Loud wars, bloody shootings, forgotten dogs, McDonald's breasts and how to stop dying. Read on—I only get paid if you read the whole article. True story. Enjoy!
Chiller, el shooter más bizarro: "What's so controversial about Chiller? You only have to see it in action. It's an arcade game of the shoot 'em up genre, made of a cabinet armed with a shotgun. At first it might seem like the typical zombie-shooting arcade game and other monstrosities, but it's not; it's something much more unsettling. We take on the role of an executioner working in a gloomy castle, and before us we have four stages. Each of these stages is set in a part of the castle, starting with the torture chamber. There we see a horrifying scene made up of torture devices, some poor saps who will know what suffering is, and a good collection of severed limbs."
The noise wars: how the industry spent decades raising music volume at the cost of quality: "The sound quality of the recordings we consume is one of the great challenges we music enthusiasts face. It seems reasonable to assume that technological development should allow us to enjoy higher sound quality than in previous decades. And yes, from a strictly technical point of view it should be so. However, it isn't. Currently some recordings are produced with exceptionally careful sound capture, but this is not the norm. The music we consume on a massive scale does not usually offer us the best possible sound quality."
Reign In Blood, the Brutality Made Album by Slayer: "Slayer's masterpiece marked a before and after in the world of extreme metal and specifically the thrash metal genre. The Californian band gave a masterclass on how to create a sonic monster that would sweep everything in its path, leaving only a trail of corpses. For the result to be what it was, a series of circumstances had to come together that decisively influenced the final outcome of the work. On one hand, a Slayer thirsty for glory, with clear ideas about creating a devastating, devilish artifact at a speed never seen before, and on the other, producer Rick Rubin, who knew how to polish what was necessary to make something demonic in its strength and energy sound celestial."
The Dogs of the Endurance, Forgotten Heroes: He tells how the Irishman Tom Crean—a legendary officer for his key role in this and other historic expeditions (in the photo above, with the dogs, which he named Nelson, Nelly, Roger, and Toby)—'adopted' the puppies. But he wasn't the only one who appreciated the newcomers. "We all watched their antics with tender eyes and played with them at ease. I don't think there's a single crew member who doesn't enjoy their presence," notes O'Hara. The dogs were crucial for maintaining the crew's morale, which was as important as overcoming hunger and cold to survive those hardships that would last for months. Ernest Shackleton knew it well.
The Japanese 'Killer Stone' That Contained a Demon Has Broken, Here Is Its Story: "The fact that a stone breaks in Japan shouldn't be news, in the middle of 2022 between Omicron and a war in Ukraine. Maybe, yes, but after filomanas and volcanoes, telling us that a vengeful demon has been released sort of gives us the creeps. No, it's not that we believe in demons, we don't believe in those from our culture, let alone those from the other side of the world. But it's like when something bad happens to you on Friday the 13th, deep down you can't help but think the date had something to do with it. So now, everything that goes wrong in 2022 has a culprit, and its name is the murderous stone Sessho-seki."
Top 5: Weapons Used by Samurai: "We return to Japan, but this time not to talk about its culture (strictly speaking, although it does influence it) or its political conflicts. This time I bring you a small compilation of weapons that supported the Japanese army and the importance they have. Obviously, when talking about Japan, the typical wandering samurai comes to mind, carrying a katana and facing all kinds of situations with a cool mind without flinching in the face of fear. But before the arrival of that classic samurai, Japanese warriors went through many types of weapons, and even during the Sengoku Jidai, each samurai specialized in a style of fighting and handling weapons."
The Psychologist Who Convinced McDonald's to Use a Mother's Breasts as a Logo: "Many famous logos have hidden meanings. By now, we all know how to identify the hidden arrow in the FedEx logo, the negative C in the Carrefour logo, or the silhouette of the bear in Mount Toblerone. But did you know that the McDonald's logo symbolizes a mother's breasts? Okay. The McDonald's logo wasn't designed with boobs in mind, but the story has some truth. According to Snopes, it was a marketing psychology specialist who saw the relationship between the two images and convinced McDonald's to keep using the arches when the brand considered retiring them."
You Too Are a Victim of the Fundamental Attribution Error: "You left home with enough time, but a problem on the subway caused you considerable delay. Despite your explanations, the job interview lasted less than expected and, without a doubt, you were rejected for not arriving on time, even though it wasn't your fault. The interviewer has labeled you as unpunctual and you're out of the selection process. You've been a victim of the fundamental attribution error. The fundamental attribution error is a tendency to attribute internal causes—being unpunctual—to human actions, discarding external or situational factors—subway breakdown—in order to filter (and judge) reality more quickly, though often incorrectly."
What You See in This Image Is Not Stars or Galaxies, They Are Supermassive Black Holes: "The image may seem totally normal, as it seems to contain thousands of stars, but in reality they are supermassive black holes. Surprisingly, it's a sky map that shows more than 25,000 supermassive black holes. Each black hole is located in a different distant galaxy. An international group of astronomers published in early 2021 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics the sky map showing 25,000 black holes, positioning it as the most detailed ever produced in the field of so-called low radio frequencies. The map is the result of 256 hours of observations of the northern sky, using data from the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) in Europe."
These Eight Things Are Slowly Killing Us - If We Fix Them, We Could Live Forever: "In a way, with death we incur what is called the nominal fallacy: assuming we can explain something simply by giving it a name. For example, we call someone's behavior evil as if that explained it, when in reality we have a description disguised as an explanation. The same happens with old age or death. They are catch-all terms that describe but do not explain, because beneath them lies a myriad of different processes. Each with its own set of explanations. The good news is that if we learn to master them, we could live forever."
U2 at No. 1, the Woman Who Ordered the Songs and the Producer Who Almost Erased All the Tapes: "For a long time, the two producers alternated. One week Lanois, the other Eno. The idea was that new ideas would constantly appear and that the other would create from the other's work without being influenced by the intimacies of the process. One of Eno's most extreme ideas was to, without warning the rest, erase the tapes with months of work, to force them to start from scratch. He believed the album was coming along very well but that to access another, superior dimension, it needed deep rewriting work, not just correcting minor issues."
Fats Domino, Pioneer of Rock and Roll: "At age 10 he had his first contact with a piano. His brother-in-law, jazz musician Harrison Verrett, would teach him to play. By age 14 he was already performing in city bars, but the opportunity would come in 1947, when the director of the New Orleans Orchestra, Billy Diamond, agreed to audition him (he did it in his backyard during a barbecue). He did so well that Diamond immediately hired him for his band, Solid Senders, who played every day at Hideaway Club. It was at this moment that he changed his name to Fats, paying homage to pianists like Fats Walker and Fats Pichon (and also because of his voracious appetite)."
The original cast recording is now available to listen to!
Videos
Videos: The cow points the way, human hibernation, otters try sparkling water for the first time, updated Hot Wheels PC, world record for walking underwater on one breath, magic for nudists, can you draw this in a single line?, inside a creepy abandoned aquarium, the floaties, phone stuck inside guitar, tour of a gashapon store, rusty 1948 jeep on the street, the extravagant Metasepia pfefferi, beneath the Pacific Northwest, chance is impossible (at least in computers), crashes live on TV during a crash segment, Wii a cappella, the artist who turns cartoon characters into disturbing visions, Star Trek radio commercial from the 60s, interview with Bruce Lee, Two Minutes of Hate, and the shorts: Mathilda and the Spare Head, Bellatrix and Louise (animated).
Galleries
Galleries: The stage play of "Spirited Away", cinematic photos by Nariman Darbandi, the city of Mar del Plata in the 40s, sculptures of gods and monsters, Miss Queen of something, sandwich art, Soviet anti-religious propaganda, Budapest before the war, abstract comic illustrations, travel photography 2021, Sony World Photography Awards 2022 photos, after the Chernobyl disaster, puppies in wood, photos of India, nature photo awards, the Vertedero Animado and the Tiradero Visual de la Semana.
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