Richard Appiah Akoto is an information and communication technology teacher at a junior high school in Sekyedomase, Ghana. He is teaching students how to use Microsoft Word without a computer. To be precise, he is prepping the students for the national high school admission exams they will soon take. But the rural school does not have computers to practice on. Akoto has his own laptop, but it doesn't use the same features the students will be expected to know.

That written exam relies on students’ ability to remember what is in the syllabus, which has not been updated since its introduction. Last year, only one of his students managed to get an A.

“Definitely those in Accra [Ghana’s capital] will pass the exam because you cannot compare someone who is in front of a computer, who knows what he is doing with the mouse to someone who has not had a feel of a computer mouse before”, says Akoto.

Since the Facebook post with these pictures has gone viral, several individuals and organizations have stepped forward to offer computers -including Microsoft. Read Akoto's story at Quartz Africa. -via Geeks Are Sexy

When fashion designers run out of truly fresh and original ideas they fall back on the tried and true shock value of avant-garde, thinking it will make them seem super innovative and forward thinking.

But acting like a severed head is going to be the latest and greatest fashion accessory, and a third eye will be the hot new makeup application, skips right past avant-garde straight to utter madness!

Italian fashion powerhouse Gucci unveiled their vision of fashion's future as designed by Alessandro Michele at their AW18 show in Milan, and Alessandro seems to think high fashion is about to become horrifying.

One of their models came out carrying an exact replica of her own head, while another sported a third eye on her forehead that would look amazing as part of a Halloween costume but just looks bizarre on the runway.

Wondering what other weird stuff Gucci put on display at AW18? Feast your eyes on this hot mess:

And apparently Gucci believes terrorists are about to start dressing fancy too so they've added some (probably way overpriced) balaclavas to their collection.

Or maybe they're meant to keep your third eye hidden from all those far less fashionable two-eyed humans out there?

See more at Metro

This is a truly weird idea. Mehdi, also known as DrMachakil (previously at Neatorama) found movie scenes and songs that contained the exact same line, and mashed them together. The result... uh, it's weird, too, but it sometimes works strangely well. When it doesn't, well, its still strange. 

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I hope he does a follow up with more of these when he finds them. -via Laughing Squid

Sometimes our minds grapple with certain words, and whether it's because they sound funny, don't sound right when used in a sentence or sound straight up obscene our brains earmark them as odd.

This is something that happens no matter what language we speak, but the English language has more than its fair share of words that sound dirty but actually aren't, words that are guilty by association like shuttlecock and masticate.

And while it's fine for kids to titter when a naughty-sounding word like kumquat, dongle or angina is said aloud it's downright immature for an adult to crack up every time they hear these words, so grow up people!

That being said, you have permission to LOL every time Dick Butkus' name is said out loud, oh, and whenever you meet someone named Richard Head...

See 20 Bizarre Words That Sound Dirty But Actually Aren't here

In the past 24 hours, we've featured two comics that question the nature of reality and the universe. The humor comes from our confusion about those subjects. On the serious side, Kurzgesagt released a video today that takes a science-based look at reality. As in string theory.

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Yeah, quantum physics and string theory are scary words to hear, but this video gives a simple overview that makes it seem easy to understand. I said "seem," because you can go much deeper and leave confused. In a nutshell, the answer to "What is the true nature of reality?" is a resounding "We don't know!" At least it's in beautiful Day-Glo colors. -via reddit

Board games are so much fun I've been hooked on them for most of my life and still wake up craving that cardboard BG crack every day- which is why I'm always trying to get my friends hooked on them as well.

Because board games aren't as fun when you play them alone, but it's also not very much fun to be the designated rulebook reader and rule monger either- which is why I demand my friends pay attention when I explain the game.

But as this comic by Jacob Andrews shows explaining the game to my friends almost makes me want to go in to rehab for gamers, because with friends like Dan the distracted and Mac the "wait, that doesn't make sense" guy playing board games can be a real pain!

-Via CollegeHumor

We've featured the minimalist posters of Dutch artist Chungkong before, but it's been a while. His latest project is a series of posters for movies that have been nominated for this year's Academy Awards. Check out how little he needs to illustrate the ideas behind The Post, The Boss Baby, Dunkirk, Phantom Thread, Darkest Hour, Loving Vincent, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. You can see all eight posters in the series, plus Chungkong's earlier movie posters, at his website. If you have a favorite, you might want to buy one!

Bless This Snek by Hillary White

It's only human to adore animals, and meeting someone who doesn't like animals of any kind is like meeting a kid who doesn't like toys- totally mind blowing.

Since we all love animals we naturally want to wear our love on our chests, so we can share our love and meet others who feel as passionately as we do about animals, and the best way to do this is with a NeatoShop t-shirt!

Animals capture our hearts when we're young

Kawaii Cute Zoo Animals On A Boat by wordsberry

And as we grow older our love of animals increases as we discover how fabulous animals really are

Hammy Couture by Shamus Beyale

Which can lead to dangerous levels of animal love if we're not careful!

Crazy Moon Cat Lady by Dooomcat

You know what they say about headlines that pose a question -that the answer is always no. In this case, the findings are too complex for a mere yes or no, and the research itself is raising more questions. Some anthropologists believe that human sacrifice helped to establish and maintain the power of authority figures over the lower classes from whom sacrifices were chosen. Anyone who threatened that authority could be targeted as well. Societies that are structurally unequal are easier to rule and to hold together. To check that theory, scientists created databases that combine the many societies that practiced human sacrifice. One, called Pulotu, has information on 100 traditional Austronesian cultures. Another, called Seshat, contains data from 400 societies over 10,000 years. The idea that societies that practiced human sacrifice grew and became more complex appears to hold up -but only to a certain point.

The results coming out of Seshat—which have yet to be published—suggest that social control may not be the whole story, however. No society in Pulotu comprises more than a million people, while Seshat includes “mega-empires” whose subjects numbered in the tens of millions. Seshat’s founders therefore argue that it tracks social complexity closer to modern levels, and they find that, beyond around 100,000 people, human sacrifice becomes a destabilizing force. “Our suggestion is that this particularly pernicious form of inequality isn’t sustainable as societies get more complex,” says Whitehouse. “It disappears once they pass certain thresholds, because they cannot survive with that level of injustice.”

Rather than being an essential stepping stone to greater complexity, the Seshat team argues, at these thresholds human sacrifice became a parasitic practice—an attempt, often by military heroes who had transformed themselves into “god-kings,” to seize and maintain power, to the detriment of social cohesion. That’s because, whereas human sacrifice might have terrorized the members of a smaller, simpler society into obeying their self-styled leader, it could no longer do so in a large and ethnically diverse one. There, it was easier to disobey the ruler, or desert, and evade punishment—and the temptation to do so only grew stronger as societies grew larger.

So what held a society together when they grew past human sacrifice? Military might is one facet being studied, while religion is another. Read what scientists are saying about the subject at The Atlantic. -via Digg

Jesse’s Church by Hulkey

When the good people of Annville, Texas joined Jesse Custer's congregation they had no idea why they'd come to such a podunk church to worship, but for some reason they felt drawn to the man despite his rough edges. And once things started going all haywire in town they found out why Jesse's church had been so alluring- because he had been chosen by God to live one hell of a wild life!

Show some love for your favorite hard-drinkin', fist fightin', foul-mouthed preacher by wearing this Jesse's Church t-shirt by Hulkey, and people will sing your praises wherever you go!

Visit Hulkey's Instagram, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more mighty cool designs:

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Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!

The Jaegers are back to kick kaiju ass in Pacific Rim Uprising, so it's only fitting that we follow up the MetaBallStudios comparison of giant movie monsters with their size comparison of movie robots.

And while some will argue that Jaegers, AT-ATs and the AMPs from Avatar (as well as others in the lineup) aren't technically robots, since they're piloted by humans, the distinction between mecha and robot isn't well known to the general public.

So if their inclusion in this lineup fills you with nerd rage then I apologize, and I implore you to look past the miscategorization and just enjoy seeing how all your favorite robotic characters, vehicles and mecha measure up to each other!

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-Via Boing Boing

If you're lucky, you have fond memories of the wonderful dishes your grandmother used to cook. If you're even luckier, she wrote out those recipes so you could make them on your own. These traditional family recipes get handed down to a generations who believe they have something special that no one else could replicate. A restaurant owner gave his grandmother's secret potato salad recipe to his chefs to recreate, and they laughed because they knew that recipe came from the label of Hellman's mayonnaise. That happens more often than you think. Atlas Obscura's food section, Gastro Obscura, asked readers to send in stories of secret family recipes.

In response to our call, 174 readers wrote in with stories of plagiarized family recipes. Hailing from New York to Nicaragua, from Auckland, New Zealand, to Baghpat, India, they prove that this is a global phenomenon. The majority of readers described devastating discoveries: They found supposedly secret recipes in the pages of famous cookbooks, and heard confessions from parents whose legendary dessert recipes came from the side of Karo Syrup bottles.

You can read some of the funnier stories at Gastro Obscura. There are some recipes you might want to try, too.

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Some people think an alien invasion is imminent, and that we're not doing enough to prepare for the little green or gray invaders who want to conquer our planet.

Others believe aliens have already been here, and that these extraterrestrial visitors left some of their DNA behind to infiltrate humanity from within.

Of course, both theories are silly because anybody who knows anything about aliens knows they only share their DNA with their own species- and if they want a planet they'll exterminate every life form on that planet to acquire it.

Our only consolation is that these aliens will inevitably exterminate each other at some point, leaving our planet free for the taking!

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Invageddon is a cutesy looking yet totally twisted animated series by RiggXAnimation, presented here in its entirety so you can see the whole crazy story from out of this world beginning to ridiculous end!

Back in 1983, we were all anxious to find out what happened to Han Solo after he was frozen in carbonite and taken to Jabba the Hutt. Return of the Jedi wrapped the Star Wars trilogy, beginning with an action sequence where Han is rescued. Luke, Leia, Chewbacca, Lando, and the droids all show up at Jabba's headquarters at around the same time. We get the impression that our rebels had a plan, but no one can figure out what that plan was, since not one step of it worked, or even made sense. Mike Ryan lays out the timeline of what actually occurred. First, Luke gives Jabba the droids. We don't know what he expected to happen. Then Leia shows up.  

Disguised as a bounty hunter named Boushh, Leia strolls in and hands over Chewbacca. So already three of our heroes have been captured as part of this, “Let’s just all surrender,” plan. Later that night, Leia unfreezes Han, but as they start to make their getaway, Jabba and all his friends are literally hiding behind a curtain and capture Leia and Han. (I’d watch a whole A Star Wars Story offshoot movie about Jabba planning this curtain surprise. I’d love to see him explain to Weequay, “And then we will all be super quiet and just wait there behind the curtain all night. It’s going to be great. Okay, yes, it might take a few hours, but the payoff will be worth it. We will all laugh.” I also picture Squid Head back there, “Ohhhh, I think I see someone moving. I think this is it!,” and the rest of the gang all shushing him. “Shhhhhh, Squid Head, you’re going to ruin it!”) Okay, so now, including Han, we have five heroes captured.

There are several more steps that appear to have been made up as they went along before our heroes get away. By the time the third movie arrived, I had given up any illusion that Star Wars would follow any sort of logic, so I didn't think about it much at the time. But trying to parse the sequence 35 years later only makes all the kerfuffle about The Last Jedi seem rather silly. Read the analysis of Han's rescue operation at Uproxx. 

Mulan is seen as one of the most inspirational Disney feature films because Mulan isn't some helpless and demure princess who has to be saved by a tough prince- she's tough enough to take on any challenge by herself.

Add the fact that Mulan is also the first and only Chinese Disney princess and you've got history in the making, but the true history of the historical figure Mulan is based on plays out a bit different than the film.

And in the end the legendary Hua Mulan was even more of a badass than the cartoon version!

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