Long YouTube videos, the failure of solar roads, being watched by satellites, everyone's an addict, and how to get over a breakup are just some of the things you'll find in these recommended links. Viral videos, shorts, and galleries included. Don't miss it!
Why YouTube videos are getting longer: "Three years ago, PewDiePie made one of his jokes. When he finished recording, he got up from his chair and walked out of frame. The camera kept recording until the video reached 10 minutes. YouTube had introduced a tool that allowed putting multiple ads in a single video if it lasted more than 10 minutes. Countless YouTubers started making longer videos. PewDiePie mocked that then, but today his videos last about half an hour. How did we go from 10 to 30 minutes?"
The first solar road experiment in France has been a failure - deteriorated, noisy, and inefficient: "Solar roads, or solar lanes, which aim to revolutionize mobility as we know it, seem to go from failure to failure. If two years ago we learned about the disaster that Solar Roadways, the country's first solar road, had been in the United States, now negative news for the sector is arriving again from France, where a small stretch of solar road is generating all kinds of problems."
The more popcorn, the worse the movie: "A large part of the economy of today's movie theaters is based not so much on selling tickets to see a movie as on buckets of popcorn and soft drinks, whose price can even exceed that of the ticket itself. And eating popcorn, candy, or junk food in general while you're at the movies can be fun. Especially if the movie is bad or boring, as a 2015 study suggests: in that case, we eat more, instead of less."
Don't be a victim without knowing what it means: "In an era when all identities are in crisis, or are manifestly fake, being a victim gives rise to a surplus of oneself. Only in the hollow form of the victim do we find today a plausible, though inverted, image of the fullness we aspire to, a 'mythological machine' that, from the empty center of a lack, deficiency, or absence, incessantly generates a repertoire of figures capable of satisfying a need that originates precisely in that void. The unwanted becomes desirable."
They watch us 24 hours a day through satellites: "Every year, satellite images available on the market become sharper and more frequent. In 2008, there were 150 Earth observation satellites in orbit; now there are 768. Satellite companies do not offer real-time 24-hour surveillance, but as confidence in them grows, the goal becomes increasingly closer. Privacy advocates warn that innovation in satellite imagery is outpacing the ability of world governments to regulate the technology."
We're all junkies, every era has its drug, and today we're getting wasted: "According to data from the PISA report published in 2017, 69% of young Spaniards feel really bad (suffer from withdrawal syndrome) if they don't have internet access. From the other side: only 31% of young people maintain a healthy relationship with the internet (that, or they have an excellent data plan). González-Anleo continues: 'Talking about "drugs" is a huge mistake; every era has its own. In my book about May '68 [1968. Queremos otro mundo mejor y lo queremos ¡ahora!] I tell the reader that they are a polytoxicomaniac: maybe they don't take heroin, LSD, or marijuana, but maybe they're taking sleeping pills, coffee,' or energy drinks, or tea, or equine doses of dopamine in apps designed to hook you, or gym-boosting shakes."
The prison for disgraced statues in Spandau: "In the past we had talked about the submerged cemeteries of communist statues in Ukraine. A kind of artificial coral formed by statues of key figures and the history of Soviet communism thrown into the Black Sea by Ukrainian authorities after the fall of the Soviet Union. Something similar, although less drastic and visually striking, but with the same political weight, happens in Spandau, Germany. Located in the Spandau Citadel, the best-preserved Renaissance fortress in Central Europe, there is a court of statues."
A trillion trees could save the world: "The research relies on the proven fact that trees, as they grow, absorb and store the CO2 emissions that are contributing to global warming while releasing the oxygen we breathe. It has also been studied how urban tree cover cools cities and reduces their pollution levels. From its results, it follows that a vast forest restoration program would suffice to eliminate two-thirds of all emissions that human activity has released into the atmosphere. There are 1.7 billion hectares of unforested land where 1.2 billion native specimens could grow freely. This area equals 11% of the total surface area, roughly the combined size of the US and China."
Five degrees less with a homemade air conditioner made from plastic bottles: "A few empty two-liter plastic bottles and a cardboard plate are enough to build an air conditioner capable of lowering the temperature by five degrees. Homemade, efficient, with recycled materials and very accessible to the population, 100% ecological, no need for electricity to operate, efficient and easy to build. You can't ask for more. This system has been called the poor man's air conditioner. Anyone can build it with street materials, and most importantly, it doesn't need electricity that many people don't have access to or can't afford. It may seem like a few degrees, but there's a big difference between sleeping at 30 degrees and sleeping at 25."
The little (mathematical) hope of winning at a sports betting shop: "You can interpret a fair game as one in which, playing many times, in the long run you expect - hence the word 'expectation' - to end up as you were, recover one hundred percent of what you invested, or pay for the coffee half the time, approximately. If the number is less than zero, it's unfavorable for the player. If the expectation of the game you're playing is greater than 0, the game is said to be beneficial for the player. Let's go to the casino and the French roulette game. It has 37 numbers, from 0 to 36. That's why the probability of your number coming up is 1/37, and the probability of any other coming up is 36/37. Casinos pay single-number bets at a rate of 35 euros per euro wagered."
Blind justice? The curious experiments that show how biases affect judges: "This is what several studies conducted in the United States show, which investigated different ways and factors that can influence judges, just as they do any other person. Society expects judges to act fairly when making decisions that affect other people's lives and to apply the law as appropriate, based solely on the facts presented to them. But humans have inherent biases, and some of them can be surprising."
11 tips from Ovid to get over a breakup: "If you've just come out of a relationship and have a broken heart, Ovid offers you some advice that will be useful. Two millennia have passed but the things of love haven't changed much. Around 2 AD, the ancient Roman poet Ovid wrote Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), instructing men and women on how to find and keep their partner. But not long after, Ovid also wrote Remedia Amoris (Remedies for Love), a manual of Latin poetry on how to deal with a breakup. If you feel betrayed by love, as Ovid writes in Remedia Amoris, he can help you."
Videos: Huge warehouse of computer relics, cumbia fans vs aliens, the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, amazing juggling, pills dissolving in macro, baby flamingo learning to walk, kid climbs onto airport conveyor belt, a giant Rubik's cube solved by computer, hyperrealistic dioramas, exploring a shipwreck, Jolene - Dolly Parton (Cover by The Petersens), Thor Ragnarok with Lightsabers (Part 1 and Part 2), cosplay at Comic-Con 2019 San Diego, Aquanaut the underwater transformer, Hulk puppies, Keanu Reeves in Forest Gump, lion almost catches gazelle, use the force!, puppy scared by its own farts, cinema went to the Moon much earlier, the fastest pit stop in boxers, and the shorts The Moon's Milk and Tigtone - "The Begun of Tigtone"
Galleries: Celebrities aged by FaceApp, how accurate the app is at aging faces, puppies when they're little and old, little animals in food, 3D sculptures made with folded paper, the fantasy of Steven Belledin, babies with teeth, underwater paintings, Australia's terrifying animals, terrifying amusement parks, awards for puppy photos 2019, celebrities made of wire, old-fashioned alarm clocks, funny taxidermy, more photos of Cybill Shepherd, and we close with the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump.
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