The rotating house, children of the Earth, the health of the Internet according to Mozilla, smaller pixels and classic movies online in the public domain are just some of the topics we link to in this edition of Recommended Links. Not to mention, of course, a whole list of great videos and viral galleries.
Children of the Earth, what made us human and why it will also extinguish us: "The birth of the intelligence that characterizes us as a species was the result of conditions determined by our planet, but not only intelligence but everything we are, something that said like that seems obvious and yet is not forgotten when we try to understand history by looking at wars between men or their great leaders."
No, humanity wouldn't be terrified if aliens were discovered to exist: "One of the most widespread ideas about why aliens don't communicate with us or arrive in ships hiding from our scrutiny, in UFO mode, is that we are not prepared. It is also the reason why political powers that already have dealings with aliens don't tell us the truth: people couldn't handle it. However, reality would probably be much more mundane, as a study reflects."
Orbita, the Soviet rotating 'house' for cosmonauts: "In the early 1960s, Sergei Korolev's OKB-1 design office commissioned the design of an experimental rotating house to investigate the effects of a rotating habitat on flights to Mars. The concept was simple. A centrifuge would be built, like the ones used to test the endurance of cosmonauts, but large enough for volunteers to live in for quite some time."
The health of the Internet according to Mozilla: In Mozilla's words, "our compilation of research and stories explains the keys to a healthier Internet in five basic themes, from personal experience to global concerns". The report has been "designed with the input of hundreds of readers in collaboration with more than 200 experts". The major topics this report analyzes have to do with privacy and security on the Internet, digital inclusion, decentralization, web literacy, and openness or the ability to participate online.
Those who threaten "we've recorded you masturbating" have already earned nearly 1 million dollars: "Millions of people around the world have been receiving emails in recent months like "we've seen you masturbating and recorded you. If you don't pay us in bitcoins, we'll send the video to all your contacts". This threat works with a very small percentage of people, but apparently they've already made more than 1 million dollars with the little message."
The smallest pixels created: "They are a million times smaller than those in smartphone cameras, and these tiny pixels could be used to make new types of flexible screens large enough to cover entire buildings. These "revolutionary" color pixels have been created by a team of scientists led by the University of Cambridge and can be manufactured on a large scale, which also drastically reduces their production cost."
25 Essential classic movies online: "In its more than a century of history, the so-called "seventh art" has evolved constantly, living through the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s what many experts consider the Golden Age of cinema. A small collection of 25 classic movies online that are essential to know, covering all kinds of genres and eras of film history, with the common characteristic of currently being in the Public Domain."
Next stop, the kitchen. The metro that goes through a residential building and has a station in the middle of nowhere: "The most famous station on the Chongqing metro is Liziba. It is located in the middle of a nineteen-story apartment block; floors 6, 7, and 8 correspond to the monorail station, the rest to normal homes and offices. The station is especially well soundproofed, according to reports, although I confess some curiosity about the sound one might hear in a home on floors 5 or 9 of the complex."
This is how babies' heads deform to facilitate childbirth: "A team from the University of Clermont Auvergne (France) has used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to capture 3D images of how babies' heads deform to facilitate childbirth. The results of the study have been published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE."
The 100 people responsible for 71% of polluting emissions, on a map: "Despite its apparent ubiquity, climate change is a story about inequality. Its consequences are not equitable across the planet: some regions will suffer more acutely than others, and, as a rule, the most disadvantaged populations will get the worst of it. Likewise, not all human beings have the same responsibility in its creation."
U-boats, the steel wolves (I): "Such was the danger of the Unterseeboote that the United Kingdom was able to overcome them twice because Germany repeated the same mistake in both wars: they took too long to use their underwater fleet in the right way and with the required magnitude. This allowed the British and their allies to develop new tactics and technologies that twice ended up making German submarine warfare obsolete."
Captive chimpanzees use tools to dig up food: "The evidence that wild chimpanzees dug with tools was indirect. This implies they had never been observed performing this behavior. Until now, all we knew was based on plant-based tools abandoned inside holes, where also remains of half-eaten roots and tubers were found. Numerous chimpanzee footprints and feces were also found nearby," explains Alba Motes Rodrigo, Spanish scientist at the University of Tübingen (Germany), co-author of the study published this week in PLOS ONE.
Videos
The world's largest gelatin pool, Jedi shepherd, compilation of the cement bag prank, 3D X-rays in color, puts a lawnmower engine on a pickup truck, kookaburras laughing like crazy, karate class for kids, blown away by the wind, portable toilet, why modern art is so bad, Avengers: Endgame sculpture, ejects at just the right moment, the music of global warming, Multiverse, eats a penis-shaped clam, the emoticon gun, China.exe, the cosplay at Comic Con Dallas, excellent Primal trailer, honey in space, bicycles disguised as Mercedes, cat climbing wall, a dam collapsing, combing a little bug, documentary about how fake Instagram is, someone laughs at him while he boxes, how to make a robot with household items, painting the Brooklyn Bridge, titanic tornado, the northernmost ice concert in history and the shorts Freaks of Nurture and Cradle.
Gallery
Funny meme sculptures, Game of Thrones with reversed genders, video game architecture, photographic landscapes, Surrealist GIFs, super realistic sculptures, video game consoles through X-rays, light paintings, leg tattoos, Russian mafia tombstones, Renaissance anime, emo kids, Juan Oliphant's sharks, murals of pop culture characters, inhabitants of northern Russia a century ago, great photos of Freddie Mercury, the Magellanic Cloud in all its splendor, forgotten gadgets of the 80s and finally: Animated Dump and Visual Dump.
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