A church with ghosts, the spoiler as an industry, deepfakes with a single image, going around the world without planes, and Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Want more? There's much more! Just keep reading and let yourself be amazed by the best links, videos, and galleries of the week.
The Church of Ghosts: "Since the 'haunted' church of Luková (as it is popularly known) is full of ghosts, it has become a must-see place in the area. Visitors leave alms, which have served to fix it up little by little. And it celebrates 'normal' masses, although it might seem otherwise judging by its sordid appearance."
The Spoiler Industry. A Calculated Damage: "Let us not be naive: the spoiler is not just an act of vandalism nor a matter of bad manners. It is a true industry, but I had never imagined it was organized as such until a conversation with an important media manager that I had this weekend. It is a calculated act, with its timing, its means and its intentionality."
Now you can make fake videos of people with a single image: "If deepfakes were already scary enough, these videos generated from a single image are going to make you stop believing what your eyes see. They are called 'photorealistic talking heads' and have been created by three neural networks at Samsung's artificial intelligence lab in Moscow."
What's the fastest way to go around the world without airplanes?: "Let us leave London, like Verne's character, which also suits us very well because it has a nice high-speed train that connects it with the rest of Europe. From London to Brussels it takes just two hours on a Eurostar that leaves at 10 in the morning and 58 minutes. In the Belgian capital we will take another train that will take us to Cologne, and from there to Berlin, where we will arrive about nine and a half hours after leaving." Great article!
The Three Heroes of Chernobyl: "It is one of the best-known stories of our time: on April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded during a poorly executed safety test, as a consequence of 24 hours of reckless manipulations and more than two hundred violations of the Soviet Union's Nuclear Safety Regulations. These actions led to xenon poisoning of the core, leading to a neutron excursion followed by a power excursion that culminated in two large explosions at 1:24 a.m." For those watching the series.
Soviet Discos, a State Policy: "In one of the best and most impactful Russian films, Gruz 200, by Alexei Balabanov, the discos of the Soviet era appeared. They had a strange appeal and were undoubtedly one of the most striking elements of the film. A curious aspect, because places that in the West were associated with hedonism and ruin also had an important presence in Soviet territory. Of course, with its particularities."
Robert Recorde, inventor of the equal sign (=): "In addition to mathematics and medicine, Recorde was an excellent scholar of classical and medieval documents. He also participated in governmental affairs, such as at the Bristol Mint. In this performance, he ran into problems, as he refused to divert currency to the future Earl of Pembroke. The nobleman, indignant at the refusal, accused the mathematician of treason."
The geometry of an electron, determined for the first time: "Scientists on teams led by professors Dominik Zumbühl and Daniel Loss from the Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute at the University of Basel have now developed a method by which they can spatially determine the geometry of electrons in quantum dots."
Martin Rees: "For the first time, a small group of people can destroy Humanity": "At 76 years old, when most intellectuals flirt with writing their memoirs, he has just published an essay about a time that, apart from miracles, he will never be able to live. It is 'En el futuro' (Editorial Crítica), a treatise on the technological acceleration of our era: a revolution that can give birth to the brightest chapter of Humanity in the coming decades, but also end it."
To be happy you must learn to ignore many people: "The situations from which we should begin to give away our absence are varied. Normally we can easily recognize what disturbs us but it is possible that it takes us a while on other occasions. Knowing them will help us become aware of reality and can even help us anticipate these issues so that we can prevent them from hurting us more than the inevitable. That said, let's look more closely at what we must learn to ignore." Or, as we say in my neighborhood, "don't give fools a foothold".
Insomnia is a disgrace: What solutions does science propose?: "We have all spent some night with our eyes wide open, counting sheep or the cracks in the wall, unable to sleep while the rest of the neighborhood sleeps soundly... or so we believe. The truth is that more than 40% of the population claims to suffer from temporary insomnia symptoms and 10% suffer from chronic insomnia. So you are not the only person to whom, sometimes (or often), Morpheus keeps waiting."
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: "Just like the protagonist of Lewis Carroll's novel, people who suffer from Alice in Wonderland syndrome experience alterations in space-time, or at least that is what happens in their consciousness. Fortunately it is quite rare and, although extremely alarming, generally its evolution is benign and with complete recovery in weeks or months without sequelae, although it can recur after a latency period of years."
Videos
A camera in a sushi bar, after a year of learning a bot beats Arkanoid in 11 minutes, a flaming katana cutting things, montage of 80s movies, how an integrated circuit works, effects of atomic bombs (colorized), remix of the Game of Thrones intro, retro dance contest, neural network learning to master traffic, boiling an egg in cement, crow mocking a cat, almost dies, little dog statue, the perfect omelette made by a robot, "Rock, paper, scissors", kitten snoring, the helmet on backwards, don't argue with a taxi driver, do you like the little toy?, illusory makeups, the fire that freezes things, High Ping, dootdoot Band E1M1 DOOT, Metropolis (1927) in color, ALL this channel, commercial "Dungeons $ Dragons", the return of The Lonely Island, all the fatalities of Mortal Kombat 11, how to make a robot with a wooden clothespin, the short "Sleep Paralysis" and the great 3D short "Poilus" (thanks to José Carlos)
Galleries
The cyberpunk side of Tokyo, the city where everyone lives in the same building, Chernobyl before and after, Vampira, rare bicycles, backstage of legendary bands, 3D tattoo, a Porsche car worth 20 million dollars, the sculptures of Oliver Marinkoski, the seductive art of Dylan Kowalski, skull with feathers, birds with paper eyes, shiba inu puppies, a painted village, cinematic Tokyo, more photos of Jamie Lee, the strange portraits of Parker Day, Instagram vs reality, 3D art, wooden sculptures of multifaceted girls, and we close with the classics: Vertedero Animado de la Semana and the Tiradero Visual.
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