What a beautiful number! Super palindrome! I love it. And you'll love everything we've prepared for you for hours of pure enjoyment. The man who smiled at his firing squad, the origin of Fido Dido, the end of the sky of our ancestors, the origin of programming languages and much more. All together and mixed, in the Recommended Links of the Week.
This Week's Recommended Links
Countries that are (almost) not countries - Abkhazia: "Surely at school they didn't tell you about Abkhazia, because in our 'official' world there is no country that calls itself that. It's likely you've never heard it in the news, that if you look at an atlas of countries it doesn't appear, that you don't have any friend planning a vacation to this area, and that you haven't seen it in sports competitions, despite the fact that this year it organized a soccer world cup. But the world doesn't begin and end in our circle."
“Alien”: the movie that teaches you everything you need to know about your job: "Now that the film turns 40, repeating those praises seems de rigueur. But we are interested in highlighting another virtue that is often not highlighted. Because Alien is not just a great film, a triumph of technique or a terrifying experience that doesn't wither with the decades. It is also the film that explains to you, without errors or half measures, why things are the way they are in your office. Take a look at this summary, and surely tomorrow you'll walk into your job brandishing a xenomorph-hunting flamethrower."
People with whom you cannot debate: "You can't debate with a fanatic. Neither can you, nor should you. Arguing against someone who believes that children are taught zoophilia, masturbation techniques or simply making foot fetishism, makes that debate impossible. In this case we would be talking about someone with psychological disorders. I add to the mix the impossibility of debating with a disturbed person."
Who created Fido Dido?: "Surely many remember Fido Dido, the most charismatic and carefree soft drink character of 90s advertising. He became so popular that he flooded with his image t-shirts, caps, mugs, keychains, notebooks, folders, stickers, badges, pins,… he even starred in a video game and had his own line of hair fixers, cologne, snacks and gummies. But where did he come from?"
The French man who smiled at his Nazi firing squad: "The guy you see in the photo became famous because he appears smiling in front of his firing squad. At least, that is the feeling that the face of Georges Blind, which was his name, transmits to us, and that is why he is famous. Perhaps it might amuse him to suspect that the Germans he had in front of him, his firing squad, were faking, he was not wrong, but Blind died shortly after, in 1944, murdered by the Nazis. That said, let's start from the beginning."
The teenager who lived hidden for a year in Buckingham Palace and stole the queen's panties: "One night in mid-December, between three and five in the morning, when the service was already in bed, one of the guards glimpsed a silhouette behind him in the north wing of the palace. It looked like a child by his height, but it was too dark. As he approached, the young man discovered it was a smiling young man, with his face stained with soot. Almost immediately, the silhouette disappeared into the darkness of the night. Rumor among the royal guard had been circulating that there was a shadow in some of the rooms, although no one knew much more."
Thus the most popular programming languages were created: "Python, Java, PHP, JavaScript, C++ and C# are names that might sound familiar because they are the most demanded programming languages, but would you recognize a piece of code in any of those languages? They are the raw material with which your smartphone's applications, the operating systems of any device and the websites you visit daily are made. What is their origin? Who created them and what made them so special?" And what are the most popular programming languages?
The satellite megaconstellations, goodbye to the night sky of our ancestors: "Until now, the main threat to astronomy, both amateur and professional, was light pollution. Far from being solved, this problem has brutally worsened in recent years with the spread of LED lighting, which emits in a broad region of the visible spectrum. But now, satellites are beginning to emerge as another more subtle enemy." I hate this. I moved to the countryside to have dark nights and it turns out my neighbors have LED lights everywhere. Disgusting.
Omar Khayyam, the Persian mathematician to whom we owe that the unknown is an X: "But our character is equally or more relevant for his work in mathematics and especially astronomy. On his return from the obligatory pilgrimage to Mecca, he performed work in multiple disciplines, among which history, the teaching of mathematics, astronomy, medicine or philosophy stand out. He wrote many scientific treatises (several lost today) and was able to determine with great precision the error of the Persian calendar of 365 days."
The man who discovered 'umami', the fifth basic taste (which is not sweet, salty, sour or bitter): "The Japanese chemist had been studying a broth made from seaweed and dried fish scales called dashi. Dashi has a very specific flavor -warm, salty- and through extensive and laborious separations in a chemical laboratory, Ikeda had been trying to isolate the molecules behind its distinctive flavor. He was sure that there was a connection between the shape of a molecule and the perception of flavor it produces in humans."
Cyberchondria - what it is, risks and treatment: "For hypochondriacs, any physical symptom can indicate that they suffer a serious illness, even without medical signs of a problem. This is known as extreme health anxiety. For some people, searching for medical information on the Internet is associated with an exacerbation of health anxiety (Fergus, 2013). 'Cyberchondria' refers to excessive health anxiety generated by online searches." More disorders of the Internet era here
Hypervigilance, when we 'invent' pain: "Hypervigilance is a characteristic of anxiety that involves an emotional reaction that puts us on alert to the possibility that something we do not want happens. Attention is focused on the threat and priority is given to the stimulus or information we fear above any other," explains Antonio Cano, director of the research group Cognition, emotion and health of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). More disorders! How nice!
Videos: The Sonic trailer remade by a fan https://www.neoteo.com/es/un-fan-rehace-el-trailer-de-sonic-the-hedgehog, the HUAWEI campaign: how is it lived in China?, girl horses http://digg.com/video/girl-horse-gallop-wow, world boomerang champion, the people who follow the cheese, simulator in a RC car, finger kaleidoscope, how to make beautiful rings, revisiting the Chernobyl excursion zone, world record of push-ups, slapping tournament, world record of Streets of Rage 2, accidents in games, old porcupine eating fruit, archery tricks, ducklings crossing the street, testing illegal lasers, the imaginary cookie, 'The Fifth Element' cheap version, the surface tension of water on a coin, compilation of accidents with barriers, ideas with cement, light filmed at four million frames per second https://www.neoteo.com/es/la-luz-filmada-a-cuatro-billones-de-cuadros-por-segundo, does a plank for four hours and twenty minutes, intergalactic detergent, bear climbing, the spiral water illusion, miniature trucks, sailboat crashes into van and the short films "The Short Story of a Fox and a Mouse" (CGI animation), "Majora’s Mask - Terrible Fate" (CGI animation), RIOT (science fiction) and the complete animated film "Gulliver's Travels" (1939).
Galleries: The movie pixels of Gustavo Viselnerhttps://www.neoteo.com/es/gustavo-viselner-pixel-art, this piece of meat is not real, the costumes of 1920, famous actors of the 90s before and now, pixels in the real world, the first photo of an albino panda, old puppies, the wavy line illusionhttps://www.neoteo.com/en/the-wavy-line-illusion-curves-or-diagonals, art of little birds in coffee, horrible tattoos, schoolgirl nightmareshttps://www.neoteo.com/es/kazuhiro-hori-pesadillas-de-colegialas, children playing 'movies', badly behaved goats, the illustrations of a physics teacher, the beautiful Chelo Alonso and more photos of Sean Young, the cover girl. For closing, the Animated Dumphttps://www.neoteo.com/es/vertedero-animado-de-la-semana-n49 and the Visual Dump of the Weekhttps://www.neoteo.com/es/tiradero-visual-de-la-semana-n82. Don't miss them!
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