Have you heard of the Calabi-Yau manifold in string theory? It is “a compact, complex Kähler manifold with a trivial first Chern class.”Notice that before you understand this definition, you should be ab...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Mathematicians-Should-Stop-Naming-Things-After-Them-Here-s-Why/England, 2003. A team of archaeologists led by Phil Amery were recording hundreds of old burials on the St. Pancras old church graveyard, when suddenly they came across a coffin which contained remains of human dissectio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Walrus-Remains-Were-Found-In-A-Coffin-Who-Put-Them-There/<p>“Durgs ruin lifes,” and that’s a fact whether we like it or not. So whenever you feel like doing durgs, always remember this sign created by an unknown person.</p><p><br&...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Don-t-Do-Durgs-Kids/<p>Melk, Austria — A small group of people gathered around a glass box filled with ice. Inside the ice-filled box was a man wearing nothing but swim trunks. The man inside was Josef Koeberl, an ice sw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Man-Spent-Two-And-A-Half-Hours-In-Glass-Box-Filled-With-Ice-Cubes/Tom Scott really waded into the deep end when he decided to run a poll of the best things. First, he had to define "thing," which eliminated a lot of choices, but there was way more work to get the choices down to a mana...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/What-Is-The-Best-Thing/WRR in Dallas is Texas' oldest radio station. It was the first station licensed in Texas and the second one licensed in the US, so the fact that it is still in business is a wonder. And it all started in 1921 as a respon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/The-Weird-Wonderful-Story-of-Texass-First-Radio-Station/I tried zooming in and turning up the in-game gamma a bit, so you can see what's going on slightly better.(It's a 128x32 pixel monochrome display, it's never gonna be great) pic.twitter.com/dAU7LZ1pkT— foone (@...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Playing-Doom-on-a-Pregnancy-Test/<p>On December 10, 1993, id Software introduced to us a game that would help define the first-person shooter (FPS) genre of video games. That game was Doom. Throughout the years, the game became a series, s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Doom-Games-Get-Official-Widescreen-Support-After-Almost-3-Decades/<p>If you’ve tried to record a conversation using the iPhone’s screen recording feature, you’ll realize that it won't allow you to record the phone call. Some of us might want to keep phon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Why-Do-iPhones-Not-Let-You-Record-Calls/When the newfangled “automobile” was widely adopted at the turn of the 20th century, there were few rules and no infrastructure for the meteoric rise of driving. An entire system for managing traffic was impl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/From-Chaos-to-Order-A-Brief-Cultural-History-of-the-Parking-Lot//r/SonicShowerThoughts is a subreddit filled with the off-the-bulkhead ideas that have occurred to Trekkies when their minds are empty of more important issues. It's a collection of shower thoughts that don't get you wet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Sonic-Shower-Thoughts-That-Make-You-Reconsider-i-Star-Trek-i/even gator love laser pointer 🥺 pic.twitter.com/QmgtBl5LAM— Gators Daily 🐊 (@GatorsDaily) September 3, 2020 We love to watch cats, dogs, and even penguins chase a laser pointer light, but who knew that e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Alligator-Chases-Laser-Pointer/Elisha Perkins was a physician in Plainfield, Connecticut, around the time of the American Revolution. Having patients who suffered so much pain from maladies there was no treatment for, he experimented with the properti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Elisha-Perkins-Metallic-Tractors/People who live in the Netherlands aren't all the same, but if you average their heights, they are the tallest nation on earth, with men averaging 5'11.85" and women averaging 5'6.42". It's not that tall people settled i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Why-Are-the-Dutch-So-Tall/(Image credit: esberat)This little cutie got into a jar of strawberry jam and ate so much, he had to lie down and take a nap. My guess is that his punishment will be a bath. He's probably too young to know that people wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Caught-Red-Pawed-Stealing-Food/You recall the hilarious and beloved 1970s show Taxi? Of course you do, with stars like Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, and Peter Boyle? That show really opened doors for those young unknowns of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Taxi-Driver-the-Sitcom/<p>It’s the well-known brick phone! The Nokia 3310 is loved by a lot of [not-so young] people for its sturdy casing, the right shade of midnight blue, the long-lasting battery (did you know it can las...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Why-Do-People-Miss-The-Nokia-3310/<p>Celebrities are trying their best to push new projects during the quarantine. No one is pushing people to be extremely productive and come up with new inventions or creative work, but there’s also...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/This-Is-Channing-Tatum-s-First-Children-s-Book/<p>There are a lot of expectations when it comes to women’s appearance. They’re expected to wear makeup, and be skinny and curvy in the right places. These expectations are being broken down and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Why-Are-Today-s-Female-Beauty-Standards-Like-That/<p>It’s hard to make friends. The harder battle is to keep your friends close, and to maintain the respect and bond you have with each other. It’s hard to accept that sometimes, we are to blame...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Are-You-Becoming-A-Bad-Friend/<p>They’re roughly the same size too, I wonder how the mantis was able to pull this off! In this timelapse video, watch how a praying mantis devours a whole adult locust. The original time it took for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Praying-Mantis-Eats-A-Whole-Locust/<p>There are many things that could be considered a challenge when you’re in the kitchen, but the perhaps the greatest of them all is opening a stuck jar lid. I remember a time when I spent 20 minutes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Tips-On-How-To-Open-A-Stubborn-Jar-Lid/In the 2018 film The Meg, which starred Jason Statham, the megalodon was portrayed as a shark with a length of 25 meters. But this scientific analysis implies that the megalodon was shorter than that, which does...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/How-Big-Was-The-Megalodon/Getting bitten by a snake is never good, but what damage you could sustain depends on what kind of snake it is. Different types of venom work in different ways, all terrifying. The danger also depends on how much venom y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/What-Happens-to-Your-Body-When-a-Snake-Bites-You/Theodor Seuss Geisel, better know to us as Dr. Seuss, was born in 1904. Therefore, he grew up during World War I as an American with a German heritage and last name, which meant he and his family were looked upon with su...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/07/Teddy-Roosevelt-Scarred-A-Young-Dr-Seuss-For-Life/
