There was once a time when everyone wanted a wicker peacock chair. That time was in the late 1970s and early '80s. You saw it in magazines and ads and especially album covers, which made it cool. But even then, it was a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/How-This-Chair-Became-a-Pop-Culture-Icon/<p>In a joint project between NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Arizona State University, they have launched <a href="https://asunow.asu.edu/20191001-solutions-robot-arms-building-space-asu-nasa-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/NASA-Sends-Robot-Arms-to-Build-Things-in-Space/<p>You've probably heard it again and again from your parents: Drink lots of water to stay hydrated.</p><p>But is it really water that does the best job, or should we start favoring other bevera...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/When-It-Comes-To-Hydration-Water-Isn-t-Your-Best-Friend/<p>The television is one of the modern inventions that have changed the way we receive information. It has also heavily influenced our consumption habits and lifestyles. Moreover, it has also given us other...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/Deconstructing-the-Concept-of-The-Golden-Age-of-TV/<p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mark Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands, chooses to travel into his office by cycling, if the weather al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/This-Is-Why-The-Prime-Minister-Of-Netherlands-Uses-His-Bike-To-Go-To-Work/<p><span style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); color: rgb(44, 44, 44);">A pair of teenage Colorado swimmers came to the rescue of a drowning prairie dog by performing CPR. Teagan Maye...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/Teen-Swimmers-Use-CPR-To-Revive-A-Prairie-Dog-From-Drowning/Paul Kay was an anthropology graduate student at Harvard University. When he arrived in Tahiti in 1959, he expected that he would have a difficult time learning the local words for colors.Kay was surprised, however, to f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/Red-In-Almost-Every-Language/<p>Poor kitty can't get any traction! The polished floor is just too smooth.</p><p>That's my best explanation. Alternatively, he's dancing with expertise.</p><p>-via <a href="...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/Cat-Walking-in-Place-on-Extremely-Smooth-Concrete/<p>My first encounter with wasps was a bit scary. I saw one coming in through the window and thinking that it was a bee, I swatted it away. Eventually, it signaled to its friends to come to its aid. Before...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/Scientists-Take-a-Look-at-Wasps-Learning-Behavior-to-Build-Better-Traps-for-Them/<p>Using an ordinary camera, with the help of long exposure, a laser, and two electrodes to suspend the atom in the air, David Nadlinger successfully took a <a href="https://qz.com/1205279/photo-of-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/Photo-of-A-Single-Floating-Atom-Was-Captured-With-an-Ordinary-Camera/Crazy Coffins is a company in Nottingham, UK that makes unique coffins and urns for people who wish to depart this world in style. Each one is custom-designed and built to suit the specialized tastes of the deceased cust...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/Wonderfully-Weird-Custom-Coffins-and-Urns/<p>Meredith Root-Bernstein, an ecologist, observed Visayan pigs for three years at an anthropological museum in Paris. During that time, she saw two mated pigs repeatedly digging in the ground with sticks....
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/Pigs-Observed-Using-Tools-for-the-First-Time/<p>Are you more likely to use the light on your phone or an actual flashlight? Do you open your car with a car key? Randall Munroe of <a href="https://xkcd.com/2212/" target="_blank"&...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/Cell-Phone-Functions-over-Time/<p>Because the cats have found a wonderful new toy: an ice machine. Just press your paw here to annoy the humans.</p><p>-via <a href="https://www.superpunch.net/2019/10/ten-funny-tweets_...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/Why-Is-the-Floor-Always-Wet-When-We-Return-Home/Antonio López de Santa Anna was a hero of Mexican independence, fought at the Alamo, and was President of Mexico. But with all the stories about him, his influence on the development of chewing gum kind of flies u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/How-a-Mexican-Generals-Exile-in-Staten-Island-Led-to-Modern-Chewing-Gum/<p>Michigan's band went all-out for the halftime show with Iowa on Saturday. During that spectacular show, band members <a href="https://thespun.com/big-ten/michigan-wolverines/michigan-had-quite-th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/The-University-of-Michigan-s-Upside-Down-Drummer/Researchers used artificial intelligence to analyze adjectives used to describe men and women in 3.5 million books written in English between 1900 and 2008. They contained around 11 billion words. The results from this l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/What-35-Million-Books-Say-About-Men-and-Women/Fifteen ships entered the Suez Canal in 1967, expecting to traverse to the Arabian Sea in about 12 hours. Instead, they were stuck there for eight years! They couldn't just leave and take the long way around the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/The-Worst-Traffic-Jam-in-History/The very first sad thing about this video is that you knew it was going to be a gender reveal without having to be told. In order to hide whatever is inside, the balloon had to be heavy duty. So it made no sense to whack...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/Congratulations-Its-an-Escape-Artist/Little green army men have been a mainstay in toy boxes for generations, but they are rarely updated. When you see them, you get a World War II vibe, particularly from the green color that isn't reflected in more modern...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/Why-Are-Plastic-Army-Men-Still-from-World-War-II/The concept of nation states in Africa only arose after the Berlin Conference in 1884 and the following scramble for Africa by European superpowers of the time, which makes the concept a little over a century old. It the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/The-Strangest-Ways-Many-African-Countries-Got-Their-Names/<p>Virtue, for the ancient Greeks, is not a goal in and of itself; it is a route to a well-lived life. According to them, a person would flourish and would come to a life filled with meaning and find enduri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/Gratitude-The-Route-To-A-Well-Lived-Life/In 1752, in the ruins of Herculaneum, one of the towns that was buried in ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D, particular scrolls were unearthed. The scrolls were discovered in the library of a grand villa, which i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/Reading-Charred-Scrolls-Through-The-Use-Of-Light-Brighter-Than-The-Sun/A thread ask AskReddit poses the question: "Chefs of Reddit, what are some 'red flags' people should look out for when they go out to eat?" There's plenty to digest in the answers. Buzzfeed lists some of the more notable...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/07/Restaurant-Red-Flags/Once you have reached the level of the elite, you get introduced to other wealthy and famous people, whether they are in the same field or not. If you are a coveted dinner guest, you'll get to meet other coveted dinner g...
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