Batman, Banksy, the deepest inverted tower, Beethoven's metronome, Venera 7 and die. Yes! All that and much more are part of the Recommended Links of the Week, in an edition with everything you like and more. Don't miss a single comma!
How Tim Burton's Batman changed Hollywood and superhero cinema: "Regardless of your age, or whether you already went to the movies back then, the Batman film was already having a huge impact that would leave a mark on the following decades, especially on the way films are made today, affecting the superhero subgenre the most, and on how the film industry sells its projects to audiences."
She pauses her house sale after Banksy paints his latest work on the wall; now it's worth 17 times more: "A woman was about to sell her house in Bristol, United Kingdom. The price was around £300,000 (just over €350,000), but now she has put the sale on hold, because she could get almost 17 times more, that is, over £5 million (about €5.5 million). The reason? A painting on one of its exterior walls. The author, Banksy."
The mystery of Sintra's Inverted Tower, Europe's deepest building: "In Portugal, about 30 kilometers from Lisbon, lies the municipality of Sintra, where the Quinta da Regaleira stands, the estate that houses the set of historic buildings, located in the very historic center of the city and forming a labyrinth of wells, towers, gardens, and hundreds of decorative elements that blend into an air of mystery."
Amazing smoke screens created from planes in World War II: "These protections have been used in many types of combat. From smoke grenades for man-to-man fighting to tanks that emitted smoke to protect themselves. The case I'm talking about is special for its spectacle, for doing it from the air. Creating smoke screens from planes to protect ships was done in World War II. In naval warfare, smoke generators were almost part of the basic combat equipment of ships."
Japanese tanks and their tactics: "The Japanese have so far made only limited use of tanks. However, in their operations in China they have had the opportunity to use tanks much more extensively than elsewhere because of the nature of the terrain and the large areas where combat has occurred. In fact, China has been the great testing ground for Japanese armored vehicles of all models."
Venera 7, half a century since the first successful landing on another planet: "What was the first space probe to successfully reach another planet? Few people know it was the capsule of the Soviet probe Venera 7, an armored titanium hemisphere that on December 15, 1970 descended through Venus's infernal atmosphere until it reached the surface and survived to tell the tale. The Soviet Union began launching probes to Venus as early as 1961, but the design of the first series of 1V spacecraft was too rudimentary to achieve quality scientific results."
No. So. Fast. A scientific explanation for the mystery of Beethoven's metronome: "This discrepancy between Beethoven's tempos and those most consider reasonable is one of the great mysteries of his work, and many solutions have been proposed: perhaps his deafness altered his perception of tempo, or there was a transcription error; even cognitive decline has been speculated. A popular explanation is that the metronome was broken, something hard to verify because the device is lost."
Fireflies that devour their dates in self-defense: "According to a psychology study, there were women who accepted dates with the sole purpose of eating for free. This strategy would not be exclusive to humans, since fireflies attract each other for the same purpose. What's more, this type of behavior sticks in the throat of some people and some animals alike. The key lies in lucibufagin (LBG), a compound structurally similar to bufalin, present in the venom of toads of the Bufo family."
Prehistoric fish: gigantic, fascinating, and terrifying: "One of the major problems facing paleoichthyology, the science that studies prehistoric fish, is the lack of fossil remains of these now-extinct animals or the poor condition of these remains when found, making the study of fossil fish very difficult. Despite this, over time hundreds of species of marine animals have been discovered and studied that populated Earth's oceans for millions of years. Some of them, gigantic prehistoric fish as fascinating as they are fearsome."
Is the collaborative economy ending altruism?: "You help me move, and I water your plants when you go on a trip. We seal the deal by clinking two beer mugs, a toast that cements the classic 'today for you, tomorrow for me.' Things get murky when one of us pulls out a wallet to pay the other. Then we unleash an economic dissonance, the biggest, most grating, and most paradoxical in recent times: is this a favor or a service?"
The inventor of the Steadicam who revolutionized filmmaking: "Rocky Balboa climbing the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Rocky (1976). Young Danny Torrance on his tricycle through the cavernous hallways of the Overlook Hotel in 'The Shining' (1980). Imperial stormtroopers firing among trees on the forest moon of Endor in 'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi' (1983). What do these cinematic moments, indelibly etched in the collective imagination, have in common? They were all filmed using a Steadicam! And they were all filmed by the inventor of the Steadicam, British Garrett Brown!"
Die: "And it matters little whether you have faith or not. If religious morality agrees with a certain type of existentialism on anything, it is on the idea of death as liberation. Absolute forgiveness. An amnesic sense of responsibility and commitment. Nothing matters anymore, everything is left behind, like closing the door without looking. We are referring, in short, to the lightness of no longer being alive. And what else can one do but agree. Yes, yes, yes, and a thousand times yes. Kicking the bucket is great. It's a blast. You've got to die. And the sooner, the better."
Videos
Christmas Twerk, how to make fried water, 1,002 Jenga pieces, prefabricated folding house, precision walking competition, the Back to the Future hoverboard made real, soldier ants, many things in slow motion, Cyberpunk 2077 in super low resolution, Die Hard cake, Home Alone with a kitten, beard growing time-lapse video, snowflake formation, dog turns off Roomba, Super Nintendo World, chase missions, baby tries carbonated water, chicken-punching machine for cooking, smartphone fails, dog reunites with owner after 2.5 years, how anime avatars are made, how to fall according to a Hollywood stunt double, hamster escapes and is awesome, Gollum singing "Nothing Compares 2 U", Deck the Halls but it's War Pigs, Anthony Howe making a kinetic sculpture, playing the piano in my car.
Galleries
The longest known exposure photograph, cleaning Mount Everest, building of tennis courts, the beauty of a white lion, beautiful and tender tattoos, glowing barcodes, frozen soap bubbles, photos from the Earth Photo competition, the beauty of a 1986 car, colorized photos of old celebrities, the great Japanese wave made of LEGO, Russian Romanticism, fantasy arcades, reconstructing faces of historical figures, Mahajati's carvings, a father and his sons, Gaku Azuma's body tattoos, sculpture with an open chest, the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump.
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