Force hysteria, nudity in cinema, 100 famous old photographs, and the best 35 horror film soundtracks are just a few of the lovely things you’ll find if you keep reading. Make some time and enjoy this edition of Recommended Links of the Week.
What a warrior’s backpack reveals about the greatest battle of the Bronze Age: “A team of researchers reveals the discovery of 31 very well-preserved objects at the bottom of the river, including three bronze cylinders that appear to be the closures of an organic container, which would be the personal backpack of one of the warriors fallen in combat in this place in northern Europe.”
35 horror film soundtracks: “Horror movie soundtracks have changed the world like a virus. They have established and maintained a culture around analog synthesizers, providing generations with dissonant portals to the intoxicating composition of the 20th century. (...) To celebrate that interest, we have selected the best horror film soundtracks.”
The innovative 3D orange juicer that prints bioplastic cups from leftover orange peels: “This prototype juicer, designed in collaboration with the energy company Eni, is a 3-meter-tall orange juicer crowned with a dome. This dome is made up of several round racks that can hold up to 1,500 oranges. The base of the machine is installed with a 3D printer.”
The daily life of Tommaso Buscetta, the greatest traitor to the mafia in its entire history: “His testimony served to imprison more than four hundred Sicilian mafiosi of Cosa Nostra, many of the bosses ended up with life sentences. That of Tommaso Buscetta was the greatest betrayal in the history of the mafia and facilitated the Maxiprocesso, however, living the rest of his life under false identities, unable to work and having to move every three years plunged him into depression and affected his family, who had to follow him from city to city maintaining anonymity and their secret.”
Anecdotes from the history of chess: “Chess maintains a rather sordid relationship with alcohol. In principle, we might think alcohol clouds reasoning, which would be fatal for any chess player. However, for many of them, drink seemed to suit them wonderfully for their duels at the board. Such was the case of the strong British player Joseph Blackburne, nicknamed “Black Dead” (the Black Death).”
The 100 most famous old photographs in history: “The history of humanity is full of incredible moments, many of them captured by the lens of some photographer achieving iconic images that still surprise us today. Looking back and contemplating past events is a necessary exercise from which we must learn, because unfortunately the past tends to repeat itself more than we would like. Great dignitaries who changed the geopolitical map, tragedy of war or humanity born from the heat of battle, don’t miss these 100 historical images.”
Solar energy will make humanity richer than ever: “The valleys fill, not only with water, but, much more importantly, with fertile mud. The seeds of mutated cereals do not disperse through the air but remain on the plant or fall to the ground beneath the stem. Humans rehearse, test and soon learn to plant, care for and collect the seeds. They have learned to capture the energy of the sun!”
‘Joker’ and the construction of the monster, from canonical tragic clowns and real assassins: “The story of ‘Joker’ as a film that goes beyond superhero cinema, which even its creators have sold, belongs to a commercial and marketing movement. This does not mean that the film does not have an exquisite value as an independent film, but it is, above all, a film in the DC universe. And therefore it relies on the mythology of Gotham and the history of Batman to tell an origin story in a surprising way.”
Hibernation or suspended animation in space travel: “Although the term ‘hibernation’ and its possible use both in medicine and space travel has been public knowledge for some time, the reality of the application of this technology may vary a bit in real life. Without denying the extraordinary benefit it provides in some cases such as organ transplantation, the true use on the crew of a spacecraft on a long journey still depends on several factors, the first and most important being the revival of the first human being on Earth after having remained in a state of hibernation.”
Nudity in cinema - Actresses and actors who dared to break the taboo and censorship: “Hedy Lamarr walks through a rugged environment and enters the water. She wears no clothes. She floats, uninterested, on her back, doing the dead man’s float. The film would have gone unnoticed without that decision, without that scene. The Czech director Gustav Machaty broke a taboo, shattered a barrier and dared to do what few: he dared to show his actress’s naked body.”
Discovery of a new asteroid “potentially dangerous” for Earth: “Identified on September 23, SU3 2019 is a rock about 14 meters in diameter. According to ESA, the probability of the asteroid hitting us is 1 in 147. And it will do so within 65 years -specifically on September 16, 2084-. Although it may seem like a long time, plans to divert asteroids from their impact trajectory with Earth can take years.”
Hysterical strength, the power of the mind that turns you into a superhero: “In 2006, in Tucson (Arizona) an ordinary man named Tim Boyle saw a Chevrolet Camaro run over a cyclist, who was trapped under the wheels. He ran to the scene and lifted the car long enough for its driver to pull the victim out from underneath. The same year, Lydia Angyiou in Quebec saw a polar bear charge at her son who was playing hockey. This woman threw herself on the bear and fought with it long enough for a neighbor to kill the animal.”
Videos: a nuclear bomb in the city, Halloween makeup, Star Wars anime, from the sky to a sofa, a robotic hand solves a Rubik’s cube, guilty dogs, Homer time-lapse video, night landing in 4K, a roller coaster of emotions, a dog helps its human, a Tesla car saves bears, robotic assembly, world record in crashing, a fish in outer space, the smallest monkey, big cats vs boxes, watermelon water, Pokémon in 35,592 dominoes, how to install drywall, facial projector, crossing a narrow channel, a pelican wants fried fish, the music of 1981, Intel vs AMD: who makes the best pancakes, a mother scares her children to death, the vocal cords of beatboxers, leaves a recording to be played at his funeral and..., helps a wolf spider, a tribute to the Joker and the short Palm Rot.
Galleries: Few but good. The best photographers of the Eyeem Awards 2019, old photos of New York, Halloween costumes from the 1950s-60s, painting satellite dishes, sculptures of rotten fruits with gems, temple of kittens, wild photography, typewriters, Vertedero Animado and Tiradero Visual.
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