🔥 On Earth, fire is shaped like, well, fire because of gravity. In space, it is nothing like what we've ever seen: NASA did a combustion research and showed that fire is spherical in microgravity.

🐱 Cats of the Wedge Tour is a walking tour of neighborhood cats in Minneapolis that drew in hundreds of people.

🏠 Wife complaining of the same view out the home window? Build her a rotating house.

🦠 Watch COVID-19 spread across the USA from Jan 2020 to Oct 2021

🧱 Now this is charming: Calvin and Hobbes Crossing the Bridge in LEGO

♕ Let's play! The Queen's Gambit mosaics made out of chess symbols.

🧛 Is this a smiling vampire bat or a cat?

More neat posts over at our new sites: Pictojam, Supa Fluffy, Homes & Hues, and Pop Culturista. Please check 'em out!

Image: NASA

Last month, a giant model of the Moon decided to make a run (or more accurately, roll) for it.

The inflatable Moon was for a local Moon festival celebration, which took place during the full harvest Moon in September. It broke free of its anchor and was blown down the street by the wind as two hapless officials ran after it.

According to The Guardian, this wasn't the first time the Moon went rogue. A similar model blew away in 2016, when strong winds due to Typhoon Meranti caused it roll over cars in the streets of Fuzhou.

🍔 What would fast food mascots look like if they were stars in their own action packed animated series? Illustrator Coran Kizer Stone or Kizerilla re-imagined your favorite fast food mascots as warriors. Who do you think would win? Keep in mind that Taco Bell won the Franchise Wars.

🕹️ From kanji characters to playing card to video games: here's the evolution of Nintendo logo.

🍽️ A plate found in a drawer fetched a whopping $1.7 million at auction. BRB checking our junk drawer!

🚗 Here's how to save your car in a flood: put it in a giant waterproof Ziploc bag.

🦑 A cartoonist who never watched the Netflix series decided to draw Squid Game.

🚻 You'll never guess who just walked out of the public restroom.

View more neat posts over at our new Picto network of sites: Pop Culturista, Infinite 1UP, Homes & Hues, Pictojam, Supa Fluffy and Laughosaurus. Please check 'em out 🙂

This "Illusory Red" color optical illusion, tweeted by experimental psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka (previously on Neatorama many, many times) shows two flags of his school, Ritsumeikan University of Kyoto, Japan.

Overlaid on top of the image are bars of solid cyan, but your brain can still interpret the red "R" in the white flag on the left and the red background of the flag on the right.

But are you SURE those are red colors? Zoom in (or let me do it for you below) and you'll see that there's not a single red pixel in the "Illusory red" color optical illusion image.

🧻 Siri can't flush your toilet, but this voice-operated public reset room in Japan can! Just say "Hi Toilet."

🐻 The ultimate Bearbnb vacation rental: rent a cabin inspired by Winnie the Pooh's home in the Hundred Acre Wood. Hunny-inspired meals included!

🍸 When Ian Fleming met the REAL James Bond at Goldeneye Hotel in Jamaica in 1964.

🐊 It doesn't get any more Florida than this: Florida man caught an alligator with a garbage can.

🧵 This is sew next level: stop motion animation embroidery by Huw Messie

🔬 Tiny but terrifying: 10 scariest creatures seen through the microscope.

🚁 India's Air Force helicopters dressed up as elephants are basically real life Dumbos.

🦧 Otterly terrific! River otters saved orangutans from dying of loneliness.

This post is brought to you by our new sites: Pictojam, Homes & Hues, Pop Culturista, Supa Fluffy

🐱 This cute permanently startled cat looks like it's always surprised ... and no surprise, it's a social media star!

🚗 Imagine driving down the highway and seeing the truck in front of you start twirling its hydraulic truck bed around.

👀 Psst! Here's the secret to having a more engaging conversation: it's all how you make and break eye contact.

😵 In the world's biggest pinball machine, you are the ball.

🍙 Now you can make a real life monster rice balls from The Legend of Zelda

⚡ Someone has re-created the lightning mushroom from Disney's Ratatouille. Hmmm, lighting-y!

🐼 Who will win the cleaning war between panda cubs and their nanny?

💀 Skullpot is a toilet shaped like skulls. For real.

Image above: @fedja_kot/Instagram

This neat-o post is brought to you by our new sites Supa Fluffy, Laughosaurus, Pictojam, Infinite 1UP, Pop Culturista and Homes & Hues. Thank you for taking a look!

From our new Picto network of sites, here are some extra neat posts:

The 2021 Federal Duck Stamp Contest had a rule that the entries must have a hunting theme, but didn't specify who is hunting whom, so an artist drew this clever image: The Hunting Duck.

The Traveler Statue is a middle-aged guy asleep on his travel bag in Orlando International Airport that has been missing his flight since 1986.

Someone spared no expense to create the ultimate Jurassic Park game room.

This 8 bit music video is 9 years in the making and is a LEGO masterpiece!

What's more badass than a katana? How about a chainsaw katana!

Can't wait for Cybertruk? Meet its DIY plywood version, Plybertruck. Elon, eat your heart out.

As clever as you are, you're nowhere near as clever as this cat who cons people into buying it some food in the grocery store.

Scientists found 12 new species of jellyfish under the Antarctic Sea-Ice. Now that's cool!

Now something sweet: an edible cherry blossom tree made out of candy floss by the MilkCake Man.

These neat posts are brought to you by Pictojam (science & tech), SupaFluffy (cute animals!), Pop Culturista (everything pop-culture) and Homes & Hues (our home decor site). Please check 'em out!

Quick: what's your favorite burger topping? If you answer Marshmallow fluff, then chances are you've eaten at Tony's Lunch in Girardville, Pennsylvania. On the menu is the Fluff Screamer, a hamburger topped with marshmallow fluff.

(Image: Erik/Atlas Obscura)

Find that and other neat stories over at our new Picto sites:

Wind, shopping carts and Star Wars music combine to give you a short but epic Attack of the Shopping Carts video clip.

Ivy is a dog with short spine syndrome that looks like a cross between a dog and a frog.

Free Guy movie posters feature some of our favorite video game box covers.

Just say no to three-point turns in your tight driveway - use this car rotating platform instead!

Sony PlayStation 5 is still out of stock, but you can get the next best thing: Nike PS5 shoes.

Some really smart engineers figured out how to make a gear shaped like a ball. Behold the Abenics spherical gear!

The darkest of nights ain't a match for the world's brightest flashlight from Hacksmith.

For more neat stuff, check out our new science site Pictojam, cute animal site Supa Fluffy and wonderful home gadgets Homes & Hues.

It's photography award seasons, so there are a LOT of fantastic images from various photography competitions that you shouldn't miss.

We've compiled the winners and shortlisted entries of many of these photography competitions across the new Picto sites - from funny animals of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards to the breathtaking aerial shots of the Drone Photo Awards to the majestic celestial objects galaxies away in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award.

Above is "Time for School" by Chee Kee Teo, featuring an otter momma taking a baby otter back and fro for a swimming lesson - view more finalists of the 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.

More beautiful, interesting, and intriguing images of 2021 photo competitions below:

"The Golden Ring" by Shuchang Dong - view more Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021.

"Pink-Footed Geese Meeting the Winter" by Terje Kolaas - view more Drone Photo Awards 2021

"Der Clan kuschelt" ("The clan cuddles") by Josef Schwarz - view more CEWE Photo Awards 2021

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A green turtle, surrounded by glass fish, Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia by Aimee Jan - view more 2021 Ocean Photography Awards

"Blocked" by Alejandro Prieto - view more Bird Photographer of the Year 2021

"The Great Swim" by Buddhilini de Soyzaj - view more 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year

For your weekend enjoyment, here are some of the neatest posts over at our new sites:

The most important device in the universe, found in just about every sci-fi TV shows and movies worth watching are blinking tubes without function

Brave enough to walk the plank in Yosemite at 4,500 feet (that's 1,370 meters for you non-Yanks) above the valley floor?

Russian Cyberpunk Farm is the future of farming. Wait till you see the fractal cucumber.

Papa Beaver carrying cabbage is the story of every man and groceries.

No human needed! Here's New Zealand's chicken crossing guard that's doing a great job keeping kids safe.

Can you tell the difference between a Marvel character or font?

If you believe in the sword, go to the official Witcher School in Poland.

(Pic above via YT)

Just in time for the weekend, here are some of the cutest animals we've featured on Supa Fluffy over the week.

Southern white rhino calf named Nandi ("sweet one" in Zulu), born late August at the ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in England, finally took a walk outside (don't miss the aww-so-cute video!)

What would you do if a wild baby fox move into your backyard?

Indonesian wildlife photographer Ajar Setiadi took a pic of frogs using a flower as an umbrella.

Don't mess with this New Zealand school's new chicken traffic officer.

This cute pet rat named Mr Blick plays the harmonica better than I do ... and he's got a Spotify tune, too!

Bonk! A curious whale plays with a woman on a paddle board in the Argentine Patagonia.

Stadium cat fell from the upper deck of a football stadium, but was saved when nice people caught it with a flag.

This mouse family lives in a tiny hobbit house.

Image above: ZSL Whipsnade Zoo

It's Friday so let's celebrate the end of the (stressful!) week with 9 of the cutest and notable animal stories from Supa Fluffy:

Here's another proof that cat is basically liquid. Take a look at the original slinky cat from Japan, who has a super weird way of sliding down stairs.

What would happen if a duck sneaked in an egg into an owl's nest? You'll get the strangest adoption ever: a cute duckling and an owl, who usually eats a cute duckling.

Proving the saying "eat like a bird" is basically wrong, here's Pelicans trying to eat things much, much larger than themselves (I guess Pelican't eat everything!)

A touching story: Man found an abandoned puppy living in a shoe and saved it. Faith in humanity restored!

Ooh baby! This soulful bird can sing better than me (not a hard thing to do, sadly).

ICYMI: Here's proof of how males of all species act the same when it comes to bringing the groceries home. Papa beaver can carry it all in one go.

Leopard vs porcupine, who wins? Hint: not the leopard. NEVER pick a fight with a porcupine - they bring knives to a fistfight.

One word is all you need to know: Wienerlympics. We're all winners if you watch it.

When money is no object, spoil your dog and buy 'em a $1,125 dog bowl from Hermes.

Need to win back trust? There's a smile for that!

A new study by researchers from Queen's University in Belfast showed that smiling can win back trust after someone has been uncooperative or untrustworthy. But not just any smile - it has to be a specific kind of smile called the affiliation smile.

From Pictojam:

“Facial expressions are very important in building social relationships and not all smiles are an expression of joy – there is much more behind a smile,” said Rychlowska, “We found that when a person smiled after being uncooperative or untrustworthy, they were viewed as being happy and therefore they appeared untrustworthy and unwilling to change their behaviour. However, when an affiliation smile was used, this was perceived as an attempt to make amends, restoring higher levels of trust than the other two smiles.”

Find out what kind of smile you'd need to win back another person's trust.

Image: Magdalena Rychlowska et al./Cognition and Emotion

Ok. That's a wrap! (for today, ofc)
Let me introduce Zangief. 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/uw6J2FZ09N

— Siberian_644 (@Siberian_644) August 30, 2021

What would Street Fighter characters look like if they were real life humans? And we're not talking about the 1984 movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme - we're talking about the classic Capcom video games.

Well, wonder no more: Twitter user @Siberian_644 used Google AI to turn various Street Fighter characters into 'real humans'. View the gallery over at Infinite1UP - here's Street Fighter Characters Turned Into Photorealistic 'Real Humans' by Google AI

I can't stop staring at Zangief ...

Blanka!! (finally AI recognize his face) pic.twitter.com/8cFds6faNI

— Siberian_644 (@Siberian_644) August 31, 2021

... or at Blanka!

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Watch this cute video clip of Papa Beaver named Mumu-Chan slowly waddle back to his family while carrying a large carrot and an unwieldly head of cabbage (that fell out of his hands a couple of times).

Just like a guy, he thinks that he can make it all in one go ... without any need for a grocery bag!

From Supa Fluffy, here's Cute Papa Beaver Clumsily Carries Carrot and Cabbage Back to His Family