Banana candies, the beauty of entropy, becoming idiots, facts about pirates, and the "forms of thoughts" are part of this week's selection of Recommended Links. If you want more, keep reading. If not, then goodbye.
Entropy is everything: "Entropy does not have a single definition because it is used -and it is used because it appears- in many other branches of science with subtle variants. The first approximation, the most intuitive, is the one that presents it as a measure of the degree of disorder of a system. Obviously, therefore, it also serves to measure order. However, it is much more than that."
'Battlefield Earth', the story of the worst movie in history told by its screenwriter: "JD Shapiro only wanted to hook up, but he ended up making the worst movie in history. 'It was 1994 and I had read an article in Premier magazine that said the Celebrity Center, the epicenter of Scientology in Los Angeles, was a great place to meet women,' explained the Hollywood screenwriter in an article in the New York Post."
Thank you for everything, Mr. Pohl: "And among all the stories, I quickly chose as my favorite one titled 'The Fermi Paradox'. Its author? Of course you know the answer: Frederik Pohl. That story won a prestigious Hugo Award, but I didn't know that fact nor would I have cared if I had known. What was truly momentous for me is that it told impactful things and had action. What more could I ask?"
Political correctness will make us idiots, the Golliwogg affair: "Perhaps this story begins when political correctness was not talked about. In 1895, when British illustrator Florence Kate Upton made the drawings for The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg, a children's tale written by her mother. The Dutch dolls in question, cheap and very popular at the time, were made of wood and were sold naked so that children could make their clothes."
Raise children without limits, and they will "take your eyes out": "Educating means saying 'no' to requests that cannot or should not be carried out and teaching the child that sometimes you have to wait to get what you want. It also involves placing consequences on behaviors that need to be corrected and being consistent with the decisions that are made."
When your guard at Guantánamo prison becomes a friend: "They are trivial details of a traumatic and long experience in Guantánamo, but Salahi has the strength to remember them with laughter. Those anecdotes do not appear in the film The Mauritanian, released this Friday in theaters and platforms. The film is inspired by the book that Salahi himself wrote by hand from his cell."
Lies and clichés they told you about pirates: "Despite this, romantic authors created a multitude of stories of cruel or idealistic pirates but, regardless of the quality of the product, fictional pirates differed very little from each other. As in the other entries in the series, I review pirate clichés, pointing out their veracity. I also emphasize in the title the use of the cliché, because many of these clichés are not necessarily false, but absurdly generalized."
History of "Madness"; mental illnesses as a new pandemic: "In Antiquity we could summarize that madness was considered a sacred matter. The benevolent gods and the evil ones (demons) punished the 'mortals' (people) with those alienated traits as revenge against them. Thus, madness was a way of warning the rest that they could also be punished if they did not show respect toward those gods."
The bat towers, a doctor's fight to eradicate malaria: "With a personal investment of $500, Campbell built the first house for bats -a 9-meter-high tower, which he called 'The Monument'- in 1907 at the United States Experimental Farm, near San Antonio (Texas). Inside, a series of inclined shelves allowed bats to perch, and on the interior walls 20 meters of oakum covered with guano were hung so that the bats would feel at home."
Divine glimmers: the strange book that drew the "forms of thoughts": "The book that drew the 'forms of thoughts' states that the 'quality' of thoughts influences the vital experience of their creator, and that they can affect other people. The authors confess that they, like many Theosophists, are convinced that 'thoughts are things', and therefore the task of their book is to help the reader understand this."
The romantic and adventurous life of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the "hero of two worlds" who unified Italy and fought in South America: "There is no case in which the appearance of a public figure in Britain, native or foreign, has produced a deeper or more universal enthusiasm." Thus commented the London correspondent of The New York Times on the arrival in London on April 16, 1864.
The curious reason why banana candies don't taste like banana, but like pear and an extinct banana: "Probably at some point you have put a banana candy or gummy in your mouth and thought that it doesn't resemble the taste of a real banana at all. The cause of that difference is a long story involving British pears, a plague, and a variety of banana that is almost extinct today."
Videos
Do bulletproof wallets work?, guard dog sleeps during robbery drill, crushing bulletproof glass, cooking a chicken with slaps, Danish girl from 1969, "We Will Rock You" - Dixieland Edition, the curious world of animals, catches thief with glitter trap, unlocking your phone's lasers, clean chimpanzee, sixty songs from 1997 in three and a half minutes, a $5,000 cello and another worth a million, engineer explains different roller coasters, racist aliens, kitten uses a towel, Camaro almost flies, and the two horror shorts: "Meet Jimmy" and "The Nurturing"
Galleries
Design buildings shaped like everyday things, mix two characters into one, Soviet pin-up posters, the spirit of post-apocalypse, Sotoko's minimalist portraits, terrifying dioramas, still life photographs, the winners of World Nature Photography, fashion and nature, Rosso's portraits, Gerard Mas sculptures, tilt-shift photographs of Russia, pre-revolution Iranian posters, cartoon illustrations, glass spiders, photographs of old crime scenes in Los Angeles, the horrendous illustrations of Amin Montazeri, mobile phone photo awards, World Photo winners, the Vertedero Animado and the Tiradero Visual.
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