Want to know what you'll find in the Recommended Links? Well, here's a teaser: a woman with two vaginas, the real Snow White, aliens and black holes, and ridiculous deaths in the Middle Ages. The rest? I'm afraid you'll have to keep reading to be surprised. Enjoy!
Testimonies of a woman with two vaginas: "When Jones was young and began having her period, she sensed that her body was not like others: she felt too much pain. Later, when she and her boyfriend had sex, he confirmed that that cavity was not like the ones of girls he had had sex with. Hazel not only has a double uterus, but her vagina also split, which is very unusual."
Snow White exists, lives in rural China's Arcadia, and has 60 million followers: "Entering her YouTube channel is like opening a window to the past and glimpsing the traditional culture of rural China; that's why media and her community of followers have nicknamed her the Snow White of the 21st century. And rightly so: one day she uploads a video about drying persimmons, another day she shares the best technique for making bamboo furniture."
This is APOLLO, the impressive board game based on NASA's missions to the Moon: "The dream of all geeks who follow space launches and missions has come true. Buffalo Games and Pandasaurus will release a board game based on NASA's Apollo missions. Designer Jonathan Gilmour, responsible for games like Dead of Winter and Dinosaur Island, revealed the first details of APOLLO, the game inspired by the Moon missions."
Penrose was right, aliens can extract energy from a black hole: "A 50-year-old theory, which began as speculation about how a supposed alien civilization might use a black hole to extract energy, has just been experimentally verified in a research laboratory in Glasgow. The study has just been published in Nature Physics."
30 years of Total Recall, curiosities of the classic that made Alien possible (released 11 years later): "Movie anniversaries are the best reminder of how old I'm getting. This month it's one of the great sci-fi classics that fascinated a whole generation. It was June 1990, 30 years ago, when a film that would mark an era was released: Total Recall, by Paul Verhoeven."
Manufacture of synthetic fuels in Germany during World War II: "90% of the fuel used by the German armed forces during World War II was synthetic, made from hydrogenated coal. Between 1930 and 1941, 8 plants were built in Germany to process bituminous coal, producing more than 930,000 tons per year, dedicated solely to the production of aviation fuel."
Five ridiculous deaths in the Middle Ages: "We can find quite a few ridiculous deaths in history, as we already showed in the previous article, with great examples from Antiquity, and of course, the Middle Ages also had quite curious deaths, like those of Frederick Barbarossa or Sigurd the Mighty. Join us in this top to discover five of them."
Did the medieval order of the Assassins exist?: "Did an order of assassins covertly control the Middle East in the past? It's a tempting legend tailor-made for video games and crusade-era chronicles. But the word 'assassin' derives from a pejorative term for the Nizar Ismailis, a mysterious but short-lived group of medieval Shia Muslims."
The land and the sea in medieval cartography: "During the Middle Ages, what we now call 'world view' was very restricted. The invasions and the insecurity they caused had generated a terrible fear of the unknown, which, added to low literacy and fears from religious beliefs, closed the horizon for most of the population. Beyond the sea was an impenetrable ocean, full of monsters. There were also gigantic precipices that were impossible to cross. These visions were very common and are magnificently captured in medieval Beatus manuscripts."
The ultimate conspiracy theory: "The champions of the New World Order, based in the United States, cannot tolerate China snatching global leadership from them. After all, they have invested much effort and money to reach that position. They killed the inventor of the water engine. They killed JFK so he wouldn't reveal the fake moon landing, and his brother Robert so he wouldn't discover that, in fact, the Earth is flat."
Stupidity and the PhD - Inseparable friends: "Recently I saw an old friend for the first time in many years. We had both been PhD students at the same time, both studying science, although in different areas. She dropped out of the PhD, went to Harvard Law School, and is now a senior lawyer for a large environmental organization. To my surprise, she told me she left because it made her feel stupid."
We have already managed to map in detail (and put in the public domain) 19% of the Earth's seafloor, and it's not being easy at all: "There is an incontrovertible truth about contemporary science: we know the surfaces of Mars, Venus, or Mercury better than the ocean floor. And no, it's not a joke, nor a figure of speech. It takes a few minutes to access high-quality images of every corner of the Red Planet. However, even going directly to the largest project to understand the ocean's depths and make them available to everyone..."
Videos
VIDEOS: Making the Task Manager dance, 'The Office' with Arnold Schwarzenegger, filling an elastic doll with lead, Kill Bill choreography, removing clay from his face, dog owner gets wet, The Lovecats - Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, a fire jellyfish in the deep ocean, turning pixelated faces into real ones, the last bus to nowhere, astronaut birds, Gospel Galactico, impossible structures with rocks, The Muppets and James Corden: 'With a Little Help from My Friends', a Lego pizza, the complex road to a vaccine, singing in Klingon, feeding seventeen raccoons, how to make a piano with popsicle sticks, SPACE: A SKATE ODYSSEY, why Americans eat dessert for breakfast, fixing POTHOLES with MARUCHAN, more social distance in video games, why things spin, a baby squirrel eating, Grumpy Cat, and the short films 'B is for Ben', 'Onions', and the Darth Maul short called Hatred.
Gallery
GALLERY: The rotten art of Paolo Girardi, horrible men's fashion, fuck you mushrooms, celebrities who aged well, people who changed with puberty, an orchestra for plants, 3D street art, the art of mhalawany, doing yoga during a pandemic, a bad day, more photos of Cheryl Rixon, the skeletons of classic characters, transformations of classic characters, gender swap of celebrities, Tarantino pop art, what happens when you change gender many times, stupid and fun art, a Russian fairy tale, (NSFW) illustrated fetishism (/NSFW), the behind the scenes of Alfred Hitchcock, galvanic baths, the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump.
Sorry for the time I published today. I'm one of the Payoneer victims and I've been following the news. What madness! I hope you're well. A hug.
