Sesame Street has changed a lot since I was a kid. The plots are grittier and the Muppets swear a lot more.Bluesky user @pig'slaundry has lately watched the children's show on Tubi, a streaming service owned by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/14/Automatic-Subtitles-on-Sesame-Street/On Easter Sunday, an association of Christian churches in Korea banded together to stage an elaborate celebration called the 2026 Easter Parade in downtown Seoul. There was a procession, but also a dramatic recreation of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/14/Portrayal-of-Jesus-Ascension-Goes-Spectacularly-Wrong/Making fried chicken at home is one of those things that takes experience to get right. Your first few batches might be burned on the outside and undercooked on the inside. Adjust the temperature, and your next batch mig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/14/The-Chefs-Guide-to-Making-Crispy-Fried-Chicken/In so many movies, the real drama or action happens to men, while women are there as tokens or window dressing, and are often the reward for the hero that "gets the girl" in the end. The notable exception are Disney fair...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/13/Disney-Princes-Stand-Up-For-Themselves-in-Charming/Amy Stewart is an artist in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. She works heavily in stained and painted glass. Stewart (or "Amy in the Aether", as she also calls herself) frequently uses motifs from Mid-Century&...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/13/Campy-Stained-Glass-by-Amy-Stewart/For around 50 years now, science fiction writers have considered the possibility of terraforming Mars, meaning changing the planet to be more like earth. Scientists have also looked at the idea, and have some plausible i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/13/Could-We-Ever-Turn-Mars-Into-an-Earth-like-Planet/Conditions at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, were so bad that when a fight between two inmates was broken up in 1971, it started a chain reaction that led to a riot. Critical errors in the guards'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/12/1971-Americas-Deadliest-Prison-Riot/Redditor Ok_Illustrator_8711 never met his grandmother, yet he got a glimpse of her personality from a diary she kept from the days when she married his grandpa. The entries are wonderful cartoons she drew of her life ev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/12/Grandma-Kept-a-Delightful-Illustrated-Diary-in-the-1940s/The 911 emergency system was inaugurated in the 1960s, but its rollout was slow, and it took years for smaller towns to fund and implement it. We all knew it was a great idea. Then enhanced 911 came out, and they could l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/12/How-the-911-Emergency-Call-System-Really-Works/The game Star Fling has a really simple premise. You are orbiting a star. You can click and fling an inert ball at the planetary orbit of the next star, and if you hit it, you are then orbiting the second star and can fl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/11/Star-Fling-is-a-Maddening-Yet-Addicting-Game/When you hear about a mob of wallabies in a nearby park, you might assume that this all takes place in Australia, but no. Lindsay Clarity runs Animal School in East Sussex, UK! It is a shelter for all kinds of rescued an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/11/Raising-an-Abandoned-Infant-Wallaby-is-Not-For-the-Lazy/My family went out of town to see the new movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Before it started, I studied the candy counter and saw something intriguing called Reese's Pieces that looked like M&Ms with peanut...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/11/Movies-and-TV-Shows-That-Had-a-Real-Effect-on-the-Real-World/Have you ever had the feeling that every day is the same? Will had that feeling. His life was so mundane and predictable that it took him quite some time to figure out that he was stuck in a time loop. Yeah, you've seen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/10/Hes-Stuck-in-a-Time-Loop-Or-Is-He/In 1941, the SS Britannia was en route from the UK to Bombay when it was attacked by a German warship and sunk. Almost half the passengers and crew were lost. Several of the survivors were picked up five days la...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/10/The-Truth-Behind-a-1941-Giant-Squid-Attack/John Williams composed "The Imperial March" from Star Wars as a military march because that's how Dart Vader enters a scene. The song is not only miitary, but downright evil. It's a tune that's been stuck in you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/10/A-Composers-Mashup-The-Imperial-Fugue/When you think of child soldiers, you might think of certain African rebel militias, or about the youngsters who fought in the American Civil War. But boys too young to realize what they're doing managed to become fighte...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/09/The-Youngest-Soldiers-Who-Fought-in-World-War-II/Two adventurers, or looters if you will, separately seek the treasure of an ancient king and queen from a magical booby-trapped castle. Their names are Robin and Rayden, although which is which I cannot tell. The voice a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/09/Award-Winning-Student-Film-iLove-Goldi/Author Cory Doctorow coined the term "enshittification" to describe how online services tend to, over time, get stupidly worse. More generally, enshittification has become used to describe how products and services have...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/09/A-Day-in-the-Life-of-an-Enshittificator/NASA's Artemis II mission is on their way home after circling the moon. They are expected to splash down off the coast near San Diego on Saturday evening. They have set a record for the furthest any human has flown away...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/09/The-Moon-as-Youve-Never-Seen-It-Before-On-Your-Phone-Screen/There are thousands of different snake species, and they all have a few things in common. They don't have legs, they are carnivorous, and humans are afraid of them. We have good reason to be scared, since snakes can be q...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/08/Snakes-Can-Eat-Pretty-Much-Anything-But-How/In 1928, a you could buy a Chevrolet LM one-ton truck for $520. That was for a cab and chassis only, and then you got the cargo box custom-built for your needs. We don't know what this truck was originally used for, beca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/08/A-1928-Truck-Converted-Into-a-Motorhome-is-a-Work-of-Art/The Utah Mammoth is a professional hockey team that formed in 2024. It's based in Salt Lake City. The team initially had a bear mascot but, in the past year, has adopted the woolly mammoth as its avatar. Quite appropriat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/08/Hockey-Teams-Zamboni-Looks-Like-a-Mammoth/Drones have many uses, but let's not talk about war right now. For aerial entertainment, they are much safer than fireworks, and can light up the sky with intricate 3-dimensional images that are just breathtaking. It all...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/08/New-World-Record-Set-for-a-Drone-Light-Show/Intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom are very different things. It's been said that someone with knowledge will tell you that a tomato is a fruit, but wisdom is not putting in a fruit salad. That's an example, no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/07/Can-We-Teach-People-Wisdom/The 2025 movie Avatar: Fire and Ash is the second sequel to Avatar (2009) following Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). The title sounds like the film takes place in a volcano, but that turned out to be a smal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/07/An-Honest-Trailer-for-iAvatar-Fire-and-Ashi/The Ocean City (New Jersey) Welcome Center is such a popular place for birds to nest that it has been designated as a rookery where the Audubon Society holds events. Jacqueline Burke was visiting from Pennsylvania with h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/07/Egret-Baby-Picture-Wins-the-Annual-Smithsonian-Photography-Competition/It's always a treat to get a mashup of two (or more) familiar songs from Bill McClintock. Usually, they are shockingly different songs that meld in a surprising way. This time, the two main songs are thematically similar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/06/Bill-McClintock-Brings-Us-Roxanne-Works-Hard-for-the-Money/Professional cosplay photographer David "DTJAAAAM" Ngo attended the recent MegaCon in Orlando and snapped images of the best cosplayers. Among them was this young lady who adds Kermit the Frog to the hairstyle and wardro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/06/Kermitsune-Miku/Embed from Getty ImagesHumans spent thousands of years looking for ways to make life easier. We turned from hunting and gathering to agriculture, then we invented machines to help with labor. Now we have artificial int...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/06/Outsourcing-Our-Logical-Thinking-to-Artificial-Intelligence/We clean our kitchens and we clean our toilets, because that's where the germs are, right? Sure, but bacteria, viruses, fungi, and even insects are more universal than our cleaning habits are. During the pandemic, we lea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/05/10-Parts-of-Modern-Life-that-Are-Gross-and-Disgusting/
