The first human flight in a hot air balloon was. in 1783. The development of a parachute seems to have followed soon after. It makes sense that if a balloon will descend slowly because of the air inside, even when it's n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/06/28/The-First-Guy-to-Die-While-Parachuting/Some experiments tell us that monkeys can count to three, but not to four. Is there some cognitive function that keeps them from counting higher? After all, monkeys have five fingers on each hand, and ten toes as well, s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/06/28/What-Do-Animals-Understand-About-Numbers/More pics direct from @MBTA HQ. This is the greatest timeline to be a MBTA rider. pic.twitter.com/NMscmXEiqm— ariloo 🌱 (@ariellelok) June 26, 2024 The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), often...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/06/28/By-Popular-Demand-Boston-Trains-Get-New-Faces/In my undergraduate days, I had delusion fantasies of becoming a medieval European historian and wasted a lot of time and money moving in that direction. One of the reasons why this was and remains a very difficult caree...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/06/28/The-Billion-Dollar-College-Teaching-Position/Ever since chests of tea were thrown out into the Boston Harbor during the American Revolution, coffee had been the staple beverage for Americans. So it didn't come as a surprise that one of the main factors that the Uni...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/06/28/Coffee-the-Union-s-Secret-to-Victory/It has only been 70 years since Alan Turing suggested the idea of computers that can think or act similarly to the way any human would. Now, we have AI like ChatGPT that can write entire books with the help of some prodd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/06/28/Turing-and-Strachey-s-Love-Letter-Generator/When I quit my job in mid-2022, I had no idea what was going to happen, and I was anxious about how I'm going to support myself during the period that I would be unemployed and looking for a job. That whole situation was...
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