The butterfly illusion, life sucks and that's good, hallucinogens of the past, the perfect mirror, and the complete 1984 comic collection to download, among many other things. This time almost no coronavirus content, luckily! Don't miss the links, they're great.
We're not sure the universe began with the Big Bang: Although it seems incredible, the cosmos could have emerged from the void, which perhaps was not born after a great explosion. It may be that at that moment, 13.8 billion years ago, what it experienced was a great rebound after a period of contraction. Since then it has not stopped expanding, until it ends its days in a boring way and with time frozen. The author of the book Beyond the Big Bang tells us about these theories.
Hallucinogens of the past, the fascinating story of magic mushrooms: Today we know that it is a recreational drug that induces hallucinations and a feeling of euphoria, although the ancient origin of magic mushrooms dates back thousands of years. Let us now review part of the history that humanity shares with the psychoactive drug psilocybin and its carriers, the magic mushrooms.
To make the perfect mirror, physicists confront the mystery of glass: Normally, glass does not reflect. Metal reflects because light waves agitate its electrons in free motion, and these absorb and reemit photons in that process. Glass, on the contrary, lets most light pass through because its electrons remain inside the atoms and do not interact much with light. But LIGO makes mirrors with glass thanks to a trick invented in 1939.
Want to be happy? Admit that life sucks: Thanks to her depression, Reshe developed a deeper understanding of the suffering of others and her mind began to analyze that dark side she had fallen into and to which she had paid so little attention before. She said: "As a philosopher, I know that what seems obvious is far from always being so and therefore requires rigorous critical analysis. (...) What if what was actually happening to me, starting from my depression, is that I now saw the world as it was?"
1984, Ci-Fi/Fantasy comic collection (download): Great science-fiction stories passed through its pages, with special emphasis on post-apocalyptic worlds and the future of the human being after a destruction of the planet or the disappearance of life as we know it. The genesis of a new civilization, survival within a hostile world, and the interaction among the survivors themselves are fascinating themes within the genre and are generally magnificently portrayed in this magazine.
Why you should clean your PC coolers: The result of the cleaning was instant, a gain of 20fps (reaching the maximum 60fps of the screen in VSync) in COD:MW, being able to raise the settings, a notable reduction in temperature over the keyboard (where it is most noticeable), superior airflow and the CPU always at its maximum measurements without lowering the clock under any strong demand. Processing a video returned to normal times.
14 prototypes you won't believe existed: In the fifties, the world of motorsport looked to aeronautics, which was reflected in many designs. It went to extremes in cases like the Firebird, closer to an airplane than a car, which used a turbine as an engine.
The black storm: A question that has created a lot of interest, because it is strange, is what the media have referred to as "negative oil price" in the US. And it is that some days the price of the WTI barrel with delivery on April 28 has traded at about -30 dollars, which means that you take the barrel and on top of that they pay you 30 dollars. An aberration, because it is incomprehensible that someone is willing to pay to have their merchandise taken away.
Alice Evans, the advocate of milk pasteurization whom no one took seriously: Alice began working as a rural teacher in 1901 and, after winning a scholarship to Cornell University, graduated in bacteriology in 1909, being the first woman to do so. After obtaining a Master of Science from the University of Wisconsin, in 1910 she applied for a job at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the Dairy Products Division. Although her abilities would have allowed her to do a doctoral thesis without problems, her financial situation forced her to start working to survive.
When fiction precedes reality - The bridges on Euro banknotes: Classical, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Art Nouveau and contemporary architecture, in order of lowest to highest face value of the banknotes. The bridges were fictitious and did not intend to represent any real construction; in fact the original designs included the Rialto Bridge in Venice and that of Neuilly in Paris, but they were modified to make them more generic and therefore more universal.
The era when nurses were vilified instead of praised: During the long and gloomy months of the seventeenth century, the bubonic plague ravaged the city of London. While thousands lay sick and dying, someone had to do the unenviable work of caring for the afflicted during the last moments of their lives. That task invariably fell to women.
Satisfied slave syndrome, when we thank the whips: The satisfied slave syndrome is not a term included in the DSM or any other psychiatric diagnostic manual. I refer with this new concept to the set of symptoms that some people present who, despite living an objectively miserable life, seem to be not only resigned but grateful for their existence. In this article I will try to explain some assumptions in which this defense mechanism occurs, its causes and its social and cultural context.
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Galleries: A plague doctor mask with a Samsung monitor, comics with terrifying endings, illustrated tribute to nurses, before and after of the fringe, tribute to Gene Deitch, stuffed animals, animated old photos, the circulatory system circulating on the street, the illustrations of Peter Klucik, Studio Ghibli backgrounds for Zoom, the best of Russians recreating works of art, more photos of Deborah Walley, so that they don't bother the dead, and we end with the Animated Dump of the Week and the Visual Dump. What more could you want?
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