In this edition of the Recommended Links of the Week: Horror movies and true events, the horror comic of the 50s, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the fate of the replicants, latchkey incontinence, and the theft of Einstein's brain are part of an artisanal selection of the best of the web. All so you can have a good time reading and marveling.
Horror movies based on true events, when reality is more terrifying than fiction: "And there lies the secret of this genre so perverse and wonderful: digging into your own fears until you are able to search within yourself to ask, what is wrong with me? Think of the movie that scares you the most. Can you imagine that something so horrible could happen to you in real life? Well, it happens. As proof, here we leave you ten examples of realities more terrifying than fiction."
The horror genre in American comics before the censorship of the 50s: "Color-blind assassins, swamp monsters, couples wishing to murder each other, spells from the Third World... In the early 50s, a third of comics were macabre and horrifying. It was an era when almost 100 million comics were sold per month, but the same terror they caused in the youths who gathered at the newsstands to buy them was proportional to the panic that broke out in the parishes."
‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’, a centennial classic: "Widely discussed since its release, the film's narrative structure, with its revelations, surprising plot twists and temporal manipulations, had an enormous subsequent impact on the configuration of stories of various genres – of course, horror, noir and thriller, but also Gothic or sinister melodrama – to the point of becoming the vital breath of an entire subgenre."
What happens to each of the replicants in ‘Blade Runner’?: "As we know, the franchise and the replicants are based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, first published in 1968. In Dick's work, these bioengineering entities are named 'androids', although also 'andys' or 'andrillos' (depending on the translation). They are the axis of the stories, both of the novel and the films. Here we review what happens to the 10 androids that appear in the films."
‘Latchkey incontinence’, why do we feel the urge to urinate just when we get home?: "We have all been through that feeling, we are arriving home, happy to finally be able to rest peacefully. As we approach the house we feel the calm of reaching our personal space. But that doesn't last long. As soon as our key enters the lock, the picture changes: the urgency to urinate invades us and is almost uncontrollable. There, right there, we are victims of the phenomenon of 'latchkey incontinence'."
The theft of Einstein's brain: "Often, hospitals keep some organs they deem of interest for pathological study, but when rumors began that Einstein's brain had been secretly removed and that Harvey did not have the family's consent to do so, the doctor managed to convince Einstein's eldest son, Hans Albert, to let him keep his father's brain, and he committed to using it only for scientific purposes."
I've been a video game streamer for four years and my audience doesn't exceed seven people: "His job doesn't allow him to stream more than two or three times a week, always on Saturday and Sunday and some days off. He would like to make a living streaming video games (he maintains that everyone who does this “I would like to be moderately big”), however, he barely exceeds five or six daily viewers after several years of streaming."
Critical thinking: beyond intelligence: "People with a high intelligence quotient tend to exhibit greater critical thinking, but there are numerous exceptions, including even Nobel laureates. Critical thinking depends on many cognitive abilities, some of which intelligence tests do not evaluate. Certain personality traits also influence it."
Forbidden to revolve around the Sun: "Galileo was condemned for his theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun, and not the opposite; an idea that on February 24, 1616, the Inquisition of the Catholic Church declared “formally heretical”, in addition to “ridiculous and absurd in its philosophy”. Heliocentrism had become a matter of theological discussion as a result of Galileo's work Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger), published in 1610."
Fascist Pinocchio, the patriotic representative of Mussolini's Italy: "Children's stories tend to have numerous versions that adapt the tale to the values and thought of each era, as we saw with Beauty and the Beast or Cinderella. The first of the successive anonymous versions of Pinocchio emerged just a decade after the original, sharing only the name of its protagonist. Therefore, it is not surprising that it also fell under the rewriting of the past used to justify fascism."
Electric city, aerial city: is a futuristic city possible?: "It is in the name and in the poster. It is in a thousand homages, parodies and recreations. The metropolis of Metropolis is an electric and vertical city, aerial and in perpetual motion. Stratified in a visual gradient as evident and logical as that of heaven and hell: what is below is dark, noisy and thick, and what is above is light and vaporous."
The Paris Morgue, death theme park: "'The children, who go there as they would to a theatrical performance, call the exposed corpses the artists'. Children, families, grandparents, lovers, maids, wealthy owners, provincial visitors and passersby of all kinds and conditions turned the Paris morgue during the 19th century into one of the city's main tourist attractions."
**VÍDEOS**: Boiling water with your hands, Outrun theme on banjo, Consumer Electronics Show 1987, Metallica - The Unforgiven (medieval style), harvesting pineapples, build a replica of the iMac G4, Karate Jenga 2, you cannot reason or think, Grant Holloway with stabilized head, the 100,000 Lumens flashlight, how to make a Batsignal, dancer with Alzheimer's remembers Swan Lake, feeding 25 fat raccoons, trying to catch a baseball at 1,600 km/h, the anti-repair design of the iPhone 12, He goes hopping on the water, Confutatis K.626, "magic" in the supermarket, and the short films: "Speedy" (1928) enhanced, Assassin's Creed Valhalla - The Hunt and Childline: Nobody is Normal.
**GALERÍAS**: Strange phenomena captured on camera, beauty trapped in ice, the porn fashion of the 80s, Robert Bloch's drawings, whale cemetery, aerial photographs of New York, indigenous beauty by Alexander Khimushin, La Vie Parisienne (1927), cyberpunk kimono, flocks of starlings, the art of Hans Arnold, the ocean photography of Dan Legend, the miniature paintings of Remington Robinson, another failed restoration, the best rebellious graffiti, camouflaged spy cameras, the Vertedero Animado and, to finish, the Tiradero Visual.
