Vaccines for diseases like polio, measles, and small pox have made it possible for millions and millions of people to live long, healthy lives. It has helped reduce and eradicate such diseases so that they no lon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/Why-Strep-A-Has-No-Vaccine-Yet/There are so many objects in orbit around the Earth now that keeping track of them becomes a challenge. It is even more of a challenge as they would have to steer them away from colliding from one another. Not al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/When-Two-Satellites-Had-A-Close-Call/How many volts does one lightning strike possess? Well, we didn't really have the means to measure it accurately [until they looked into muons present in a thunderstorm.](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/muons...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/The-Electric-Potential-of-Thunderstorms/Global warming poses a serious threat to our environment, to our oceans, and to the various ecological systems in the world. Concerned with the survival of the Earth in the face of this anthropogenic phenomenon,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/The-Prospects-of-Artificial-Leaves/Corresponding to the numbers 10^27 and 10^30 respectively, [ronna and quecca will be the new prefixes to use for these numbers.](https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/you-know-kilo-mega-and-giga-metric-system-r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/Meet-the-New-Units-of-Measurement-in-the-Metric-System-Ronna-Ronto-and-Quecca-Quecto/It's a dangerous kind of work to cut down trees but it's even more dangerous what riverjacks do with them after. [Floating logs down the river](https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoors/a26016359/rough-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/The-Last-Remnants-of-the-Log-Drives/When humans look for a partner with whom they want to have a relationship, we usually list the qualities to which we are attracted and what we want to see in our partner. There are some qualities that may be nego...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/The-Heliconian-Butterfly-s-Lady-in-Red/More people feel lonely today than ever before. Kurzgesagt tackles this subject in a sympathetic and non-judgmental way. They go into the science and history of loneliness, and more importantly, what you can do about it....
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/Loneliness-in-a-Nutshell/You've probably all seen at least some of the many Hitler Reacts/Rants/Realizes Parody videos on YouTube, but did you know that they have their own channel? It's true, and one may access that channel [here.](http...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/The-Hitler-Reacts-Rants-Realizes-Parodies-Channel-on-YouTube/Further north in the Arctic regions, winter has been blowing really cold and frigid for the most part. Except for a city named Utqiagvik in Alaska which recorded a temperature within the 20s to 30s range last wee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/Why-Is-Alaska-Having-A-Hot-Winter/Helle's toilet: 12th-century three-person loo seat goes on display https://t.co/U7V5zMazLp— The Guardian (@guardian) February 13, 2019 Cities as old as London get renovated many times, and often it's easier to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/Helles-Toilet-to-Go-on-Display/In February, our thoughts -and holidays- turn to love and presidents, so it makes sense to peek in on love letters written by presidents, some of which are pretty strange. The wives of both George Washington and Thomas J...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/Bizarre-and-Beautiful-Love-Letters-From-The-Early-American-Presidents/Some species of spider have a type of eye called a tapetum that reflects light, which helps them to see prey at night. The structures that make this kind of eye must be pretty tough, because one fossil has preserved the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/This-Spiders-Eyes-Still-Glow-110-Million-Years-Later/How often do you get a personal letter in the mail? This one not just a thank you, it's a glimpse into how an everyday act of commerce can affect someone else's life. You can enlarge the letter at reddit if you need to....
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/Spreading-the-Joy/In the event of a nuclear war, or other apocalyptic event, the US government has a plane ready to stay aloft up to a week, carrying government officials, high-level Pentagon brass, a flight crew, and some very luck...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/The-US-Governments-350-Million-Doomsday-Plane/Even as seen today on websites like _Rotten Tomatoes_, there is often a disconnect between what Critics like and what the Public likes. A good example is _The Beverly Hillbilies_, reviled by critics, adored by mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/Hee-Haw-1969-1997/For more than 260 years, when someone in the UK mentioned taking a trip to Gretna Green, that meant they were getting married. How did a small town in Scotland get such a reputation? It wasn't Gretna Green's fault; that'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/Eloping-to-Gretna-Green/Since the Academy Awards were first bestowed in 1929, there have been 90 films that took home the Oscar for Best Picture of the Year. Some deserved the award, some didn't. And now we have a ranked list pf all 90 movies t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/Every-Oscar-Best-Picture-Winner-Ranked/Everyone has a dream at least once in their lives about inheriting money from a long lost uncle, or someone they met once on a train, or from someone famous who wanted to spread it around. It happened in the movies B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/18/Has-Anyone-Ever-Really-Inherited-Millions-from-a-Random-Person-Theyve-Never-Heard-Of/
