<p>Usually found thriving inside Warp Pipes, the Piranha Plants wait for the perfect opportunity to chomp down the heroes of the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario and Luigi. But this Piranha Plant is different from a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/This-Piranha-Plant-Will-Light-Up-Your-Day/<p>Found in the border between Peru and Bolivia in the Andes Mountains is one of the largest lakes in South America: Lake Titicaca. For the Inca and the Tiwanaku (the people that lived there before the Inca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/A-Tiny-Llama-For-The-Great-Inca-Gods/<p>Jesse Dunietz was surprised as he attended the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics. For decades, natural-language processing (NLP), the AI branch that specializes in creat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/Has-Natural-Language-Processing-Been-Chasing-The-Wrong-Goal-The-Whole-Time/We all have regrets in our lives. It might be regret in choosing the wrong degree program at our university, regret in making a financial decision that resulted in a huge loss, or regret in a relationship that should hav...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/Managing-Regrets/<p>For decades, humans have been using light-emitting devices such as flashlights in order to hunt for prey. Apparently, sudden light causes confusion to animals and makes them freeze. In the past, however,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/LED-Flashlights-Make-Hunting-Easier-But-At-What-Cost/In 1992, Pepsi-Cola was in a war with Coca-Cola over the Philippine soda market, and Pepsi was losing badly. So they launched a sweepstakes in which people would collect bottle caps with numbers. The winning number would...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/Number-Fever-The-Pepsi-Contest-That-Became-a-Deadly-Fiasco/Fox Benwell has a postal cat! His cat Linnet waits by the door for the mail to be delivered. Watch as she enthusiastically receives a package, checks to see if anyone is watching, and then steals upstairs to put it in he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/Cat-Receives-Mail/It wasn't all that long ago that the idea of other planets where humans could live was considered a fantasy. Now we have lots of data coming in from exoplanets, those outside our solar system, and they come in all sizes,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/How-Many-Habitable-Planets-Can-One-Star-Have/If you want to get really away from it all, keep the rest of the world at bay, and have plenty of space to spread out, you might be interested in a property for sale near Fairdale, North Dakota. The brutalist architectur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/This-Cold-War-Bunker-and-Missile-Silo-Could-Be-Yours/View this post on Instagram Possibly one of the best swims of my career! Check out the full swim here. What can you do without spilling a drop?! #gotmilk #ad Check out the #gotmilkchallenge on Tik T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/Watch-This-Woman-Swim-a-Lap-While-Balancing-a-Glass-of-Milk-on-Her-Head/The problem with making a satirical movie is that if you are at all subtle, the satire can be completely missed. And so it was with the 1997 film Starship Troopers. It was supposed to be a sendup of overly milit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/An-Honest-Trailer-for-iStarship-Troopersi/We've read plenty of horror stories from nature about animal parasites infecting other animals and causing them to behave in ways that benefit the parasite. Funguses can do that, too. The parasitic fungus Massospora*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/Fungus-Controls-Behavior-of-Zombie-Cicadas/When I hear the word "herpes," I automatically think "the gift that keeps on giving." But maybe I should switch that to "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger." People with latent herpes hiding in their cells may have...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/The-Upside-of-Herpes/<p>If you want to know if a person prefers to eat veggies or meat, then you might consider analyzing his hair. This study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences show that chemical trac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/Your-Hair-Can-Record-Your-Diet/<p>Traveling great distances while not spending much time has been man’s dream ever since the distant past. As time goes by, transportation vehicles evolve and become much faster than before, allowing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/Virgin-Galactic-Releases-Supersonic-Jet-Designs/<p>When we hear the word “parasite”, what comes into our minds are organisms that take advantage of their hosts and make them suffer. But while some of these parasites do cause harm to other org...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/Why-Save-Parasites/Everything has an ending. Even our grand universe, despite looking majestic and eternal, will end some day. But how will our universe end? That’s what theoretical astrophysicist Katie Mack writes about in her book...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/05/Theories-Of-How-The-Universe-Will-End/<p>Quezon City, Philippines — A man named Dino Rivera went outside of his house to buy something from the nearby store. On his way, however, he saw something that doesn’t seem to belong in the a...
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