Here's our weekly selection of the best links from the web. This week we've got the dramatic life of Max Wright, cyber pack rats, cocaine in the Thames, and the first RPG ever.
The dramatic life of Max Wright after 'ALF': sex, crack and video tapes:
"As everyone knows, the relationship between the actors was bad bordering on catastrophic. During the 4 years that the filming and broadcast of the mythical series about the hairiest and orangest alien in television history lasted, the problems among the entire team grew almost daily, including screams and insults."
"But the important thing is not so much the ACCUMULATION of garbage and useless objects, due to a kind of 'just in case or I thought what', which gives them a certain feeling of security. Really, people with Diogenes suffer from a disease whose cause and consequence is loneliness, something like a MALIGNANT LONELINESS that is like a social cancer that ends their lives."
Bandersnatch and ET the Extraterrestrial:
"Going back to Bandersnatch, the protagonist is a 'freelance' programmer, that is, he alone carries the entire weight of programming the game without the help of any additional team of people. In fact, in the movie there is a point where they offer us to work in the fictional company Tuckersoft (seemingly inspired by Imagine, a legendary video game company that went bankrupt on the same date indicated in the movie, July 9, 1984, which also tried to develop a video game with the same name), or directly continue on our own."
High cocaine levels in London's Thames are making eels hyperactive:
"Researchers at King's College London have found that Londoners are taking more cocaine than usual. To reach this conclusion they have looked at the Thames. Drug levels in wastewater are so high that eels are becoming hyperactive."
15 scientific experiments you can do with your kids:
"A matter of structure. No matter how fragile an eggshell may seem, its ovoid shape holds a 'superpower' that makes it tremendously strong. If weight is distributed properly over them, the 'fragile' structure can support our weight."
Eugene Shoemaker, the only person whose remains rest on the Moon:
"Scattering the ashes of a deceased loved one into the air or water is a beautiful way to say goodbye and pay a posthumous tribute that, however, has recently experienced restrictions from the authorities because some uncivil people abandon the funeral urn without more, with the aggravating factor that they are often made of non-biodegradable materials. For Eugene Shoemaker's remains there was no such problem; his ashes were scattered on the Moon."
The first RPG in history was born in 1974 - 'The Game of Dungeons' ('DND'):
"Its real name seems to have been 'The Game of Dungeons', since this is the title that appeared on the screen when we ran this video game in 1974; however, everyone knows it as 'DND' (or dnd), the name of the executable file of the PLATO system, programmed in the TUTOR language, which brought to our eyes that first electronic role-playing entertainment in history."
"If you have some hens at home or on your farm and want them to raise chicks, knowing the entire process is crucial to understanding when the best time is and providing them with the necessary conditions for mating. Keep reading to know everything you need to know about the reproduction of hens."
"Whatever the process of canine domestication was, the number of functions that dogs offer us is tremendously extensive: guardians, hunters, anti-drug, mountain rescue, emotional support for the sick, etc. Without forgetting other services, less kind to the community, but that had their place in history such as their participation in wars, fighters in fights, they were also used to mutilate prisoners and, the one we are going to deal with today and that we could call the hamster dog."
The history of violence, beyond Pinker:
"Violence is one of the most typical traits of anthropomorphic primates. Males. And it all revolves around competition with other males. For rank. And ultimately rank means 'access to resources': food and sexuality. The height, muscles and teeth of males are normally used against their competitors. Weapons for agonistic encounters. In these species, violence has to do with climbing the hierarchy, not with predation."
Nazis, hatred and giant insects, the 41 best films to understand fascism:
"In turbulent times, cinema, like other arts and forms of expression of the human soul, stands as a chronicler of its time. The tremendous migratory crisis that plagues the Western world has for many months now found a high and clear response in the form of film, filling international festivals and revealing the diagnosis of the current state of the world."
The monstrous hard drives of the past put the miracle of miniaturization in perspective:
"Storage technology has advanced incredibly over the years, and to appreciate that evolution it is not a bad idea to take a small trip to the past and see how decades ago hard drives were heavy and cumbersome monstrosities that also had very limited capacity and performance."
Videos
Videos: Animated madness, Yanet Garcia (weather reports), Euler disk, Kiefer Sutherland cooking meat, 25 minutes of people robbing the same place, compilation of pets vs spiders, how sausages are made, rediscovering the 'anima', the usefulness of kneecaps, the complete lunar eclipse, flamethrower for snow removal, the storyboards of Spiderverse, grandma sings death metal, Mario's World 1-1 Calamity, "Smells like teen spirit" on ukulele, documentary about the universe from 1960, super aim, super stupid, women's somersaults, how to make the Matrix effect with a single camera, horse ride simulator with RDR2, almost almost, splits ball with axe, "Sweet Child O' Mine" funk cover and the shorts: Distortion, One Small Step and Merger.
Galleries
Galleries: Art in cassette cases, virtual Japanese model, Russian beer ads, future sketches, the magazine Hara Kiri, joke coins, underwater photography, complete skeleton knitted in wool, design vans, the art of Charles Rambert, photo collages, underwater photo competition, before and after lobotomy, the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump of the Week.
