Recent posts at Neatorama

Fewer than I would like, but several will, I am sure, be of interest to readers here...

In the 1920s, "baby cages" were inserted in the windows of tenements to allow children to have access to fresh air and sunlight.

The item in the photograph is an olive branch crafted out of gold.  It is presently on the moon.

The "Serpent" is an ancient wind instrument, highly convoluted to allow its great length to be accessible to a human with normal-length arms.

If you use topical hormone creams (estrogen, testosterone), be aware that children and pets in your family can absorb physiologic amounts through incidental contact with your skin.

A brief video shows children in the U.K. racing Shetland ponies.

A terrible gaffe by a newscaster, created when he didn't pause long enough between sentences... "Dana is off tonight. He was murdered and set on fire while celebrating his birthday..."

A copper Lincoln penny ("wheat penny") just sold for $1,700,000, because it's a 1943-D penny.  Explained at the link.

A figure compiled by Accu-Weather plots 310 million lightning strikes in the United States.  Try to guess which states had the most activity before you look at the map.  (Follow the links to see worldwide data).

Professors and students at Budapest’s ELTE-MTA Theoretical Linguistics Programme sing a cover of "We Are The World."  The post garnered a number of snarky and disparaging comments, but I think it's a rather well-done performance.

The photos, top-to-bottom:
1)  Another Funereal Duskywing.  I reported spotting one in July, then incredibly encountered another in late October, again in my yard.  Very rare; only a handful of sightings in Wisconsin - ever. 
2)  Below that, a pair of Clouded Sulphurs in copulo.  Unusual because these were seen the second week in November (unusual at our latitude).
3)  And finally, a photo of what happens when you put a pumpkin in a tree for a Halloween decoration and then leave it there.  I wasn't quite quick enough to photograph the perpetrator - a gray squirred had burrowed inside and was eagerly consuming the pumpkin seeds while sitting inside the pumpkin.  He disappeared before I got back with my camera.