Archive for January 3rd, 2020

A Brief History of Alcohol

Intoxicating beverages exist in nature, thanks to fermentation. But somewhere along the way, people figured out how to help Mother Nature along, because alcohol was not only safer than unpurified water, but made a hard l...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/03/A-Brief-History-of-Alcohol/

The True Scale of Atoms

Size is relative, but at some scales, it's also irrelevant. This video is one of many we've seen that try to make the size of something we aren't familiar with, well, familiar, by scaling it to a size we can understand....

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/03/The-True-Scale-of-Atoms/

Wanna-Beats: In 1959, Café Bizarre Gave Straights an Entree Into Beatnik Culture

Counterculture lifestyles grow slowly, and are almost completely over by the time the general public becomes aware of them. The Beat Generation flourished in the 1950s, and was explained to the public in a 1959 spread ab...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/03/Wanna-Beats-In-1959-Caf-Bizarre-Gave-Straights-an-Entree-Into-Beatnik-Culture/

The Rise and Fall of the Hummer

Embed from Getty ImagesYou can thank Arnold Schwarzenegger for bringing the Humvee to the civilian market. The big, tough military vehicle was perfect for a big man who could afford whatever vehicle he wanted. But what...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/03/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-the-Hummer/

Delicate Paper Scenes Cut from Single Sheets of Paper

Kanako Abe, an artist living in San Francisco, is a master of the traditional Japanese art form of kiri-e, which is cutting paper.<!--more-->Her works are often meditations on the human experience. For exa...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/03/Delicate-Paper-Scenes-Cut-from-Single-Sheets-of-Paper/




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