Survival guide against alien invasions, Kubrick explaining the ending of 2001, a USB in the penis and pain, that strange engine that moves the world... Yes, you read that right, a USB in the penis: "Johnny, people are very crazy"
Survival Guide - Alien Invasions: "There are not a few who believe that upon finding extraterrestrial life, all our human problems will take a back seat. There is hope that by realizing we are not alone in the universe, we will transcend beyond our current limitations, knowing that we are part of something much greater than ourselves. Well, if you'll forgive my skepticism, nonsense! If aliens are like the ones we knew thanks to Hollywood, the chances of that happening are minimal. Come, keep reading and wise up, we need a resistance!" An EXCELLENT article I wrote in 2009, humility aside.
From 2D to 3D, how the video game went from imagination to only valuing numbers: "Have you ever wondered why there are so many games in recent years whose palette is poop brown? Do you think 2D games were much more imaginative than today's mainstream 3D games? Well, you're in luck, because that's what we've come to talk to you about today: how the video game industry ruined everything." Re fundamentalist, but I adhere.
"I need you to undress an employee," how dozens of managers at McDonalds were fooled with a macabre prank: "Perfectly normal people can exhibit completely unexpected behavior in a given situation. Experiments like Milgram's or Zimbardo's fictional prison corroborate this. Also the gruesome real case that took place in the United States a few years ago. Milgram said that an individual's personality cannot be used to predict their behavior if they find themselves in a situation where they don't know any of the basic rules."
Stanley Kubrick explained the enigmatic ending of '2001: A Space Odyssey' in a newly discovered unusual interview: "Wonderful. I think with the few clues he leaves, it's now easy to understand everything that happens in the movie and what wasn't very clear before. Actually, he doesn't say anything especially surprising; anyone who has seen the movie a couple of times and has a little imagination (or has read science fiction) can guess what Stanley Kubrick intended to capture. Personally, the only detail that caught my attention is the zoo idea; it seems brilliant to me." Now you have an explanation for that beautiful intergalactic fetus.
The cat that 'showed' Nikola Tesla electricity and other stories from his childhood: "In that familiar and rural environment, Tesla, the fourth of five siblings, had his first contact with electricity that he would later 'domesticate' when he was only 3 years old. And he did it thanks to his cat Mácak, a feline for which he had a special fondness. Tesla recounts that on a dry day, with his pet's fur charged with static electricity, he saw sparks appear when he stroked its back. That would mark him forever. He related it in a letter dedicated to Pola Fotic, daughter of the Yugoslav ambassador to the United States, in 1939."
A teenager plugs a USB cable into his penis: "Adolescence is a time when you have to experiment and seek new experiences. Normally that translates into the first binges, the discovery of masturbation, and celebrating any groping with the opposite sex like Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates a Golden Ball. However, there are some who take these matters a little further. To the final frontier, boldly going where no man has gone before. Or where no USB has gone." This is true virtual sex, not like you guys who are a bunch of wimps. But, ouch.
How the microwave really affects your food: "You may use your microwave daily to heat food, or perhaps you're on the opposite side, those who avoid its use because 'it destroys vitamins and the nutritional value of food'. What truth and myth is there in such a claim? This is precisely what the latest piece from the SciShow folks is about, who go on to break down what studies have found out about using the microwave as a home oven. The short answer is yes."
The Black Death - The Deadliest Pandemic of All Time: "It's more than certain that at some point in our lives we have heard about the Black Death, also called bubonic plague, an infectious disease causing one of the most disastrous pandemics in human history, responsible for the annihilation of a large part of the medieval European population. The Black Plague ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1400, being the deadliest pandemic of all. It was the last straw in a society that at the time faced a severe economic and social crisis where misery and famine prevailed."
What happens to your body when you work the night shift and sleep during the day: "In recent decades we have had difficulties in knowing whether illness and night shift were effectively related because, except in a few professions, night work goes hand in hand with low socioeconomic status. And inequality has a lot to say in health. However, over time it has become more than evident. The first time the relationship between exposure to light during the night and (breast) cancer was exposed was in 1987. Since then, most epidemiological studies confirmed this idea, until 20 years later the World Organization had no choice but to recognize 'night work' as 'possibly carcinogenic'." Then I have very little life left. Enjoy my articles while they last.
Pain, a strange engine that moves the world: "Since the birth of the great religions, each in its own way, pain has been a fundamental element of human existence. From the cyclical rhythms of reincarnations and deaths of Hinduism and the inevitability of pain (but not suffering) of Buddhism, to the concepts of divine punishment, redemption mechanism, or test of faith in monotheistic religions. Pain has always had a function: to redirect to another path (in theory, the good path)." I hate to be like this, but it's true: pain is the only fertilizer for my growth as a person. That's why I stopped evading so much with video games, series, and marijuana a long time ago. I absolutely do not recommend it, because the darkness is overwhelming, but...
The dictatorship of Mr Wonderful and its 6 psychological effects: "Who doesn't want to see the good in life? Nothing to object. They are supposedly motivating and positive sentences. Apparently innocuous and beneficial. Can there be anything negative about being so positive? Well yes: reducing life to an ideological current, to a cheap psychology expressed in a marketing line, can have quite harmful effects. The systematic flooding of 'good-vibe' phrases and instructions to achieve success hides effects as pernicious as these."
When it became fashionable in Germany to take photos posing with polar bears: "Fads are, by definition, ephemeral, but in this fast and fragmented world they follow each other at an increasingly dizzying pace. They are no longer a seasonal thing; amplified by the loudspeaker of the Internet and social networks, their life is infinitely more intense and shorter. In a matter of days, what we have seen even in the soup becomes outdated. Some are so absurd and meaningless that it shouldn't surprise us, for example, that at some point in history it became fashionable in Germany to pose in photographs with someone dressed as a polar bear. What might perhaps draw attention is that it was a fad that lasted decades." Viral before viral. Challenges before challenges.
Videos
One of the fastest pizza makers in the world, cockatoo reaction to "What The Fluff Challenge", forging Kahless's sword (only for Trekkies), flying vehicle, mom throws knives at daughter in 1950, maze for cats, guy tries to jump onto a boat and it's a disaster, how to light matches with water, baby emerges from the womb without breaking the amniotic sac, chasing a lemon, how to open a padlock with fire, how they got the kids out of that cave in Thailand that you must be tired of hearing about, the Machines of the Island of Nantes, mosquitoes trying to bite a human, how to make a welder angry, and an excellent cover of the Ghostbusters theme.
Galleries
Makes art in the city, the cat with a human face, comics about the characters of "Darkest Dungeon" (only for those who have played the game), how accusations about millennials go viral, photography that makes tattoos disappear, Kay Pike's body paint, photographs from the past, an Argentine artist using Photoshop, the "Boulevard de sueños rotos", insects created with flowers, Nigerian hyperrealist artist, Van Gogh to download in very high resolution, girls from the 60s, and to finish, the Tiradero Visual and its little sister the Vertedero Animado.
This week on NeoTeo
The standout, the best of the best, in a few lines to avoid being too self-referential: Video Driver (the SEGA console with VHS), how a turntable works, your country on the ancient supercontinent Pangea, super strange car accidents, the sound of zombie movies, does your CPU work badly?, alternatives to Google Chromecast and spectacular movie and TV posters.
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