Cemetery soil, how to find your long-lost twin, stealing the Mona Lisa, who's better: cats or dogs according to Lovecraft, and the wars of the future. All that, and much more, Toothless included, in this week's recommended links. Don't miss them!
This Week's Recommended Links
Google nukes the business of a Spanish indie developer by deeming his account "contaminated": "The closure of the company's account means that all the apps disappear from the Play Store: no user can download them, with the consequent slowdown in advertising revenue, and those who already have them installed cannot update. Google has also suspended his advertising account, which is managed by another department (AdMob), and the installed apps don't show ads. Pablo also isn't sure if he'll get what they owed him." Terrifying.
Cemetery soil for healing diseases - Science confirms the truth of an ancient Irish belief: "Traditionally, old folk remedies are not taken seriously by medical professionals and researchers. However, some scientists are looking at these remedies with fresh eyes, believing that some of them could hold the key to fighting infections and deadly diseases. In Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, there are real hopes that an old folk remedy could help in the fight against drug-resistant bacteria and viruses."
How to find your long-lost twin on the Internet: "Reverse image search has been around for a while, but if you're among the 92% of people who use Google for their queries, you may have noticed that the results have gotten worse over the years. Like Facebook, Google has been self-censoring to avoid exposing the privacy of people who post their photos without realizing they are being indexed."
Intermittent fasting: what this weight-loss strategy consists of and what science says about it: "According to the latest and most important meta-analyses, fasting is a very useful tool in nutrition. Under this premise, dietary strategies such as intermittent fasting emerge. What use do they have and what are they based on? Scientific evidence supports the usefulness of fasting in many cases."
Damn Milo Manara: " Here lies, unmistakable, Gullivera, the nine-meter woman, at the exact moment the potion makes her tiny. With her petticoat hiked up, further down, the imperious body of Molly Mallone is ready to devour any Irishman. The dancer Beatriz dances around, naked, all leg and all sex. Females drawn with the perfection of the impossible, with a resemblance that is absolutely not coincidental, because they are Manara's ten thousand women, or perhaps just one. The disturbance is noticeable from the street."
The most important theft in history: the Mona Lisa: "An Italian, Vincenzo Peruggia, a worker who had worked for the museum installing the glass door that protected the work, took it out of there without much trouble. The museum was closed, but Peruggia was dressed as if he were going to work there, as he had done before, and thanks to the appropriate clothing and his knowledge of the place and its customs, he was able to unhook the painting, remove it from the frame, hide it under his clothes, and walk out."
Interview between Shigeru Miyamoto and Hayao Miyazaki (1992): "In June 1992, Family Computer Magazine (Fami-maga) published a conversation between Nintendo video game designer and producer Shigeru Miyamoto and Studio Ghibli founder and animation film director Hayao Miyazaki. This conversation took place during the completion of the production of Porco Rosso, which would premiere in Japan on July 18 of that year. Unfortunately, the discussion did not cross Japanese borders and, with the end of Fami-manga due to the popularization of its competitor Famitsū, it had little chance of resurfacing."
Gatos y perros: H.P. Lovecraft; essay and analysis: "In Gatos y perros, H.P. Lovecraft takes sides in one of humanity's oldest and most absurd disputes: the difference between dogs and cats, and which of these two species is the better pet. H.P. Lovecraft's position is vehement — and can be clearly seen in The Cats of Ulthar —: for elegance, discretion, refinement, for that carefree association with the night, cats are superior. The truth is that the master of Providence disliked dogs, and he does not hesitate to describe them as creatures devoid of all grace"
This is how the wars of the future will be: the robotization of armies: "A war that, if it occurs on a large scale, could be humanity's last, or penultimate, but which will most likely be framed, or frames, in the not-so-fiction so masterfully described by George Orwell in 1984: marginal wars in those territories that have not managed to become a superpower. Whether marginal or global, the truth is that we already have enough evidence to suggest that the wars of the future will be, at least, robotized. As if they were factories, humans will cede competencies to machines."
Black pudding with human blood: the extravagant "vegan" recipe dreamed up in a town in Teruel: "His name is Raúl Escuín, he is 30 years old, he lives in the small town of Alloza (Teruel) and he is becoming famous for his strange "vegan" recipe, which consists of making black pudding with human blood. He has put the idea into practice and it has been recorded in a video that has been circulating on social media for days."
Women and poison in Ancient Rome: "The slave then revealed to them that behind the deaths were a group of matrons who devoted themselves to making powerful poisons to later supply to their victims. Moreover, in the face of doubts from some conscript fathers, she stated that at that precise moment the culprits were gathered preparing their potions, and that if they accompanied her they could catch them "with their hands in the dough."
How old did hunter-gatherers live to be?: "According to some experts, making this type of calculation based on the age of death of the few available human remains carries a great risk of error, since they may not be representative. For this reason, it is sometimes proposed to use as a reference the data of current peoples who have maintained isolated, primitive, and possibly similar ways of life to those supposedly led in those times." Thanks José Carlos for the link! Very interesting.
Videos
How to make a guitar with pencils, humming, famous cars, the best wife in the world, people delivering packages, will everything burst?, how NOT to cut a dead tree, how a Tesla is made, can a camera film its own destruction?, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, GIANT hamburgers, Horizon at Epcot Center, storm in the middle of the sea, cats get scared, Triangulum galaxy in super detail, non-Euclidean world generator, dog responds to Harry Potter spells, excellent helicopter rescue, light zoetrope, the otaku cumbia, ode to coffee, mattress fails, how much weight can sports balls support, robot fails, Comfortably Numb and Hotel California Live on harp guitar, a year of winds over the Atlantic in time-lapse, Danger Zone (FLOPPOTRON), snail laying eggs, and the shorts The Candlelight Witch, Face Swap, In a Nutshell, and Nerf Wild West.
Galleries
LSD blotter designs, psychedelic advertisements, It's not Skyrim (it's the real world), dogs with celebrity faces, the dark art of Vergvoktre, animals having a rough day, truly terrifying, people selling mirrors, cat without eyes, weird people in the Russian subway, depression, popcorn beach, the window cameos from the Batman series, EXCELLENT Junji Ito cosplay, the Vertedero Animado and the Tiradero Visual. Don't miss anything!
