This week we have a bunch of articles and a good number of fun videos and galleries. Like every Friday! The history of Nokia, dead links, Napoleon's son, prohibited songs, and the 'fourth age', and more below...
The history of Nokia from its phones
"There is a company that had everything and went on to have almost nothing, it is not the only one nor will it be the last, and personally, it gives me a certain melancholy to recall its decline. I am talking about Nokia, the great Finnish telecommunications company, which still survives but whose mobile division disappeared completely. Today there are Nokia phones but they are not manufactured by the Finnish company but by another (HMD) that took over the license of the name."
The clock that stopped when Richard Feynman's wife died
"When the wife of the great physicist Richard Feynman died, the clock in his room stopped. Feynman was a man of science, who absolutely trusted that the laws of nature are behind everything. Some of his phrases should be learned in schools and repeated without rest. But the truth is that the clock that stopped when Richard Feynman's wife died marked that minute forever."
The links that die, the files that are lost, and the Web that disappears page by page
"And the feeling is devastating: according to my calculations, roughly one in four 'principal' links is 404 ('missing in action') and the same happens to YouTube videos that are embedded from the original channels in some notes. Rescuing them is not always easy and takes time. Not only many blogs have disappeared, but also newspaper and magazine articles, company pages and entire websites."
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What happened to the Eaglet, Napoleon's son?
"It was the sad fate of Napoleon II. To be only a shadow of his powerful father. A destiny that, in contrast to the Imperial Eagle, as the first Bonaparte was known, only allowed him to be 'the Eaglet', the nickname given to him posthumously."
"The pater familias was the head of the family, the oldest male member and had absolute power over the whole family, his authority being unlimited and carrying out judicial actions among its members, including the death sentence. These powers during the Republic explain the essential role of the elders in that society."
LSD, the medication of the future?
"On several occasions we have told you how the scientific community has been researching the benefits of psychedelic drugs for the last 20 years, demonstrating that LSD, hallucinogenic mushrooms, MDMA and even cannabis (properly supplied and under medical supervision) help reduce depressive periods, personality disorders and prolonged episodes of anxiety. Recently, new studies have shown how these psychedelic drugs alleviate mental blocks produced by the confinements caused by the pandemic."
What did actors talk about in silent movies?
"In any case, there were those who, when doing their scenes, said anything, with special predilection for obscenities, and that made many spectators who knew how to read lips complain because the actors were not saying what they should according to their characters."
Songs banned after the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11
"Clear Channel Communications issued a memorandum to all national radio stations including a list of songs they believed 'could affect the sensitivity of some listeners', since they contained violent, war, anguish messages or that in some way could remind them of the terrorist attack. At first it seemed like a joke, but eventually they took it very seriously and for months these songs could not be played freely without being frowned upon or punished by the radio chains."
Today marks 40 years since smallpox was eradicated, this is the story of the vaccine that ended it
"Today marks 40 years since smallpox was eliminated from the face of the Earth, except for some samples preserved in two laboratories, one in the United States and one in Russia. So far it is the only human disease that has been completely eradicated, although polio is very close behind. Both have been able to be faced thanks to vaccines. That's why today is a good day to talk about the smallpox vaccine."
"Before a microscopic virus managed to paralyze the activity of half the world, a massive and rejuvenated movement, that of the fight against climate change, occupied headlines and opened newscasts. Now they no longer do, but their reasons remain, from the deforestation of the Amazon to the warming of the oceans, and photojournalism, silent witness to the main conflicts of the planet, bears witness to it."
The 'fourth age': will we live longer feeling worse?
"On the other hand, it is not only about whether we have delayed death. The interesting thing is whether now more years of our existence go by enjoying quality of life. That is what healthy life expectancy at birth measures, a parameter that takes into account the years in which people maintain their physical and cognitive capacities functional."
"It is worth noting that status is a comparative problem and that we tend to see status as a zero-sum game, that is, if someone wins it, another loses it. This greatly complicates the assessment of the impact of the economic situation on suicide. For example, it seems more harmful for someone to lose their job while others in their environment keep it or improve their situation."
Videos
They rob a house while receiving online classes, how to make a jet-propelled airplane, forging the spear of 'King Spirit', time-lapse video of an anthill expansion, deaf kitten sneezing, testing an invisibility shield, Batman in classic movies, arm wrestling final Devon Larratt vs Christian Binnie, cat repeller, song that 'offends' all of Europe, Doom on a pregnancy test, Black Panther sculpture, animated song "Bob Marley - Redemption", the very apocalypse, unearthing a wasp nest with a spoon, it smells like 'hide and seek', why this Black Hole Merger Could Start Changing Astrophysics, "American Psycho" with cats, Dune (2020) vs. Dune (1984), "Titanic" vs "A Night To Remember", singing with the throat and the great shorts: Selfish (2019), Free Apple (with subtitles) and "Apollo 11 - a Lego Story" enhanced to 60 with neural network.
Galleries
Modern animals as dinosaurs, exotic birds, hidden nudity with dots, NASA cosmos images, Soviet Union relics, food art, Disney princesses with real features, the kitten with more than 100 costumes, the super volcano of Mars, diorama that looks like anime, "El libro de los cometas", animal eyes in super detail, the nostalgia of Hong Kong, finalist photos of "Comedia Salvaje", dogs in cars, the strange world of Peter Ferguson, goshiwons - Seoul's micro-rooms, astronomical photography 2020, Miss Bella Primate, more photos of Lisa Bonet, 80s fashion in the USA, the Vertedero and the Tiradero Visual of the week.
