We know in our heads that the New Year is just a date on the calendar, the first date, actually, and holds no astronomical or religious significance. But we still have many superstitions around that date, most involving...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/26/What-iNoti-to-Eat-on-New-Years-Day/Embed from Getty ImagesScience fiction addressed our feelings about robots long before we actually had humanoid robots. The word itself came from the 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/26/Eric-the-Early-Humanoid-Robot/I can so relate to this. You love your family, and you love it when they come visit. At the same time, spending weeks getting the house cleaned and the pantry stocked only to see the house wrecked and the refrig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/26/When-the-Holiday-Celebration-is-Finally-Over/Claire Lamman is a graduate student in astronomy at Harvard University. So she's a genius. But she's also humble enough to describe herself as a "procrastibaker" -- someone who bakes in order to avoid academic work. Lam...
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