The cannibal sect that smokes marijuana, the fool is more dangerous than the wicked, the world without coffee, free online courses and female hair for catapults. That, and much, much more, only in the Recommended Links of the Week, that place to spend time without losing it. Enjoy!
The Aghoris, the Indian cannibal sect that wears no clothes, drinks from human skulls and smokes marijuana: "They wander naked, eat human flesh, use skulls as bowls and smoke marijuana. They also meditate, eat, sleep and enjoy sex amid burning corpses in the cremation grounds of India. They come out of their isolated existence only when the Indian bathing festival called Kumbh Mela takes place."
De Rerum Natura, the scientific poem that 2,000 years ago urged humans not to fear the gods: "But there have also been people who have wanted us to think differently, who theorize about physics and the natural world to encourage us to feel freer. And who would like us to use physics to face even our own mortality with calm. One of them was Titus Lucretius Carus, author of the poem "De rerum Natura" (On the Nature of Things)."
When the fool is more dangerous than the wicked: "Happiness is built with what one can extract from oneself, but if we are empty, what are we going to extract? Empty of substance, but not of content. Because while it is true that knowledge takes up no space, stupidity does take up space. And a lot. So much so that the brain of the stupid is so full of junk that it blocks the way for real knowledge to enter, and that is fatal to happiness."
Sad song of the monorail: "Sometimes a monorail line is the solution. It can move similar numbers of people as light rail, at similar speeds. It can be built on pillars, which facilitates passing over existing infrastructure and avoids very expensive or even impossible surface rearrangements. It allows small curvature radii to adapt to the peculiarities of the underlying urbanism — but at small speeds, naturally."
We are running out of coffee: "Most wild coffee species are in danger of disappearing in the coming decades. Some only have three or four plants left, and others have not been heard from for almost a century. One of the threatened species is Coffea arabica, from which most cultivated varieties come. Although only three species have commercial interest today, the extinction of even one of the others threatens the future of both wild and cultivated coffee." NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
World War II - Crimes during and after the war: "The crimes committed by Nazi soldiers during World War II are well known, however, the crimes that Allied soldiers committed against the civilian population at the end of the war are barely known. It is believed that Allied soldiers raped a million women, of all ages, contrary to what was thought until recently, these outrages were not committed only by Soviet soldiers, but also by Americans and British."
Life of a Facebook reviewer, those who see what no one wants to see: "I can see between 300 and 400 posts every day". And between everything that passes before their eyes there is often content that none of us would want to see. "I have the obligation to see everything that comes out", he assures. "And there have been weeks when I was about to quit because they have been terrible. Dismemberments, beheadings, open bellies... Brutal."
The most controversial movies of all time: "Cinema is destined to create currents of opinion, even controversy. But some films caused such controversy that they raised a multitude of complaints and protests and were even banned around the world. These are some of the 13 most controversial films of all time, some of which still make us surprised and feel a pang deep inside. How many of them have you seen and how much did they offend you?"
720 free online courses: "This first month of the year brings 720 different online courses, most related to computing and programming. Of these, 14 are completely new and we list them below. The MondoDB courses stand out, a NoSQL document-oriented database system."
What is the farthest thing you can see with the naked eye?: "Since we live in a galaxy that measures about 100,000 light-years in diameter, at first glance we might deduce that the farthest object that can be seen with the naked eye should be some star at the other end of the Milky Way. But we would be very wrong, because, as you may have noticed, in the night sky we 'only' see a few thousand stars, not the hundreds of billions that our galaxy actually contains."
When Roman women donated their hair for catapults: "Slingshots, ballistas, catapults, onagers, trebuchets... All these projectile-launching weapons were used in Antiquity and continued in use afterwards, in the Middle Ages - some were created specifically in that period - until the spread of gunpowder and the appearance of artillery made them obsolete. They had two characteristics in common: first, they were used in sieges; second, they were torsion machines, at least the ones mentioned. But there was a third, really curious one: the use of human hair in their manufacture."
Why cats are unable to see a treat if you put it in front of their noses in broad daylight: "We know that cats are impressive predators capable of detecting prey at close range in the darkness of night. However, if during the day you place a treat in front of them, they are basically blind. What the hell is going on with them?"
Videos
Spider clouds, the baroque theorbo, the living fossil, gymnast Katelyn Ohashi, dogs herding ducks, TOTO forever in the desert, cat admiring the snow, life-size animated doll, pupil movements in super slow motion, two-headed turtle, giant snake, robot that cooks the perfect egg, worms acting like liquids and solids, music and cosplay, giant white shark, liquid nitrogen, building a hot dog with heavy machinery, young people trying to use a rotary phone, a thousand people dancing, collecting extruded polystyrene, the farm of the future, Thanos vs The Simpsons, and the Ghostbusters 3 teaser.
Galleries
Art inspired by Bird Box, the streets of Nigeria, Ferrero Rocher sculptures, virtual model, cats, dogs, oceans, award-winning drone photos, selfies of parachutists from 1944, animal portraits, optical illusions, if consoles were cars, the Tiradero Visual and the Vertedero Animado of the week.
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