Monkey with a brain chip, the Lovecraft Circle, futuristic inventions from the past, hydrogen through the anus, and the Werther Effect lead the charge in an epic edition of Recommended Links, which has everything you like and much more.
Ten reasons to defend physical media: "That leads to appreciating less obvious music and paying more attention to what sounds. I myself have gone from thinking that albums I had listened to twice downloaded or on Spotify were mediocre to finding masterpieces when I have performed the ritual of putting them on, looking at the lyrics while listening and enjoying the money spent."
Elon Musk's company implants chip in monkey to play "video games with his mind": "According to the businessman, the animal "is not uncomfortable" and his goal is to see if they can get monkeys to play mentally to "Pong" against each other, as part of his research to develop a wireless brain-device interface. "You can't see where the implant is and it's a happy monkey. We have the nicest monkey facilities in the world. We want them to play mind-Pong with each other," Musk added."
Trip in five jumps to the very end of time: "When it comes to large numbers, popularizers and scientists often provide flashy comparisons to help us understand their gigantic magnitudes. A common thing, for example, is to say that there is a quantity of such and such greater than the number of grains of sand on all the deserts and beaches of the Earth. That kind of comparison, however, only makes sense until certain magnitudes are reached, and ceases to make sense with those that are even larger."
A groundbreaking scientific study warns of a "dreadful future of extinction": "This panel of experts signs an article just published in the journal Frontiers in Conservation that compiles for the first time the 150 most influential studies on environmental problems. And after reviewing each one and contrasting them with the response given, the experts speak literally of a "dreadful future". They recognize that human beings are not aware of the severity of the environmental crisis and that inaction has only made the patient's health worse."
The Lovecraft Circle and the aristocracy of "Weird Tales": "Weird Tales held a unique place in the horror story field. Despite this invaluable worth, it was not a charity. It was a business, and the magazine was forced to find a balance, not always happy, between sales and support for quality literature. This circumstance, and the genre that was part of its essence, contributed to the creation of a separate aesthetic, whose matrix could be defined as the need to privilege wonder above any other effect."
15 medieval castles for a legendary trip: "They were built on rocky watchtowers and coastal promontories, in strategic locations to fulfill their fundamental function: to protect and defend the population that lived under their shelter. Many of those solid constructions whose origins date back between the 10th and 14th centuries have reached our days with their imposing image to relive the difficulties and conflicts that were experienced inside and outside their walls."
Extravagant inventions from the past that look completely futuristic: "The future was 100 years ago, let's not fool ourselves. No matter how much we think we are at the forefront of technology and design, since time immemorial a group of heroic visionaries already knew how everything would be and imagined it and dreamed it even better than it is now."
These spiders use an ingenious elastic pulley system to raise prey 50 times larger to their web: "Spiders of the Theridiidae family are true engineers of the animal world. These spiders are known for immobilizing with their venom and devouring prey up to 50 times larger than themselves. But the question that has always fascinated scientists is how they manage to bring those prey up to their web."
The military doctor who inserted hydrogen through his anus to save his soldiers' lives: "However, wounds in the abdomen often caused intestinal perforations, even if the bullet was not lodged in the intestine. Many patients died for this reason, showing symptoms too late to try to solve the problem. One of the doctors who had to deal with this situation was the surgeon Nicholas Senn."
We are becoming less intelligent, more closed-minded and intellectually limited by technology: "In general terms, the internet provides us with information in a way that weakens our ability to pay attention. We get a huge amount of information when we browse the internet or use our cell phones, but it arrives in a very fragmented way; many little pieces of multimedia information (sounds, photos, moving images, texts) that compete with each other, overlapping."
Why cooking made us smarter and allowed us to use more of our brain: "King Kong couldn't exist." We start strong. The quote is not mine, it's from Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, who a few years ago stopped to see what was happening with our brain. The relationship between King Kong's existence and the evolution of our brain seems diffuse, but give me a moment.
The myth of the Werther Effect and suicides by imitation: "It is not very common to talk about suicides in the media, because apparently one of the consequences is that the number of suicides increases. I cannot say how much of this is true or exaggerated, but it does seem that there are some cases that lead one to think that suicide is contagious, in some way. A famous case is that of The Sorrows of Young Werther, a novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. So much so that it gave rise to its own term, the Werther Effect. But as we will see, the myth of the Werther Effect and suicides by imitation is not proven."
VIDEOS: Turning a toy into a relic, dog persuades dog to play, a fully mirrored room, opens parachute very low, man visits his dead wife in VR, "Under The Sea" but about ADHD, teamwork, how to start a truck in extreme cold, transparent rockets, parrot sings Creep (Radiohead), pouring concrete from a helicopter, one second makes all the difference, something out of the Cthulhu Myths, puppy and turtle play soccer, talking mushrooms, Super Mario Bros. Medley (40 songs), don't buy a screen protector, homopolar motor, super avalanche on Everest, magic carpet, Las Chicas de Guanabara, Freddy VS. Jason - "MORE THAN BURNS", giant dog theme to the stairs, how many people died because of nuclear energy, helping a little deer, girl dances on the street, the great migration of tadpoles and The Ultimate 80s Medley (Van Halen, A-Ha, Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, etc.).
GALLERIES: The Simpsons in the Soviet Union, painting of the eclipse by Cathrin Machin, Frozone and his super power, more photos of Kim Basinger, paintings by Walid Ebeid, winners of the contest on births 2020, the satirical art of Waldemar Kazak, the photo and its backstage, the porcelain figures of Claudia Fontes, Unhappily ever after, oil paintings by Andrey Shatilov, the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump of the Week.
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