The nipple that gave birth to YouTube, drawing myths for beginners, the cosmic web and fractals and the suicide of men are just a few of the many things you'll find in this new edition of Recommended Links of the Week.
YouTube is a child of Janet Jackson's nipple: "That porn is the engine of the internet is demonstrated by a clear fact: thanks to this film genre, payment gateways were developed, audiences did the unthinkable to have connections everywhere and, of course, it is jointly responsible for the rise of video streaming platforms. The largest of all, YouTube, does not have its origin in porn, but in the very human desire to see bare flesh at any cost."
Dungeons & Dragons (Marvel Productions, 1983-85): "Hank, Presto, Diana, Eric, Sheyla and Bobby are a group of friends who spend a fun Sunday morning at an amusement park. When they enter an attraction called "Dungeons & Dragons", they are inexplicably teleported to a fantastic world full of terrible dangers. While they discover how to escape from that hostile world and return home, the 6 friends must face a host of enemies."
10 drawing myths that block your progress: "Drawing seems like a fun skill. It lets you get your ideas out and show them to others in shape and color. And all with very simple tools! No wonder so many people dream of learning to draw. Unfortunately, this kind of skill sometimes seems impossible to achieve. Why is it harder than, say, playing chess or cooking? (...) These mental obstacles hinder learning and bring unnecessary frustration."
The fractal properties of the cosmic web: "The cosmic web (or cosmic network) is the large-scale distribution of matter in the universe; it looks like bath foam, with large voids surrounded by walls and filaments of matter. The pioneering work of John Peebles (Nobel Prize in Physics 2019) estimated a constant fractal dimension of D = 1.23 ± 0.04. Today we know that this fractal dimension depends on scale, that is, the cosmic web has a multifractal structure."
Free will: reality or fiction?: "Most of us feel that our life progresses according to the decisions we make. Depending on the social environment, we may be more or less coerced, but ultimately it is we who decide. Our future is a branching of choices and based on these we weave the path. But what if it were all an illusion? We have the feeling that we make decisions, but that perception of reality may be wrong."
The mathematics of covering holes: "Imagine you have a pair of pants full of holes of various shapes, but none larger than 1 centimeter in diameter. You might think that round patches could cover all the holes perfectly without wasting fabric, but then you realize that, in the end, you are faced with a more complicated problem than it seems."
A mass grave reveals the devastation of the Black Death in the Middle Ages: "Thanks to the excavations of a team of architects, the existence of a mass grave has been discovered in the area sealed off by Thornton Abbey, north of Lincolnshire, revealing the way in which authorities and families dealt with the large number of lives that the epidemic took."
78.0 FM, the extraterrestrial radio that turned on with the universe: "The one in Australia, specifically, registered a non-sonic hum in the vicinity of 78.0 megahertz (MHz). For comparison: commercial broadcasting in Spain allows us to tune stations between 88.0 MHz and 108.0 MHz. That is, this extraterrestrial signal is to the left of the dial. In 2018, an international scientific team published in Nature that they concluded that that signal came from the moment the first stars turned on."
The Suicide of Men: "Thanks to the excavations of a team of architects, the existence of a mass grave has been discovered in the area sealed off by Thornton Abbey, north of Lincolnshire, revealing the way in which authorities and families dealt with the large number of lives that the epidemic took."
The bear that was part of the Polish army in World War II: "The bear Wojtek met his Polish friends in 1942, when some soldiers, and also civilians, exchanged them for trinkets in Iran. They had just been released from a Russian prisoner camp in Siberia and were on their way to the Middle East. Then Wojtek was a cub. The soldiers took care of him and the bear played with them, without fear on either side."
This is how horrible a soldier's life was in a World War I trench: "In "The First World War. From Liège to Versailles", it is specified that the first to dig trenches were the Germans, and that they did so on French territory after the Marne offensive. This fact, in principle unimportant, was key. By building them before the French, and on enemy territory, they obtained great advantages."
How ingenious glass boxes became powerful weapons in the hands of British colonizers: "It was commonly assumed that plants needed the outdoors. But after one day finding a fern and a grass seedling growing in an airtight jar, Ward thought that maybe that wasn't so and put his conjecture to the test. He took glass, wood, putty, paint and created essentially a sealed mini greenhouse in which his beloved ferns grew without needing to be outdoors."
VIDEOS: Unofficial Japanese Star Wars and tuna commercial, Windows operating system race, Anoplogaster cornuta, two puppies and a branch, reached level 34 of Tetris on NES, cat rice balls, low-budget Avatar, removing parasites from a wasp, "wake up, the house is on fire", comparison of ASTEROID sizes, how to extract semen from an elephant, locust plague, best moments of Hydraulic Press, a super realistic giant banana, the rotten Burger burger, zoom on Betelgeuse, this physics professor is a madman, combat juggling, a rap song made by artificial intelligence, they call him "Pepe Bocina", surfing with hurricane winds, waves 100% man-made, exploring an abandoned hotel, controlled impact of an airplane, reflection of the Sun in the Pacific Ocean seen from space, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk Star Trek Deepfake, Neo takes the blue pill and the short films ALONE: Stormtrooper on the Run, Travelooper and Pangu.
GALLERIES: Great horror illustrations, photographs of Peru at the beginning of the 20th century, the horror of Les Edwards, extended stories of known memes 1 and 2, errors in classical paintings, landscape photography winners, the Bosch parade, the faces of Siberia, realistic murals, photos of fish and things, art with dentures, beautiful clouds, vertigo rooms, movie posters from the Soviet Union, the Animated Dump and the sensational Visual Dump of the week.
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