An extremely rare chunk of Tyrian purple dye has been found in England, in the archaeological dig on the grounds of the Carlisle Cricket Club. The dye was found in the drainage area of the remnants of a Roman bathhouse d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/08/Tyrian-Purple-Where-It-Came-from-and-Where-It-Ended-Up/Sweden has the odd PhD tradition of Lutherishly nailing your thesis to a wall a few weeks before your defense, so here is my PhD student Vidya Somashekarappa nailing her thesis into the designated thesis nailing wall (...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/08/The-Tradition-of-Nailing-Ones-Doctoral-Thesis-to-a-Wall/Yesterday I drove through Atlanta as the construction season is starting to ramp up, so I am very impressed with this pavement replacement project in Switzerland. They simply erect a bridge over a section of the road so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/08/Resurfacing-a-Road-While-Traffic-Continues-in-the-Same-Lanes/We tend to take it for granted that blue jeans were invented by Levi Strauss, who made work pants for the miners of the California Gold Rush. It's true that Strauss designed tough work pants with rivets, but the blue den...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/08/The-Real-Origin-of-Blue-Jeans-Found-in-Art/Ontario horse groomer Autumn Purdy plays music while she works in the stable. One quarterhorse mare really likes the music, and will bob her head and dance -but only to heavy metal tunes. She loves music by Ramm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/07/Head-Banging-Horse-Likes-Only-Heavy-Metal/La plus grande baguette du monde - record battu ! Elle mesure 140,53m et a été confectionnée à Suresnes @villedesuresnes pic.twitter.com/2uHY9g5Npn— Colas Aura (@ColasAura) May 5, 2024...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/07/France-Reclaims-the-Title-of-Creator-of-the-Worlds-Longest-Baguette/Bob Knetzger of Boing Boing reports that, last year, Mattel teamed up with the National Federation of the Blind to produce a Hot Wheels toy car designed specifically for the visually impaired. The die cast car is cover...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/07/A-Hot-Wheels-Car-in-Braille/This viral video of a provenance unknown to me shows a woman giving a preschool-age girl an unforgettable ride on a highly convincing roller coaster simulator. Sure, it just looks like an upturned chair, but when paired...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/07/Mom-Gives-Daughter-Roller-Coaster-Simulator/The most common words to grace a cake are "Happy Birthday." Most people can spell "happy," but when it comes to "birthday," the danger of a brain fart increases. Jen Yates at Cake Wrecks has seen so many cases of bizarre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/07/How-Do-You-Spell-Birthday-Let-Me-Count-the-Ways/Bernth, an Austrian guitarist who fills his YouTube channel with musical oddities, including using the worst rated guitar picks and amps and playing guitars made of LEGO pieces and an acoustic guitar that is partially su...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/06/Playing-a-109-String-Guitar/Welcome to Edgewood, BC byu/robinnuber infunny Redditor robinnuber make a promotional video for Edgewood, British Columbia. Despite the dry humor, it ends up being a place everyone wants to visit, or even live there....
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/06/Welcome-to-Edgewood-British-Columbia/Embed from Getty ImagesThe phrase "missionary position" refers to a sexual position in which heterosexual partners lie down facing each other, with the man on top. It has also been called the "English-American position...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/06/The-Origin-of-the-Term-Missionary-Position/Going to a wedding today. Instead of holding flowers, the bridesmaids have hatchets. They are not pagan as far as I know, but some of you might like it regardless. pic.twitter.com/MXKbV9QPDX— sugar&ice Crysta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/05/Axes-for-the-Bridesmaids/The best descriptions always come from the YouTube comments. One said that Trombone Nonsense was his favorite genre of music. Another said the trombone is perfect balance of beauty and comedy. But most lauded this video...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/05/A-Tug-of-War-on-Trombones/The Hugo Awards for great science fiction were named for Hugo Gernsback. He founded the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926 and went on to publish and edit several other magazines. Gernsback...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/05/The-Visionary-Technology-of-Hugo-Gernsback/Odin is a good boy. He's a Swiss shepherd who has learned to carry a camera as he zooms around and explores. This is an Insta360 camera, which gives the effect that Odin is a giant floating dog traipsing around the tiny...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/05/Odin-the-Dog-and-His-Crazy-Camerawork/The legendary Paris cafés where intellectuals met and tourists now flock haven't been there all that long in the grand scheme of things. There weren't many restaurants at all in Paris 150 years ago. But there were...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/04/The-Origin-of-Those-Iconic-Paris-Cafs/An airline for dogs? It sounds like an April Fool joke, and the video makes the whole idea seem like a parody, but Bark Air is real. It was launched by the folks who bring us Bark Toys in Bark Boxes. For those who need t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/04/Bark-Air-The-Airline-for-Dogs/Believe it or not, Cabbage Patch Kids, the dolls that took the world by storm when they became the Christmas gift of 1983, are still a thing. One of their draws is that these dolls have a magical backstory. Each...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/04/A-Bizarre-Birth-Experience-at-Babyland-General-Hospital/Every detail of Boba Fett's getup is perfect as he sets out on his adventure. Everyone knows who he is supposed to be, but once he makes it to a galaxy far, far away, he kind of blends in a little too well. There are Woo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/03/When-You-Need-to-Find-Your-Friends/The monument you see above is in the Kensal Green cemetery in London. This is the grave of George Hill, who died in 1864. It has a lot of text carved into it, which was all about his job with the Colonial Civil Service i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/03/The-Civil-Servants-Traumatic-Lovelife/Today I learned that the US Navy traditionally allows the infant children of crew members to be baptized in the upturned ship's bell. A 2021 Navy press release about such a baptism onboard the USS Kearsarge says...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/03/Navy-Tradition-Baptizing-Babies-in-the-Ships-Bell/Neatoramanauts are a particularly well-read bunch, so it stands to reason that you've read a lot of banned books. That means books that were banned or challenged by someone, somewhere, at some time, for some reason. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/03/The-Books-Were-Banned-So-We-Watched-the-Movie/Orangutan seen treating wound with medicinal herb in first for wild animals https://t.co/lb4O2D3Sl3— The Guardian (@guardian) May 2, 2024 A group of scientists studying orangutans in Indonesia have observed an o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/02/Orangutan-Uses-Medicinal-Herb-to-Treat-Wound/The Duke of Richmond would be the first to die trying to build the Rideau Canal, but he would be far from the last.Canadians used the St. Lawrence River for shipping and traveling, but that river is also their border wit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/02/The-Canal-Built-to-Keep-Canadians-Safe-from-Americans/パッカーン！でも、ドレスドでもないちょっと変わった卵の包み方🍳【無慈悲】生まれたてのひよこオムライス🐣 pic.twitter.com/t2MBs6u1qU— テイストメイド ジャ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/02/Birds-Egg-Nest-Omelet/In the 1940s, Lali Sokolov met Gita Furman when he tattooed her arm at Auschwitz. The two fell in love, and after liberation, they moved to Australia where they spent the rest of their lives together. Furman didn't want...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/02/iThe-Tatooist-of-Auschwitzi-and-the-Dangers-of-Holocaust-Fiction/It's always fun to see how other countries title American movies. They can be literal translations, but often the marketing team wants to convey what the movie is about, and Hollywood titles often don't do that. So a new...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/01/Norwegian-Movie-Title-Translations-are-a-Hoot/Fingerprints have been used to identify people since at least 220 BC -in China. They weren't used for solving crimes, but for signing documents (and they still do that). The Western world was slow to pick up the importan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/01/The-First-Murder-Case-Solved-by-Fingerprints/Dudes playing fruit machine on king's day byu/Bridimum infunny Pay your euro and pull the lever! This human slot machine was set up during the Koningsdag (King's Day) celebrations last weekend in the Netherland...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/01/The-Human-Slot-Machine-at-Kings-Day/
