George Washington is no honest Abe. Based on an aggregate ranking of presidents' perceived success from the point of view of academic historians and political scientists or popular opinion, the Founding Father pl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/The-Lies-George-Washington-Told/Last Monday, [NASA's InSight has landed on Mars](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/27/world/mars-insight-landing-update/index.html). What prospects will we have from this endeavor? Will we be able to see Martians?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Touchdown-on-the-Red-Planet/An enormous steer in Western Australia is making headlines. At 194cm 'Knickers' is the largest in his category in Australia. Story: https://t.co/ZI472MBUU4 #7News pic.twitter.com/MDEMwEbD8R— 7 News Central Queens...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Thats-a-Lot-of-Bull/The tall, curving Vdara Hotel at CityCenter in Las Vegas is beautiful. However, the south-facing tower is turning out to be problem for visitors at the hotel’s swimming pool. The curved mirrored surface of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Vdara-hotel-death-ray-claiming-victims-in-the-Las-Vegas-Strip-2/Kids invariably put things in their mouths that they shouldn't, and sometimes they end up swallowing small objects like coins, marbles, and in modern times, LEGO building blocks. Pediatricians hear stories of children sw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/How-Long-Does-It-Take-to-Pass-a-LEGO-Piece/This cat is taking a break underneath a car to do his daily workout routine, starting with sit ups. At least that's what it appears to be, although I suspect that the cat is cleaning his chest. Doesn't matter; we take in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Cat-Does-His-Sit-Ups/Findings from an online survey indicate that the funniest word in the English language is "fart." We already knew that, but what makes it so funny? Professors Chris Westbury and Geoff Hollis of the University of Alberta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/A-Formula-for-the-Funniest-Word-in-English/If you had a pleasant Thanksgiving feast or none at all, you might wonder what the classic dysfunctional family holiday dinner is like in real life. Lauren Lorenzo of eLL cartoons (previously at Neatorama) knew you would...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/How-to-NOT-Do-Thanksgiving/Ancient mathematicians and engineers used their arms and feet as the standard for measurement but that's quite tricky because we all have different measurements, so it's not much of a standard really. So how did...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/The-Science-of-Small-Distances/Aside from being an economic and military powerhouse, China is now aspiring to become the leader in scientific and technological advancement with this new particle smasher. If they haven't already dwarfed the com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Just-One-More-Step-Closer-for-China-to-Dominate-the-World-Probably/Image credit: Reuters Akihiko Kondo, a 35-year-old Japanese school teacher, has found his forever person in Hatsune Miku. She happens to be 16-year-old, has big doe eyes and long aqua-colored hair. But this brid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/A-Match-Made-in-Virtual-Reality/Intermingling between races wasn't something uncommon back in the day, so researchers find out. Having a mixed race heritage of this ancient teenage girl might suggest that in general, racism wasn't really a thin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Denisovans-How-They-Interbred-with-Neanderthals-and-Homo-Sapiens/Warning: This Christmas ad will make you reach for a hanky. While most Christmas ads encourage you to buy something, this short film focuses on love. There's also the anticipation of a Christmas gift, but one with a twis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Love-is-a-Gift/Women have always been uncredited and unappreciated when it comes to the work that they do in various fields, whether it be in literature, arts, science, or technology. Many women who contributed to these fields...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Meet-The-Women-Behind-Some-Iconic-Cult-Classics-Music/This seems like something out of a movie but it isn't. This is the story of Louis, which isn't his real name for privacy and safety reasons, who in his early 30s had hatched a grand scheme that 30 years later wou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Prolific-Sperm-Donor-The-Story-of-the-Man-Who-Fathered-200-Children/Anxiety can come in different forms and at the most inopportune moments. Stripping yourself of all the hustle and bustle from your daily grind can leave you looking at your life and facing the realities that you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Hotel-Room-Anxiety-How-We-Inevitably-Confront-Ourselves-Outside-the-Immediacy-of-Our-Daily-Lives/Several systems and design innovations in engineering and technology that we have today are actually inspired by things we see in nature and we try to replicate them by artificial means so that we can examine how...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Scientists-Try-to-Build-Robot-that-Mimics-Animals-Jumping-Out-of-Water/While we often hear the phrase "American royalty" in reference to the rich and famous, there is only one place in America that was an actual kingdom with a palace and a royal family. ʻIolani Palace in Honolulu was built...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/The-Problem-with-Americas-Only-Royal-Palace/In today's world, everything is geared toward convenience and ease for consumers, firms, and all other stakeholders. So it would be a lot easier if we could simply do away with unnecessary things. For Sweden, cas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Sweden-Goes-Full-Steam-Ahead-Toward-a-Cashless-Society-But-Some-Say-Not-So-Fast/Have you ever seen or used a 3D printer before? Well, when you do get a chance to see it in action, make sure that it is well-ventilated. Otherwise, it poses some dangers to your health. As with every innovation...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Watch-Out-3D-Printers-Emit-Microparticles-Harmful-to-the-Lungs/It is quite a complicated concept to understand how data hacks happen and how they are evolving to become more and more sophisticated to make data theft seamless. We aren't even completely safe on the platforms w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Rowhammer-The-Data-Theft-Technique-that-Could-Potentially-Make-Everything-Vulnerable/A security camera was trained on the cat door of this home, so you can assume that funny things had been happening, and the family was trying to figure it out. Maybe this raccoon had attempted burglary here before! In th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Guard-Cat-Repels-Invader/Humans share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees and there is more to it than that. We actually share something else not just with primates but with the rest of the animal kingdom. That is the Rhesus factor. "W...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Rhesus-Factor-Its-Evolution-and-Different-Animal-Blood-Types/You've heard of federal land, but who controls it, how does it differ from state or private land, and how did it become that way? Even if you've never wondered about it, when CGP Grey tackles a subject, you know it's goi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/What-is-Federal-Land/On the night of April 28, 1908, the small town of La Porte, Indiana, was shaken by tragedy when a fire destroyed a home on a nearby farm, killing the family that lived there. Little did they know at the time that the fir...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/27/Corpses-in-the-Pig-Pen-The-Tale-of-Indianas-Most-Notorious-Serial-Killer/While visiting Interlaken, Switzerland, Gursk3 decided to try hang gliding the safe way- by going on a tandem ride with a pro. Easy, right? Until he's in the air and realizes that his harness was never connected to the g...
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