Recommended Links of the Week (No. 568): exploding eels, Cannibal Holocaust, sex in space

What do we have in this week's Recommended Links? Hang on tight! Exploding eels, the New World Order map (from 1942), Cannibal Holocaust, sex in space and the trip around the world in 80 songs, among many other things. Don't miss it!

Map of 1942. The New World Order: "As a hypothesis, the map may have come from some kind of conspiracy pushed in military-industrial circles, with a worldwide distribution of the famous 'zones of influence' geopolitics among the great powers, strategically foreseeing how the world should be organized after the postwar period."

When emulation is not enough: MiSTer FPGA is the project that simulates all kinds of classic machines by hardware: "However, software emulation is not always enough, and that's where MiSTer comes in, a project that has turned the Terasic DE10-Nano board into an absolute marvel for those who want to enjoy the platforms and their contents exactly as they were conceived. This is not software emulation, but hardware simulation, and its fidelity to those architectures and their games is absolute."

(NSFW!!!) 40 years of 'Cannibal Holocaust': missing actors, cannibal sensationalism and a sadistic director: After seeing Cannibal Holocaust (1980), Sergio Leone wrote a letter to Ruggero Deodato, the man behind that controversial film. "The second part is a masterpiece of cinematic realism, but everything seems so real that I think you're going to get into a lot of trouble," he wrote. And the maestro of the spaghetti western hit the nail on the head.

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Snake eels 'explode' in the stomachs of their predators, and that's not their only peculiarity: "The first of these things, according to ScienceAlert, is that they can use their tail, which is hard and pointed, to explode the stomach of their predators. With this action they only seek freedom, but most of the time they fail trying to escape. But this is not the most shocking thing about what snake eels do. Nor the grossest. In fact, the second thing is that once they reach the intestinal cavity of their captors, they mummify inside."

Which ear did Van Gogh cut off?: "Vincent Van Gogh is famous for several things. For his art, of course. His sunflowers, for his brushstrokes, for his colors… for having sold only one painting in his lifetime and, of course, for having cut off his ear. To know which ear Van Gogh cut off, his work is no help. He cut off the left one, even though his paintings say otherwise."

How will we make love in space? It won't be easy: "Making love in space may seem like an obsession of screenwriters. In reality, it is a very serious topic for scientists. NASA and the Russian space program have been investigating the matter for several years. Also to verify the possibilities of human species survival in view of future migrations to other planets."

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You don't have 'cabin syndrome', you just don't want to go back to your crappy life: "Well, no. You don't have 'cabin syndrome'. There is no such thing, no pathology classified under that name. It's an invention, a cute nonsense, pure Sunday supplement psychology, yet another attempt to pathologize everything that happens to us, and then sell you advice, therapies or pills. Like post-vacation syndrome, that low you get every year when you have to go back to work, and which every September also merits reports and psychological advice."

Uta von Ballenstedt, the medieval sculpture that served as a model for Snow White's stepmother: "Walt Disney chose it in 1937 for his first feature film (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was also the first sound and color film in the history of cinema) and, as was customary, he took a real character as a model for the image of the evil and vain queen: a woman who lived in the 11th century and whose sculptural portrait, preserved in Naumburg Cathedral, is considered one of the most significant of German Gothic. Her name was Uta von Ballenstedt."

The Bronze Age Collapse: "The Bronze Age collapse is not as well known as the fall of the Roman Empire, but the latter had consequences still visible today. That Mediterranean and Middle Eastern society was highly interconnected: trade, alliances or political conflicts were common to the whole region. However, in just over a century, approximately from 1200 to 1100 BC, this system entered into crisis and the great kingdoms that characterized it disappeared from history. What happened?"

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Heartfield, the Dada artist who fought Hitler with photomontages: "During the 20s and 30s, the artist John Heartfield revolutionized the world of political photomontage with pieces that harshly criticized Hitler, showed his collusion with the German oligarchy and warned of the danger that his coming to power would mean."

Playlist: Around the World in 80 Songs: "That journey through 80 representative songs (sometimes for many, sometimes for oneself) of a country or a city is a way to discover, to learn, to disagree, to entertain oneself and, above all, to realize that the world is wide, varied, out of tune, needy. Now and then."

The curious story of 'the most kissed woman in the world': "Resusci Anne is the name of the mannequin with which millions of people around the world have learned for decades to perform CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. That is why she is known as 'the most kissed woman in the world.' But behind the person who lent her image to the mannequin there is a truly curious story, dating back to the 19th century."