I hope you come ready to read and watch videos, because that's what these links are all about, and there's plenty of nice stuff to spend a couple of hours of wholesome fun. Among other wonders, this edition features: the history of the TI-84 Plus, the best horror movies of the decade, the most massive black hole known, and Rick and Morty against negative continuity.
The incredible story of the TI-84 Plus, the Texas Instruments graphing calculator that monopolizes the sector: "You may not think Texas Instruments means anything to you, but this veteran company invented the integrated circuit in 1958. For decades, it has manufactured semiconductors, integrated circuits for telephony and modems, RFID devices, peripherals, and scientific calculators. Curiously, one of its calculators, the TI-84 Plus model, has become one of its greatest achievements, since after 14 years of life it still sells successfully and will continue to do so in the future. This is its story."
Rick and Morty against negative continuity: "What was happening was negative continuity, the reset button of television series. A protocol traditionally very handy in the world of television because of how practical it was for writers. Something that seems illogical from any perspective, but at the same time something that the public has swallowed so often as to have acquired the habit of continuing to do so without questioning the coherence."
The 31 best horror movies of the decade (2010-2019): "We review in these 31 titles the main trends, names, authors, and films of greatest importance within these years, following a chronological order. Many important ones are missing, but space is limited, and probably some of these other films represent their style or subgenre. Which are your favorites?"
THE ORGANISTRUM, one of the most singular instruments of the medieval era: "For those not familiar with this instrument, it is a kind of fiddle whose strings are rubbed by a wheel that acts continuously, formed by a resonance box and another elongated box where a keyboard is placed that is activated to produce various pitches of sound."
Collection of incorporeal penises: "This ancestral tradition was still present in the 13th and 15th centuries until Christianization and civilization definitively ended it. The living reflection of that conception of virile members could be found in the Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches), which in 1486 collected supposed events related to witches that proved their existence and threat. In its second volume, written by inquisitors Jakob Sprenger and Heinrich Krämer, the confessions they had obtained in the courts about spells were recounted."
The violent life of a young Armenian warrior who died in battle 2,500 years ago: "The analysis showed she had received an arrow shot in her left knee to which she survived, since the bone showed signs of recovery after this war wound. She also suffered blows to the pelvic bone, femur, and tibia that also did not end her life. She probably died as a direct result of later battle wounds."
Russia moves away from vodka: "Changing the customs of a society, even for the benefit of all of it, is not precisely a simple task. But the Russian government is achieving it regarding its relationship with alcohol. Campaigns to discourage vodka consumption are yielding results, and the World Health Organization (WHO) confirms this, noting in a report that between 2003 and 2016 alcohol intake fell by 43%."
-10ºC and children sleeping on the street for health: why did they do this in the USSR?: "It is impossible not to start shivering when seeing this photo showing small children sleeping on the street during winter. Surprisingly, it was a common practice in Soviet kindergartens. We can find numerous photos showing children sleeping outside, both in winter and summer."
Roskopf, the watchmaker of the poor: "It was during this time that the idea of a 'watch within everyone's reach' germinated in his head. A watch that cost only 20 Swiss francs, but that could tell the exact time. All this with the maximum guarantees of solidity and good functioning. The idea, the dream, was a challenge for a time when watchmaking was in the hands of small family industries that worked according to tradition, where each had its own way of making them and its own loyal clientele."
The most massive black hole ever discovered: 40,000 million suns: "The new data obtained at the USM Wendelstein Observatory of Ludwig-Maximilians University and with the MUSE instrument at the VLT allowed the team to make a mass estimate based directly on stellar movements around the galaxy's core. With a mass of 40,000 million solar masses, this is the most massive black hole known to date in the local universe."
The dark business of academic journals: "Problems appear when we talk not about spiritual knowledge but about vile material metal. Publishing in these journals almost always costs money. A ten-page black-and-white article can cost about 1,500 euros, 2,000 if in color. The money is provided by the institute where the author works, which has funded the research."
Jesús García Corona, the Hero of Nacozari who sacrificed his life for the sake of thousands of Mexicans: "On November 7, 1907, he was assigned to locomotive number 2. The person in charge of driving it was the German Albert Biel, but he fell ill the day before, and the company decided that Jesús García should drive the locomotive, in his task of transporting that day a load of 4,000 kilos of dynamite to an explosives warehouse in the Mexican city of Nacozari, which would later be used for the expansion of the mine."
Videos
First computer concert, the world's largest trampoline, Baby Yoda VS Darth Sidious, musical version of 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth', DOOM on a digital camera, chemistry on a Petri dish, a very useless car thief, arbolzilla, ugly diving championship, what happens when you go over a speed bump at maximum speed, how to photocopy fire, hides from his wife in a tree, all James Bond gadgets, puts wet metal in a cauldron, parkour from 1930, sea sponges filtering water, gets scared at a fair ride, Smash Mouth - All Star (Melon Cover), falls into manure, Rubik's Cube championship, and the short films Le Mans 1955, The Driver, and Hair Love.
Galleries
The American Dream, a plague of dragons, madness in Parisian fashion, photos of 2019, photos of mushrooms, illustrations by James R. Eads, postwar Japan, 1920s toasters, 90s toys that are worth a lot of money and we finish with Animated Dump and Visual Dump.
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