Erstwhile Neatorama author WTM went on a road trip, a pilgrimage you might call it, to the home of fantasy author Robert E. Howard. If you don't recognize the name, you will recognize his creations.In a nutshell, Robert...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/30/Blood-Thunder-WTM/Have you ever been in a meeting in which most of the time was consumed by very simple problems that weren’t worth talking about, while the more serious problems were discussed less? I’ve had my own share of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/30/Why-Simple-Problems-Are-More-Difficult-To-Solve/Chinese tech giant Baidu, which is China’s closest equivalent to Google, just dethroned both Microsoft and Google in an ongoing competition in AI earlier this month. The competition was the General Language Underst...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/30/This-Chinese-Company-Has-A-New-Trick-For-Teaching-AI-The-Meaning-Of-Language/Wildfires are out of control in Australia, the Amazon forest is still burning, and California wildfires return every year. We send professionals to battle these blazes, but there are fires that no one fights, because it'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/30/10-Places-That-Are-Always-on-Fire/The 1999 film Galaxy Quest had a lot going for it: comedy, action, science fiction, and a stellar cast. We know from the recent Honest Trailer that it's not just you who thinks it's an excellent movie. So why wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/30/Why-Cult-Classic-iGalaxy-Questi-Wasnt-a-Bigger-Hit/This time of year, we become a bit obsessed with daylight, days, and calendars. The new year is just a manmade concept, an arbitrary place to start a new calendar, while the revolution of the earth around the sun is a co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/30/Why-Its-Already-2020/The way that temperature records have been constantly breaking over the last few years, the question of the hottest place on earth may all depend on what day it is. However, many of those records are averages for areas o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/30/What-Is-the-Hottest-Place-on-Earth/Hoàng Tiến Quyết, an artist from Vietnam, makes origami figures that seem to pop out of the limits of mere sheets of paper. He uses a technique called "wet folding", which involves moistening the paper just th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/30/Ho-ng-Ti-n-Quy-t-s-Vivid-Origami/<p>Using only light and sound, clumps of harmful proteins which interfere with brain functions were partially cleared in mice brain.</p><blockquote>Research led by MIT earlier this year found st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/30/Clearing-Alzheimer-s-Plaque-From-Mice-Using-Light-And-Sound/<p>Each day, a Spanish desert ant travels multiple times from its nest to someplace else to search for food. When it does find a small snack like a seed or crumb, it brings the food home with its j...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/30/How-Ants-Still-Find-Home-Even-When-Walking-Backwards/Cleave through space and time whilst cutting onions and tomatoes with this colorful Cosmos Kitchen Knives by Chef’s Vision. The set includes different types of knives (with each having a different design) for all y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/30/Check-Out-These-Kitchen-Knives/<p>Riccardo Bonci has an impressive organ and he knows how to play it. He's fond of using his organ to cover the theme music to favorite old cartoons, including <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/30/Organ-Covers-of-i-Inspector-Gadget-i-and-i-He-Man-and-the-Masters-of-the-Universe-i/A cockatiel named Peanut just wants to help out. Watch him bob his head as his human stirs his morning coffee. When he stops, Peanut stops, too. Just trying to be helpful. -via Laughing Squid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/30/Bird-Helps-to-Stir-Morning-Coffee/What's the most annoying trend from 2019 that you recall? Think carefully, eating Tide Pods was completely over sometime in 2018. Still, there are plenty of things that were all over the internet in 2019 that we can do w...
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