Around twenty thousand Native Americans fought in the Civil War. But on which side? Did they fight for the Union in solidarity with the enslaved people of the South? Or did they fight for the Confederacy to get back at t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/11/21/The-Native-Americans-Who-Fought-in-the-Civil-War/Wars and rumors of wars. Fire and brimstone. Deadly plagues and pestilence. The total collapse of society. The threat of an impending apocalypse hits differently in 2023, because we already have those things. In fact, so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/11/21/A-Warning-of-the-Apocalypse-Doesnt-Go-as-Expected/Janelle Shane at AI Weirdness once again pitted different AI algorithms against each other, this time to give us a Thanksgiving spread. She asked DALL-E3 to generate images of the feast with labels, from a list generated...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/11/21/Artificial-Intelligence-Makes-Thanksgiving-Dinner/<p>I have owned several handheld consoles throughout my childhood. Now that I have given away most of them, I can only use emulators if I want to play them again. But they don't have the same joy of holding...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/11/21/The-Retro-Handheld-Device-That-Will-Fuel-Your-Nostalgia/<p><a href="https://bgr.com/science/the-universe-began-with-two-big-bangs-new-study-claims/" target="_blank">Researchers have published a new paper suggesting that the universe beg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/11/21/Not-One-But-Two-Big-Bangs-Explain-the-Origins-of-the-Universe/<p>If there is anything that can succinctly sum up human history, then the short animated film <em>Cuties </em>does the job pretty well. It's five minutes long and it was animated by Theo W. Sco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/11/21/Cuties-a-Short-Animation-about-Human-History/<p>Running an Ironman Triathlon is no laughing matter. It entails a 3.9-kilometer swim, a 180.2-kilometer bicycle ride, and a marathon run (42.2 km) completed in one day, for a total of 226.3 kilometers. Us...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/11/21/Toronto-Ironman-Sets-Eyes-Toward-Antarctica-His-Coldest-Run-Yet/When we look at portraits of ourselves juxtaposed with our parents, grandparents, or relatives, we sometimes notice resemblances or similarities in facial features that show how we are related. Sometimes, parents or gran...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/11/21/Face-Genetics-Understanding-How-Our-Facial-Features-Develop/Dolphins are highly intelligent mammals, and crab fishers are very familiar with how smart dolphins can be. For two decades, they have noticed that bottlenose dolphins have been stealing the fish they use as bait to catc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/11/21/Dolphins-Caught-Stealing-Bait-from-Crab-Fishers/
