The slavery of Korean pop, the 1932 Anti-Olympics, cancel culture, Bohemian Grove and endless other things, many horror shorts, crazy videos and great galleries, coming up next, only in this week's Recommended Links.

Recommended Links of the Week (No. 589)
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Recommended Links of the Week (No. 589)
JuliaR

The story of 'The Secret', the book that made Hollywood stupid: "According to his book The Secret, published in 2006, the law of attraction is as real as the law of gravity and explains that thoughts emit waves that attract what you imagine. With this premise, devoid of any scientific basis, it has sold more than 19 million copies worldwide, translated into more than forty languages, building an empire of superstition that has made her a millionaire and includes documentaries, literary sequels, and a prolific life as a television coach."

"Paranoia", the black-humor role-playing game in a dystopian future: "Paranoia is not a game for the faint-hearted. While other games advocate for good vibes among the group and working together to achieve a goal… here backstabbing is the norm. Your survival is based on being willing to sell out your partner and prove that they are a mutant communist red while following the crazy and contradictory instructions of The Computer and trying to survive the most absurd bureaucracy in the multiverse. It's not for every group or every person." So many memories! It was going to "La Cofradía Club de Rol" and spending hours with "Paranoia".

The origin and meaning of 'Banzai!', the cry of the Japanese during their fearsome charges: "It is almost impossible that someone has never seen any movie about the Pacific campaign in World War II. So it is also unlikely that the word banzai is unknown; everyone knows that Japanese soldiers shouted it in battle. In reality, it is the synthesis of a longer expression, as we will see."

"Time Warp" by Tenacious D

Oppressive contracts, extreme diets and constant surveillance - what's behind the apparent perfection of Korean pop: "In the Netflix documentary BlackPink: Light Up The Sky, the members of the k-pop phenomenon BlackPink describe without any drama how they spent all their teenage years interned in an academy. With hardly any contact with the outside world, they rehearsed 14 hours a day with only one day off every two weeks."

The 1932 Anti-Olympics: "The revolution of 1917 had turned the world upside down. In the twenties, it was not yet clear whether the red flags would stop at the borders of the former Russian Empire and intellectuals around the world could think of utopian models, but they hoped that perhaps they could be put into practice. In this context, left-wing organizations and unions interpreted that this fashion that was causing a sensation, sport, should also be governed under the premises of a revolutionary ethics. (◔_◔)"

The checklist of cancel culture: "Criticism presents evidence and arguments in an effort to persuade. Cancellation, in contrast, seeks to organize and manipulate the social or media sphere with the purpose of isolating, depriving of a platform, or intimidating ideological opponents. It does not try to seek the truth, but to mold the information battlefield; its intention – or at least its most predictable consequence – is to force conformity and reduce the spectrum of critical possibilities that have not been sanctioned by the predominant consensus of some local majority."

Marathon along the Great Wall of China

The ITER nuclear fusion project: "The acronym ITER stands for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, although the word "Iter" also means "the way" in Latin. It is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world. (...) This experimental project is of crucial importance for the advancement of nuclear fusion and to pave the way for commercial fusion power plants."

A living room, a bar and a classroom - this is how coronavirus spreads in the air: "Indoors are more dangerous, but it is possible to minimize risks if all available measures are put into play to combat aerosol transmission. These are the probabilities of infection in these three everyday scenarios depending on ventilation, masks, and the duration of the encounter."

Bohemian Grove, the secret camp of the rich and powerful in California: "Over the decades, the Bohemian Club's membership roster has included, in addition to numerous artists and intellectuals, several US presidents, as well as influential senators, congressmen, academics, and senior executives of the country's largest companies and financial institutions. the secret camp of the rich and powerful in California." After seeing the Joe Rogan podcast with Alex Jones I had to look up if it was true.

Back to the Future: Reimagined (35th Anniversary)

"Digital natives are the first children with a lower IQ than their parents": " 'The factory of digital morons'. That is the title of the latest book by neuroscientist Michel Desmurget (Lyon, 1965), research director at the National Institute of Health of France, in which he recounts with hard data and bluntly how digital devices are seriously and negatively affecting the neuronal development of children and young people."

What are cement ships? Where are they? How do they float?: "Much is said about cement ships or, really, we should say reinforced concrete, since it contains cement and iron. When this topic is mentioned, one immediately thinks that this is not going to work, it will not float. Of course, we are used to boats made of wood, metal or plastic. However, as long as Archimedes' principle is fulfilled that the weight of the displaced water is greater than the weight of the boat, the vessel will float."

Coronavirus at sea, where have all the cruise ships gone?: "Just over a million and a half people work on ships around the world as engineers, cooks, boatswains, or officers of any kind. A quarter of them are Filipinos, by far the nation that contributes the most personnel to global navigation. The vast majority work on merchant ships, but several thousand do so on large cruise ships. For that reason, at the end of May, two dozen giant recreational ships anchored in Manila Bay." To go deeper, see the gallery "The End of Pleasure".

Pirates of the Caribbean at Shanghai Disneyland

VIDEOS

Brain Dead 13 (PS1) - Full drawing

GALLERIES

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Many videos and Halloween-related things, yes. That's what there is, the party is already pandemic, it has taken over the entire world and the Internet is a reflection of that. Thanks for being there!