Today, the moose is the largest animal in the deer family. But that wasn't always so. This is the story of Megaloceros, often called the Irish elk (although they lived throughout Europe and Asia). Just the antle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/When-Giant-Deer-Roamed-Eurasia/A group of guys who have a popular fishing channel go fishing and are distracted by a friendly and agreeable calico cat. They called her Maruo. Next time they went to the same fishing spot, they arrived bearing gifts. On...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/Marimo-the-Legendary-Cat/<p>Scientists will be testing the efficacy of drugs used to treat non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) on what they claim to be the <a href="https://www.genengnews.com/news/lab-grown-engineered...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/First-Artificially-Created-Mini-Human-Livers-Will-Be-Used-to-Test-NAFLD-Drugs/<p>It's a sad and furious thing to see someone with such great talent thrown by the wayside, ridiculed and mocked by her contemporaries simply because she's a woman.</p><p>But such were the time...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/Karolina-Pavlova-A-Great-Master-of-Russian-Verse-Who-Died-Forgotten/<p>I ask because these are actual place names in <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@44.7378715,-63.3045673,18.25z" target="_blank">Porter's Lake, Nova Scotia</a>. It might...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/Do-You-Live-on-This-Street-That-Street-or-the-Other-Street/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Snapchat has taken a subtle step against rival social media platform Instagram - with a hashtag takeover. The hashtag takeover is part of their recently...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/Snapchat-Takes-Over-Rival-Instagram-With-a-Hashtag-Takeover/<p>Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) recently had to change the sign made famous by Nirvana's Curt Cobain & Krist Novoselić. Local radio station <a href="https://www.kx...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/Iconic-Highway-Sign-Made-Famous-by-Nirvana-Fixed-by-Fan/Humans invented the house to get away from nature, with its rain and predators and other inconveniences. However, insects are everywhere, and never got the message that they aren't welcome inside. Bugs will come into you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/Every-Bug-in-Your-House-Ranked-by-How-Worried-You-Should-Be-About-Them/Everyone has a butt, but Pablo Stanley has 44 of them besides the one he sits on. The above video is an introduction to his graphic design collection called Buttsss, "A collection of beautiful round butt illustrations."...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/Buttsss/<p>In 1842, English mathematician Ada Lovelace was tasked in translating from French to English an article for the “Grandfather of the Computer”, Charles Babbage. The piece was about Babbage&rsq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/Ada-Lovelace-and-the-Homogeneity-in-A-I-Development/<p>According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 34.6 percent of 16-to-19-year-olds employed on average from June to August 2018. This was less than compared to 51.7 percent in the summer of 20...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/These-Teens-Work-Hard-For-The-Money/<p>The Planetary Society's project LightSail aims to demonstrate the potential for space propulsion using solar radiation through mirrors, which means one can control the direction and movement of a spacecr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/Sailing-Through-Sunlight-LightSail-2-Nears-Two-Weeks-in-Earth-s-Orbit/<p>Urban spaces are suffocating to live in, at least in my part of the world. Traffic bogs you down, sidewalks cause pedestrians suffering, and congestion continues to build up and bleed into our everyday l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/Freeing-Up-the-Streets-for-Non-Drivers-How-Amsterdam-Became-the-Cycling-Capital-of-the-World/<p>He may be milking his original approach for all it's worth, but it's udderly worth the effort.</p><p>Internet rumor attributes this image to a Singaporean farmer who, looking for an fresh way...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/Farmer-Proposes-Marriage-by-Putting-Engagement-Ring-on-Cow-s-Teat/IDIDTHAT, a company in San Jose, California, repurposes old tools and equipment into stylish, retro furnishings. This phone, for example, has become an adjustable lamp.<!--more-->Did you have a Nintendo Power Glove...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/Rotary-Phone-Lamps-and-Other-Retro-Upcycled-Furnishings/<p>It's real and it's <em>amazing</em>. And for $52,000, you can have your own <a href="https://godzilla.store/godzilla-guitar/" target="_blank">Godzilla guitar</a&g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/The-Godzilla-Guitar/<p>When there's a thunderstorm outside and you can see flashes of lightning, it would be best to stay inside. But we still have to exercise caution as certain unpredictable events could still happen.</p&...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/Lightning-Induced-Chain-Reaction-That-Caused-a-Toilet-to-Explode/<p>Our high school textbooks about biology were wrong about cells. It isn’t a neat translucent sphere. Its internal parts are also not sitting and conveniently far apart like pineapple chunks suspende...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/His-AI-Can-See-Inside-Living-Cells/Avengers: Endgame brought together characters from twenty previous Marvel films, and ended up as the top-grossing movie of all time. It's coming to home video soon, so it's time for Screen Junkies to give us an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/An-Honest-Trailer-for-Avengers-Endgame/<p>Personality tests promise to tell us who we are. The tests would instruct a person to rate the statements according to how well it describes him or her. The choices would then range from strongly disagre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/The-Thing-About-Using-Personality-Tests-in-the-Corporate-World/<p>Spandex, Nomex, and of course, Kevlar. These are the contributions that Stephanie Kwolek, a chemist at DuPont, has made to society. Though she didn't initally want to become a chemist, she took a degree...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/The-Fibers-Stephanie-Kwolek-Helped-Invent/<p>In 1874, John Ward Westcott founded <a href="http://www.jwwestcott.com/" target="_blank">a company</a> which ferried supplies, including mail, to mariners on Great Lakes o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/This-Boat-Has-Its-Own-ZIP-Code/<p>With help from modern technology and equipment as well as improved communication and transportation infrastructure, it's much easier for us to find opportunities to study and analyze certain phenomena th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/The-North-American-Eclipse-of-1869/<p>What happens after we die? This is a question that plagues a lot of people. After all, “we really know nothing about what happens when [we] die,” says University of Alabama former professor P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/These-Genes-Come-To-Life-After-You-Die/<p>Several heat waves struck Europe and North America. Last year, Canada had a devastating one which took the lives of many. It's no joke. Temperatures are rising and couple that with increasing humidity, o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/Climate-Chamber-Simulates-the-Environment-Amidst-a-Heat-Wave/The Air Force's F-16 fighter jets produce 29,000 pounds of thrust and can fly at twice the speed of sound. Maj. Jason Markzon is a pilot in the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, called the Thunderbirds. When the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/What-Its-Like-to-Ride-in-an-F-16-Fighter-Jet/Cleopatra was legendary in her use of perfume. It was said that you could smell her before you could see her. But what was in her perfume, and what did it really smell like? Archaeologist Robert Littman and his team want...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/The-Chanel-No-5-of-Ancient-Egypt/A woman called 911 and told Connecticut police she was locked in the luggage compartment of a moving bus. She said the bus was on interstate 84 heading for Boston. Police tracked the bus and pulled it over."The female vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/07/Passenger-Locked-in-Luggage-Compartment-of-Bus/<p><em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Drag </em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">has been a field of artistry and expression for a lot of people - a chance to express t...
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