Do you know what you'll find in these links? Very interesting things like antivaccine myths, Inuit goggles, the hobo code, and the oldest known love poem, among countless others, including viral videos, shorts of all genres, and galleries full of amazing curiosities. Enjoy!
The danger of young people's digital past haunting them forever: "Adolescence used to be a time when you could make mistakes and errors would be forgotten. Now, the lives of teenagers are constantly exposed to the public, creating a risk-averse generation that must project a perfect public image to avoid future problems."
The 11 myths that anti-vaxxers repeat without stopping: "The analysis is even capable of establishing a classification of the 11 beliefs without scientific or medical basis that this community repeats endlessly since this movement emerged. Many of them originate from Andrew Wakefield's study published in 1998 in The Lancet linking vaccines and autism."
This was the first reverse shot in the history of cinema: "There are productions in which, for example, a vehicle traveling at high speed must stop immediately within a few centimeters of some other object, and to guarantee the physical integrity of the driver and not break the machine or whatever due to an accidental collision, the shot is filmed with the vehicle moving away and the motion is reversed later."
The strange but truly useful bone or wood goggles used by the Inuit: "The Inuit, the Yupik, as well as other Arctic peoples, have been using the same protective lenses for thousands of years, and they remain equally effective. These snow goggles are made from any of the materials the remote Arctic provides, with driftwood, animal bones, walrus ivory, and caribou antlers being the most used options. Specimens made from seagrass vegetation have also been found."
Why we need more lunar samples: "The reason is that what matters is not the quantity but the quality. Or rather, the places these samples come from. But first, let's recap. What do we want the samples for? Besides directly learning the Moon's composition, which is obvious, lunar samples allow us to calculate the age of different areas of our satellite and thus reconstruct its history."
Hobo Code, the secret language of vagrants during the Great Depression: "A secret language to warn of dangers, travel safely, make staying easier, or simply to welcome other hobos who passed by. Moreover, they tried to make that language of symbols, like hieroglyphics, not attract attention and go unnoticed by the rest of the mortals, so they used very basic lines, circles, and graphics. Here are some of them..."
Slow TV. Travel from home at real speed: "It all started in Canada in the mid-eighties. A regional station in Ontario recorded a night walk through Toronto and added background jazz. An hour of strolling through the city's streets, venues, and transit, in the purest noir style, to replace the test pattern that was still very common in early morning television around the world."
Air conditioning and refrigeration in ancient times: "At sunset, the Egyptians placed reed or palm mats soaked in water on the windows, and on them a small pierced container that dripped water to keep them moist. The warm night breeze caused evaporation and cooled the interior of the house, as well as increasing humidity in the air, which was much appreciated in these climates."
The accidental revolution caused by the Singer sewing machine: "During the so-called 'sewing machine war' of the 1850s, rival manufacturers seemed more interested in suing each other for patent infringement than in selling sewing machines. Finally, a lawyer hit the nail on the head by pointing out that among them there were four people who held patents on all the necessary elements to make a good machine: why not join forces and work together to sue everyone else?"
A detailed cosmography in 1459: "There are several maps that were made in a key period for Humanity, which marked the transition from the Middle Ages and its more closed conceptions to another in which the world opened up, new routes emerged, lands were discovered, and the existence of peoples and nations very different from those known was recognized. In this context we can place the world map made by a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro, who lived in the 15th century. It is very interesting, not only for its geographical drawing, but also for other elements that accompany it."
They discover the mechanism by which stress turns hair white: "In a study published this Wednesday in the journal Nature, the team of Ya-Chieh Hsu details a series of experiments with mice that have allowed them to discover that stress activates the sympathetic nervous system and triggers the fight-or-flight response, which causes exhaustion of the stem cells involved in the regeneration of pigments in hair follicles."
The oldest love poem in the world: "The literature of ancient Mesopotamia provided the first forms of world literature, the first expressions of human emotion and experience, and among them, the experience of romantic love and passion through the oldest love poem in the world. The following translation of The Love Song for Shu-Sin is from Samuel Noah Kramer's work History Begins at Sumer, pp. 246-247."
Videos
Retro unboxing, two flutes in the nose, how to make vantablack at home, molten aluminum eruption, robot priest, rotating water slide, Super Mario Bros. in 4:55.646, leaving a tooth in Coca-Cola for a week, mini Russian T-34 tank, robots invading humans, thousand-year eggs in China, the cat almost ruins everything, mathematical simulation of two planets colliding, 24 ways to cook a whole chicken, Monaco race at scale, orangutan uses a saw, Star Wars and Marvel references in The Simpsons, Superman: "Never say yes to a cigarette", elephants singing, keeping kids happy, cat in fashion show, making music with a fan, dances very well and fun, the moment a deer sheds its antlers, and the shorts: Le Silence de la rue, AFTERWORK, Sky Fighter, UNO, Turtle Journey, and My Body.
Galleries
Distribution of world wealth, how the game "Another World" was made, meat suits, black and white drawings with fluorescent lights, dogs with funny teeth, life inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Miss Universe costumes, historical figures if they lived today, hamster butts, London at war (1942), Japanese women on the beach in 1900, list of amazing spirals around the world, the Weekly Animated Dump and the Visual Dump, as a finishing touch.
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