Today a pipe burst on the sidewalk and flooded everything, so I didn't have much time to look for nice things. Even so, we have a bunch of marvels: radioactive drinks, computers that review your CV, chess documentaries and the recipe for an Ancient Egyptian cookie. Want more? Well, read on while I keep scooping water out of my property.
Effect of real-time strategy game training on decision-making in adolescents "It was evaluated whether training with a real-time strategy video game could improve decision-making (DM) in adolescents of both sexes aged 15 to 18 in the city of Córdoba (Argentina). An experimental design with pre and posttest with control group was used. The experimental group went through 7 training sessions of 40 minutes with the video game Dark Reign (independent variable)."
August Derleth, the creator of the Cthulhu Mythos "When H.P. Lovecraft died in 1937, his readers of Weird Tales responded with deep sorrow, which was manifested in hundreds of letters that reached the magazine's editorial office. That sadness, however, did not correspond to a revival of Lovecraftian fiction. Many author friends of Lovecraft abandoned references to his works; the pages of the Necronomicon ceased to be cited, even one of his most beloved friends, Clark Ashton Smith, stopped writing completely for a while (see: Clark Ashton Smith in the Cthulhu Mythos)."
The radioactive drink that 'dissolved' a golfer's jaw "It was the beginning of the 20th century and smearing or consuming radioactive products was fashionable long before it was known to cause cancer. Byers, unfortunately, succumbed to this fad and died with his jaw destroyed and with a not very athletic body, compared to what he had been... And all because of Radithor, a radioactive drink that a doctor had recommended to him after an injury."
The computers that reject your resume when you apply for a job "I am a journalist and had just applied for a new job. During the first part of the hiring process, I was invited to play several simple online games, from the comfort of my own home. They included quickly counting the number of points in two boxes, inflating a balloon before it exploded to earn money, and linking emotions with facial expressions. Then, an artificial intelligence software system evaluated my personality and decided whether to approve or reject me."
The call of an old conch shell sounds again 18,000 years later "Maybe they used it to summon other group members on the other side of the valley, to coordinate during a hunt or for some kind of magical ritual related to their cave paintings. We don't know. But what we do know is that the old sea conch, 18,000 years old, still emits sounds when blown through it and allows creating at least three different musical notes."
Are Westerners the weirdest people in the world? "Faced with this Western psychological profile, Henrich suggests that most cultures promote a tendency toward collectivism, so that individuals identify more strongly with family, tribe, clan and ethnic group, consider nepotism as a natural duty, think in a more relational and holistic way, assume as their own the responsibility of what their group does and feel above all shame, instead of guilt, when their behavior deviates from the dictates of tradition."
The photograph with the longest exposure time "The purpose of the work is to show the transience of the present, the insignificance of our daily acts, offering another way of seeing life. What it wants is that the acts that affect the world decide what will be shown on the camera. However, as good conceptual art, for the artist it doesn't matter if he fails to create a recognizable image, since he considers it an experiment whose result is unpredictable and will not be seen until a millennium later."
The mysterious case of the mammoth steak "On January 13, 1951, the New York Explorers Club held its 47th Annual Dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel in that city. This organization brings together field researchers, old-school explorers, those who seek, traverse and study the most unknown and inhospitable places on the planet. If you want to learn more about this Club, go to its website, it's worth it. At that 47th Dinner in 1951, the menu included, among other gastronomic delicacies, mammoth meat."
12 chess documentaries available online "It entered Europe through various routes; one of them was through the Byzantine Empire, especially in Constantinople, already distinguishing itself from the original shatranj (chaturanga). It began to be played in Russia from the beginning of the 8th century and through the Arabs it reached Spain in the 9th century. And well into the 21st century, a TV series called Queen's Gambit revitalized it, increasing its popularity among fans of the series and associates. In this article, we compile some documentaries available online about chess, its history and the biography of great chess players." Ideal for supplementing our resources to improve your chess strategy.
Shayt cookies. An ancient Egyptian recipe "Shayt cookies were very popular in ancient Egypt and we can still cook and enjoy them today. Those we are going to prepare here are based on the recipe collected by Egyptologist Pierre Tallet in his book Historia de la cocina faraónica (p.68, Ed.Zendrera Zariquiey, 2002), from documentation from the tomb of Rekhmire, who lived during the 18th Dynasty (1570-1293 BC) and was vizier of Thutmose III and Amenhotep II. Let it be noted that the goal of this culinary adventure is not to do experimental archaeology, simply to try to have a fun time cooking and then savor a flavor that ancient Egyptians also enjoyed millennia ago."
Music for the deaf. Yes, music for people who can't hear "There are not a few occasions when, chatting about bands with colleagues, the expression 'that's music for musicians' comes up, referring to bands of high virtuosity, whose compositions are not exactly catchy, easy to follow or easy listening. I mean, they are not Chayanne's 'Torero': neither danceable nor with a catchy chorus nor is the melody going to stick in your head on first listen. What I had never heard was 'music for the deaf'. Not until the other day when I heard it on RNE Clásica. So, since I found it very interesting, I'm going to document and ramble a bit about what I heard."
The phenomenon that is preventing us from sleeping during the pandemic "The new year comes with resolutions. One of the most popular goals is, as expected, to sleep more. But there is a problem: the current coronavirus crisis has made getting a good night's rest much more difficult. Some experts even have a term for it: 'coronasomnia' or 'Covid-somnia' (insomnia means insomnia in English)."
Videos
Crocodile that thinks it's a dog, pulling a pellet out of a foot, the first cat video (1899), playing Jenga with a cat, pulling a tire off a giraffe's neck, Euler disk, ice bicycle, the robot dog has an arm, using a 130-year-old camera, The Legend of Zelda but with Beavis, Disney reusing scenes, sorting algorithms taken to the limit, Escape Level 1000, how cameras work in slow motion, sloths in outer space, what happens in a blink, Rebecca Black - Friday (Remix), stupid cat, seagull watching seal birth, a crazy experiment, Darth Bully Maguire vs Obi-Wan Kenobi, incubating a parrot egg, Bill Gates' predictions, "I'm not a cat" and museums exploiting the viral.
Galleries
Icons of pop culture with sausages, anime food, how celebrities changed, how the girls of the 80s and 90s are, magical plants, excellent somewhat erotic drawings, underwater photography winners, superheroes posing with fans in the 70s and 80s, travel photography winners, best wildlife photos, abandoned places, independent photographer winners, super crazy costumes, the heroines of Fernanda Suarez, the illustrations of Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926), the Vertedero Animado and the Tiradero Visual to close.
