The Thaua people of new South Wales, Australia, have always had a mystical relationship with killer whales, or orcas. They believe that after death, they are reincarnated as an orca. So is it any wonder that they learned...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/26/When-Men-and-Orcas-Hunted-Together/The Boston Typewriter Orchestra (previously at Neatorama) has always made music with typewriters the old fashioned way: with manual typewriters, the ones that took real finger power to use and made loud noises. But now t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/26/The-Boston-Typewriter-Orchestra-Tries-Electric-Typewriters/Through most of the 20th century, paleoanthropologists considered the birthplace of Homo sapiens to be in East Africa. Or maybe South Africa. That's where the oldest fossils were found, of both humans and their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/26/The-Constantly-Moving-Birthplace-of-iHomo-Sapiensi/Utter destruction, in a nutshell. This is not to sound pessimistic or nihilistic, but when our sun eventually goes the way of all things in the universe and dies, it will swallow up both Mercury and Venus, and then lastl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/26/What-Will-Happen-to-the-Solar-System-When-the-Sun-Dies/Many ordinary objects could be turned into weapons or otherwise misused by people with ingenuity and nothing to lose. That's why, as we've noted in the past, there's an entire industry that produces ordinary household an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/26/This-Is-a-Prison-Laptop/<p>The American avant-garde composer John Cage is probably most notable for his 1952 composition titled <em>4'33"</em>, shown in the video above. It is a piece that was deliberately devoid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/26/John-Cage-s-639-Year-Long-Piece/<p>Last year, archaeologists discovered a <a href="https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/20/500-Year-Old-Board-Game-Discovered-Carved-in-Polish-Castle/" target="_blank">500-year-old bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/26/Ancient-Game-Boards-in-Kenyan-Rock-Pits/I have only recently realized why I used to hear comedians say "tip your waitresses" as a closing joke, and why tipping culture is quite prevalent in the United States. Being someone from a place that doesn't have that c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/26/The-Most-Common-Tipping-Mistake-People-Make/
