Neatorama |
- The South Carolina Forest That Looks Like Melted Ice Cream
- How Clean Do Your Dishes Really Need to Be, Anyway?
- True Facts About Macaques
- Did You Know About The $1M Lord Of The Rings Game Pitch?
- Which Are The Real Pasta Names?
- Do You Want To Join NASA’s “Lunar Loo Challenge?”
- The Platypus: The Animal That Baffled Scientists
- Drones Could Save Battery If They Hitched Rides On Buses
- The First Mammal To Be Patented
- Cockroach Milk As A New Superfood
- Iguana Pizza Topping?
- Can You Easily Become A Poker Champion?
- One Hand Monster
- A Fox Stuck In A Car Wheel
- It’s About Time For A New Crash Bandicoot Game
| The South Carolina Forest That Looks Like Melted Ice Cream Posted: 26 Jun 2020 03:59 AM PDT
The photograph above has not been filtered nor Photoshopped. It's a rainbow swamp!
Find out the precise conditions that cause this colorful effect and how you can see it yourself at Atlas Obscura. (Image credit: National Park Service)  |
| How Clean Do Your Dishes Really Need to Be, Anyway? Posted: 26 Jun 2020 03:59 AM PDT
Read what's important and what's not important in dishwashing from a microbial viewpoint at Mel magazine. |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 10:50 PM PDT
|
| Did You Know About The $1M Lord Of The Rings Game Pitch? Posted: 25 Jun 2020 07:32 PM PDT
It won't be a surprise if you haven't heard about it, as the ambitious pitch got nowhere. Jon Burton, founder of LEGO series stalwarts Traveller's Tales, shared footage from a scrapped Lord of the Rings / Hobbit game attempt he and the studio made. Kotaku has more details: Technically, it was a pitch for a Hobbit game, to be based on what was at the time a project still headed by Guillermo del Toro (Lord of the Rings director Jackson would only take over later). But in order to best capture the feel of Middle Earth without actually having seen any of the visual design that had been done for the Hobbit films, Traveller's Tales decided to use iconic sequences from Lord of the Rings to illustrate their vision and tech. Sadly, as Burton says, the pitch never got anywhere because rights holders Warner Bros. wanted a game that ran alongside the movie, not recreating its events. And it's not like TT didn't then get to make two LEGO games based on The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings a few years later anyway. image via Kotaku |
| Which Are The Real Pasta Names? Posted: 25 Jun 2020 07:32 PM PDT
Mental Floss once again makes us think very hard with their new brain teaser, this time making us guess which of these 41 pasta names are real. While some can be easily identified as real pasta names, others aren't, and as someone who isn't very familiar with the Italian language, I was left with nothing but my gut feel. Despite that being the case, I still was able to guess 12 pasta names correctly. Check out the quiz over at the site and tell your score in the comments below. (Image Credit: Mental Floss) |
| Do You Want To Join NASA’s “Lunar Loo Challenge?” Posted: 25 Jun 2020 07:32 PM PDT
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, more commonly known as NASA, is planning to send astronauts back on the Moon once again. But unlike before when the Apollo missions left 96 bags of human poo on our planet's only natural satellite because they didn't have toilets back then, the agency is now planning to build a space toilet stationed there. And in order to create the best Moon toilet the Solar System has to offer, NASA wants to hear from members of the public who might have ideas on the best way to manufacture an easy-to-use lunar restroom. Today, NASA is announcing the "Lunar Loo Challenge," a competition in partnership with HeroX to come up with the best space toilet for the agency's future human lunar lander. As part of NASA's Artemis program, which aims to send the first woman and the next man to the Moon by 2024, the lander will take astronauts from lunar orbit down to the Moon's surface. That means the restroom on board has to be versatile: it will need to work in orbit, where the astronauts will be weightless, and also when astronauts are experiencing one-sixth of Earth's gravity on the lunar surface. And without much gravity, things can get a little messy if you don't prepare. More details about this challenge over at The Verge. (Image Credit: Pixabay) |
| The Platypus: The Animal That Baffled Scientists Posted: 25 Jun 2020 07:32 PM PDT
With its furry skin and its bill that greatly resembles that of a duck's beak, not to mention that it lays eggs much like other birds, one would really have a hard time classifying the platypus. Is it a bird, or is it a mammal? Throughout many decades, scientists have been really puzzled by these strange creatures, with the taxonomists taking over eight decades just to decide if they were mammals or birds. The platypus was first described in literature by George Shaw in the British Museum, who, along with many of his contemporaries, suspected it was a hoax. Most early scientists correctly assumed it was a mammal based on its fur, but working only from skins they knew nothing else. The dried bill strongly resembled an actual duck beak, and its first Latin name was Platypus anatinus: the flat foot duck. The name stuck even though these creatures were renamed Ornithorhynchus anatinus, which, for the record, means duck-like bird snout. The more nineteenth century biologists learned about platypuses, the more confused they became. Learn more about these strange mammals over at JSTOR Daily. (Image Credit: Stefan Heinrich/ Wikimedia Commons) |
| Drones Could Save Battery If They Hitched Rides On Buses Posted: 25 Jun 2020 07:32 PM PDT
Drones may be the cooler and safer method to deliver stuff into people's homes especially during these trying times. There's just one problem, however. They have a short battery life, and a very limited flight range, only capable of flying for about half an hour per battery charge. With these factors in mind, scientists now look for ways in order to conserve a drone's battery, which thereby increases a drone's effective flight range. One suggestion that they have is that drones hitch rides on top of public buses. Led by associate professors Mykel Kochenderfer and Marco Pavone, a team at Stanford University started by creating computer models in which drones were making deliveries in North San Francisco and Washington, DC. These models incorporated the existing public bus networks, with up to 200 drones per city delivering as many as 5,000 packages. Through their study, the scientists found out that through this method, drones could quadruple their effective flight range. Check out New Atlas to know more about this study. (Image Credit: pixel2013/ Pixabay) |
| The First Mammal To Be Patented Posted: 25 Jun 2020 07:32 PM PDT
1988. It was a historic day for the US Patent Office, Harvard University, and perhaps all of the biological life here on planet Earth: a patent for the genetically engineered mouse — the OncoMouse — was issued to Harvard University. But what is so special about this mouse that the scientists had to file a patent for it? OncoMouse's creators scientists Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart, however, had not created a better mouse. On the contrary, it was much worse. The Harvard scientists had genetically modified the mouse to make it highly susceptible to cancer, in the hope that this trait would make the mice useful test subjects for cancer research. The researchers created the mice by injecting known cancer genes into mouse embryos just after fertilization. The genetic modification not only made the mice prone to cancer, but also ensured that they would pass the cancer genes to their offspring, thus guaranteeing a continued supply of test subjects. While the mouse wasn't the first mouse to be genetically modified, it was the first mouse, and also the first mammal, to be patented. (Image Credit: Amusing Planet) |
| Cockroach Milk As A New Superfood Posted: 25 Jun 2020 01:51 PM PDT
I hope this doesn't happen. Scientists think that cockroach (yes, those pesky insects that flutter in your home) milk could be a new superfood. The milk is four times as nutritious as cow's milk! The predicted future superfood can only be produced by Diploptera punctate, as ScienceAlert details: The fact that an insect produces milk is pretty fascinating – but what fascinated researchers is the fact that a single one of these protein crystals contains more than three times the amount of energy found in an equivalent amount of buffalo milk (which is also higher in calories than regular cow's milk). Clearly milking a cockroach isn't the most feasible option, so an international team of scientists headed by researchers from the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in India decided to sequence the genes responsible for producing the milk protein crystals to see if they could somehow replicate them in the lab. image via ScienceAlert |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 01:51 PM PDT
Inspectors found a 36-kilogram iguana stored in the freezer of a local pizza joint. I didn't know iguanas are now a pizza topping option! The frozen iguana the inspectors from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation found was a personal gift to the owner, as AP News details: The restaurant could not be reached for comment, but an employee told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that the reptile was given as a personal gift to the owner. It was stored in a separate freezer away from the restaurant's food and was immediately trashed after they were informed it was a violation. Iguanas aren't dangerous or aggressive to humans, but they damage seawalls, sidewalks, landscape foliage and can dig lengthy tunnels. The males can grow to at least 5 feet (1.5 meters) long and weigh nearly 20 pounds (9 kilograms) and female iguanas can lay nearly 80 eggs a year. The reptile is considered a delicacy by some. One company even makes iguana sausages and burgers. image via wikimedia commons |
| Can You Easily Become A Poker Champion? Posted: 25 Jun 2020 01:51 PM PDT
You need to be well versed in psychology, or at least a Ph.D. in the field. Or you can have a willing professional poker player teach you the ropes. Maria Konnikova has both: a Ph.D. and a willing coach. Konnikova shares her experience under the wing of well-renowned professional poker player Erik Seidel: Seidel is notoriously reticent, and he hates sharing his tactics. I was, however, an ideal pupil in a few ways. Most important, I have a Ph.D. in psychology, and so I was well positioned to understand Seidel's style of play. I also never had much of an interest in cards, meaning Seidel wouldn't have to rid me of any bad habits. My academic training and my inexperience made me a perfect vehicle for an experiment to see if Seidel's psychological game could still triumph over a strictly mathematical style. The game served as the perfect laboratory for my own questions about the role of luck in our lives. Poker isn't the roulette wheel of pure chance, nor is it the chess of mathematical elegance and perfect information. Apart from the underlying mathematics, poker depends on the nuanced reading of human intention, interactions, and deceptions. It gives you parameters that are just clean enough to allow you to grapple with that uncertainty. image via The Atlantic |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 01:51 PM PDT
Special makeup artist Amazing JIRO created a fun project for those who are unable to leave their homes. The project is called 'one hand monster.' JIRO hoped to improve people's gloomy moods through the project, which has a theme of monsters eating gloomy feelings. Check out more of his works on Instagram. image screenshot via Instagram |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 09:55 AM PDT
A fox managed to get its head stuck in a car wheel. The animal peered inside a spare alloy wheel, and was unable to get its head out. The poor animal's neck was swollen from trying to get out! Thankfully, the owners of the wheel called the RSPCA for help, and they were able to rescue the animal using special equipment to cut through the metal. image via Metro UK |
| It’s About Time For A New Crash Bandicoot Game Posted: 25 Jun 2020 09:55 AM PDT
After rumoured leaks online, it has been confirmed that Toys for Bob is making a new Crash Bandicoot game. The new game to the franchise is Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. A fitting title, no? It's a brand-new game in the long-running Crash Bandicoot series, picking up after the events of Crash Bandicoot: Warped. Polygon has more details: villains Neo Cortex, Dr. N. Tropy, and Uka Uka stranded on a far-off planet. In Crash 4, the antagonists escape and once again threaten to take over the multiverse; players will inhabit Crash or Coco, as well as Neo Cortex, who will have his own special levels along the way. Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time will be released on Oct. 2 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. image via Polygon |
| You are subscribed to email updates from Neatorama. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | |
No comments:
Post a Comment
Keep a civil tongue.