<p>One concept sums up Elizabeth Peabody's letter to her friend, the sister of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and that is how we as human beings should not be complacent and become stagnant. We live in a constantly c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Elizabeth-Peabody-s-Thoughts-on-Self-Renewal-and-the-Perils-of-Middle-Age/<p>Do everything in moderation. Social drinking seems like a convention among different groups of people in order to socialize and get to know each other and break down the walls of awkwardness between coll...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Secondhand-Drinking-Affects-One-in-Five-Adults-in-the-US/<p>Urban development as a concept should be a good thing. Well, it is but only if the benefits redound to all. However, as is always the case, things tip in favor of those who have the resources. In this li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Can-America-Fix-Its-Housing-Crisis/Photographer Juhamatti Vahdersalo wanted to encourage veganism, so naturally he came up with the idea of … zombies It has been said that meat consumption should decrease by 90% in the west if we want to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Vegan-Zombie-Apocalypse/<p>It's like the sitcom Friends but in real life. Living together with six of your best friends from retirement until the day you die must be a dream. Of course, many things can get in the way like having y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Seven-Girlfriends-Joked-They-Would-Retire-and-Die-Together-Now-They-Really-Will/You knew that the Panama Canal was a colossal project, but this video from Wendover Productions gives us a taste of how huge the global shipping industry is. Imagine calculating whether it is worth paying millions of dol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/How-the-Panama-Canal-Works/<p>The long wait is over for the third installment of Stranger Things has already been released on Netflix. Without giving much away, the new season will be set in the 80s so expect to see some throwbacks a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Stranger-Things-3-Easter-Eggs-You-Might-Have-Missed/<p>We have probably read or heard stories of people going through near-death experiences and what it was like to be in such a state. Stephanie Arnold, author of 37 Seconds, recounts one such experience when...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/This-Is-What-s-Going-To-Happen-Behind-Stephanie-Arnold-s-37-Second-Experience/<p>Trap chess is a variant upon the ancient game. Randomly selected squares open down, eliminating any pieces unfortunate enough to be on top.</p><p><a href="https://hackaday.com/2019/07...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Trapdoor-Chess/<p><br></p> <p>Some call Ani the “City of 1001 Churches” while others call it the “City of Forty Gates”. However, it was never called “home” by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Ani-An-Abandoned-City-of-1001-Churches/What happens when Mission Control is run like a run-of-the-mill small business? This might have happened during a holiday weekend, because the one left holding down the fort is the lowest guy in the hierarchy. This anima...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/The-Last-Spaceplane/Don't you just love it when someone takes an old, obscure snippet of pop culture and turns it into art? It's even better when you realize that tiny snippet is not as obscure as you thought. In the very first season of Sp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/The-Pioneers-Used-to-Ride-These-Babies-for-Miles/<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/jul/04/how-a-video-game-community-filled-my-nephews-final-days-with-happiness-elite-dangerous" target="_blank" style="backgroun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Video-Game-Community-Fills-Up-15-Year-Old-s-Final-Days-With-Joy/Embed from Getty ImagesIn 1936, 22-year-old Ann Cooper Hewitt sued her mother in court for having her sterilized. Doctors had removed Ann's Fallopian tubes during an appendectomy, rendering her unable to bear children....
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/The-Curious-Case-of-the-Socialite-Who-Sterilized-Her-Daughter/Montreal Comiccon this past weekend was bigger and better than ever! Cosplayers came from all over to show their stuff in elaborately accurate costumes from comic books, TV, movies, and video games. Geeks Are Sexy was th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Cosplayers-at-Montreal-Comiccon-2019/<p>Amidst the ruins of shattered dreams and relationships scattered through a post-industrial wasteland known as Springfield, one family occasionally tolerates itself. Director Lenivko Kvadratjić presents...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/The-Russian-Art-Film-Version-of-i-The-Simpsons-i/<p>Car rental is popular in Japan and the prices are cheap. They're so cheap that many people are renting the cars just to have space available to do other things privately, such as eating lunch, charging t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/People-in-Japan-Rent-Cars-Then-Don-t-Drive-Them/<p>With better technology and greater means to spy, privacy is becoming an illusion. And just when we’re all getting used to having our social media posts and interactions spied on, there’re new...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Spy-Satellites-New-Threat-Against-Your-Privacy-Comes-From-the-Skies-Above/<p>Famous fast food chain ‘Mister Donuts’ has a bold presence in Japan. They never hesitate to take the audience by surprise. Their newest invention is the sweet combination of creamy roll cake...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Ronuts-Creamy-Roll-Cakes-Plus-Donuts/<p>The theory of spontaneous generation states that living organisms could be produced through nonliving matter. This has long become obsolete after scientists such as Louis Pasteur and John Tyndall conduct...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Louis-Pasteur-Had-A-Showdown-To-Debunk-Spontaneous-Generation/<p>The invention of gunpowder was an important turning point in history. This new technology would become one of the most destructive yet convenient military weapons. But how did we get to the point of disc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/On-the-Invention-of-Gunpowder/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Here’s an upcoming solution to hospitals’ treatment of burns and wounds : </span><em style="bac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Spray-on-Nanofiber-Skin-May-Improve-Burn-and-Wound-Care/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In the quest of further understanding one of the most mysterious (and vaguely terrifying) celestial objects in the univer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Vortex-Around-A-Black-Hole-Spins-at-70-the-Speed-of-Light/You've seen the "couch gag" at the beginning of The Simpsons enough times that you know what's going to happen, even when guest artists give it a different spin. Lenivko Kvadratjić of Lažy Škvar Filma (...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/The-Simpsons-Intro-Russian-Version/<p>So much controversy revolved around what's probably the most shocking event that happened to a US president, the assassination of JFK. It's one laden with secrecy and even conspiracies about why it happe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/The-Aftermath-of-JFK-s-Assassination/Stories have been told since about the mid-1970s of black soldiers who fought for the Confederate States of America, despite their status as slaves. Historian Kevin M. Levin looked into those accounts, and wrote a book t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/The-Diaries-Left-Behind-by-Confederate-Soldiers-Reveal-the-True-Role-of-Enslaved-Labor-at-Gettysburg/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A Roman shipwreck with ancient cargo has been discovered, surprisingly undisturbed. Reported by a team of two volunteer d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Undisturbed-Roman-Shipwreck-Discovered-in-Cyprus/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">People can find ways to gather support and morale boost. For the case of </span><em style="background-color...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Robots-Cheered-For-This-Losing-South-Korean-Baseball-Team/The live-action version of the 1998 Disney movie Mulan won't be out until next spring, but the first teaser is here now. Yifei Liu stars as Mulan, who dresses as a man to take her father's place in the military....
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/Our-First-Look-at-Disneys-Mulan/Wooly mammoths have been extinct for thousands of years, but frozen remains in the far north are being unearthed at an astonishing rate as the permafrost thaws due to climate change. However, it is illegal in Russia to t...
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