You can do more than just eat beer soft serve ice cream at the Minnesota State Fair. You can also attend an art show using crops as the medium. Minnesota Public Radio reports that 451 people entered works, my favorite of which is this piece by Susan Du. It's a parody of Francisco Goya's famous painting Saturn Devouring His Son.

Many of the submitted works are seed mosaic parodies of other famous works of art, notably Magritte's Ceci N'Est Pas Une Pipe. Others are reminisces of icons of Minnesotan life. You can view them at Minnesota Public Radio.

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The Minnesota State Fair opened on August 21 and will continue through Labor Day. Among the vendors is West End Brews, a local brewery that is offering a wide variety of intoxicating beverages, including a soft serve version of the locally-produced Pryes Brewing Royal Raspberry Sour Ale.

Charlie Burrows, the owner of the stand, talked with local news site Bring Me the News. It reports that Burrows worked with Pyres to create a recipe that would mix with the beer to create a freezable slush. The result has been a hit with fairgoers, so he plans to continue to develop the project in time for the fair next year.

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As we've previously noted, Indian weddings can be grand spectacles--even if there isn't a couple getting married.

These weddings almost seem competitive with couples attempting to outdo each other with original pagentry. The Instagram photography account shared this video of a groom named Fenil arriving in the greatest of all wedding vehicles: a Batmobile. It is, specifically, the tumbler Batmobile that appeared in The Dark Knight trilogy.

Fenil and his clearly very lucky bride create a dramatic impression among the innumerable wedding guests. Let us hope that he and his bride were able to depart the scene in the Batmobile, too.

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Master LEGO artist Neil Snowball composed this shirt entirely out of LEGO supplies, including approximately 25,000 bricks. How is it flexible? With the aid of 210 LEGO nets.

Joshua Hanlon of the Beyond the Brick fan community put on the shirt, which seems remarkably sturdy. The design is a massively expanded version of a treasured minifig torso. Hanlon says that it's comfortable, although it does weigh about 30 pounds.

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The city of Nuremberg was of great cultural significance in Nazi Germany, as demonstrated by the infamous rallies that took place there. The victorious Allied powers put substantial effort into cleansing the country of the symbols of Nazism, including the swastika and the eagle, in Nuremberg and elsewhere.

But it was impractical to blast apart every building associated with the Nazi Party and some remain intact to this day--even in Nuremberg. Atlas Obscura tells us that one of the buildings left over from the rally grounds built by Nazi Germany is now home to a Burger King. The eagle coat of arms has been removed, but its traces can be identified on the stone.

Like most of us, the streaked shearwater (Caolonectris leucomelas) poops every four to ten minutes. But, CTV News reports, where the streaked shearwater poops is specific and of tremendous ecological importance.

These seabirds live in dry islands off the Japanese mainland. They excrete about 5% of their body mass every hour. They do so while in flight over the sea, thus leaving their nitrogen and phosphorus-packed poop in the water. There are about 424 million birds in this species. Those numbers mean that a lot of streaked shearwater poop is in the sea, thus contributing to the ecosystem in ways that are essential to marine life.

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Ralph Giese has had a successful music career throughout his life with his masterful command of whistling. He even appeared on The Tonight Show in 1986 when Johnny Carson was still in charge.

On his YouTube channel, Giese takes audience requests. He's performed "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin, and "Always on My Mind" by Willie Nelson. I'm especially taken with this performance of an iconic, brooding song by The Rolling Stones.

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IFL Science tells us that "xanthism" is a kind of albinism found in some animals that produces a skin that is yellow or orange. Last year, sport fishermen near the Tortuguero National Park in Costa Rica hooked a nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) that measured about six and a half feet long. It has pure white eyes with no discernible irises.

Scientists who published an article about the fish note that it is the first case of xanthism found in this species, as well as any species in the Caribbean Sea. The shark was probably healthy and its unique condition did not prevent it from feeding successfully.

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Celine Rousseau is a food blogger and gourmand who has traveled the world sampling the best dishes available. Now she prepares a table for herself and her husband at their home in Switzerland.

We love her work here at Neatorama and have featured it previously. We are most recently captivated by a series of pastries that she has prepared. They resemble common seafoods, such as this adorable lobster.

Dave Koz is a Grammy-nominated saxophonist. On August, he and his bandmates were traveling to Seattle to perform at a concert as part of their summer tour schedule. The Associated Press reports that their flight faced multiple delays, including staffing shortages and a mechanical issue, resulting in a long wait on the tarmac in Boise, Idaho.

One of the flight attendants noticed that the band members had brought their instruments on board. They agreed to perform, leading to this viral video of their performance of "You Haven't Done Nothin'" by Stevie Wonder. Koz and Marcus Anderson use their saxophones while Jeff Bradshaw navigates his trombone's slide in the tight confines of the plane.

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The Canary Islands are a Spanish archipelago off the coast of western Africa. Before tourism transformed the islands into a sunny destination, the economy was dominated by shepherding. Long centuries of this profession led to the development of Salto del Pastor--the shepherd's leap.

To navigate through the rocky hills of the islands, shepherds used a long staff with a metal tip to hurl themselves over obstacles and down the mountains. Today, it is a sport that requires great strength and dexterity.

I can see how the technique is useful. Salto de Pastor is a kind of practical parkour, but for rural rather than urban environments.

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Sorry I can't!

I'm locked in to the German Shopping Cart Return Championships... pic.twitter.com/cwa44vNsAK

— ฿₳₮₮ⱠɆ ฿ɎⱤĐ (@BattleByrd) August 15, 2025

Shopping Cart Theory is the belief that returning the shopping cart after exiting the store is the best test of a person's moral capacity for self-governance. Or, to put it in Starship Troopers terms, the difference between a citizen and a civilian.

Returning the shopping cart is only the beginning of the journey into civilization. To people on this German game show, it is necessary to return the shopping cart with precision and elegance. Watch the contestants attempt to propel their carts into the corral perfectly.

Watching classic Star Trek is...soothing. That's what I'll call it. Pop in the DVD and watch an episode of The Next Generation that you've already seen half a dozen times in the past thirty years. It's like an old friend. So this is a fitting mashup with Gary Portnoy's song "Where Everybody Knows Your Name," which served as the opening theme to Cheers.

Commenters on YouTube remind us of a connection between Star Trek and Cheers: the Deep Space Nine barfly character Morn was inspired by the Cheers character Norm. Norm, though, was less annoying because unlike his Star Trek counterpart, he wouldn't talk all of the time.

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Alone, these items are ordinary purchases. But when they are selected on a single trip to the store, it's reasonable if not also advisable to be suspicious.

Honestly, I don't know why it's even legal to own or pruchase a copy of Garfield 2: A Tale of Two Kitties. There's a reason why it polls so badly on Rotten Tomatoes. It's just too dangerous to have around, especially where kids can get at it.

Redditor /u/eugendied crafts mostly quilts and other creative fabric arts, but what drew my attention from her body of work was this strikingly realistic and beautiful bench that looks just like a stick of butter. As one commenter says, "I can't believe it's not butter!"

The form is actually a precisely cut and shaped wooden box. /u/eugenedied then used Canva and Photoshop to create the lettering design, which she then cut out of vinyl with a Cricut.

This table was a fitting gift for a friend who is a food scientist at Land O'Lakes.