Archive for September 13th, 2025

Albert Sabin and the Sugar Cube That Stopped Polio

Jonas Salk developed the first successful polio vaccine and gets most of the credit for defeating the disease. But he was one of dozens of teams around the US working on the problem in the 1950s. Salk's vaccine contained...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/13/Albert-Sabin-and-the-Sugar-Cube-That-Stopped-Polio/

Thanks to Social Media, a Stranger at a Wedding is Identified Four Years Later

In the movie Wedding Crashers, two guys go to strangers' weddings to pick up women. This is kind of like that, but not at all like that. When Michelle and John Wylie got their 2021 wedding pictures, they no...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/13/Thanks-to-Social-Media-a-Stranger-at-a-Wedding-is-Identified-Four-Years-Later/

The Surprising Technology of the Roman Empire

We think of the steam turbine as the force that powered the Industrial Revolution. We think of automatic doors and vending machines as modern conveniences. But these things existed a couple of thousand years ago during t...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/13/The-Surprising-Technology-of-the-Roman-Empire/
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