Let's get going! This edition of the Recommended Links of the Week has a ton of stuff. Things like a time bomb in the sea, Chaplin's speech, the Cherub's story, intellectual humility, and the viral sparrow song. There are also viral videos and amazing galleries.
A gigantic ghost oil tanker with 1 million barrels of crude, a time bomb in the middle of the sea: "An old, dilapidated, holey and rusty oil tanker 'ghost' rests, swayed by the waves, in the waters of the Red Sea, waiting for its disastrous end: to sink, split or explode. Abandoned with the only company of a chain that keeps it in place since the 1980s, off the coast of Yemen, the huge tanker is loaded with more than one million barrels of oil."
How to change the 'recipe' of life: "In 2010 Otto took the first step and generated a system based on artificially designed molecules - peptides that are not found in living systems - that were capable of coupling and creating copies of themselves. These molecules form rings of six units that stack on top of each other and generate a kind of template that divides and recruits new molecules to replicate and continue the process."
The last words of the Oracle of Delphi: "Of all the oracles of the ancient Greek world, Delphi was undoubtedly the most important. Many who consulted the oracles of Didyma, Dodona, Olympia, Claros, Efira or Delos asked for a second opinion at Delphi, if they could afford it. Even so, it was not the oldest, a honor that went to Dodona, already mentioned by Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey, although it was one of the richest."
Why we should listen again to Chaplin's anti-fascist speech: "On the day of the filming, with hundreds of extras, the cruelty of Hitler's regime was already obvious, and Chaplin regretted having given it a frivolous and humorous treatment (though it was not at all). Shortly before 'camera, action', he locked himself in his trailer and wrote a hurried, visceral speech in which he poured out all the anguish he carried inside."
Hitler's will and last wishes: "In the last hours of his life, Adolf Hitler did something one usually does much earlier in life: he got married. And he also did something in keeping with those final moments: a will. After marrying Eva Braun, Eva Hitler from that moment on, there was a sad and short celebration, if one could call it that. And after recalling the good times with the few who remained by his side, he was left alone with his secretary, Frau Gertrude Junge. At his dictation she wrote Hitler's will and last wishes."
Five works that should be banned immediately: "Cervantes took advantage of his years in prison (remember he was a con man) to write this ode to gerontophobia and misogyny. Through his protagonist, the author mocks the mentally ill, thus increasing the stigma that still weighs on them today (partly because of this novel). The female role is embodied by the character of Dulcinea del Toboso, who does not even appear in the book." :D
The danger of leaving drug development in the hands of others: "A few days ago, the always media-friendly American president (the same one who has been overtaken by viral reality) pulled a publicity stunt by announcing that he had practically monopolized the entire production of the only effective drug so far against the terrible coronaviral pandemic that is almost destroying the current socioeconomic system, because 'coincidentally' the company that owns the patent is American."
The cherub, the beast that became a little angel: "Furthermore, it is worth noting how the cherubim go from accompanying God in the ark to carrying His throne, indicating that He is no longer in the tabernacle but in heaven. And speaking of heaven, because of their four heads they are considered tetramorphs, coinciding with the animals that surround the Pantocrator in Revelation 4:1-9."
Do you know how many hours a medieval peasant worked?: "Hard work, bad harvests, famine, disease, wars... Being a peasant in the Middle Ages was not exactly a bed of roses. It involved many worries over a whole series of uncontrollable aspects such as weather, pandemics, or power struggles in feudal society. But not everything was bad, at least from the perspective of the whirlwind of the 21st century."
Beethoven's Battle of Vitoria and our excellent boy: "Another of the secondary facts related to the Battle of Vitoria is a composition by Beethoven that we all know and sing today, at least in part. Beethoven admired Napoleon for a long time. So much so that he initially dedicated his Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Opus 55, known as the Eroica, to Napoleon Bonaparte."
The song of the sparrow that went viral: "Bird songs do not usually vary so easily, but a team of Canadian scientists has recorded a unique case with citizen help. In 20 years, white-throated sparrows have 'viralized' a rare song that ends with two notes instead of the traditional three, and that has traveled more than 3,000 km from west to east of Canada."
Intellectual humility and saying "I don't know" is more common among intelligent people: "Having the insight and honesty to say that you are ignorant or inexperienced on a subject is more common among intelligent people. A recent study published in The Journal of Positive Psychology supports this popular idea: it is precisely ignorance (ignorance about one's own ignorance) that makes us bold when talking about any topic."
Videos
The world's smallest gaming PC, Da Vinci's drawing machine, saving a bear in the middle of the lake, the cat broke, Blockbusters from 1986 to 2019, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman for 8 cellos, the most 'disliked' videos on YouTube between 2016 and 2020, noooooooo, safety with fireworks, builds a mini roller coaster that goes through his whole house, a lazy robot, the Thanos sculpture that turns to dust, pulls truck out of well, how to get revenge on noisy upstairs neighbors, drawing a manga page in real time, skydives with his sofa, super machine to make paper cup, a flying ball, the effectiveness of masks, how snakes glide, robot turtle infiltrates turtle invasion, Extraction (big budget VS low budget), Steve Martin - Office Supplies, the problems of chroma, the owl's intimidation system, special effects, the flight over a huge Martian crater full of ice, the death of neurons and the short films: BETRAYAL (Star Wars: Order 66) and FUTURE EX-GIRLFRIEND.
Galleries
Disease in Richard Tennant Cooper's paintings, hamster yawns, excellent old colorized photos, the garden paintings of Keita Morimoto, turns pets into Disney characters, Hopi women, the everyday train in Japan, the futurism of Milinski Vaulter, revives plant with seeds from 32,000 years ago, "The Last Supper" in super high definition, little animals in historical roles, awkward wedding photos, cats as pinup girls, endangered animals, old folks posing as historical paintings, more photos of Ursula Andress, the Animated Dump of the Week and the Visual Dump as the finishing touch.
