The Chernobyl fungus, the killer mosquitoes, extraterrestrial signals, Atari's Morse code and the biggest heist in USSR history. In other words, lots of great things to read, watch and enjoy. Recommended Links, only for people who want to have a good time.
The Chernobyl fungus that revealed a "new form of photosynthesis" and ended up on the International Space Station: "There were many fungi. So many that a microbiologist from the Institute of Microbiology and Virology in Kiev, Nelli Zhdanova, traveled to the area to study what these fungi were that were conquering not only the walls of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor but every centimeter of land surrounding it."
How mosquitoes changed human history: "The historian Timothy C. Winegard estimates in his latest book, The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator, that female Anopheles mosquitoes have sent to the other world some 52 billion people out of the total 108 billion that have existed throughout Earth's history."
Light and darkness on Mars: "ESA's Mars Express probe has captured the cosmic contrast of Terra Cimmeria, a region in the southern Martian highlands characterized by impact craters, water-carved valleys, and dust and sand in a multitude of chocolate and caramel tones. We often refer to Mars by the nickname 'Red Planet', due to its characteristic color in the sky. However, up close the planet presents all kinds of shades, from brilliant white to jet black, passing through yellows, reds, greens or the milk-coffee colors we see here."
Henry Every, the captain who got the biggest loot in the history of piracy: "The curious thing is that it was not so profitable for the pirates themselves, since the vast majority ended up hanged from a rope or died in circumstances related to their trade, either fallen in battle or drowned in the middle of a storm. Few were able to retire to enjoy their loot and, along with Henry Morgan, who managed to be knighted and appointed governor of Jamaica, the most famous case was that of Henry Every."
Were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a war crime and a crime against humanity?: "Other American historians label the atomic bombing of Japan as a 'war crime' (Gabriel Jackson in Civilización y barbarie en la Europa del siglo XX). Others argue that a less populated location should have been chosen as a demonstration of the bomb's power, citing, for example, Tokyo Bay, which had already been severely punished with conventional bombers."
What is known so far about 'Wow!', the strangest extraterrestrial signal in history?: "It remains one of the most debated mysteries: Where does that signal come from, received by the astronomer Jerry Ehman on August 15, 1977, and which he dubbed 'Wow!'? Multiple hypotheses have spread like wildfire for 42 years, since that scientist who used the big radio telescope at Ohio State University to scan the skies for signals found that emission."
The US B-movie industry in the Philippines: "They were some of Tarantino's favorite films, now called into question, the productions of Roger Corman in the Philippines with New World Pictures. They had no artistic aspirations, they were only market-oriented. They covered intrigue, action, horror, martial arts, etc... but they all had in common that violence and nudity appeared. Pam Grier began her career there. The stories broke the mold because it was not common to see armed women in films solving problems with gunfire, but today this cinema would be highly criticized."
Atari and the Morse code inserted into Centipede's code to detect pirated copies: "These traps or hidden code traps used to be patterns, portions of data that had no apparent functionality in the execution of the program. In fact, they did not create any pattern on screen or any sound (this would be easier to detect due to their access to screen and sound chip respectively) but they were simply directly encoded bits with a message that proved their real authorship, a kind of digital signature."
Sex, 'joints' and Acid House - 5 video games from the 80s that would not see the light today: "Anything went, and considering that the creators barely reached twenty years old, you can imagine what those 'brainless teenagers' had in their heads. Undoubtedly, some 80s video games would raise important criticism today from all kinds of sectors. We have selected five titles that we are sure would not see the light today due to their subject matter and the audience they were aimed at."
A tour of the most stimulating science fiction of today through 11 books: "But decolonizing the mind, freeing it from prejudices, opening ourselves to empathy and shifting the center of what we know to the most representative of a genre is also our task. We must dare to listen to other voices, read other calligraphies. Therefore, we propose a brief tour of some of the most stimulating voices of the genre that have appeared recently on our shelves."
The biggest heist in USSR history: "It had been a short time since the opening of perestroika had started, and the Soviet authorities worked hard to cover up an unprecedented criminal act. Not only had it been committed by former law enforcement agents, but it also destroyed the image they had worked hard to build: that criminal and mafia organizations only existed in bourgeois countries. And in movies."
A female Blade Runner and organ trafficker: "The detective is bankrupt due to debts contracted with an insurance company after a surgical operation. The work is set at the same moment as the film by Ridley Scott, Rutger Hauer and Harrison Ford, November 2019. Private healthcare and the philanthropic millionaires that mark the new plot are not dystopian, they are already very current."
Videos: Footsteps from the basement, triple double jump, little dogs staying still, riot vest, animated books, the Ant World War - The Warrior Ant, parasites on a snail, dangerous juggling, flying saucer, praying mantis eating a lizard, nuclear bombs from 1945 to 1998, hummingbird eating from the hand, drawing in a single line for 24 hours, Transformer accident, skateboard flip, cat goalkeeper, the Pink Panther theme, music video made with a little train, cat on trampoline, wild cats with toilet paper, snow against truck and Unity.
Galleries: Funny and ridiculous Russian Photoshop, the last presentation of Jimi Hendrix, tiny eggs, the art of Hayley Welsh, miniature of "Salem's Lot", Machimoto prototype car, celebrity caricatures, wood sculptures of fantastic animals, mental orgasms, animal portraits, and we finish with the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump.
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