Check out this bug with the long neck! It's not only long, but it's jointed in the middle. This is the giraffe weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa), native to Madagascar and only studied since 2008. So why the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/27/Guess-Why-They-Named-This-Insect-the-Giraffe-Weevil/There has never been a photograph taken of the Milky Way galaxy. It would take centuries to get a probe far away enough to capture its shape. Yet we have artist's renderings of the galaxy like the one above. How can we p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/27/How-Do-We-Know-the-Shape-of-the-Milky-Way/You know Maurice Sendak as the author and illustrator of the children's book Where the Wild Things Are. But his first paying job as an illustrator came in 1947, when he was still in high school. Sendak had a rep...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/27/18-Year-Old-Maurice-Sendak-Illustrated-a-Book-About-Nuclear-Physics/For about five years in the mid-1960s, beach movies flooded the market. This started as Hollywood discovered that teenagers will go to the movie theater, and that marketing directly to them will sell a lot of tickets. th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/27/The-Sudden-Rise-and-Fall-of-Beach-Movies/Sami was born at the Osijek Zoo in what is now Croatia in 1979. In January of 1988, he was taken to the Belgrade Zoo and lodged in a much smaller chimpanzee enclosure that was like a cage. Sami did not like his new surro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/27/Sami-the-Chimpanzees-Great-Escapes/An 80-year-old woman with dementia left her home in rural Utah to walk her dog. She was unaware of the passage of time, and her family became frightened when she failed to return home. They enlisted the help of authoriti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/27/Two-Very-Good-Dogs-Save-Lost-Elderly-Woman-with-Dementia/The Associated Press reports that a men's prison in northeastern Ohio recently offered a 5-course gourmet meal to 60 selected guests. All of the food was prepared and served by prisoners who are training for culinary car...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/27/Prison-Offers-5-Course-Meal-Made-with-Food-Grown-on-Site/BBC News passes along a story from Italian news sources about a foiled home burglary. The would-be thief broke into a house in Rome and was looting the place when he was distracted by a copy of The G...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/27/Burglar-Caught-When-He-Gets-Distracted-by-Engrossing-Book/
