Archive for June 25th, 2021

Man from 1818 Predicts USA of the Future

In 1818, a British writer who published under the name "H" wrote an article for The Pocket Magazine in which he predicted the future of the United States. He (assuming it was a man) placed his musings 500 years...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/25/Man-from-1818-Predicts-USA-of-the-Future/

Surprising Human Remains From Israeli Quarry Complicate Our Evolutionary Picture

It is commonly thought that Homo sapiens came from Africa and Neanderthals evolved in Europe. However, a discovery in Israel appears to put both human species in the same location in the Levant. An archaeologica...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/25/Surprising-Human-Remains-From-Israeli-Quarry-Complicate-Our-Evolutionary-Picture/

Police Stop Exorcism in Home Depot Lumber Aisle

It makes perfect sense to me. A running joke among carpenters is that Home Depot wood is terrible. It would be prudent to remove the demonic forces that warp it so much.I don't know if that was the motivation behind the...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/25/Police-Stop-Exorcism-in-Home-Depot-Lumber-Aisle/

Triplets are All Pregnant

The US birth rate dropped by 4% during the pandemic, but it's a baby boom for the Tran family of Orange County, California. The Tran triplets, Gina, Nina, and Victoria, are all pregnant at once! The  three women wer...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/25/Triplets-are-All-Pregnant/

Hidden Patterns Inside Tropical Fruit

Kevin Parry has entertained us with all kinds of stop-motions videos. In a followup to his fruits and vegetables video, he zooms into the inner structures of tropical fruits, some you may not be familiar with (there's a...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/25/Hidden-Patterns-Inside-Tropical-Fruit/

The Science Behind Grilling the Perfect Steak

Embed from Getty ImagesSummer holidays are the time for putting away candy in favor of fresh fruit and ice cream, and for moving the cooking outdoors because the kitchen gets too hot. If your perfect cookout includes g...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/25/The-Science-Behind-Grilling-the-Perfect-Steak/

The Forbidden Book Written in the Blood of Saddam Hussein

Erstwhile Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein once wrote a romance novel, but that was totally non-controversial compared to his later literary adventure. As the supreme ruler of his nation, Saddam indulged his whims without t...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/25/The-Forbidden-Book-Written-in-the-Blood-of-Saddam-Hussein/

Wheat Berry Salad Fresh From The Garden

<p>Sylvia Davat states that the pandemic has revealed that the food system that we currently have is "incredibly fragile and unsustainable." Thus, she believes that decentralizing that system is t...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/25/Wheat-Berry-Salad-Fresh-From-The-Garden/

The Creeping Slime In The Sea

Turkey — A foul mucus has blanketed the Sea of Marmara, a body of water that connects the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea in the Mediterranean. This has been the situation in Turkey for months, and it has heavily affe...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/25/The-Creeping-Slime-In-The-Sea/

Meet The Blind Chess Champion

Jessica Lauser was born blind. Suffering from retinopathy due to being born four months prematurely, Lauser’s one eye is completely blind, and the other eye only has 20/480 eyesight, which means that she has very l...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/25/Meet-The-Blind-Chess-Champion/

NASA and Tide Attempt To Solve The Laundry Problem In Space

<p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/laundry-wash-clothes-space-station-nasa-5a7f2795150f7dce81581cfb82cdd1f7" target="_blank">Astronauts cannot wash their clothes in space</a...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/25/NASA-and-Tide-Attempt-To-Solve-The-Laundry-Problem-In-Space/

Strange Recipes From The Past

<p>Why settle for a tiny bit of butter on your bread when you could eat a chunk of butter (minus the bread) to “lubricate [your] arteries and veins.”? And why settle for a cake with some whipped...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/25/Strange-Recipes-From-The-Past/

Drinking in the Deep

Artist Will Quinn did this parody of Bob Eggleton's "A Pint with a Mollusc" (1999)!Source: Twitter...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/06/25/drinking-in-the-deep/




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