In our world with so many cell phones and the internet, anyone can go viral at any moment, resulting in "fame" for a short time, usually referred to as 15 minutes. When millions of people outside of your circle of family...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/06/How-Will-You-Handle-Your-15-Minutes-of-Fame/You may recall a couple of years ago when The Ulster County (New York) Board of Elections asked the public to submit designs and vote for a new "I voted" sticker, and they ended up with a purple head with red eyes on six...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/06/Michigan-Selects-Ne-Voting-Stickers-By-Internet-Poll/You may leave instructions for the disposal of your earthly remains after death, but you really can't control what happens after you die. That goes double if you're famous. It's one thing to bequeath your body to science...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/06/Famous-Body-Parts-on-Public-Display/In 1913, Stella Courtright Stimson was an activist working for women's suffrage. She was also heavily concerned about her hometown, Terre Haute, and the growing bar, brothel, and gambling industries. Those were controlle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/06/Cleaning-Up-Elections-in-Terre-Haute-Indiana/Butterfly wings display an amazing range of colors, but it's not always from pigments. Rather, these colors, from bright to dark to strangely iridescent, are often caused by the way light bounces off tiny physical struct...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/06/Nanoscapes-on-Butterfly-Wings/It's happened time and time again- humans introduce a non-native species to kill another species and then have to confront unintended consequences. Amami Oshima is a subtropical island off the coast of Japan that is home...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/06/The-Japanese-Island-Mongoose-Saga/
