The bears of Katmai National Park in Alaska have been eating as much as they possibly can all summer, and now it's almost time to judge the results. For brown bears in Alaska, getting fat is an important accomplishment,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/10/02/Fat-Bear-Week-is-Upon-Us/Would you like to speak on your phone--even loudly--without disturbing other people? Or are you concerned about the privacy of your conversations? Shiftall, a technology in Tokyo, has a solution: the Mutalk.Design Boom r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/10/02/A-Bluetooth-Microphone-for-Loud-People/My contribution to the confusing sign discourse. Spotted on a ferry in Quebec. pic.twitter.com/knGN0JaYdv— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) October 1, 2023 Due to a recent incident at the Cannon House Office Building...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/10/02/What-Does-This-Sign-Express/It's October now, so of course you are looking for spooky films to watch. Here's one about a shape-shifting vampire, or a whole family of vampires, that are out to suck the life force from their victims. Well, they are a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/10/02/Vampyrellida-The-Microscopic-Vampires/Today I was introduced to small skeletons called larva convivialis through a TikTok video. These were used as party favors at fancy banquets in the Roman Empire, as a sort of memento mori, or a reminder...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/10/02/Larva-Convivialis-The-Dancing-Skeletons-of-Roman-Banquets/There is so much to unpack in this story written by Gideon Lewis-Kraus from The New Yorker. The gist of it is that renowned behavioral economist Dan Ariely, author of the book Predictably Irrational, and a very...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/10/02/The-Lies-Dishonesty-Researchers-Told/<p>I remember when I was about three or four years old, my dad would read fairy tale books to me before going to sleep. I always loved those moments and I anticipated them every night. At times, I remember...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/10/02/Research-Suggests-When-Dads-Read-with-Their-Kids-They-Do-Better-at-School/<p>I'm not completely familiar with the struggle of finding a place to put your purse in the car, but I think it's understandable how women would prefer having a convenient and secure slot inside their car...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/10/02/How-Car-Designers-Found-a-Place-Where-You-Can-Put-Your-Purse/The idea that we can create human-animal hybrids sounds deranged and downright absurd. Such a thing, we would think, only belongs in fiction, folk tales, or myths. After all, how would it be possible for human DNA to mix...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/10/02/This-Soviet-Doctor-s-Obsession-with-Humanzees/After 25 years of renting out physical DVDs to customers, Netflix finally bids farewell to their rental business. And it comes as no surprise since even the global sales for DVDs and Blu-rays have been gradually dwindlin...
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