Archive for February 9th, 2020

Fired Car Salesman Becomes Personal Car Buyer

<p>Brian Carroll of Macomb Township, Michigan loves selling cars. When he was laid off last year, he found a way to stay in that business from the other side of the transaction. He'll buy a car for you, com...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/09/Fired-Car-Salesman-Becomes-Personal-Car-Buyer/

The 2020 Razzie Nominations

The first thing I searched for this morning was the the Golden Raspberry Awards. See, the awards for the worst movies of the year, affectionally called the Razzies, are always bestowed the night before the Academy Awards...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/09/The-2020-Razzie-Nominations/

Carl Sagan And Ann Druyan's Ultimate Mix Tape

In 1977, the space probes Voyager I and II were launched, and they are still moving away from us, now beyond the bounds of the Solar System. Considering the chance that the probes may be found by interstellar life forms,...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/09/Carl-Sagan-And-Ann-Druyans-Ultimate-Mix-Tape/

Confessions of a Movie Theater Employee

We all have stories from work that we swore we'd never tell anyone, and then 20, 30, or 40 years later, the beans are spilled. By then, who will remember, much less punish us? James Dator spent a few years working in mov...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/09/Confessions-of-a-Movie-Theater-Employee/

Is It Possible for Cancer Cells from One Person to Infect Another?

Can cancer spread from one person to another? We have become more aware of HPV, a rather contagious virus that can eventually lead to cancer, and it's true that HIV patients used to develop a particular type of cancer ca...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/09/Is-It-Possible-for-Cancer-Cells-from-One-Person-to-Infect-Another/

Pizza-Related Injuries More Than Double in Two Years

<p>According to statistics that are dubious but are also, more importantly, interesting, pizza-related injuries in the United States have more than doubled in the past two years. <a href="https://ab...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/09/Pizza-Related-Injuries-More-Than-Double-in-Two-Years/

True Facts: The Skeleton Shrimp

Skeleton shrimp are neither shrimp nor skeletons, but they are fun to watch. In fact, you'd enjoy this video if it were just visuals, but of course we also get a comparative description of Caprellids from Ze Frank told i...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/09/True-Facts-The-Skeleton-Shrimp/

One of the Last Mammoths on Earth Was So Mutated, It Lost the Ability to Smell Flowers

One of the ideas that come up again and again in apocalyptic fiction is that a small group of surviving people might be able to save humankind by repopulating the earth. A study of mammoth DNA shows how this concept coul...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/09/One-of-the-Last-Mammoths-on-Earth-Was-So-Mutated-It-Lost-the-Ability-to-Smell-Flowers/

Dinosaurs In Love

Tom Rosenthal played piano while his three-year-old daughter Fenn sang a song she wrote about dinosaurs. He Tweeted the audio, which went viral, so he then collaborated with Hannah Jacobs, Katy Wang, and Anna Ginsburg to...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/09/Dinosaurs-In-Love/

Artificial Intelligence Does Jell-O Recipes

WHAT HAS OCCURRED CANNOT BE UNDONEI have trained a neural net on a crowdsourced set of vintage jello-centric recipesI believe this to possibly be the worst recipe-generating algorithm in existence pic.twitter.com/cwQwO...

https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/09/Artificial-Intelligence-Does-Jell-O-Recipes/
X

This website uses cookies.

This website uses cookies to improve user experience. By using this website you consent to all cookies in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

I agree
 
Learn More