part of the 20th century, Iley Tate was a prominent and wealthy landowner in Haydentown, Pennsylvania, in the hill country not far from the West Virginia border. He traded in livestock and owned the only gen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/09/Iley-Tate-The-Grisly-Death-of-a-Barbaric-Backwoods-Bluebeard/Do you recall what huge news it was when red dye #2 was found to be carcinogenic and banned in the 1970s? In the grand scheme of things, that was just one of many steps along the way to banning food dye. It really didn't...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/09/The-Rise-and-Impending-Fall-of-Food-Dyes/Housekeeping is not a prestigious profession, but any job takes skill and, given enough time, consideration, and determination, a person can demonstrate a mastery of that occupation that can astound outsiders.The Interna...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/09/The-Housekeeping-Olympics/Tessellation refers to a set of geometric tiles that fit together perfectly. They can be very simple, like a checkerboard or subway tiles, or they can be delightfully intricate, like the tessellations of M.C. Escher. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/08/Enjoying-and-Understanding-Tessellation-Art/Redditor /u/hjrrockies shares a picture of a page from their copy of the first volume Foundations of Applied Mathematics. It quotes Sauron, a villain from The Lord of the Rings, saying:One Ring to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/08/Math-Textbook-Quotes-The-Lord-of-the-Rings/Airlines always have trouble getting people to pay attention to the mandatory safety instructions. Unless it's their first flight, passengers have a tendency to zone out. Still, in the event of an emergency, it's crucial...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/08/Philippine-Airlines-New-Safety-Novella-Care-That-Comes-from-the-Heart/In 1966, when Star Trek first graced our TV screens, the writers of the space drama set hundreds of years in the future were free to construct a historical timeline that led to intergalactic travel and the Unite...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/08/What-the-Year-2026-Brings-in-the-iStar-Treki-Universe/Let's say that snow rarely hits your region but it's snowing anyway. You want to go sledding, right? But with no sled, you might have to improvise.Daniel LaBelle is a physical comedian who makes us laugh by risking his s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/08/Sledding-on-Non-Sled-Like-Objects/Dr. Justin McDaniel teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. One popular class that he teaches is called Existential Despair. In this class, 13 students arrive at his apartment where they are given copies of a short no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/08/This-Professor-Teaches-a-Class-Called-Existential-Despair-Students-Experience-It-During-the-Class/In American history classes, we only learn the big things: Columbus, the American Eevolution, the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, and oops, better skip ahead to World War II or the school year will run out. In all the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/07/The-Rebellious-Working-Class-Uprisings-of-Colonial-America/American children learn about the Salem Witch Trials, in which 25 people killed, but in Europe, between 40,000 and 60,000 people were executed for witchcraft in a 350-year period. A striking number of these trials happen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/07/The-Terror-of-the-Finnmark-Witch-Trials-of-the-17th-Century/Do you find that, every once in a while, you just stop paying attention? Some people call this daydreaming, others call it zoning out, and some call it boredom, or just a little break from all that stimulation. You've be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/07/Why-You-Just-Have-to-Zone-Out-Sometimes/The producers of the television show The Addams Family knew the audience would be familiar with the work of Charles Addams, who drew the family in cartoons for The New Yorker. Still, they wanted to go i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/06/Casting-the-Original-iThe-Addams-Familyi-TV-Show/Henry Brown took the "photo a day" idea and made it speak. Every day during 2025, he talked to the camera, and then compiled it into a coherent essay about the passage of time in 365 video clips. The clips are not all in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/06/A-Supercut-About-the-Passage-of-a-Year-One-Word-a-Day/Imagine you discovered an ancient wall, 120 meters (394 feet) long, two meters (6.6 feet) tall, and averaging 20 meters (66 feet) wide? That's an enormous construction. On top of that, you found it nine meters (30 feet)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/06/Found-Massive-Underwater-Wall-Hidden-for-Thousands-of-Years/In 1904, J.M. Barrie produced a hit play about Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up. Disney made it into a children's animated adventure in 1953. But the real story behind the story is anything but charming. In this vide...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/05/The-Psychological-Horror-of-iPeter-Pani/The original Star Trek ran from 1966-69, but only grew more popular in syndicated reruns during the 1970s. Paramount noticed, and drew up plans for a new series, called Star Trek: Phase II under the sup...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/05/19-Episodes-of-a-iStar-Treki-Series-That-Never-Was/Watergate is the short-hand name for the political controversy that brought down the Nixon Administration. This Watergate is a card game from 1973 in which two to six players accuse each other of malfeasance and try to d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/05/Watergate-The-Board-Game/Elisa Rogers found these unique stained glass sculptures at an estate sale. The late artist, she learned from the daughter, made "ridiculous beautiful things" that sold well enough to pay for trips to Italy. Rogers was s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/05/Stained-Glass-Traffic-Cones/Fox 13 News in Salt Lake City reports that the police department of Heber City has lately been using artificial intelligences to accelerate the report-writing process. These applications are called Draft One and Code Fou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/05/AI-Generated-Police-Report-Says-That-Officer-Turned-into-a-Frog/Cormac McCarthy is known for prose as terse as Coolidge's and punctuation as minimal as a bikini. William Faulkner, on the other hand, took his time to express his thoughts with great verbosity. In this video, comedian J...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/01/05/William-Faulkner-vs-Cormac-McCarthy-Prose-Battle/
