Life with six fingers, Mercator with an orange, humanity spreading across the galaxy, the Parisians who ate a zoo, and censorship in science, among much, much more, below. Long live the recommended links!
Life can be better with six fingers: "Having an extra finger has traditionally been considered an unwanted aberration and something that hinders the life of its bearer. Now, the team of Etienne Burdet, a bioengineer at Imperial College London, has studied two particular cases of polydactyly, those of a 52-year-old woman and her 17-year-old son, both with an extra finger on each hand, and has obtained precise information about how they manipulate objects and which neural pathways are activated in their nervous system."
A fascinating video shows how humanity could spread across the galaxy: "Each tiny white speck in the simulation represents a habitable star, while the bright colored lines represent the journeys made by spaceships between established stars. From start to finish, the simulation spans tens of millions of years."
Visualizing the Mercator projection distortion with an orange: "In the image (and in maps made with Web Mercator) each of the grids has equal size but represents a smaller part of the surface of the orange/planet the closer to the poles. The rows of grids are all the same size but represent an increasingly smaller latitude difference as they move away from the Equator/the middle of the orange: 40 degrees of latitude the first, 26 the second, 13 the third, and only 6 the fourth."
When the US Army dropped pianos by parachute to its troops: "In that desperate situation, almost without ammunition, many die trying to reach a supply bag dropped from a plane... and which finally opens accidentally letting the wind carry away its disappointing contents: spare berets. A strange delivery? It may be, given the circumstances, but the truth is it seems the most normal in the world compared to another that was often dropped at the front: pianos."
When the Parisians ate their zoo: "During the Franco-Prussian War, after the surrender of Napoleon III and without a government with an electoral mandate to negotiate with, Otto von Bismarck ordered the siege of Paris (1870-1871). During that time, 47,000 French civilians died, generally from hunger. The lack of food reached such a point that they fed on the zoo animals."
Obese work: the calories a 19th-century worker consumed and a current one: "To the reduction in time, we must also add a reduction in physical effort: until recently, factory work required as much or more effort than agriculture. Not only is the number of calories we consume per working hour reduced, but also the number of calories per hour. Since not all of us work in factories, let's break down that caloric investment by sector."
The sophisticated tricks doctors use to unmask criminals who fake insanity or amnesia: "What Gigante was doing is known as "malingering", a term that describes the intentional manifestation of false symptoms (or greatly exaggerating existing ones) with an external incentive in mind. It can be to obtain financial compensation, housing, or drugs, or to avoid work, military service, or criminal prosecution."
Eating stone and excreting sand. That's what this new science-fiction worm does: "As if it had just come out of a science fiction novel set on Arrakis or in a fantasy world like The Neverending Story, this new species of shipworm (or brome) discovered in a river in the Philippines bases its diet on eating limestone instead of wood, as is usual in this class of bivalves... and then excretes sand. The finding has been described in a study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B."
The story of the most famous pen in the world: "If we stop to think about which pen we have seen or used the most throughout our lives, the answer is very likely common to all. We think of one of the cheapest on the market, easy to use and, as we used to think as children, with nearly inexhaustible ink: the BIC pen. This pen is the best-selling in the world and is present in 160 countries."
How the body of a human obsessed with technology will evolve: "New technologies help people a lot in contemporary life. However, some scientists emphasize above all the negative effects that certain devices, such as smartphones, have on health. Accordingly, a body representation model has been created, based on that kind of study, which shows how the physical characteristics of a human obsessed with technology could evolve in the future." More fake than a dog with wings, but fun.
You can call it responsibility, but it's censorship: "There are facts that can make certain ideologies waver. There are facts whose dissemination can cause important social, health, even moral repercussions. We can choose to deny them, to publicize them, or to hide them. Darkness (in etymological opposition to enlightenment) tends to present itself as an act of responsibility. Postmodernity and its linguistic disguise. Sometimes we call responsibility what is really censorship."
They manage to convert proteins into music and vice versa: "A team of MIT researchers has developed a system to convert the molecular structures of proteins into sounds that resemble musical passages using artificial intelligence. Then, reversing the process, they have introduced some variations in the music and transformed it back into proteins never before seen in nature."
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