What will you find in this great selection we've called "Enlaces Recomendados de la Semana"? Just a sample: the death of Arwen, the first McDonald's in the USSR, the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, and the PS 397 butterfly. If you want to know more, keep reading.
The Death of Arwen, the most unknown story from The Lord of the Rings: "The story of Arwen is probably the most beautiful, sad and unknown of all the stories told in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Unknown because it is told in an appendix to The Lord of the Rings that many readers never reach because they either abandon after the destruction of the One Ring or after the wars of the Shire."
That's how crazy Russians went over the first McDonald's in the USSR: "It's hard to believe that thousands of people were willing to spend hours in the cold for a Big Mac. But when the first McDonald's arrived in Moscow in 1990, the city went crazy."
CSI, Almost Always Innocent (The CSI Effect): "But the most notable thing is that forensic science is presented as infallible. In CSI, forensic tests are unequivocal and always correct, never contaminated, without laboratory errors, or possible different interpretations... as forensic science really is. And yet, oblivious to these subtleties, viewers believe that watching these shows gives them a very real and critical view of how an investigation works. And that's what jurors expect to find when they get to court."
The danger of positive thinking: "Neither smiles cure, nor being happy is a treatment": "The problem arises when these motivational slogans are used to force people to live in a kind of dictatorship of happiness in which, even when everything is going wrong, the important thing is to stay positive and keep pushing forward with a smile plastered on your face", she adds reluctantly. "No matter how you look at it, this isn't right", she reflects.
Why words get stuck on the tip of the tongue and how to prevent it: "What was it called? I swear I have it on the tip of my tongue. Have you ever wanted to say a word or name a person and couldn't? You had it on the tip of your tongue and ended up with a feeling of frustration and emptiness."
Harald Hardrada: The Last Viking: "Harald Sigursson Hardrada, 'stern ruler', born in 1015 in Norway, belonging to the lineage of Harald Fairhair, and half-brother of the Norwegian king Olaf Haraldsson. He was a big man, measuring 1.95 cm in an era where the average is 1.70. With a long blond mane and fierce blue eyes, he is the prototype of the Viking we all have in mind. He fought against Canute of Denmark for the throne of Norway alongside his brother, participating in 1030 in the Battle of Stiklestad, his test of fire, in which they lost to the supporters of the Danish king."
A child's legend may have solved what happened to Amelia Earhart: "At the beginning of July 1937, a child living on the island of New Ireland (in Papua New Guinea) saw something incredible: something metallic flying over the sky heading at great speed toward the sea engulfed in flames. The young man told his family and the villagers, nobody could believe it, taking him for a liar. But over the years, he kept telling the story, which at the end of the 20th century reached the ears of explorers who came to the area."
The marvelous story of the PS 397 butterfly: "The image you see above is history of science. It was taken on January 9, 1976 in a remote place in the mountains of Michoacán, Mexico, and it shows researcher Fred Urquhart, who holds in his hands something he just picked up from the ground and has been looking for for over 30 years. It's a specimen of the monarch butterfly, one of the millions of butterflies fluttering in this remote forest at 3,000 meters altitude, but only this one has what he's looking for: a tiny tag that says 'PS 397'."
First results from the experiment that will last 500 years: "The work, which began in 2014 and will not be completed until 2514, aims to answer a single question: discover how long a completely isolated microbial community can survive. Now, even though only a small fraction of the expected time has passed, the researchers have just published their first (and preliminary) results in the journal PLOS ONE."
The 10 most expensive photographs in history: "What would you do if you had 1,000,000 Euros/Dollars? Surely spend it all on a photograph! Since we are sure you wouldn't know which one to choose, we have compiled for you the 10 most expensive photographs ever sold. In some cases, more than 3 million dollars for a single image. Incredible but true. Let's see which are the lucky ones."
2,000 communities of tastes and 27,000 micro-genres, the basis of Netflix's recommendation system: "It was in mid-2016 when they decided to change the way they analyzed all their data. Until then they had been segmenting their members by geography, age and gender; like the classic television demographics. They assumed that their clients in Sweden wouldn't have an affinity for the same titles as Brazilians, or that a 60-year-old man wouldn't watch the same thing as a 12-year-old pre-teen. However, the data showed that those generalizations didn't work in a catalog that aims to cover so many verticals."
The story of the most solitary and isolated tree on Earth, the Ténéré tree: "The Tree of Ténéré was a solitary acacia, the only one located in the heart of one of the largest deserts in the world, whose silhouette was visible from a great distance even though its height was no more than three meters. Isolated in an immense desert area of 400 km around, 'the separate zone' in the Tuareg language, the desert in the desert."
VIDEOS: He excavated his basement with RC models for 14 years, Boeing's flying car, playing Tetris Dance Dance Revolution style, alligators in a frozen lake, "Human Pasta", a car propelled by a leaf blower, an excellent knife throw, a puppy hugging a stove, they fit perfectly, a round puppy, a kitten growing in fast motion, a matter of depth, blowing up a manhole with a firecracker, squirting water from its butt, an electrician lighting a cigarette, a man falling on a coffin during a funeral in Huancavelica, excellent juggling, the sharpest bismuth kitchen knife in the world, here flying towards... uuuuhhh, I am Big Billy, a treadmill on stairs, boiled water under a microscope, the fastest RC airplane in the world and the crazy short films: Everyone for Galactus, Indomation, and the old "Barbecue Death Squad from Hell" from 1986 with Penn and Teller.
GALLERIES: Crocheted birds, aerial acrobatics of the past, stuffed animal pets, the disgusting masks of David Henry Brown Jr., frozen waves, horrible album covers, crocheted seafood, naked bodies defying gravity, pop stars posing with their past twin, Japanese manhole cover festival, past attractions, the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump of the Week as a golden closure.
