In a hereditary monarchy, you were ruled by a "rightwise born" king or queen, and no illness, disability, or incompetence could change that. Certainly death could, but not always for the better. Take the case of the Tudo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/20/The-Royal-Tudors-Medical-Maladies-That-Changed-History/Randall Munroe, best known for his webcomic xkcd, received a question for his "What if?" series. The question from Hunter Freyer was "What if you ignored all the rules of car racing and had a contest which was simply to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/20/How-Fast-Could-We-Go-If-Car-Racing-Had-No-Rules/On December 11th, NASA engineers deployed their NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, testing a new system designed to send video information by lasers from great distances. The distance was 1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/20/A-Demonstration-of-Distance-Video-Transfer-Technology-Uses-a-Cat-Video/<p><a href="https://petapixel.com/2022/05/15/crocodile-dad-gives-over-100-babies-a-ride-on-his-back/" target="_blank">Dhritiman Mukherjee is the wildlife photographer who caught th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/20/A-Crocodile-Dad-with-100-Babies-on-His-Back/<p>Touted as <a href="https://newatlas.com/technology/miso-robotics-caliexpress-flippy-ai-restaurant/" target="_blank">the first fully autonomous restaurant in the world</a>,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/20/World-s-First-Fully-Autonomous-Restaurant-Opens-in-California/<p>Automatons or mechanical dolls have been around since the 16th century, with the oldest functional automaton being kept at the Smithsonian. If other accounts are to be believed, much older automatons hav...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/20/250-Year-Old-Mechanical-Dolls-That-Can-Be-Programmed-to-Write-and-Draw/<p>Titled "<a href="https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/when-we-all-have-pocket-telephones.html" target="_blank">When We All Have Pocket Telephones</a>", this Daily...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/20/A-100-Year-Old-Comic-Strip-Predicted-a-Future-Filled-with-Cellphones/<p>It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's Superman dressed up as other popular characters, as shown in the series of illustrations created by Los Angeles-based artist Mike Mitchell.</p><p>Taking th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/20/The-Many-Disguises-of-Superman-by-Mike-Mitchell/<p>Emma Van Carlen, a fasting coach, shared her experience of <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/woman-water-fast-18-days-body-1837428" target="_blank">going on a water-only fast fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/20/This-Woman-Went-on-an-18-Day-Water-Fast-Here-s-What-Happened/Core77 introduces us to the Defender 250, a e-bike developed by the German manufacturer Dolas. What makes this design unusual is that there's a third wheel in line with the other two. All three are powered by hub-mounted...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/20/A-3-Wheeled-E-Bike/It's Friday night and the many hours that you have spent developing your online dating profile and combing through others have finally paid off. You have a first and hopefully not last date. Naturally, you want to impres...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/20/The-World-Isnt-Ready-for-McDonalds-Crocs/Dr. Varsha Jain of the University of Edinburgh is a space gynecologist. This means that she is a gynecologist who specializes in medical care for astronauts. Science Focus, an online magazine that is part of BBC News, in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/20/A-Space-Gynecologist-Explains-How-Pregnancy-Might-Work-in-Space/That waters that surround Antarctica are trapped in place by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which encircles that continent and keep marine life inside isolated from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. Marine li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/20/Why-Sea-Creatures-in-Antarctic-Waters-Are-So-Weird/
