At the beginning of the 20th century, farmers grew crops and raised livestock the way their families always had, and sold their produce to market with hopes that people would buy it. The U.S. Bureau of Home Economics, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/10/The-Government-Taste-Testers-Who-Reshaped-Americas-Diet/Rockin' 1000 brought us "Learn to Fly" in 2015, when they were just a large local group of Italian musicians trying to invite the Foo Fighters to Cesena, Italy (it worked). Now the project has gone global. On July...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/10/1000-Musicians-Play-Killing-in-the-Name/Government regulations had a lot to do with the design of the neighborhoods we live in today. The judgements of the Federal Housing Administration decades ago shape the way we live now, particularly how dependent we are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/10/Why-So-Many-Suburbs-Look-the-Same/<p>In 1861, the Peruvian government undertook a daunting task: to build two warships on Lake Titicaca--the highest navigable lake in the world. The lake formed part of Peruvian-Bolivian border and Peru want...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/10/This-147-Year-Old-Ship-Is-Powered-by-Llama-Poop/You might be surprised to learn that the U.S. Army owns a huge collection of fossils of dinosaurs and other extinct species. It wasn't on purpose. The Army Corps of Engineers controls eight million acres of land, procure...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/10/Why-Does-the-US-Army-Own-So-Many-Fossils/Hosico is an attractive cat who lives in Russia. The humans in his family built him a cardboard maze, which naturally piques his curiosity. Hosico found his way out, but while that may be the human goal, for a cat it's a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/10/A-Labyrinth-for-Hosico/Another impact on Jupiter today (2019-08-07 at 04:07 UTC)! A bolide (meteor) and not likely to leave dark debris like SL9 did 25 years ago. Congrats to Ethan Chappel (@ChappelAstro) on this discovery and H/T to Damia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/10/Jupiter-Hit-By-A-Meteor-Large-Enough-To-Be-Seen-On-Earth/<p>Akram Khan, one of the world’s most respected contemporary dancers, has never shied away from big themes. Nor is he about to shy away from them for his last full-length solo dance performance, XENO...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/10/Celebrated-Choreographer-Akram-Khan-Speaks-Out-For-The-Voiceless-Through-His-Last-Solo/<p>A prison guard would wake him up by calling someone else’s name every morning for three years. Using a name that was not his, a judge would order him to stand or sit back down (this happened at eve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/10/The-Wrong-Man-The-Facebook-Friend-Request-That-Sent-Him-To-Jail/<p>As the strongest typhoon swept past Taiwan and headed towards the Chinese coast, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-09/china-cancels-flights-as-it-braces-for-strongest-typho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/10/As-It-Braces-For-The-Strongest-Typhoon-of-2019-China-Cancels-Its-Flights/Canadian Colin Dowler might not be alive today if it weren't for a small pocket knife with a two-inch blade https://t.co/X2I75BYW5D— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 8, 2019 <p>Colin Dowler, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/10/A-Pocketknife-Helps-Canadian-Man-To-Survive-Grizzly-Attack/<p>As someone with a fascination for languages, the new project that Google Earth launched, called <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/google-earth-indigenous-languages-1.5240672" targe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/10/Google-Earth-Lets-You-Hear-Over-50-Different-Indigenous-Language-Speakers/<p>Redditor N0t-a-Weeab00 spotted <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/856q5q/these_stairs_in_a_college_i_visited_had_people/" target="_blank">these stairs</a...
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