Why is it called The Hague instead of just Hague? New York City has Manhattan and The Bronx. Why not The Manhattan? Or just Bronx? And when did The Ukraine become plain Ukraine? It turns out that place names with definit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/place-names-with-definite-articles/A reader sent this picture to Curious Expeditions, asking if they knew where it was taken. The biggest clue is the building in the background with its distinctive architecture. Can you identify the building or the se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/can-you-identify-this-building/The way to get more mileage out of a monster is to make him/her the hero. It's been done quite a few times, sometimes resulting in more confusion than entertainment. We'd love to say that we can't blame Dell Comics...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/when-monsters-change-sides-10-horror-icons-who-turned-good/Tara Parker-Pope writes in The New York Times about the conclusions of some medical researchers that long-distance running is a major evolutionary advantage for humans. The ability to remain cool by sweating in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/humans-evolved-to-be-long-distance-runners/This past January, Timothy Ryback wrote in The Times about the books that Adolf Hitler kept in his private library. 1,200 books that he retained at his residences in southern Germany are now warehoused by the L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/hitlers-secret-library/(YouTube Link) Stanford University's robotics lab has built autonomous cars for several years. Recently, it established a land speed record for a robot car -- 140 mph in an Audi TT-S nicknamed "Shelly". But their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/autonomous-robotic-race-car/Since he was a young boy, Anthony Toth has seen the first class cabin of an old Pan Am 747 as the very quintessence of luxury. So he has spent the past twenty years building a simulation of that environment in his garag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/man-recreates-pan-am-jetliner-cabin-in-his-garage/Katie Liljenquist of Brigham Young University led a study that suggests that clean-smelling environments subtly encourage people to avoid abberant behavior. From Science Daily: The study titled "The Smel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/study-suggests-that-certain-smells-promote-good-behavior/Looks like Boston Dynamics, the robot company that brought us BigDog and RHex, has worked out how to make a robot walk like a man. This is PETMAN, a robot that is supposed to serve humans. Currently it is used to tes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/petman-walks-like-a-man/YouTube Link If your Halloween costume is anywhere near as clever as this one, or you've finally decided on Chewie as your go-to outfit, be sure to top it off with the authentic roar, as taught here.halloween, chewb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/how-to-grrrowl-like-chewbacca/There has never been a documented case of cancer found in a Naked Mole Rat, which is unusual as they can live to be 30 years old. Now biologists at the Unversity of Rochester believe they have found the reason. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/naked-mole-rats-immune-to-cancer/Image: Erin McKean Erin McKean is a Chicago-based lexicographer who writes at the blog A Dress A Day. There she opines on various dresses that she sees and makes. Her most recent creation is a dress inspire...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/tetris-dress/Atlas Obscura has compiled pictures and information about twelve different churches and shrines decorated with human bones. The picture above is from a wall at the Chapel of Bones at the Royal Church of St. Fra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/twelve-ossuaries-around-the-world/Just a couple of updates: 10 Neatest NY Inventions Over at HuffPoI wrote an article titled 10 Neatest New York Inventions Ever that got frontpaged at the Huffington Post. For example, whoddathunk that Je...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/neatorama-update-october-2009-huffington-post-and-interview-with-technorati/If you're interested, my interview for Technorati's State of the Blogosphere mentioned above was conducted using a new and free web service called wetoku.wetoku is still in beta, but I can tell you this: it's one to watc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/wetoku-a-new-tool-for-web-interviews/Stop! Hammerhead Time - $11.95 | Funny T-ShirtsWhat do you get when you combine a certain 80s fad and sharks? Here's a T-shirt designed by the always awesome Nathan Mazur of Scared of Bees and brought to you by MC Hammer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/stop-hammerhead-time/Technically, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy should probably be The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe, as the book most certainly explores multiple galaxies, regardless of semantics th...
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