Tippy is the digital mascot of modern tipping culture. He's here to shake you down for extra cash with his weapons of surprise and guilt. Yes, you will be asked to tip on the most absurd reasons by businesses that have n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/25/Tippy-The-Mascot-of-Tipping-Culture/Honeybees are incredibly talented for insects. The manufacture honey, wax, and other bees. They pollinate our crops, they communicate by dancing, and they remember where the flowers are blooming. And they can deliver a p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/25/The-Mathematical-Abilities-of-Bees/It's the end of an era. Many years ago, no one knows exactly when, a new sidewalk on West Roscoe Street in Chicago was laid, and a rodent left an imprint of its body in the wet cement. In January, the rat-shaped hole wen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/25/The-Chicago-Rat-Hole-Has-Been-Removed/When we disturb the tombs of ancient mummies, we fear a curse or worse, but we also forget that they were people of their time when they were alive. They had no concept of guns. Sure, you can't kill a mummy, because they...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/25/An-Encounter-with-a-Mummy-from-2600-BC/People love visiting national parks. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park in East Tennessee saw 13.29 million visitors in 2023! In fact, it's getting to the point that a park experience can be diminished by the very n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/24/The-Tropical-US-National-Park-with-No-Crowds/You might or might not be familiar with the warning scale the National Weather Service uses for high temperatures, but it's pretty intuitive. Green is for no danger, yellow and orange are cautionary, and red means danger...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/24/The-Earth-is-Getting-So-Hot-We-Need-a-New-Warning-Color/Most ordinary distance runners prefer water, but Tom Gilbey is anything but ordinary. He's an expert on wines put his knowledge to the test during the recent London Marathon. He hid two wine glasses in his belt and, at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/24/Wine-Connoisseur-Samples-25-Wines-during-Marathon/Tom Curtis admired the drawings his six-year-old son Dom drew, and rendered them as something akin to a photograph, by adding color, contours, and backgrounds. It was so much fun he began posting these art pieces at his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/24/Things-The-Kids-Have-Drawn-Made-Realistic/There are those who believe that the great architectural marvels of the past were not designed in their time, but are the remnants of a lost civilization called the Tartarian Empire. This theory is akin to that of ancien...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/The-Theory-of-the-Lost-Tartarian-Empire/A horror dance from an Indian reality show byu/Euglena_fucks_amoeba innextfuckinglevel B Unique Crew is an Indian dance crew with three dancers and one genuine contortionist. They achieved notoriety with this horror dan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/An-Indian-Horror-Story-in-Dance/As I have said before, I love books, especially the physical copies of books. There are many factors that make a physical book different from a digital copy. There are the sensations: the smell of the pages, the texture...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/The-Death-of-the-Publishing-Industry/<p>You have probably heard of Hemingway's famous six-word short story, which won him a $10 bet with his writer friends. The story goes that as he was hanging out at lunch with some of his friends at either...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/The-Tale-of-Hemingway-s-Six-Word-Short-Story/<p>Laura Young shares <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/04/19/what-its-really-like-finding-a-priceless-artefact-in-a-thrift-store/" target="_blank">how her experience of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/How-Laura-Young-s-35-Thrift-Store-Antique-Broke-the-Internet/<p>The phrase has been used over and over in films, TV, and in daily life that there's no question as to the meaning of "<a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/roger-that-phrase-origins?utm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/The-Origins-of-the-Phrase-Roger-That/Buoy tenders are ships that maintain buoys in harbors, lakes, rivers, and the open sea to serve as aids to navigation. The US Coast Guard maintains several classes of buoy tenders, which also provide maritime law enforce...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/The-Coast-Guards-Buoy-Tender-Olympics/<p>Since university, I have had this curiosity about the concept of a person's individuality. That is, what makes us unique, and how our individual experiences shape our perspective, behavior, preferences,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/Organ-Transplants-May-Alter-Recipients-Personality/We think of Australians as a tough bunch, because it takes guts to live in a place with so many deadly animals, like snakes. It indeed requires a tough person to catch a snake right after it bit them. But hospitals in Qu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/Dont-Bring-the-Snake-That-Bit-You-Into-the-Hospital/<p>Due to advances in medicine and technologies that help us make healthier choices, the current life expectancy for humans in 2024 is 73.33 years. This is a tremendous leap from 1950, when the average life...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/A-Comparison-of-Mammals-Lifespans/Sam Salem is a stand-up comedian who happens to be a high school teacher, and in a two-part Instagram reel, he shared some of the best burns with which his students roasted him. Now, teachers may not necessarily apprecia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/Teacher-Lists-Top-Five-Moments-Students-Roasted-Him/The recent floods experienced in Dubai and Sharjah last week have prompted some people to blame the cloud seeding operations which were done Sunday and Monday. The freak storms occurred on Tuesday of that week. So, that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/Was-Cloud-Seeding-to-Blame-for-Recent-UAE-Floods/<p>It has been almost two decades since Pluto was demoted from being a planet to a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union. But still, astronomers and astrophysicists are searching for an elusi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/The-Search-for-Planet-Nine-s-Whereabouts/<p><em>The Matrix</em> explored the idea that the world we're living in is actually just a simulation, and that everything has been programmed, and so we have no control over the outcome of our...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/Did-the-Matrix-Get-It-Right/I used to watch Cesar Millan's show, Dog Whisperer, and I was so fascinated with his understanding of dog psychology and behavior, that when my family finally got a dog, I was thrilled to test out the stuff that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/12-Ways-We-Unwittingly-Annoy-Our-Dogs/"I was human once" begins a soliloquy from a successful alchemist who developed an elixir that gave him immortality and magical powers. What would you sacrifice for immortality and magical powers? We find that the price...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/22/An-Alchemistss-Confession-Careful-What-You-Wish-For/Imagine being a Jewish soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War, in what would later become West Virginia where no one knew how to celebrate Passover. There were 21 Jewish soldiers in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infant...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/22/Celebrating-Passover-While-Fighting-the-Civil-War/Warning: this video contains lots of NSFW language. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is crossing its fingers that bringing back two of its more popular superheroes in the R-rated Deadpool & Wolverine will rever...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/22/The-First-Full-Trailer-for-iDeadpool-Wolverinei/<p>There is this phrase which says, "<em>History is written by the victors</em>." For much of human history, that seems to have been the case. Whoever had the power to write history we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/22/What-US-Historical-Markers-Say-About-US-History/Okay, this sounds ridiculous. Who would be scared to driver over a bridge? Who would pay $40 to have someone else drive them across this bridge? I mean aside from the whole ship-crashing-into-bridge thing going on lately...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/22/Theres-a-Business-That-Drives-People-across-the-Chesapeake-Bay-Bridge/There's nothing more endearing than the symbiotic relationship developed between people and wildlife. As much as we benefit from the resources we take from nature, I think it's also our responsibility to take care of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/22/The-Story-of-Norwegian-Tenders-and-Their-Eiders/We often think of prisons to be the most inhumane places in society, because of what we see in media or what we hear from people who have been there. Or, perhaps from personal experience, whether we know someone who is o...
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