Dune, one of the world's best-selling sci-fi novel, was inspired by giant sand dunes here on Earth.In the late 1950s, Frank Herbert visited the Oregon Dunes, a 40-mile long stretch of windswept sand along the co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/19/Giant-Sand-Dunes-of-Oregon-that-Inspired-Frank-Herbert-to-Write-Dune/We've talked about viruses as being an outlier that strains the definition of life. Viruses do not have the ability to reproduce on their own, but must harness a host cell of another species to replicate. But now there's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/19/Obelisks-A-New-Form-of-Life/Don't just mow your lawn! Channel your inner artist and create a Mowna Lisa. A grassterpiece, if you will.For 11 years running, British mowing machine manufacturer Allett has a competition where lawn care enthusiasts pro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/19/Turning-Mowing-Into-an-Art-Form/When you are desperate to cure an illness or heal a wound, you are willing to try anything. And eventually, any substance could be tried as a medicine. If it worked, great. If it didn't, we'd probably find out why in a c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/19/Old-Medicines-that-Make-Us-Cringe-Today/The city with the largest population in the world is no longer Shanghai. The link said, "I bet you can’t name it." I thought, I bet that Guangzhou and Hong Kong were officially merged and got a new name. While I wa...
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