A disaster in Antarctica, the oldest material on Earth, brain waste, and the color of life in the 19th century, among many other great things, in the Recommended Links. Want more? Keep reading!
Disaster in Antarctica, when Flight 901 crashed into Mount Erebus: “It wasn’t just a flight to a remote, hostile, and completely frozen place; it also offered unique views of Mount Erebus (the volcano and highest mountain on the continent) because the destination was Scott Base, located next to the American McMurdo Station on Ross Island. But one day, on November 28, 1979, everything went wrong and the sightseeing flight turned into New Zealand’s greatest aviation tragedy…”
The oldest material on Earth discovered inside a meteorite that fell half a century ago: “Inside a meteorite that fell to Earth more than 50 years ago, the oldest material known to exist on Earth was discovered. A team of scientists found dust grains up to 7.5 billion years old inside that space rock. These are materials formed in stars that came to life long before the Solar System was born.”
How the brain takes out the trash: “Recent studies we have carried out together with other authors indicate that the brain has its own garbage collection system. In a first phase, without leaving the brain, waste is dumped into containers. Next, the containers leave the thinking organ. And in a third phase, once outside the brain, those containers are eliminated.”
Double Exposure Photography: 8 Tricks to Achieve Them: “What secrets does the famous double exposure hide? Considered works with an apparently very complex creation process, worthy of photography experts, but is it really that difficult? My friends, nothing could be further from the truth; getting double exposure photographs will be so simple that you won’t be able to stop, nor will you want to, working in this artistic modality.”
What color was life before the 19th century?: “The Industrial Revolution brought tangible and visible things like trains, metallurgy, and heavy metal in general, but a more silent revolution (and the basis of all other Industrial Revolution processes) was equally important: chemistry. From sulfuric acid to sodium carbonate, the development of new techniques and technological improvements allowed the mass production of these products, which in turn served as the foundation for the expansion and improvement of the rest of the industries: metallurgical, steam, railway, textile... And of color. ”
Do cetaceans have a sense of smell?: “Humans and many other animals have nasal openings, receptors specialized in capturing odors, and a brain connected to them capable of interpreting and recognizing them. We even have nasal turbinates to increase the surface area. However, cetaceans, spending their entire lives in water and with a nasal opening on their heads, do they have a sense of smell?”
Eden doesn’t exist: eight utopian societies that failed throughout history: “But, as we can imagine, one person’s utopias are another’s nightmares. Material conditions do not always accompany us, and the weight of customs established by our previous social education is hard. In other words: someone comes along and proposes to solve all our problems and it goes wrong. Here we compile seven examples of failed societies that serve as seven lessons on how to appease our contempt for the world we have to live in.”
Explanation for the mysterious evolutionary leap to complex life on Earth: “A variety of archaea, collected from the ocean floor near Japan and cultivated in the laboratory, has offered an explanation for the mysterious evolutionary leap to complex life on Earth. In an article published in the journal Nature, a group of Japanese scientists describes the cultivation of samples of Prometheoarchaeum syntrophicum and establishes a possible link between primitive archaea and the development of eukaryotes”
Aquae Sextiae, the battle in which Germanic women protected the retreat of their husbands by insulting them as cowards: “At the end of the 2nd century there was another episode of that kind, when three hundred Teutonic women preferred to take their own lives (and those of their children) rather than be handed over to the enemy. The curious thing is that, before, many Ambronian warriors who were fleeing desperately from the legionaries suffered insults from their wives, who considered them cowards. It was the battle of Aquae Sextiae.”
Urine therapy: Why you shouldn’t drink your urine?: “The specialist recommends not drinking it, nor applying it to the skin, since it contains a considerable number of germs “could cause superinfections after skin application or sepsis if administered intravenously”. In addition, it can be aggressive for the digestive system, it could affect the kidney, since it is being exposed to filtering products that it already discarded at the beginning.”
Surprise! Wolf puppies also fetch the ball: “He took thirteen wolf puppies from three different litters and subjected them to a series of tests like those usually performed on puppies. One of them consisted of throwing the ball so that the animal would return it, a behavior that occurs naturally in dogs and that they did not expect in wolves in any way.”
“Birds remember, think, feel, give gifts, and love”: “They have a highly developed spatial memory. The common nutcracker can hide up to 30,000 seeds in thousands of different places across dozens of square kilometers and recover them several months later. I can’t even remember where I left the keys…”
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