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The Deadly Sex of Superman and Lois Lane: "Superman is faster than a bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap over a building, but are these superhuman abilities a problem in bed? For Lois Lane, getting laid or ending up shattered depends on Kal-El's control. Given that Superman has accidentally left fingerprints in steel and hardened concrete, what's the risk of him destroying her during an orgasm?"
Retro Sci-Fi Art - Prints of a Future That Is Already Old: "A clear example of this are the magnificent works of pioneering illustrator Frank R. Paul (1884-1993), who in the late 1930s published ideas about how our neighbors on each planet and moon of the solar system looked. His detailed industrial cities with their simplistic alien species marked the beginning of a new genre in the art world."
10 Classic Cyberpunk Graphic Adventures: "Thanks to literature and film, cyberpunk quickly gained popularity during the 1980s, also leaping into video games, with graphic adventures being a particularly suitable genre for this type of plot. Also considered a countercultural movement, some recurring themes of this science fiction subgenre are megacorporations, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, cyberspace, and hackers."
First recording of Earth's magnetic song during a solar storm: "A team led by Lucile Turc, a former ESA research fellow now at the University of Helsinki (Finland), discovered this phenomenon after analyzing data from the Cluster Science Archive. This archive allows access to all data obtained during the almost two decades that the Cluster mission has been operational. Cluster is composed of four probes orbiting Earth in a tetrahedral formation, investigating our planet's magnetic environment and its interaction with the solar wind, the constant stream of particles the Sun releases into the Solar System."
X17 particle, what is the fifth force that Hungarian scientists claim to have discovered: "For decades the scientific community has recognized the existence of four fundamental interactions that govern the Universe: electromagnetism, gravity, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force. But now a Hungarian study claims to have observed a fifth force of nature, a fact that could revolutionize our understanding of how the world works."
George Clooney used Nespresso payments to fund a satellite that spies on Sudan: "As Clooney himself explained to The Huffington Post in 2013, most of the income he earned from appearing in Nespresso ads —such as the one he filmed last September in Madrid— was invested in the Satellite Sentinel Project, a program aimed at spying on the activities of Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir's regime, the former dictator of Sudan."
Artificial Intelligence and the Wizard of Oz: "I remember at least one short story by Isaac Asimov about this, in which, moreover, something went wrong, or there would have been no story (and something would have to go wrong with such an AI, or we would die of boredom). Well, that reminds me more of The Wizard of Oz, that fairy tale with which the Americans who were taking over the world tried to rival the rich European and Arab storytelling tradition that Disney parasitized, and which they turned into a film exactly eighty years ago."
Farewell to the Pyrenean glaciers: "Global warming is affecting everyone, so there's no need to travel to the far polar reaches to see in all its drama how almost all of the planet's ice masses are disappearing. And so the Pyrenees, a few hours' journey from Spain's major cities, can sum up what is happening everywhere."
The Altamira caves were discovered thanks to a dog: "Chance is a friend of discoveries and inventions, we know that well. And it's chance that a dog got lost through a hole and that there was a cave right there. That, moreover, the cave is a gem of cave art is already something extraordinary. Well, the Altamira caves were discovered thanks to a dog that got lost through a hole. And as if that weren't enough, it's not a unique case. Although the caves are unique."
The great evil of our time: always being busy: "In a capitalist society like ours, being always busy seems to be taken as synonymous with success. Many people in general are already incapable of "staying still," so to speak, evoking that quietism that is advised in certain philosophical and spiritual traditions as an exercise of peace of mind."
Why the earthworm is one of the most important animals on the planet: "Nobody pays attention to earthworms. Perhaps when you've walked through the countryside after a rainy day you've seen some on the moist soil surface and a blackbird tucking into them. Earthworms are a great food source for other animals like birds, moles, badgers, foxes, and even some large insects. However, their importance doesn't end there."
The paintings of giant animals with which Victorian landowners exaggerated their wealth: "Although banquets were the preferred means by which the English aristocracy displayed its fortune, among agrarian landowners, far from London and therefore removed from the frantic urban life, there were other, much more creative ways to flaunt their wealth. Beyond the mansions, luxurious water fountains and paved entrance roads to their estates, as well as fine bronze statues and reflecting pools, one of the means used to show off their wealth was paintings of their prize animals."
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