William Blake's madness, John Carpenter's synthesizers, porn and relationships, and Greco-Roman ghosts, among infinite things that will keep you super entertained, viral videos and galleries included. These are the links, a place to come and spend a good time and always, but always, take something for the rest of your life.
William Blake and the embrace of madness: "Blake never went to school, instead, he spent a large part of his childhood contemplating the engravings of great masters, with Alberto Dürer's being the ones that impacted him the most. Furthermore, from a young age, Blake felt fascination for the bible, an inspiration that he 'illustrated' – maybe that's the most characteristic trait of the artist – many of his hallucinations. Yes, William Blake suffered multiple hallucinations throughout his life, hallucinations that he captured in his works and that made him a kind of medium within London's circles."
Discover the secret behind John Carpenter's synthesizers: "John Carpenter is a master of horror, that's well known. And after his visit to the last Sitges festival, where he gave a concert and didn't present any film (except in his role as co-producer of the new Halloween Night), it's also well known that he's a notable musician. Something that Reverb has come to demonstrate by explaining what makes the music of his films, composed by himself, so peculiar and idiosyncratic."
What pornography doesn't tell you about your sexual relationships: "It's something that feeds the superficiality of our masks. There's no deep contact," he says, while clarifying that he doesn't judge it "in a bad way": "I only say that sex is a language of communication and if you ask me if there is communication between two people who only talk about themselves, I'll tell you no, what there is is mutual masturbation."
Discover that pets do have a sense of time: "How many times have we wondered how our pets can know when it's time for us to get home from work, or when it's time to eat, or go for a walk, or get up. Researchers from Northwestern University (USA) were able to confirm that our animals do have an idea of the passage of time. In a statement, the institution explained that our furry companions have a set of neurons that activate "as if they were a clock" while waiting. According to them, this work represents "one of the clearest evidences that animals have a sense of time".
Looks like working at Netflix is a nightmare: "Citing interviews with more than 70 current and former employees of the company (some off the record and others not), the Wall Street Journal has published a profile of Netflix's corporate culture. It details a philosophy made up of phrases from self-help manuals, typical business school bravado, Silicon Valley setbacks, and radical commitments to transparency. Above all, it seems like a very strange mixture."
The state in video games: "The notion we will focus on now is, as I mentioned before, that of the State. But not understanding this concept as a mere institutional figure that has a specific organization chart, but as something more complex. Let me explain. The concept of State involves more than a building where decisions are made that affect the citizens of a given territory; it also concerns the social relations that are established between political subjects or between them and the political institution. So, in short, the type of State, found in a specific space, will determine how its inhabitants relate to each other, and also to those outside its territory."
This is how Steve Wozniak got colors on the Apple II ... which was monochrome: "So how did he do it? In short, Wozniak took advantage of a very peculiar characteristic of the NTSC television standard. If he repeated some portions of the outgoing digital signal (black or white) by default of the monochrome video output and injected it into the "colorburst" signal or NTSC, it was possible to get pixel patterns with different colors. Earlier we have commented that the Apple II was monochrome and specifically had a resolution of 280x192 pixels."
A country in a sigh, the shortest-lived independent states in history: "The territory we know today as the United Arab Emirates was known at the beginning of the 19th century as the "Pirate Coast". The British took under their protection the different Arab tribes that lived there and formed the so-called "Truce States" (Trucial States). From those tribes came the current emirates that federated in December 1971, except Ras Al Khaimah, which did so two months and a bit later and therefore, since the British colony had disappeared, existed as an independent nation for those 72 days."
The 100 favorite films of Akira Kurosawa: "Akira Kurosawa is still today the most recognized and celebrated Japanese director, even for those only laterally interested in cinema beyond Hollywood. His film career, especially his early works, boasts no less than eight masterpieces (according to Coppola's assessments back in the day) and with titles as influential as Seven Samurai or Rashomon. Given his voracity and erudition in cinema matters, his criteria seems like a good starting point."
A kilo will stop being a kilo this month (although almost nobody will notice the difference): "We are talking about an insignificant weight, but it poses a problem when carrying out certain scientific studies. For this reason, for almost five years, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures has been preparing to change the definition of the kilo and, with it, that of other basic measurement units such as the ampere (the unit of electric current), the mole (the unit of amount of substance) and the kelvin (a unit of temperature). And how? By no longer associating these with physical objects or measurements, but calculating them using fundamental constants: a dimensionless value, strictly universal, that is always exactly the same."
The types of Greco-Roman ghosts: "The Greeks did not usually have a specific term for each type of ghost, normally using phasma (φάσμα) and its variant phantasma (φάντασμα). Eidolon was used for all types of apparitions, it didn't even have to be of a dead person. Daimón (δαίμων) also had a wide use, being able to be, among other things, ghosts or spirits with the capacity for possession. More uncommon was skia (σκιά), which meant "shadow". Psyche, in addition to the divinity, could refer both to the soul of the living and to the ghost of the deceased."
Why do we get angry when we are hungry?: "A team of psychologists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) has carried out a series of tests to determine why some people get angrier than others at the feeling of hunger. According to them, it is a complex combination of emotional stages that go beyond a simple drop in blood sugar."
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