The survival of the richest, when someone decides to ruin your life online, the daughter hated by Steve Jobs and why your dog looks at you when it poops, in a classic edition of the links where you'll find everything you like, and much more.
The survival of the richest and how they plan to abandon ship: "This was the question that kept us busy for the rest of the hour. They were aware that they would need armed guards to protect their facilities from enraged crowds. But what would they pay them with when money no longer had any value? And what would stop their armed guard from choosing their own leader? These billionaires considered resorting to special combination locks to protect the food supply, which only they would control. Or putting some kind of disciplinary collar on their guards in exchange for their own survival. And even creating robots capable of serving as guards or workers, if there was time to develop the necessary technology."
This is what happens when a stranger decides to ruin your life on the Internet: "But in September 2015, she suddenly found herself in an American nightmare. One day at 6 a.m. she received a call from a Re/Max colleague telling her that someone had posted something terrible about her on Re/Max's Facebook page. Glennon initially thought a client had left her a bad review, but it turned out to be much worse than that."
"You will receive nothing", the memoirs of Steve Jobs' daughter about the stormy relationship with her father: "Brennan-Jobs's story, of which Vanity Fair published an excerpt this week, offers glimpses of her life with her father and, above all, of the feelings, hopes, disagreements, and disappointments she experienced in her attempt to become his adored daughter. From her words, it is understood that the relationship between them improved over the years, although it never became close."
This is how Superman's creator ended up sleeping in a park: "Signing that check for $130 meant that Joe and Jerry would see their superhero published for the first time. The temptation was too great to resist the promise of being rich and famous, and for a while, they saw their dream come true. \"To cash their first check, Siegel and Shuster had to sign a contract sealed on the back, assigning all rights to the publisher in perpetuity,\" Jerry Robinson, who was then president of the National Cartoonists Society, denounced years later. National Publications' strategies were brilliant, and Superman's image appeared on toys and clothing and, later, in film and television. Jerry and Joe tried to reclaim the rights to Superman, and in April 1947, they filed a lawsuit against National for five million dollars. \"As soon as we filed the lawsuit, we were out of work.\""
Mustachioism in Borduria, the world through Tintin: "The collective imagination shapes realities, and sometimes these partial realities respond to the demands or vision of the era. Hergé conceived a complex world, without women and on some occasions stereotyped, through the adventures of his famous reporter Tintin. Inevitably, his creation draws from himself, and behind Tintin there are many of Hergé's fears, but also many of his aspirations."
Why your dog always looks at you when it poops: "It never fails, and those of us who have had dogs know it. You take your friend for a walk and when the moment comes, he leans slightly on his hind legs and turns his head to stare at you, a somewhat contradictory look. What the hell does he mean by that? Why is he looking at me?"
The bacterium that has become tolerant to hospital disinfectants: "A new study, published in Science Translational Medicine, reveals that the bacterium Enterococcus faecium, resistant to multiple drugs, is becoming increasingly tolerant to the alcohols used in hand sanitizers in hospitals."
The Battle of Qadesh, the first documented battle in history: "This battle is considered one of the last of the Bronze Age, and as befits the era, it was fought with war chariots, with two or three crew members (a driver and a spearman or archer, sometimes accompanied by a shield-bearer), and infantry, equipped with bronze."
Pornography will be punished as a sexual crime: "The law will punish with prison sentences of five to 15 years anyone who economically benefits from the exploitation of a person through the trade, distribution, and exhibition of various products." If any reader from Mexico can confirm this, please do. Is this true?
Five types of procrastination and how to avoid it: "Procrastination is defined as \"action or habit of delaying activities or situations that must be attended to, replacing them with other more irrelevant or pleasant situations\". However, not all types of procrastination, or rather, not all procrastinators are (we are) the same, but fortunately there are some solutions or measures we can take about it."
Classic intrigue and suspense movies in the Public Domain: "During the so-called Golden Age of Classic Hollywood Cinema, between 1917 and the 1960s, intrigue, suspense, and mystery films were a very prolific genre, with the Film Noir classics of the 1930s and 1940s as one of its best exponents."
The challenge of keeping the ISS operational beyond 2024: "The privatization of the ISS is not viewed favorably by certain members of Congress and sectors of NASA, who consider that the cost reduction for the agency would be minimal and, in exchange, the increase in operational risk could skyrocket. Nevertheless, others hope that private initiative can assume the minimum operational cost of the ISS from 2024, estimated at 1.2 billion dollars per year."
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