As more people fly, planes get bigger, and then they start charging extra for checked luggage, so everyone has a carry-on suitcase. The process of boarding a plane has become slower and more complicated, which prompted a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/13/All-the-Ways-You-Can-Board-a-Plane-Ranked-by-Stupidity/Some of the most touching love stories are those that blossom through deep struggles and extreme situations like war. Harley Rustad of The Walrus learned of one such love stories when his mother handed him a wor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/13/Love-Letters-from-the-Battlefields-of-World-War-II/In 1843, Texas was a country unto itself, although it was pressured on both sides: the United States wanted to annex it, and Mexico wanted to conquer it. But a lawyer from New England considered a third option- selling T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/13/The-Plan-to-Sell-Texas-to-Great-Britain/Witness the insanity of a multiplayer flight simulator. The air traffic controller resigns himself to the fact that no one knows what they are doing. He trolls a young kid by sending him back to the terminal to load cook...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/13/Another-Fine-Day-in-Flight-Simulator-X/Edgar Allan Poe dropped out of college and joined the army in 1827, when the US military was small and composed mostly of poor immigrants. Enlisted men were not highly regarded, and that might be the reason Poe changed h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/13/How-Edgar-Allan-Poe-Got-Kicked-Out-of-the-US-Army/An AI (Artificial Intelligence) watched all the TED talks and created this talk from what it learned. It is presented by Alex Reben who is an MIT-trained roboticist and artist who explores humanity through the le...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/13/World-s-first-TED-talk-written-by-an-AI-and-presented-by-a-cyborg/"Rule the World" in the title can be taken with a grain of salt. A few people end up becoming very powerful in a tiny niche of modern life because someone's gotta do it. The Unicode Consortium is a private non-profit com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/13/19-Powerful-Groups-And-People-That-Secretly-Rule-The-World/These two examples show that air in-flight safety videos for airlines are getting kind of strange... The airline EVA, based in Taiwan, chose to feature over 5 minutes of interpretive dance in their video. And...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/13/Airlines-Make-Bold-Choices-with-In-flight-Safety-Videos/This video of 'average people' trying to run at the average pace of Eliud Kipchoge's world record 2:01:39 marathon finish at the Berlin Marathon in September is both hilarious and wonderful. Some of the runners...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/13/Average-People-on-Treadmill-Try-To-Run-At-Speed-Of-Marathon-World-Winner/_Image Credit: Eddarix via_[ imgur]( https://imgur.com/gallery/tCZaO) National Pickle Day’s roots can be traced back to 1949, as part of National Pickle Week, thanks to the National Pickle Packers Associat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/13/November-14th-is-National-Pickle-Day-It-s-Kinda-a-Big-Dill/Backyard gardeners and birdwatchers have gone to great lengths to keep squirrels from raiding the crop or the bird feeder, but squirrels will not be deterred when they know there's something to eat at the end. This clip...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/13/Squirrels-Learn-Obstacle-Course/The team of engineers at FliteTest made this awesome drone out of four box fans, and it turned out amazingly well. The experiment was based on a photograph of a rudimentary fan drone they thought must have been...
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