Archive for July 27th, 2024

Six Ways People Cooled Off Before Air Conditioning

I once knew someone who had a screened-in party room at their house, and behind it was another screened-in room with a bed! It was a sleeping porch, used when it was too hot inside. This one caught breezes from three sid...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/07/27/Six-Ways-People-Cooled-Off-Before-Air-Conditioning/

A One-Woman Space Drama

You take all the standard tropes of a space adventure movie and put them together to make a parody. You shoot it in your apartment with a budget of zero and a cast of one playing all the parts. How good could it possibly...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/07/27/A-One-Woman-Space-Drama/

Bishop of the Moon

In 1968, the Catholic Church established the Diocese of Orlando, which encompasses a large amount of central Florida. This area includes Cape Canaveral, from which the Apollo moon missions were launched in the late 1960s...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/07/27/Bishop-of-the-Moon/

How Did "Late" Come to Mean "Dead"?

If you were to tell a story about a late partygoer, you could mean someone who arrived long after the party started, or you might mean someone who died at a party. These very disparate uses of the word "late" can be conf...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/07/27/How-Did-Late-Come-to-Mean-Dead/

Walk into a Cartoon at Hulu's Animayhem Activation

Have you always wanted to walk through the Slurm factory, enjoy a donut with The Simpsons or do an alien autopsy of Roger from American Dad? If so, you'll want to head to Hulu's Animayhem activation at...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/07/27/Walk-into-a-Cartoon-at-Hulus-Animayhem-Activation/
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