Archive for December 29th, 2022

Discovered: An Organism that Eats Viruses

Some creatures are carnivores and eat animals, others are herbivores and eat plants, and some, including humans, are omnivores and will eat both. But until now, we haven't identified an organism that eats viruses. Of cou...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/29/Discovered-An-Organism-that-Eats-Viruses/

The Battle Over the Ken Doll's Bulge

Ruth Handler designed an adult fashion doll for little girls to play with. Her name was Barbie, and she hit the market in 1959. The Barbie doll became a hit, and soon Handler decided she should have a boyfriend. Mattel w...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/29/The-Battle-Over-the-Ken-Dolls-Bulge/

The Weird Thing About Geosynchronous Orbits

Floating high above our world, there's a network of satellites that are watching us. They relay information from and to earth, and to each other. They enable our global phone, TV, and internet systems. They geolocate us...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/29/The-Weird-Thing-About-Geosynchronous-Orbits/

Sherlock Holmes and Other Works Entering the Public Domain in 2023

Every year, many classical creative works enter the public domain on January 1st under US copyright law. Most are forgotten and forgettable, but some still draw in audiences. Smithsonian magazine has a roundup o...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/29/Sherlock-Holmes-and-Other-Works-Entering-the-Public-Domain-in-2023/

Man Buried Under Notre Dame Had Good Teeth, Apparently

Experts have found tombs and two lead sarcophagi underneath the floor slabs of the church’s transept crossing three years after a fire burned the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. This was when a team of archeologists...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/29/Man-Buried-Under-The-Notre-Dame-Had-Good-Teeth-Apparently/

Rare Fossil Creature Shows Up In Arizona

Alright, who had the “a rare fossil creature appears in a city” in their 2022 bingo card? Nobody? Well, we didn’t have it either, but it did happen. Yahoo! News reported that a creepy, prehistoric-...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/29/Rare-Fossil-Creature-Shows-Up-In-Arizona/

Mom Finds Dead Son in France After 12 Years

A holiday miracle. After more than a decade of mourning her son, a Scottish woman has discovered that her child was alive in a different country all along. The woman, named Joyce Curtis, filed a missing person report in...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/29/Mom-Finds-Dead-Son-in-France-After-12-Years/
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