Giant explosions, the reason we suffer depression, the Chernobyl fungus, life without a brain, and the next Carrington Event. That, and more, only for the brave who keep reading and aren't afraid to learn something while having fun with viral videos and galleries everywhere.
The five most powerful non-nuclear explosions in history: "A few hours later, the fire spread over the explosive boxes and completely covered the dry cargo ship. The port buildings also caught fire. Soon the first explosion occurred, which tore off the bow of the ship. The second explosion was even bigger, with flames and smoke that rose almost a kilometer and incendiary fragments that fell from the sky, setting fire to nearby buildings and other ships in the port."
Could a new Carrington Event be 'imminent' and this threat underestimated?: "But from a civil protection point of view, we know that before we thought we had only one Carrington-type phenomenon in the last 250 years, and now there are credible indications that we have actually probably had three. Likewise, we cannot reliably project what the return period of the next extreme solar event of Carrington type that reaches us will be."
Why did humans evolve to suffer depression?: "If we go back to Darwin's theory of natural selection, it must be mentioned that, broadly speaking, the individuals who are most fit have a greater potential for survival, therefore, if with each passing generation humans evolve to become more perfect versions, why have we evolved to continue suffering depression, something that consumes us deeply?"
This is the fungus from the Chernobyl reactor that doesn't die and feeds on radiation: "In 1991, scientists found strange fungi growing on the walls of the Chernobyl reactor (Ukraine), which puzzled them due to the extreme and strong radiation environment inside. As a result of their research, they discovered that the fungi were not affected by radiation and, curiously, were attracted to it."
What pollutes less, downloading torrents or watching Netflix?: "Our activity on the Internet has a carbon footprint. Sending an email emits 4 grams of CO2 into the atmosphere, and if it has an attachment, the figure rises to 50 grams. This figure is obtained by calculating the equivalent energy consumption of sending an email by the parties involved: the user's computer, the network servers needed to store it, the energy consumption of the network nodes to transfer it, etc. However, what consumes more energy, watching something on Netflix or downloading a torrent?"
Life without a brain is possible: "Although some may lead a normal life without a brain, for the rest of us the possibility is fascinating given the importance of the organ to the organism. We already saw how decerebration served as the basis for the analogy of boiled frogs but, as we will see below, this technique was not limited to amphibians."
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World was much more than simply happy, the perfect socioeconomy could not get out of control: "And on a more socioeconomic and social engineering level (real social), one could think that the proportion of alienated minds performing jobs for which they are overqualified may have societies in which it becomes unsustainable. This point could end up causing potential and severe social impacts, and that the unhappiness that it produces in part of the labor mass could encourage social discontent with the system, and even popular uprisings."
Pornography does not cause sexual aggression: "Although very popular, the idea that pornography causes sexual aggression or that it is a factor in male violence lacks empirical support. Since at least 1999, we have evidence that access to pornography not only does not cause an increase in sexual aggression, but, on the contrary, correlates with a dramatic reduction in sexual crimes."
The terrible business of guns for American society: "And guns are perhaps one of the clearest examples of the madness of an economic system where corporate profits are prioritized over the well-being of citizens. Because in exchange for those $10 billion in sales, in the US there are more than 300,000 hospital admissions each year for gunshot wounds."
A giant cannibal owl 40,000 years old: "Researchers from Argentina and Ecuador presented a new species of fossil owl that fed on various mammals and birds, in particular smaller owls. It exceeded one and a half meters in wingspan. It was found in the Ecuadorian Andes, 2,800 meters above sea level, being the first of its kind discovered in South America."
Miyawaki reforestation method makes trees grow 10 times faster: "A method to grow forests that would normally take 100 years, in just 10 years. With this reforestation method, trees grow 10 times faster than monocultures. This method was born from the concern of a Japanese man during the 70s. He observed that forests in Japan were extremely flammable and with many weaknesses."
Brain effects of video games: do they turn us into zombies or superheroes?: "It has been shown that action video games have the most cognitive benefits. Playing this type of video game improves different types of attention (including sustained, selective, and divided) and increases efficiency in controlling this ability. It also increases the speed at which people process information, allowing greater responsiveness in situations of pressure."
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