<p>Chess is now seen today as a game that you play either casually or competitively. But in early modern Europe, chess was seen as something beyond just a game. In her journal article published at JSTOR, hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/The-Woman-Who-Used-Chess-To-Advance-The-Power-of-Women/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you would ask me what my best game of the year so far is, I’d have to hand it to an old game. Supergiant Games&r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/Best-Video-Games-Of-2021-So-Far/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thanks to volunteers who rated paintings in different genres, </span><a href="https://neurosciencenews.com/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/Computers-Can-Now-Predict-Your-Taste-In-Art/By 1900, when Franz and Konrad Hieke of Philadelphia received their patent, horse-mounted cavalry was fading away as a useful battlefield tool. Horses were far too vulnerable to the volume and accuracy of bullets that mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/A-Shield-for-Cavalry-Horses/August 4, 1972. The naval mines that the United States had planted in the sea off the port of Haiphong, Vietnam, remained undisturbed. The mines were designed to be sensitive to changes in the magnetic field brought by t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/That-Time-When-A-Solar-Storm-Set-Off-The-Magnetic-Sea-Mines-In-Vietnam/<p>Since the 16th century, scientists have already been studying the thale cress. Today, centuries later, <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-discover-new-plant-organ-1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/New-Plant-Organ-Discovered-From-The-Fruit-Fly-of-the-Plant-World/<p>It’s not only your fitness that you should be worried about this summer season. Your cat probably gained weight, too, in the past months, so you should worry about it as well. The question is, how...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/Preparing-Your-Cat-For-This-Summer/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Oh-oh! Remember Darwin’s secondary theory for unexplained traits of some animals? No, that’s okay I didn&rsqu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/Did-Darwin-Make-A-Mistake-About-Sexual-Selection/It’s very endearing. Meet Kotaro and Hana, two very curious otters who reacted to their human’s automatic popcorn maker. Just like every curious animal, the two were initially engaged with the device. What&rs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/Otters-React-To-A-Popcorn-Popper/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Los Angeles native Rob DePiazza decided to build a new house after Hurricane Irma destroyed his home. The former art gall...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/Home-Made-Entirely-Of-Shipping-Containers/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Even at their small size, they can still pack a punch (or a bite, in this case)! Cookie-cutter sharks are almost the size...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/Cookie-Cutter-Sharks-Can-Bite-Nuclear-Submarines/The new movie F9 is in theaters now. It's a simple name for the ninth film in a series centered around a set of characters driving cars very fast. That's nine movies, and a few spinoffs. These characters -and th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/An-Honest-Trailer-for-iThe-Fast-and-the-Furiousi/We mistakenly sent out an empty test email to a portion of our HBO Max mailing list this evening. We apologize for the inconvenience, and as the jokes pile in, yes, it was the intern. No, really. And we’re help...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/Intern-Screws-Up-Just-Like-Everyone-Else/A “Potemkin village” is a neighborhood or town purposely made into an illusion, with a shiny facade that hides a not-so-shiny truth. Named after Russian military leader Gregory Potemkin, these villages look p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/Behind-the-Faade-of-Potemkin-Villages/<p>Brendan Leonard has a smartphone that converts usual measurement units into measurement units that are used in other situations. Who in the world would think about how many metric teaspoons it would take...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/Outdoor-Stuff-But-With-Weird-Measurements/<p>It is only logical to expect that the gas giants in our Solar System would be in an icy state. After all, they are really far from the Sun, with Jupiter being over 754 million kilometers away from the Su...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/The-Energy-Crisis-of-Gas-Giants-Finally-Solved-After-50-Years/The French term déjà vu, which means “already seen” in English, was coined by the French philosopher and parapsychologist Émile Boirac in 1876. But even before there was a term for this p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/Understanding-Deja-Vu-Better/<p>Physical health is a top priority among athletes. Typically, if you’re physically healthy, you’ll perform well in the game. The opposite goes when you’re not in a good state. This is th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/A-Blood-Test-To-Predict-Sports-Injury/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">An unshakeable bond between a woman and her pet Shiba Inu was taken by Japanese photographer </span><a href=&quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/Adorable-Friendship-Between-A-Grandmother-And-Her-Shiba-Inu-In-Photos/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Don’t worry, it’s not really a sign of an impending world-wide apocalypse. A thick blanket of cobwebs has cov...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/Spider-Apocalypse/<p>This is currently the lightest sound insulation material ever manufactured. This material, as demonstrated by researchers at the University of Bath, could reduce noise by up to 16 decibels, and it <a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/23/This-Is-The-World-s-Lightest-Sound-Insulator/The phrase usually refers to something important that everyone is aware of, but no one wants to talk about. In this case, there's no ignoring the real-life elephant that crashed through Ratchadawan Puengprasoppon's kitch...
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