In this week's compilation of recommended links, you'll find what's in a vacuum, lies about porn, death by cyber attack, fake reviews, and the communist superheroine, along with viral videos, horror shorts, and amazing galleries.
What's in a vacuum?: the quantum experiment that measured what's in 'nothing': Scientists have already managed to detect these particles, but now an experiment from the Institute of Quantum Electronics in Austria claims to have measured for the first time the fluctuations that these particles generate in 'empty' space. It's as if we already 'felt' that there is a ghost, but we finally managed to see the white trail it leaves behind.
The 11 worst lies about sex that porn makes men believe: Nearly half of teenagers get information about sex on the Internet, where online porn generates millions of contents periodically, and its consumption happens at increasingly earlier ages. It's not the best school: young people who are shaping their sexuality find fictional content designed to satisfy male fantasies. That will create false and even harmful expectations that they will carry into adulthood. The Huffington Post has brought together its protagonists, porn actors and actresses, to pull back the curtain and reveal the tricks of their trade.
'Load quotes quotes', when loading a video game took half an hour, Mirindas and medialunas: The point was to play. To have fun. The same goal as many of today's children and young people. But before there were no consoles or phones. The word 'instant' was rarely used. Patience, now a gift, used to be a must. Games were not downloaded; they were on cassette tapes. Computers didn't include monitors; you had to connect them to analog televisions. You had to negotiate with the adults for the use of the TV, because homes generally only had one stupid box.
George Orwell's fascism prophecies: The reprint of Jack London's 'The Iron Heel' brings within reach a book that has been much sought after during the years of fascist aggression. Like Jack London's other books, it has been widely read in Germany, and has had the reputation of being an accurate prediction of Hitler's arrival. In reality, it's not that. It's simply a tale of capitalist oppression, and it was written at a time when several things that made fascism possible - for example, the tremendous revival of nationalism - were not easy to foresee.
Is it possible to kill via a cyber attack?: In 2008, Popular Science magazine revealed that a team of researchers from the universities of Washington and Massachusetts had managed to hack into a pacemaker and remotely manipulate some of its functions. In theory, it would be possible to stop it or speed it up until it kills its wearer. And no, it's not exclusively a science fiction matter. Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the Wi-Fi connection of his pacemaker – a technology that allows doctors to detect possible problems immediately – to be disabled to prevent such situations.
How Horror works, and why few authors know how to use it: In the book: Introduction to Fantastic Literature (Introduction à la littérature fantastique), the philosopher Tzvetan Todorov reaches an interesting conclusion about it. Based mainly on the best Gothic novels of the eighteenth century, as well as the great ghost stories of the nineteenth century, Todorov finds a rare ingredient in fiction, but essential for Horror, and he calls it Uncertainty. This means that all the elements that make up a work of Horror, whether fantastic or not, must recreate in the reader a period of Uncertainty; that is, of hesitation or ambiguity about what is happening. This is necessary because Horror, in any of its formats, is essentially a rupture with the natural, or at least with the conventions of everyday life.
They pay me to write fake reviews: this is the business that questions the reliability of online ratings: They charge the company between 6 and 5.25 € per review, that is, after discounting our €2, they pocket a profit of between €4 and €3.25 for each one. Simply for being intermediaries between the company and the 'reviewer'. That is, if a company orders 20 reviews we earn €40, but they keep the €65 difference. They only ask us for an email linked to a PayPal (I imagine to avoid issuing invoices or reporting to the tax office), which is enough for them to fully include us in the program. They sent us an email with 'the first review order'.
When aerial combat was fought by insulting each other and throwing whatever was at hand: As time passed, pilots and observers began to carry small arms during observation flights, in case they encountered the enemy doing the same task. And that's how the first aerial combats were born. In those early months of the war, one could occasionally see over the skies of Europe observation planes shooting at each other with pistols and rifles or throwing any other object they had at hand - even ropes to get tangled in the enemy's propeller - as happened in August 1914.
A 'hard drive' that will store information for millennia, created with organic molecules: That's why scientists are being inspired by nature to find new methods to store data; and, in the case of the latest study from Harvard University, they are trying with organic molecules. If you think about it, it makes sense. Thanks to organic molecules we have some idea of what life was like millions of years ago. Another great advantage is the available space.
A plan to decipher gravitational waves with home PCs: Assistant professor at West Virginia University, Zachariah Etienne, leads what will soon become a global computing effort by amateur astrophysics volunteers. The public will be invited to lend their own computers to help the scientific community discover the secrets contained in gravitational waves observed when black holes crash.
Operation Trust: Operation Trust was a counterintelligence operation by the KRO, the Counterespionage Department of the OGPU (Unified State Political Directorate), the Soviet secret police led by Felix Dzerzhinsky, a huge living organ composed of thousands of watchful eyes that scrutinized the steps of counterrevolutionaries, spies, saboteurs and speculators. This operation consisted of creating a false anti-Bolshevik organization, the 'Monarchist Union of Central Russia' (MUCR), in order to attract, capture and eliminate counterrevolutionary agents, and infiltrate the monarchist organizations of Russian emigrants and the foreign intelligence services that collaborated with them.
The other Wonder Woman - Octobriana, the communist superheroine: . It wasn't until 1971 that they had their first great superheroine, a kind of Red Wonder Woman, the powerful Octobriana, also known as 'The White Dragon', 'the white-faced girl who comes from the sky' or 'the mother of the seven red stars'. Radioactivity, as a nod to the atomic panic, was present in her origin. She became all-powerful due to the radiation suffered inside a volcano, from which she emerged changed. She was wild and primitive, a space traveler armed with an old Smith & Wesson revolver, a knife, and a necklace of shark teeth that can detect radiation.
VIDEOS: What emotions do the 7 modal scales produce? The goat in the cave, burning a Bugatti on a scale, slow motion in 4K, tornado in Romania, praying mantis eats lobster, a system for those who can't take their eyes off their phone, the richest people in the world, absolutely great AMIGA demo in 1MB, how to impress a woman, how to evade camera recognition, all the Alien shorts, the oceanic world, a reverb flute, NuBike bicycle, stupid accident, cat attacks its reflection, Guinness records of April 2019, police in virtual reality, shark swallows camera, disappearing a Rubik's cube, sand art, paragliding in tornado, Game of Thrones intro with Oreo cookies, how hard can you hit a golf ball, tornado filmed by a drone, octopus changes glass for seashell, musical instrument with marbles, the evil door, an egg without shell developing a chick, THE COMPLETE ALIEN WORK OF THE TEENS FROM THE USA SCHOOL, and the horror short DRIP.DRIP
GALLERIES: What it's like to suffer a stroke, prank boxes from Amazon, the only photo of Einstein with his famous equation, how a religious library censors art books, Avengers in Ukiyo-e style, a cardboard war tank, the fantastic art of Luisa Azevedo, films in GIF, hairstyles from 1950, Beauty Warriors, British gardens of 1908 in autochrome, looking up in a forest, samurais and, to finish, the Animated Dump and the incomparable the Visual Dump
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