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.
๐ 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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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!)
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 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.
โFacial expressions are very important in building social relationships and not all smiles are an expression of joy โ there is much more behind a smile,โ said Rychlowska, โWe 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.โ
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.
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!
We've been adding more neat posts over at our new sites as we build 'em up. Because we can't post every single one of them here on Neatorama, how about a recap?
Don't miss these science and tech posts over at Pictojam:
