A few weeks ago, Core77 introduced me to the book Prisoners' Inventions, which is a book published in 2001 about how inmates in California prisons adapted their limited physical environments to suit their needs....
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/24/Improvised-Inventions-by-Prisoners/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The end-Permian mass extinction event was an event which wiped out more than 90 percent of Earth's marine species and 75...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/24/Cause-Of-The-Permian-Mass-Extinction-Event-Confirmed/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Why doesn’t this exist in my country? Japan is a hub for unique vending machines. From extremely obscure objects to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/24/Japanese-Pizza-Vending-Machine/Embed from Getty ImagesBaseball uniforms change over time, but they change rather gradually so that we always recognize a baseball player in uniform. Pants go up, pants reach lower, stripes are in or out, shirts button...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/24/Why-Do-Baseball-Players-Wear-Stirrups/Bored Panda culled some entertaining stories from the subreddit I Don't Work Here Lady. They vary greatly, but all involve someone who completely misunderstood the role of a stranger. In one of them, redditor Billiam201...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/24/30-Delightful-I-Dont-Work-Here-Stories/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A 64-year-old man in Germany spotted two oil paintings in a dumpster. The man turned the artworks over to the police in C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/24/17th-Century-Paintings-Found-In-A-Dumpster/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Bold, vibrant colors fill in the spaces outlined by simple geometric shapes. Luciano Cian’s artworks are full of li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/24/Lucian-Cian-s-Vibrant-Portraits/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What are vernal pools anyway? Vernal pools are temporary bodies of water formed by seasonal rains and snowmelt. This is t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/24/Underwater-Macro-Photos-From-Vernal-Pools/Have you heard of dark matter? Here's how the Encyclopedia Britannica defines it:[...] a component of the universe whose presence is discerned from its gravitational attraction rather than its luminosity. Dark m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/24/Dark-Fish-Exist-and-Make-Up-95-of-All-Fish/<p>Laura Gaither immediately removed the tiny black bugs that she felt biting her legs one afternoon at the Panama City Beach, three years ago. The local residents told her that they were probably sand flie...
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