An Infernal Tower, a meme turned into a cult, hypergamy, a dead man's ashes in a comic and the caipirinha versus an epidemic serve as a sample of some of the things you'll find in this edition of Recommended Links. The rest? The rest you'll have to discover on your own.
The Infernal Tower of 432 Park Avenue, New York: "Would you go live in an 85-story skyscraper? The idea might initially seem attractive, especially thinking about the views from the upper floors, but living in such a tall tower has its downsides; movements, creaking, breakages, and floods."
Jejune Institute - The meme turned into a cult: "Can an augmented reality game end up becoming something very similar to a religion? The Jejune Institute experimented with the heads of its followers for almost four years, and its leaders might be doing it again. Only on a global scale."
The poorest men are more likely to be single. Hypergamy, in a chart: "The results give pause: 50% of men with lower incomes are single, while those with more purchasing power and income do find partners (only 17% are single). But the most curious thing is that the percentage of women is the same at both extremes, no matter how much money they earn."
Are there fairer alternatives to Spotify for streaming music?: "The answer is yes, but. There are several platforms that offer music streaming services with some improvements over Spotify, but they don't differ substantially in what is most criticized: the meager remuneration to musicians, the lack of transparency, and the implementation of monopolistic practices. To find different models, you have to look at cooperative projects that operate under other rules."
Which comic book writer has his ashes printed in a comic?: "Mark Gruenwald died at 42 from a heart attack due to a genetic disease. Known for his compulsive jokes, at first Marvel staff thought his death was another of his pranks. Fulfilling his last wish that his ashes would end up as part of a comic book."
Senet, a board game to reach the Underworld: "The ancient Egyptians, like us with Parcheesi or Ludo, had board games to pass the time pleasantly. One of the most popular was senet, which in addition to being a fun board game had an undeniable ritual sense related to eternal life."
Productivity, your obsession with it has its origin thousands of years ago, but it wasn't always like that: "For many of us, that feeling that we have to be constantly "connected", drones at the back of our brains, the ambient hum of our professional lives (and, let's be honest, our personal lives too), has become so obvious that we often don't stop to think where and how it started."
What were the powers of the dictator in the Roman Republic?: "The dictatorship was an extraordinary magistracy that the Romans created for moments of emergency or extreme crisis. appointing a dictator meant the immediate suspension of the republican political system and the limitations on power that usually affected magistrates. The chosen one assumed almost absolute power."
Scorsese hits out at streaming and algorithms - "The art of cinema is being devalued and reduced to content": "'Content' became a commercial term for all moving images: a David Lean film, a cat video, a Super Bowl ad, a superhero sequel, an episode of a series. It was linked, of course, not to the experience in the theater, but to viewing at home, on streaming platforms that have come to surpass the experience of going to the movies, just as Amazon surpassed physical stores."
The caipirinha, the Brazilian cocktail invented to cure the Spanish flu: "At that time, a popular drink made of honey, garlic, and lemon was used to fight the common cold, but in 1918, with the arrival of the Spanish flu in the country, they sought for the home remedy to have a greater "therapeutic effect" and it was complemented with cachaça, the sugarcane spirit produced in Brazil, which was then used for these purposes."
Phallic competitions in Japanese art: "In shunga (春画), Japanese erotic art, it is common for penises to be shown larger than usual. This constant seems to come from kachi-e, scrolls that dealt with two themes: phallic competitions (Yobutsu kurabe) and fart contests (He-gassen). Although they were published predominantly in the Edo period (1603-1868) and even the beginning of the Meiji period (1868-1912), the oldest is the Kachi-e emaki."
The beauty of the skies, an illustrated astronomy lesson to learn at home (1842): "The beauty of the heavens is a "pictorial sample of the astronomical phenomena of the universe". The work, published in 1842, has 104 elegant illustrations by Charles F. Blunt. Blunt directed his popular astronomy book to teachers and families. It was a work suitable for home education."
Videos: Mortal Kombat trailer, giant moons in movies, van with a second floor that rises, cat shelter with pallets, the caged ball sculpture, the first and last frame, the original "Mah-Na, Mah-Na" (1969), Luke Skywalker vs. Neo, a hyperrealistic T-Rex cake, husky puppy doesn't want to come in, animals that reclaimed Chernobyl, portals in virtual reality, how the Sega Genesis Aladdin was made, "Flight to Mars" 1951, aging portraits, hedgehog wakes up, ships that float in the air, Leonardo DiCaprio stop-motion tribute, guilty kids, three tons of glowing steel in hydraulic press, little kid making the shot, Godzilla vs. Kong vs. Cat, turtle loves its shower and the mask troll.
Galleries: Realistic 3D-printed sculptures, diseases as characters, superheroes water skiing, the unusual yellow penguin, sculptures in food, winning photos from the "Narrative Visual" contest, filmmakers' tricks (like Alien behind the scenes), Asian women with and without makeup, body illusions, surreal photo manipulations, famous Parisian statues replaced by superheroes, wax figures of celebrities from the 80s and 90s, abstract photography, the mechanical secret of King Kong (1933), Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs Perseverance, hyperrealistic pastries, things made from other things, Vertedero Animado and Tiradero Visual.
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