Archive for July 13th, 2021

A Super Mario 64 Cartridge Sells For More Than $1.5 Million

<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Anyone got a spare $1.5 million? A sealed copy of Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64 sold for a whopping </span><...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/13/A-Super-Mario-64-Cartridge-Sells-For-More-Than-1-5-Million/

AI Generated Art Scene Rises

<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thanks to an OpenAI model, a new art scene has exploded. Hackers have been modifying an OpenAi model to make image genera...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/13/AI-Generated-Art-Scene-Rises/

Real Life Ice Man Challenged The Limits Of Endurance

<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dutch photographer Jeroen Nieuwhuis teamed up with the real life ‘ice man’, Wim Hof. Hof is a multiple Guinne...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/13/Real-Life-Ice-Man-Challenged-The-Limits-Of-Endurance/

Fossilized Remains Of A Killer Animal Found

<p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-12/nautilus-outback-australia/100245606" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">T...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/13/Fossilized-Remains-Of-A-Killer-Animal-Found/

Emoji in the Olden Days

(Chris Hallbeck/Maximumble)Those five channels were NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, and the local UHF channel. The last of these was usually my favorite as a child, especially when it ran a 3-day Star Trek marathon when I w...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/13/Emoji-in-the-Olden-Days/

Why Is This Weird Ship Shaped Like a Fat Wedge?

Why is this ship built so oddly? It's not sleek, like it's supposed to slice through the water. That's because it has one specialized purpose: to tow up to 24 sensor arrays that search for oil and gas hidden beneath the...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/13/Why-Is-This-Weird-Ship-Shaped-Like-a-Fat-Wedge/

Wombats and Their Weaponized Hamslammers

Wombats are Australian marsupials, which you know come in all sorts of strange shapes and lifestyles. You might be surprised at how large a wombat can be, or how fast they run. Wombat poop is oddly cube-shaped, and resea...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/13/Wombats-and-Their-Weaponized-Hamslammers/

Candle Clocks and Other Early Alarms

At My Modern Met, Madeline Muzdakis describes clocks, with and without alarms, from millennia ago. A common one, first described in China in about 520 AD, uses candles that burn evenly. By marking the drop in the wick, u...

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/13/Candle-Clocks-and-Other-Early-Alarms/
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