Will we reach the 600 Recommended Links? Will they fire me from NeoTeo? Will we all die first? Or maybe I'll die alone? There's no choice but to wait to find out the answers to all those questions. Meanwhile, in this edition of Recommended Links: animal tears, agriculture on Mars, viruses, vaccines and the Maya Collapse, among many other things.
"Although human tears have been widely studied, until now no one had paid attention to animal tears as a source of information to find new proteins that could be used for treatment. In the article published in the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Ponte and his group analyze the amount of proteins and the different electrolytes present in the aqueous covering of the eyes of different species."
Five well-known rock songs that their authors hate
"Sometimes, no matter how successful a song has been, there is something that the artist who composed or performs it doesn't fit at all. A song may excite millions of fans and thousands of people may sing it every night at their concerts, but the person playing or singing it is living a true hell while making it sound. These are some cases of great rockers who hate their own songs."
Is Martian soil suitable for agriculture?
"Several studies have been done — not many, because it's not like there's much rush, unfortunately — but the latest comes from researchers at the Florida Institute of Technology. For the study, researchers simulated three different types of Martian regolith in great detail, although the precise composition of the red planet's soil is not known with complete accuracy (did someone mention why a sample return mission is necessary?)"
Viruses, on the frontier of life
"Viruses are extremely simple organic structures, often reduced exclusively to a nucleic acid fiber wrapped in a simple protein capsule. In fact, they are incapable of performing any function on their own, needing to penetrate a cell to use its structures and mechanisms to produce new viruses."
When scrubbing the lab makes you a great scientist
"In 1948 they began working in their laboratory with a meteorite of well-known age, but the results made no sense. Tilton realized it could be due to contamination from the laboratory itself and moved to a new one, where he accurately obtained the amount of uranium. Patterson, however, always found too much lead, much more than reasonable. Where did it come from?"
"A case appeared and then another. The count began to rise. The city closed the pools and we all stayed home, locked inside, avoiding other children." As Richard Rhodes explained in his memoirs, during the 40s and 50s, the great plague, the one that terrified parents and closed entire cities, was neither the plague, nor cholera, nor coronavirus: it was polio.
Simple solutions to complex problems, cryptography and binary sequences
"Next, we are going to explain an example in which binary sequences and digit-by-digit addition of binary sequences have allowed cable television platforms, such as HBO, Showtime or Disney Channel –to name those mentioned in the book Mathematics in Everyday Life–, to prevent access to their audiovisual content for those who have not been subscribed to them."
"The very utility these nautical maps had centuries ago for orientation has now become a historical source, and at the same time their aesthetic richness places them as heritage and artistic objects, valued from the Renaissance to the present day. The first representations we can place among the charts used for navigation are the portolans."
"The first equation presented to the public by D'Addario is beautiful for its simplicity. It is due to the studies of Mersenne and Taylor. We have solved for the value of tension to apply to achieve the desired frequency f, with a guitar of scale L and a string with linear mass µ=d.S."
They build a miniature Earth's core
"Our results can be used to think about why other planets in our solar system do not have magnetic fields," said to Live Science Jung-Fu Lin, first author of the study and scientist at the University of Texas at Austin (USA).
Steven Pinker. "If we only debate certain ideas, we guarantee ignorance"
"If we only debate certain ideas, we guarantee ignorance," says Pinker from his home in Boston. The great cognitive psychologist is exhausted, he tells LA NACION that he doesn't have the "energy to answer the same questions" once again, but he continues. On his own and because of the risks he foresees that can arise from the extremes for those who, unlike him, don't have the backing to withstand the onslaught.
The myth of sleeping eight hours
"In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were left in the dark for 14 hours a day for a month. It took time for sleep to regulate, but by the fourth week the individuals had acquired a very different pattern: first they slept for four hours, then woke up for one or two before falling into another four-hour sleep."
What is nihilism and why is our era essentially nihilistic?
"Nihilism, literally the generalization of nothingness or the doctrine of nothingness, can be understood in different ways, as we have already begun to see, but it is the double meaning that Nietzsche gives it, who calls himself the first "European nihilist", which has been the most influential and the one that interests us most here."
How the Athenian prisoners in Syracuse gained freedom by memorizing Euripides' tragedies
"Euripides, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, is one of the three great Greek tragic poets of Antiquity. He wrote more than 90 works, of which 19 have survived to this day (as opposed to only 7 from Sophocles and Aeschylus). However, he was the least successful of the three, and that is why it is somewhat surprising that he was so well received among the Syracusans."
"That is the famous "Maya Collapse" that multiple publications refer to and that has been attempted to explain in every possible way, resorting to earthquakes or other natural catastrophes, invasions of warrior peoples from the area of Mexico, internal revolts led by the lower classes subjected to a situation of strong exploitation, the effect of some great epidemic similar to the European Black Death of 1348, or the consequences of sudden climatic changes in the area."
Videos: ThunderCats done in CGI, a meteorite ring, how he evolved with the guitar over 10 years, collecting lava from an active volcano, a bass made from a C64, fish head, Portal - The Sound Of Science, the oldest song in the world, improving the young Deniro in The Irishman, how to eat the head of a sunflower, a flight simulator in a hotel room, shadow manipulation, Man as an industrial palace, super realistic robotic eye, lobsters that sniff bombs, inside a medieval castle with a drone, the tallest Mohawk in the world, the wind catches them, singing like a siren, 80s music on piano, changing clothes at the speed of light, what I do with kids playing on my driveway, 24 hours of Burning Man, fighting otters, Neo takes the blue pill [DeepFake], extreme kayaking, building a mini dam, and the shorts: The Contraption (1977), Out Of Time (animated), Waste Away (stop-motion) and ELA in Love at First Byte (absolutely awesome).
Galleries: The Simpsons and rock, Soviet posters from the 70s, cake art, a species of bird photographed for the first time, photos from inside the mouth, the best bird photos 2020, Disney Princesses as Villains, green dogs, a super cute fox cub, adding monsters to everyday things, fish face photos, dragonfly photos, the amount of trash we produce in a week, allergic and draws things on his body, fat Disney princesses, shadows with cardboard cutouts, costumes for people in wheelchairs, stuffed animals, the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump.
https://old.neoteo.com/buick-riviera-el-primer-coche-en-tener-un-centro-de-entretenimiento-tactil-1986/Many links this week. Much to read and much to see. I strongly recommend the musical Twisted, if you like the genre. It's free and has excellent Spanish subtitles. Enjoy!
