An extremely rare chunk of Tyrian purple dye has been found in England, in the archaeological dig on the grounds of the Carlisle Cricket Club. The dye was found in the drainage area of the remnants of a Roman bathhouse d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/08/Tyrian-Purple-Where-It-Came-from-and-Where-It-Ended-Up/Sweden has the odd PhD tradition of Lutherishly nailing your thesis to a wall a few weeks before your defense, so here is my PhD student Vidya Somashekarappa nailing her thesis into the designated thesis nailing wall (...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/08/The-Tradition-of-Nailing-Ones-Doctoral-Thesis-to-a-Wall/Yesterday I drove through Atlanta as the construction season is starting to ramp up, so I am very impressed with this pavement replacement project in Switzerland. They simply erect a bridge over a section of the road so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/08/Resurfacing-a-Road-While-Traffic-Continues-in-the-Same-Lanes/We tend to take it for granted that blue jeans were invented by Levi Strauss, who made work pants for the miners of the California Gold Rush. It's true that Strauss designed tough work pants with rivets, but the blue den...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/08/The-Real-Origin-of-Blue-Jeans-Found-in-Art/
