Silicon Valley's labor feudalism, Gaudí's geometry, the terror of masturbation, cannibals and surreal nature. If you want more, you'll have no choice but to keep reading. That's just how it is. I don't make the rules. Enjoy it!
Free food, pool tables and daycare – Silicon Valley exports labor feudalism
"From that moment on, I began to realize that the company behaved like a feudal lord who graciously granted a nobility of tech workers his protection and privileges above the common people who lived outside the walls. The company provided labor benefits that far exceeded the realm of work and, in return, imposed internal rules that somehow replaced the judicial system."
"Geometry is at the center of Gaudí's legacy. The Catalan architect wasn't known for his mathematical training, but throughout the Sagrada Família, Park Güell and his other modernist works, the presence of mathematical forms and numerical relationships is constant, the result of personal interest and deep study during his student days of the use of curves in architecture."
"The concern about masturbation is ancient. The Greek Hippocrates of Cos, believing that semen came from the spinal cord, feared that excessive lust would trigger mental illness. However, concern began to grow with the publication and success of Onania (1712-16) in the Netherlands, which influenced Samuel Auguste Tissot's L'Onanisme (1760), considered an authority on the subject by authors such as Kant and Voltaire."
50 of the world's most surreal natural phenomena finally explained
"Even if traveling isn't a viable option right now, we can see some of the tremendous things that happen and go beyond the hand of man. You may be left open-mouthed seeing how everything we're about to show you is possible, but don't worry. We have all the explanations for some of nature's greatest mysteries."
"Dreams are neurobiological machines that simulate possible futures"
"There is a level where sleep is important for health from a purely biological point of view. Sleep detoxifies the brain, consolidates memories, allows erasing what must be forgotten, allows transforming what exists to generate new ideas... But there is a higher level where sleep is a narrative, a story; it is not something that simply happens at the level of neurons but at the level of an emergent property of neurons which is consciousness."
The curious relationship between brain size and yawns
"The researchers collected data on a total of 1,291 yawns in their trips to the zoo and also from videos, covering a total of 55 mammalian species and 46 bird species. They thus found 'strong positive correlations' between the animals' yawn duration and their brain size."
"The so-called bible of Nazism stated that the 'natural duty' of the Aryan woman was in the domestic, private sphere, being a diligent mother and wife of the Aryan man. That relegated women from political -public- matters and bound them to a more than secondary role; it was something like a reproductive tool without any starring role in other fundamental occupations, essential tasks in a society such as its control and governance."
"Television is one of the least discussed aspects of Nazi Germany's media. Although German television services are considered pioneers in some issues, the truth is that they had a very brief existence and their influence was limited due to the small audience they had. The situation generated by World War II also had a negative influence, limiting its activity."
If cooking made man, what about cooking men?
"Between these man-eating zombies and the hunger-driven cannibalism of Homo antecessor, pre-humans separated from us by 800,000 years, lies a long history of crimes and subsequent feasts in which the motivations have been the mere nutritional contribution for survival, the ritual act based on the belief that certain viscera were repositories of the victim's courage or strength, the possibility of obtaining some economic resource by cooking and selling pieces of the deceased."
Into the unknown: the tenth recovery of a Falcon 9 first stage
"The Block 5 was built to carry out up to one hundred missions, with intensive maintenance every ten missions. However, it is to be expected that the B1051, or other of its sisters, will continue launching as if nothing in order to find out the limits of the design. The Starlink missions are serving SpaceX as a perfect testbed to verify the reliability of the Falcon 9."
Joe Kieyoomia, the Navajo who survived in Nagasaki thanks to the walls of his cell
"His was dramatic like the most over-the-top movie that could be made: a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II and locked in a dungeon whose thick walls, ironically, saved his life in August 1945; the cell was, yes, in the city of Nagasaki, where the second atomic bomb was dropped."
The Soviet boycott of the 1984 Games cost McDonald's millions
"The promotion was structured around scratch cards given to customers with each order during the promotion period. When scratched, those cards showed a specific competition. And it was for that competition that the medals and prizes came into play. For example, if your card under the scratch said 100 meters, when Carl Lewis won gold with his 9.99 seconds, you got a free Big Mac."
Videos: Nuclear bomb on the Moon, "The Phantom of the Opera" on The Floppotron, gorilla mom and human mom, raccoon gets in through the roof, wild animals crossing in slow motion, Resident Evil Village (PS1 Demake), chased by a coconut, Thundercats Intro in 8K, mental flamethrower, Harry Potter and the Impossible Piano, weatherwoman uses a mistake to laugh, petting a VR cat, building metal structures in first person (Vancouver, Canada), more stories from the 11foot8+8 bridge, making music with a skateboard and a barcode reader, Rebecca Black keeps racking up hits, drone flies inside Etihad Stadium, and the shorts: Weakness of the Flesh, Dr. Bees Returns and the first episode of Bucketheads (Star Wars Fan Series).
Galleries: Ronan Le Fur's science fiction concepts, a photo session of Salvador Dalí, the girl on a motorcycle who was an old oriental man, portraits with animal eyes, TV characters turned into anime, beautiful fungi formations, Natalia Ershova's Soviet pin-ups, Postmodern Ouroboros, these movie posters tell you the whole story, restored Apollo photos, rare polka record covers, the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump of the Week.
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