You might recall the story of Ellen Sadler, the English girl who became famous for sleeping nine years straight. That was nothing compared to Sweden's Karolina Olsson, who went to bed and woke up 32 years later! Olsson d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/04/The-Woman-Who-Slept-for-32-years-Or-Did-She/Books for Cooks is a unique bookstore in the Notting Hill neighborhood of London. The two walls are lined with shelves of cookbooks--one half by subject and the other by country. In the back is a small kitchen. Sinc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/04/This-Cookbook-Focused-Bookstore-Tries-the-Recipes-on-Its-Shelves/Atlas Obscura explains that in Ming and Qing Dynasty China (1368-1911), physicians could not directly examine the bodies of upper class women. Even directly speaking about the bodily conditions was unacceptable, so the w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/04/Chinese-Medicine-Dolls-Once-Allowed-Women-to-Discreetly-Communicate-Their-Needs-with-Doctors-Or-Are-a-Historical-Myth/The subject of Tom Scott's latest video is why TV and video advertising is so loud. But that question isn't even addressed until about five minutes in, because first we have to define our terms. If a tree falls in the fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/04/Loudness-is-All-in-Your-Head/In the 15th century, Tenochtitlan was the largest city in the Americas, with a population of more than 200,000 people, more than most European capitals of the time. The city was built on an island in Lake Texcoco, surrou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/04/A-Visual-Reconstruction-of-Tenochtitlan-the-Capital-of-the-Aztec-Empire/
