A sixth-century BC temple dedicated to the ancient Greek goddess Athena was unearthed on the Urla-Çeşme peninsula in Western Turkey. The researchers discovered a portion of a statue of a woman, a terracotta sculp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/01/14/Aphrodite-Temple-In-Turkey-Unearthed/“Does war bring out the bestial side of human nature or the best?” That's the question that Canadian historian Margaret Macmillan asks at the beginning of her book titled War: How Conflict Shaped Us....
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/01/14/How-Wars-And-Humans-Evolved/<p>Avoid bodies of water, such as Amazonian rivers or bathtubs. Push those creatures carefully out of your hovercraft. Electric eels are <em>dangerous</em>. <a href="https://naturalhisto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/01/14/Danger-Electric-Eels-Hunt-in-Packs/The Powerball jackpot now stands at $550 million, and the Mega Millions jackpot is up to $750 million. You can increase your odds of winning ever-so-slightly by buying a ticket. But how much is that $2 investment really...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/01/14/Maximizing-the-Expected-Value-of-a-Lottery-Ticket/Abraham Lincoln's campaign against slavery was revealed in speeches he made between 1854 and his inauguration in 1861. During this time, he had retired from Congress to practice law, but was pulled back into politics by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/01/14/On-Abraham-Lincolns-Convoluted-Plan-For-the-Abolition-of-Slavery/It's called ColdSnap. A prototype for this marvel debuted at the online CES trade show. It functions similarly to a Keurig coffeemaker, except that it produces soft serve ice cream from pre-prepared pods. CNN describes h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/01/14/This-is-a-Keurig-for-Ice-Cream/Four different species of praying mantises watch a small scale TV set made from a phone in their comfy living room. You might rightly assume that they have their preferences in subject matter- in this case, a cartoon of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/01/14/Praying-Mantises-Watching-TV/You knew it was coming sooner or later- a game about the year 2020. Now that we've gotten through and made it to 2021, you can relive the previous year with a side-scrolling game that leads you through the major events o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/01/14/2020-the-Game/<p>Bored of just looking at cute bonsai trees? Now, you can eat them! Or at least, these bonsai trees. In reality, these are chocolate candy made to look like the tiny trees. The great thing is, you can mak...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/01/14/It-s-A-Chocolate-Bonsai-Tree/The United States has been swearing in presidents since 1789. While there has been an effort to make the ceremony consistent and traditional, each one is slightly different. Of course, when a president dies, his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/01/14/35-Fascinating-Facts-About-Past-Presidential-Inaugurations/Most people today carry around at least a trace of Neanderthal DNA, the legacy of reproduction between Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis thousands of years ago. Genetic studies show that such inter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/01/14/What-we-know-about-sex-with-Neanderthals/
