Archive for September 25th, 2024

The Runaway Drone of 1956

The Grumman F6F Hellcat was used in many dogfights in World war II, but afterward was considered obsolete. The US Navy made use of them, as drones to serve as targets for testing new battle aircraft and weapons. On Augus...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/25/The-Runaway-Drone-of-1956/

Fairy the Fawn and Friends

Jeff Letendre encountered a fawn who was too young to be away from her mother, but there was no sign of a mother, and the fawn was very hungry. So he provided her with milk and named her Fairy. These cases are sometimes...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/25/Fairy-the-Fawn-and-Friends/

The Most Dangerous Thing in Yellowstone National Park

People somehow get the idea that America's national parks are safe places. If they weren't, why would they encourage people to visit? But that's not the philosophy of the parks. They operate under the idea that people sh...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/25/The-Most-Dangerous-Thing-in-Yellowstone-National-Park/

How Did We Figure Out the Body Temperature of a Dinosaur?

The word "we" in the post title doesn't mean me or you, because I haven't got a clue, but rather scientists who know what temperature many species of dinosaur had when they were alive. I didn't even know those had been d...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/25/How-Did-We-Figure-Out-the-Body-Temperature-of-a-Dinosaur/

Oldest Cheese Ever Discovered in Ancient Cemetery

Chinese archaeologists have been excavating an ancient cemetery in northwestern China since the year 2000. They've unearthed 167 graves, some reaching back as far as 3,600 years. Some of the oldest mummies recovered had...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/25/Oldest-Milk-Ever-Discovered-in-Ancient-Cemetery/

Artificial Intelligence Spots 303 New Nazca Geoglyphs

The Peruvian desert has massive geoglyphs that aren't visible from the ground. These 2,000-year-old drawings, called the Nazca Lines, were only discovered after the airplane was developed, and we still don't know their p...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/25/Artificial-Intelligence-Spots-303-New-Nazca-Geoglyphs/

The Full-Size Last Kmart Is Closing

In the 1970s and 80s, Kmarts swept across the United States like an army of the undead. Now they're almost gone.What eventually became the Kmart Corporation can be traced back to a retail store created by Sebastian Speri...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/25/The-Last-Kmart-Is-Closing/

Cheddar Cheese Ice Cream Sandwiches

Elisa Sunga works as a user experience designer at Google in San Francisco, but she brings a completely different set of experiences to people who eat her food. If you peruse her Instagam page, you'll see one dominant co...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/25/Cheddar-Cheese-Ice-Cream-Sandwiches/

A Heavy Metal Song about Mowing the Lawn

Mark of Mark's Middle-Aged Metal is returning to songwriting after a couple of decades away building up a middle class lifestyle in the suburbs. He's got a serious death metal message about the importance of carefully cu...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/25/A-Heavy-Metal-Song-about-Mowing-the-Lawn/
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