In the 1920s, the role of women in public life was changing. They could vote, drive, and hold jobs formerly reserved for men, and they reflected this freedom by wearing short hair and shorter skirts than their mothers. M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/17/Rebecca-Bradley-the-Texas-Flapper-Bandit/Over the history of civilization, rats traveled wherever humans traveled. That is, if you count "civilization" as the time beginning when we started growing our own grains. Rats love those things. But furthermore, rats t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/17/How-Rats-Shaped-Human-History-Without-Even-Trying/For many years it was a tradition for local students sitting exams to make sure to ride this bus or a bus driven by this driver, who famously did not fall (in Japanese fall/fail can be the same word). Everyone remember...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/17/Riding-the-Lucky-Bus/Popular Science reports that scientists from Singapore, Indonesia, and Vietnam have just classified a species of giant isopod in Vietnam. They've named it Bathynomus vaderi after Darth Vader, as they se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/17/Scientists-Name-Newly-Identified-Giant-Isopod-after-Darth-Vader/Joe Velaidum of Prince Edward Island has a doorbell camera mounted at the front door of his home. CBC News reports that in July, that camera recorded a meteorite strike right in front of his home. Velaidum says that he h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/17/First-Recording-of-a-Meteorite-Strike/USS Seadragon (SSN-484) was a Skate-class nuclear submarine that surfaced through the icecap at the North Pole on September 15, 1960. For recreation, the sailors laid out a softball diamond that used th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/17/Softball-Game-Held-at-the-North-Pole/Yes, Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippopotamus, is cute as she tries to eat the zookeepers. Full-size hippopotami (Hippopotamus amphibius), though, are dangerous wild animals that kill between 500 and 3,000 humans p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/17/Hippo-Chases-Humans-Bites-Truck/Before we get into the sheer technical sophistication and precise direction of this video, I'd like to point out that the song itself is beautiful. "A Stone Only Rolls Downhill" calls upon us to stoically accept the hard...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/17/OK-Gos-New-Video-Is-a-Recording-of-64-Videos-on-64-Phones/When you're suffering a cold or flu, you eat nutritious chicken soup to feel all warm inside, and you suck on lemon honey lozenges to sooth your cough. But now Progresso has flipped that idea on its head. For a limited t...
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