Today we have an unlimited number of colors at our fingertips thanks to modern chemistry. But it was once very difficult to find, isolate, and use pigments for paints, dyes, and ceramic glazes. Each pigment has a story b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/24/Adventures-in-the-Historical-Quest-for-Color/(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻As far as I know, flipping tables doesn't happen all that much in real life, even when people are very angry. The most well-known example is Jesus flipping the tables of the moneychang...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/24/The-Cinematic-Spectacle-of-Flipping-a-Table/When someone makes a tense encounter worse, we say they have escalated the situation. When we ride on an escalator, we could say that we escalated to the second floor (but we don't, because that just sounds pretentious)....
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/24/Name-Origins-That-Are-Backward-From-What-We-Assumed/In this episode of of the What If? series (previously at Neatorama), we get classically literal. The old saying is that an optimist looks at a glass of water and sees it as half-full, while a pessimist looks and sees the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/24/The-Literal-Half-Empty-Glass/In previous centuries, some people were buried with extra precautions in case they may want to climb back out of the ground and cause trouble, in eastern Europe and most often in Poland. Now archaeologists have found a s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/24/Vampire-Grave-Excavated-in-Germany/The things we re afraid of killing us are not the things we should really be afraid of. We hear about shark attacks in the news, and they are scary. Then we hear the shockingly small odds of a shark attack happening to u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/24/Whats-Most-Likely-to-Kill-You-Next-Week/Lorem ipsum is a corrupted and nonsensical adaptation the Latin text De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum by Cicero. Graphic designers often use it as placeholder text to illustrate what writing would look like on a fi...
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