Archive for August 31st, 2020

How Long Does It Take For A Hacker To Crack Your Password?

<p>Websites always remind us to create a strong password, one that has numbers, upper and lowercase letters, as well as symbols. There are even some websites which measure the strength of a password, if it&...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/How-Long-Does-It-Take-For-A-Hacker-To-Crack-Your-Password/

The Acoustics of Stonehenge

Over thousands of years, Stonehenge has been used as a temple, a memorial, a burial ground, and plenty of other things. It may also have been an amphitheater of sorts. New research shows that acoustics of the original st...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/The-Acoustics-of-Stonehenge/

How Cats and Dogs See the World

You may have heard at one time or another that dogs are colorblind. It's more complicated than that; they see colors, but not all the same colors we see. It's the same with cats, and there's a reason for it.  From a...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/How-Cats-and-Dogs-See-the-World/

Xiaomi’s New Phone Has A Nearly Invisible Display Camera

<p>This might just be the end for camera notches and cutouts, as Xiaomi finally reveals a phone which has their 3rd generation Under-Display Camera Technology, which makes the display camera nearly invisibl...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/Xiaomi-s-New-Phone-Has-A-Nearly-Invisible-Display-Camera/

Strange Animal Tongues

<p>If you think your friend’s tongue is already strange enough to creep you out, then this is what I have to say to you: your friend’s strange tongue pales in comparison to these strange animal...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/Strange-Animal-Tongues/

Check Out These Robots That Can Store Energy Just Like Humans

With this kind of design, robots will have their battery capacity increased significantly. The design, called “biomorphic batteries”, was developed by scientists at the University of Michigan. It was inspired...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/Check-Out-These-Robots-That-Can-Store-Energies-Just-Like-How-Humans-Do/

How Climate Change Affects The Human Body

Our planet is now altered due to climate change. And it’s not just the planet that’s affected by climate change; the creatures that live in it are affected, too, and that includes us. This is what ENT physici...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/How-Climate-Change-Affects-The-Human-Body/

To Fend off a Polar Bear, Get Naked

There are so many reasons to get naked (or, as we bloggers call it, "in dress uniform"). One is to avoid polar bear attacks.Polar bears are dangerous, aggressive predators that view humans as food. That's why, in Svalbar...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/To-Fend-off-a-Polar-Bear-Get-Naked/

Runaway Kite Takes Toddler on a Flight

At an annual kite festival in Taiwan, participants lost their grip on a long kite named "Joy Falls from Heaven." But the tail of the kite wrapped around the neck of a 3-year old girl and carried her aloft. The terrifying...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/Runaway-Kite-Takes-Toddler-a-Flight/

Measure Ingredients With This 3-D Printed Cube

<p>If you’re someone who loves to stay in the kitchen and cook food, then you know how difficult it is to measure ingredients using different measuring tools such as cups and spoons. But it doesn&rsqu...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/Measure-Ingredients-With-This-3-D-Printed-Cube/

Using Genetically Modified Mosquitoes To Fight Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes

<p>With the number of dengue cases growing in Florida Keys, and with authorities having a hard time controlling the mosquitoes that cause this disease, officials of the said area have voted to allow the tes...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/Using-Genetically-Modified-Mosquitoes-To-Fight-Disease-Spreading-Mosquitoes/

Biologists Attempt To Restore This Atoll By Destroying Its Trees

<p>Palmyra Atoll, Central Pacific Ocean — Perhaps this will be the strangest story that you will come across today: biologists cutting and poisoning mature trees using herbicide. But don’t take...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/Biologists-Attempt-To-Restore-This-Atoll-By-Destroying-Its-Trees/

Ensuring Survival By Not Mating

<p>Droughts have now been expected to occur more often because of climate change, and scientists expect that survival of species would decrease to some degree because of these droughts. But life always find...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/Ensuring-Survival-By-Not-Mating/

What Makes A Lie Convincing, And How To Fight That Lie

<p>One of the oldest tricks in the book that advertisers employ to sell a product is repetition. One of the best examples of this is Head On’s campaign in 2006, which just repeated the phrase “H...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/What-Makes-A-Lie-Convincing-And-How-To-Fight-That-Lie/

Woodworker Makes 7-Variety Nut Bar for Visiting Squirrels

<p>Sure you can just toss up some birdseed or even, if you'r feeling generous, some nuts for the neighborhood squirrels (a species that one exterminator described to me as "rats with good PR").<...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/Woodworker-Makes-7-Variety-Nut-Bar-for-Visiting-Squirrels/

Gargoyles – Glorious Gruesome Grotesques

Gargoyles are stone waterspouts that direct water away from the roofs of large buildings such as cathedrals. They were often intricately carved into the forms of animals, real or legendary, as symbols. On cathedrals, the...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/Gargoyles-Glorious-Gruesome-Grotesques/

Free WiFi! (With Complications)

  Let my neighbors use my wifi pic.twitter.com/7mfmBRtRAa— Pablo Rochat (@PabloRochat) August 27, 2020 Art director Pablo Rochat kindly provides his neighbors (and anyone walking by his home) with free WiFi...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/31/Free-WiFi-With-Complications/




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