Ze Frank was surprised with an invitation to join the advisory board of the Senkenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), based in Frankfurt, Germany. To find out if this was legit or just a prank, he went to Germany, and su...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/04/How-to-Name-and-Shame-a-New-Species/(Image credit: MartinVeselka)Houska Castle is in the city of Blatce in the Czech Republic (Czechia). It was built sometime between the years of 1253 and 1278 under the reign of Ottokar II of Bohemia as a sort of headquar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/04/A-Castle-Built-to-Cover-the-Portal-to-Hell/We librarians must get creative in order to draw patrons to us and make our services relevant to current needs. And what do people need? To study the blade. The steel calls to our souls.The public library system of Durha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/04/The-Cutting-Edge-in-Library-Programming/A particular Walmart in Chesterfield County, Virginia was flooded with about 50 officers who were engaging in a "shop with a cop" event for children picking out presents. WTVR News reports that during this event, a Walma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/04/Shoplifter-Decides-to-Get-Busy-During-Shop-with-a-Cop-Event-at-a-Walmart/Sir John Gordon was a Scottish nobleman who lived from 1707 to 1783. In 1723, the French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon composed this bust of him. The statue was present around the family estate in the town of Invergordon, b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/04/Old-Statue-Used-as-a-Doorstop-Valued-at-3-Million/The 1947 Treaty of Paris ended the war between Italy and the Allied powers. Articles 64-66 placed severe limitations upon the Italian Air Force, which the Italians hoped to circumvent.For this purpose, the postwar Italia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/04/1947-When-the-Knights-of-Malta-Had-an-Air-Force/Posy is a Dutch musician who has wide ranging interests and hobbies. Last year he introduced us to motion extraction. Posy has a camera that takes macro video images with an overly sensitive focus. In this video, he show...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/04/Everyday-Objects-Seen-Through-a-Macro-Lens/
