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• "Sweet Dreams" Played by Electronic Devices
• More Neat and Cute Posts (Aug 27, 2021)
• Why Wasps Become So Annoying at the End of Summer
• Tramp, the Beloved Police Cat of the Richmond Hill Police Station
• Heart Shaped 'Sheep' Art is Australian Farmer's Tribute to Late Aunt
• Blooper Reels from Boston Dynamic's Robot Parkour
• Art Nouveau Architecture 101

"Sweet Dreams" Played by Electronic Devices Posted: 27 Aug 2021 03:56 PM PDT Enjoy the Eurythmics hit played by various gadgets and appliances, such as a toaster, printer, electric toothbrushes, and calculators. The steam iron adds both a good hiss and visual effects, but it's the googly eyes that really make the video special. -via reddit

More Neat and Cute Posts (Aug 27, 2021) Posted: 27 Aug 2021 03:56 PM PDT 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: Slow but Deadly: Tortoise Hunts and Eats Baby Bird Female Macaque at the Japanese Nature Reserve Became the First Alpha Female in 70 Years Brain Organoids Spontaneously Generate Eye Structures That Respond To Light Architecture and home design posts over at Homes & Hues (eye candy!): Rollable OLED TV by LG The Bee Bole Wall: Hardscape with a Historical Purpose Dinos Dining Table is Inviting for Cats Cute animal and pet posts over at Supa Fluffy: A Truly Emotional Duet with a Bird Watch This Bear Comically Slip Down a Waterfall Trying to Catch a Fish The Time Idaho Dealt With Its Surplus Of Beavers By Parachuting Them Into Its Backcountry Pop culture posts over at Pop Culturista: Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer Recreated with Clips from the 90s Cartoon Clips from Spider-Man Animated Series How Tom Cruise Prepared for the Biggest Stunt in Movie History Venom Sculpted Out of a Watermelon by Italian Artist Valeriano Fatica Video Game posts over at Infinite 1UP: 8 Bit Trip 2 by Rymdreglage: LEGO Stop-Motion Animation Music Video 9 Years in the Making Meet the Playdate: A Monochrome Video Game Console With a Crank Making Music with Math and Joycons! And lastly, some funny pics and awesome video clips over at Laughosaurus: Manhole Exploded with a Fireball After a Lightning Strike 'Star Bored' by Lim Heng Swee - When Star Wars Characters Said "Nope, Not Today" to the Force The Traveler: Hyper-Realistic Sculpture of a Weary Traveler at a Florida Airport Please check 'em out and tell your friends about 'em! We appreciate it!

Why Wasps Become So Annoying at the End of Summer Posted: 27 Aug 2021 03:18 PM PDT Wasps, which include yellowjackets and hornets, are annoying any time you disturb them or threaten their nests. But in the late summer, they are more likely to approach your picnic or backyard barbecue for no discernible reason and ruin a good time. Just a few weeks before, they left you alone. To understand why, you have to know something about a wasp's life cycle and habits.    To that hard-working mid-summer wasp, your prosecco luncheons and BBQ beers were a bore, because what she was after was protein. She is a hunter, a worker. In mid-summer, her purpose is to provide her baby siblings with protein. She is a sterile cog in a big superorganismal machine, driven by evolution to pass on her genes by raising siblings. Usually, the protein she hunts is other insects (garden caterpillars or flies). She brings prey to the colony where there are thousands of baby siblings to feed. She might chew the prey up a little (and perhaps ingest some too) before feeding it directly to a larva, but the bulk of the protein goes to the babies. In return for her hard work, the larva will give her a carbohydrate-rich sugary secretion. This is thought to be the main mode of nutrition for adult worker wasps. Each colony will produce several thousand worker wasps and they are kept very busy for much of the summer feeding these brood; with the drive of a drug addict, they are hooked on the sugary secretions from the lips of their baby siblings. Then as time passes, those larva turn into pupa, and no longer need to be fed as they turn into adult wasps. As the number of larvae dwindle, the adults look elsewhere for their sugar fix- like your flower garden or the beer that you may be holding. Read more about the cycle of life in a wasp's nest over the summer months at The Conversation.  -via Damn Interesting (Image credit: Jerzy Strzelecki)

Tramp, the Beloved Police Cat of the Richmond Hill Police Station Posted: 27 Aug 2021 03:18 PM PDT In 1916, the New York City borough of Queens consolidated all its mounted police into one precinct in Richmond Hill. That meant they needed a much larger stable, for up to 70 horses. One was located and rented from a dairy company. But a large stable with horses, hay, and horse feed soon became infested with rats and mice. The police needed a cat to keep the vermin under control. Tramp, described as a big-headed, earnest-faced, blue-eyed cat, limped into the station house on Church Street in 1919. (By this time, the precinct was known as the 118th Precinct.) The poor cat was limping because his front paw had been badly crushed in an auto accident. Somehow, he knew he could help at the building with the green lights out front. Detective Sergeant Albert Hill bandaged the cat's limb and placed him on a little cot in the reserve room. Tramp reportedly purred, meowed, wagged his fuzzy tail, and threw grateful glances toward his cat-man hero. While Tramp was bed-ridden, the officers couldn't do enough to help him. They brought him food and pet him every day. Then they officially admitted him to their ranks–even going as far as giving him a collar that stated, "P.D. 118 Prct." On recovery, Tramp became a dedicated and hard-working officer. He also became somewhat of a star among local journalists, who lauded his talents and made up fanciful stories of his ambitions. Read about Tramp, the police cat of Queens at The Hatching Cat.  -via Strange Company

Heart Shaped 'Sheep' Art is Australian Farmer's Tribute to Late Aunt Posted: 27 Aug 2021 03:18 PM PDT Due to covid lockdown, Australian farmer Ben Jackson couldn't attend the funeral of his aunt, who died after a two-year battle with cancer. So he created this touching tribute: a giant 'sheep art' shaped like a heart! Supa Fluffy, our new cute animals and pet site, has the drone videography: Australian Farmer Pays Tribute to his Late Aunt Through Heart-Shaped 'Sheep Art'

Blooper Reels from Boston Dynamic's Robot Parkour Posted: 27 Aug 2021 03:18 PM PDT What's better than watching our new robot overlord from Boston Dynamics performing intricate parkour maneuvers? How about watching them flub the jump? Watch as Boston Dynamic's Atlas robots crash and crash again over at Pictojam, before they finally managed to do a perfect run!

Art Nouveau Architecture 101 Posted: 27 Aug 2021 03:04 PM PDT Art Nouveau is a whimsical, elaborate style in architecture. Structures designed in the style of Art Nouveau often look more like a sculpture in a museum rather than an actual building. Designers using this style consider the windows, textiles, murals, sculpture, furniture, and artwork as part of one composition. My Modern Met created an infographic that shows different structures that can be classified as Art Nouveau. If you have no idea what Art Nouveau architecture looks like, check the infographic here!  Image credit: Theodor Vasile

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