It's getting harder and harder to find material that isn't somehow related to COVID-19 or quarantine. We're all obsessed with what's keeping us isolated and grumpy, and that's understandable. And since Recommended Links have always been a reflection of what's published on the web, dodging the bullet became impossible. So, well... this is what we have prepared for you.
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Radio amateurs ready in case the Internet goes down: "The isolation situation caused by COVID-19 means there is more time for all kinds of hobbies and that the desire to talk to those who are far away has grown. In the region there are about fifty radio amateurs in different places. Many of them are part of the URE, the Union of Spanish Radio Amateurs, which has groups in each of the two provinces."
14 movies in which being locked up is the best option: "Some of the best dystopias, like the one that confines us today, force their protagonists to lock themselves in following a simple logic: being locked up is shit, but going outside is worse. Under this simple premise, post-apocalyptic cinema has built some spectacular stories, but it is not the only genre that has worked on it. Below are some examples in which cinema has portrayed how being locked up is the least bad card that the deck reserves for us."
Old Zealand, Old York and other Olds of the New: "A few years ago we installed a world map with little drawings on the wall of my oldest son's room. On each country its flag appears and, if space allows, some typical monument. The Eiffel Tower, the Sagrada Família, a mounted guard from Canada, things like that. One good day Diego Jr. asked me the question that every father fears: “Dad, if there is a New Zealand, where is the old one?” And that is what we are going to see today."
The potentially habitable exoplanet Kepler-1649c: "Kepler-1649c has 1.06 times the diameter of Earth. That is, it is a terrestrial-type planet located in the habitable zone. Its star is a red dwarf of type M that only has 20% of the Sun's mass and, for this reason, the habitable zone of the system is very close to the star. In fact, Kepler-1649c has an orbital period of only 19.5 days (about 15 million kilometers)."
Requiem for a Dream, 20 years of nightmare, panic, art and addiction: "To underline that addiction knows no preferences, Requiem for a Dream concludes with each of its characters (belonging to very different social strata) assuming a fetal position after having lost a large part of their humanity. Not to mention, of course, some of their limbs... It is an ending conceived almost solely in terms of shock value, but no one can deny that it achieved its goal."
Liberation of Nazi Germany, what many German parents and grandparents still keep silent about: "American war veterans described Mittelbau-Dora as the worst place they saw during their stay in Germany, much more gruesome than the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald, 70 kilometers away, which was also liberated on that April 11, 1945. Along with the approximately 2,000 putrefying corpses, they found 1,200 survivors who were already more dead than alive."
The Black Monday and the hailstorm that killed a thousand English knights: "Then, at night, a colossal storm fell. The cold came suddenly, with lightning, with a wind that tore down the tents set up in the field and with a freezing rain that ended up being a demonic hailstorm. All this caused chaos among the English. The horses ran away frightened and among one misfortune and another, between the cold, the horses and the hail, it is estimated that a thousand men died."
Fossil of a 15-ton 'sea monster' found in Antarctica: "It has taken decades of struggling against the elements on a small desolate island on the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. But now, scientists have unearthed the heaviest elasmosaur they know, an ancient aquatic reptile that plied the Cretaceous seas alongside the dinosaurs. The animal would have weighed up to 15 tons and is now one of the most complete ancient reptile fossils found in Antarctica to date."
How did people do without toilet paper before and since when does it exist?: "Millennia before the COVID-19 pandemic and toilet paper as an effigy of the apocalypse, personal hygiene in Antiquity was quite more painful than we imagine. Without double-ply paper, aloe or floral perfumes. Without paper simply, going to the bathroom was a matter of courage and bravery."
The invention of marriage and the in-laws - "meat for sex": "A crucial evolutionary change was the emergence of pair bonding, the close alliance between a man and a woman with the aim of managing reproduction and parental investment. In all human societies there are these stable bonds between a man and a woman, with expectations (effectively fulfilled) of sexual exclusivity, joint investment in offspring and a large volume of unconditional cooperation and sharing of resources."
Einstein's relativity confirmed in a Tokyo skyscraper: "Two finely tuned optical lattice clocks, one at the base and another at the 450-meter observatory of the Tokyo Skytree tower, have served to make new ultra-precise measurements of the time dilation effect predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity."
US bacteriological weapons tests on its own population: "For seven days, the US Navy launched, from giant hoses aboard a minesweeper, a strong dose of Serratia Marcescens (SM) and Bacillus Globigii (BG) bacteria in the form of a cloud, over 800,000 inhabitants of the bay. The place was chosen for its proximity to the sea, its dense population, its skyscrapers, and because its own fog, in addition to camouflaging the mass of pathogens, would help spread it to neighboring cities."
Videos
Videos: Ghosts for quarantine in Indonesia, retro helicopter piloted by Igor Sikorsky, amazing people versus clumsy people, record of push-ups in one hour, all the animated creatures of Ray Harryhausen, the complete performance of the Diva from 'Fifth Element', 'climbs' Everest in his own home, makes a castle for his cats, old Hollywood stars swearing, two-headed goat, playing with the ugliest airplanes, they save him from certain death, they celebrate Easter at social distance and it's terrifying, ideas for quarantine astrophotography, 13 levels of Beatboxing, Facelift, dancing in movies, 21st century edition, a glider from high altitude, home Cessna 172 simulator, pets in isolation, a walk through the streets of Amsterdam in 1922 at 60fps, the Apollo 16 rover at 60fps, LHC: What Has It Been For?, The Crystal that Feeds on Entropy and the shorts: "AI-POCALYPSE", Wild Love, Batgirl VS Lady Shiva, Bendito Machine VI - Carry on and Friday the 13th: Vengeance.
Galleries
Galleries: Neighbors in quarantine, winning photo of Press Photo 2020, cooking in quarantine, colored photos of a Russian village in 1899, Banksy working from home, the art of Willie Hsu, the most beautiful horse, photos from the mid-twentieth century, breaded bouquets, vintage Hong Kong, therapeutic pig, photos that trick the eyes, the 300-year-old turtle, how animals see the world, the Aboriginal Zitkala, the Vespa festival in Paris in 1954, Manara's women in the midst of a pandemic, Madrid at the beginning of the twentieth century, the beauty of biophysics, the winners of Sony World Photography 2020, more photographs of Lilly Christine, the Vertedero Animado and the Tiradero Visual as the finishing touch.
