What inspired Middle-earth, how to recognize snakes, horror movie settings, rock anecdotes and the curious laws of the web, among many other things, only in this salad of links called Recommended Links of the Week. As always, the best of the web, all in one.
Meta-Tolkien, facts that inspired Middle-earth: "A lover of language, mythology and ancient cultures, Tolkien took what was originally a story for his children to a level of complexity and detail that still amazes as on the first day. Middle-earth, his universe, is not a simple place where only the great stories of its protagonists matter, but a living world composed of beautiful places and peoples each with their own languages, customs, legends, songs, genealogies, traditions... It is as easy to trace the lineage of the kings of Gondor back to Elendil and his predecessors as it is to go back in European monarchies to the time of Charlemagne."
Recognizing dangerous snakes: beginner level: "It should be clear that snakes do not chase us to bite us. Almost always, any self-respecting snake will flee at top speed from humans or, at most, stay still trying not to attract our attention. Only vipers (of the genus Vipera) pose a certain danger to us, which will only bite us (injecting their venom) when we handle them improperly or by "accident" (for example, when we kick them without realizing it)."
A movement against the gentrification of Berlin forces Google to abandon its project to create a tech campus: "The American giant was going to have 3,000 of the 11,500 square meters of a building that once served as a power station but has been recycled into an office center. In Kreuzberg, Google has not been welcome. The technology firm has had to face numerous spontaneous protests against the company's presence in the neighborhood."
Horror movie settings you can visit: "The house from "The Exorcist" is located at 3600 Prospect Street Northwest, in Georgetown, Washington DC. The house rests on an ancient stone pedestal that bridges a huge slope that drops down to the Potomac River. It is there, precisely, where the steep staircase is located that at the end of the movie... Well, I'm not going to tell you in case there's still someone who hasn't seen it."
These are the 5 most terrifying Russian maniacs in history: "Andrei Chikatilo is considered one of the most terrifying madmen ever captured. From 1982 to 1990, he brutally murdered and raped more than 50 children and young women. As an adult, he studied at university, wrote articles, worked as a teacher and had an apparently normal family: there were few signs that he would become a serial killer."
Ten rock anecdotes: "The anecdotes and curiosities that surround the world of rock are endless. They clothe it with an aura of magic and mystery, giving it a seductive power that sometimes goes beyond the music itself. Stories that, sometimes marked by tragedy, destiny, chance or mere anecdote, have become part of this paradigm of guitars and attitude. A universe full of stars that, regardless of their size and time, always remain bright. Because rock continues to be the perfect subject for legend."
These are the curious laws of the Web: "These curious laws have replaced the well-known 'Murphy's Law' on the Internet. New patterns have developed that repeat in online discussions, and these 11 laws summarize our behavior on the Web in a satirical yet real way in their predictions."
The risks of a country (Sweden) without cash, privatization of money and digital currency: "There is no doubt that the new methods are more comfortable, faster and even more hygienic, since they avoid having to handle dirty coins all the time. The disappearance of cash also strikes a blow against corruption, the underground economy or violent robberies. But all that glitters is not gold and Swedes are increasingly aware of the risks that the complete elimination of 'cash' would also entail."
Stop vaccinating, certain epidemic: "It turns out that the private school 'Asheville Waldorf' has the more than dubious honor of being the educational center in the US state of North Carolina with the highest percentage of unvaccinated children, a whopping 68%!, because apparently its more than fundamentalist parents think that their god (the same one that intelligently designed those so deadly viruses, which have been decimating humanity more or less since our remote ancestors decided to stop being hunter-gatherers and settled in increasingly crowded populations, with more than dubious hygienic conditions and surrounded by all kinds of animals to favor the evolution of pathogen infectivity towards our species) is going to keep them safe and sound as long as they pray and pray with sufficient devotion, a 'reasoning' more than incomprehensible to this poor atheist who writes this entry."
Science discovered it - Why do cats love cardboard boxes?: "Mysterious and sometimes incomprehensible—although adorable—cats never resist the pleasure of sleeping in a cardboard box. Whether they are their size or not, the simplicity of the boxes seems to be all they need to surrender to Morpheus's arms, but this has a scientific explanation and here we tell you everything."
Living with a peregrine falcon on the 24th floor: "Gustavo Galán is a geologist and because of his work he spends long periods away from home. Upon returning from one of those prolonged absences, three years ago, he discovered that he had some squatters. To his astonishment, they had settled in the planter of one of his windows. 'I had already noticed,' Gustavo recounts, 'that after returning from some of my trips, from time to time a bird that I thought was a falcon would perch on the windowsill; when I was sleeping I noticed it moving, fluttering...'"
In 1935, the Nazis organized a contest to find the perfect Aryan. Goebbels chose this girl. She was Jewish: "The image we see on the cover shows us Hessy Levinsons Taft, a big-eyed girl who adorned the cover of several Nazi magazines, all under the same slogan: they had found 'the perfect Aryan' through a contest where Joseph Goebbels had named her the winner. From that moment, the image spread to postcards and billboards, making its way through Nazi Germany. It was destined to be an example for parents around the world under the ideal of the 'master race'."
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