The credit for this picture is NASA/JPL-Caltech, but it was actually taken by the Left Navigation Camera on the Mars rover Curiosity. The date on earth was January 9, but on Mars the date was Sol 4062. What we are lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/17/Does-This-Image-from-Mars-Remind-You-of-Anything/Airline pilots were asked which airports they'd rather not fly to, and got some wild stories. LaGuardia, Lake Tahoe, and and the Hillary-Tenzing Airport in Lukla, Nepal got mentioned by more than one pilot. Kai Tak gives...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/17/The-Airports-that-Pilots-Hate-the-Most/The first people to fly through the air were balloonists, beginning with the Montgolfier brothers in 1783. The early balloon trips were called flying circuses because they were so novel. Seeing one, or for a few people,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/17/The-First-Aerial-Maps-Produced-by-an-Eyewitness/Look at the people around you. Do any of them have ring fingers longer than their index fingers? If so, run for your life.The actual scientific article is more nuanced, of course. Researchers with the Centre de Recherche...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/17/Is-Your-Ring-Finger-Longer-Than-Your-Index-Finger-You-Might-Be-a-Psychopath/Atlas Obscura informs us that if we ski along particular slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains outside of Taos, New Mexico, we may encounter birdhouse-sized boxes attached to particular trees. Inside each one is a m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/17/The-Ski-Slope-Tree-Martinis/The tabloid news service TMZ reports that two nights ago, famed wrestler Hulk Hogan rescued a teenage girl from a car crash in which the vehicle had flipped upside down.Hogan's wife, Sky Daily, posted on social media tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/17/Hulk-Hogan-Rescues-Teen-in-Flipped-Car/<p>Before getting into the nitty-gritty of the data presented on the map, a disclaimer needs to be said. In determining the highest-paid jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the illustrators of the map...
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