Archive for November 2nd, 2022

Iceland’s Annual Sheep Sorting Event

Embed from Getty ImagesIt is thought that Vikings brought the first sheep to Iceland more than a thousand years ago, and up until recently, there were more sheep than people in the country. These are free-range sheep....

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/02/Icelands-Annual-Sheep-Sorting-Event/

NEAR-Shoemaker: The Little Space Probe That Could

Remember how we were gobsmocked by the Mars rover Opportunity, which was expected to work on the red planet for about 90 days, but ended up working for more than 14 years? It was not the first NASA mission to wildly exce...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/02/NEAR-Shoemaker-The-Little-Space-Probe-That-Could/

The Most Beloved Rat-catching Dogs of San Francisco

When the California Gold Rush died down, San Francisco was left with an abundance of dogs who were no longer needed to haul wagons of ore from the mines. Left behind by departing miners, they became a nuisance -unless th...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/02/The-Most-Beloved-Rat-catching-Dogs-of-San-Francisco/

This Invention Kills Hornets But Leaves Bees Alone

Denis Jaffré, a French beekeeper, lost half of his beehives to the stingers of Asian hornets, which are an invasive species in his country. But now it’s payback time and he’s targeting the creatures th...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/02/This-Invention-Kills-Hornets-But-Leaves-Bees-Alone/




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