This week’s recommended links cover Japan’s plan to kill Chaplin, the Late Antiquity Ice Age, the arming codpiece, and all the dimensions of the universe. You know, just some of the things you’ll have to read in the Recommended Links. For more, scroll down — it costs nothing.
<strong>How many dimensions does the Universe have?</strong>: "How many dimensions does the Universe have? For any physics enthusiast, the answer to this question seems simple: we inhabit a world with 3 spatial dimensions and one temporal (the 4-dimensional space-time). But, could there be additional dimensions? How is it possible that we don’t perceive them?"
<strong>The arming codpiece, the Renaissance fashion for showing off the package</strong>: "During the Renaissance, the fashion of wearing garments that accentuated the silhouette of the legs stood out, but also those that accentuated the masculine "package". The arming codpiece was a men’s garment that during the 15th and 16th centuries went from a simple triangle of fabric to a padded and decorated article hard to ignore."
<strong>The prophecy of an apocalyptic plague “The Last Man on Earth” by Mary Shelley</strong>: "From this perspective, the plague is an archetypal event that offers a terrifying resemblance to what is happening these days and a relevance regarding what we think of it today. Like every pest, -so we are told- this one also comes from the East, it is catalogued as an invisible enemy, an invader that will necessarily be defeated."
<strong>If you feel alone when you’re with yourself, you’re in bad company</strong>: "Solitude is the great carver of the spirit. Therefore, we can use it as a tool to boost our personal growth. When we are alone, we only hear our own voice, that internal dialogue that most of the time makes us so uncomfortable and that we try to silence with noise and company since we become conscious. We are not really afraid of solitude, we are afraid of what we have to tell ourselves."
<strong>How the oldest wooden relic in the world could reformulate history</strong>: "The Shigir idol was carved more than 12,500 years ago in a tree that was already more than 150 years old. It is estimated that in its day it measured more than 5 meters in height when fully mounted, and it has zigzag lines carved over the entire body and eight human-looking faces carved on the top. The German and Russian team believes it was carved at the end of the last Ice Age and the beginning of the Holocene, the current geological period."
<strong>«The Prisoner» - I’m not a number, I’m a free man</strong>: "The place seems to be run by Number 2, a position held by different people with different approaches in their confrontation with Number 6. Aggressiveness, cunning, flattery, hypnosis, or drugs… Anything goes to try to break his firm will. Even, in one episode, elections are held for that position, to which our protagonist also presents himself with the intention of destroying the system from within."
<strong>Japan planned to kill Chaplin to provoke a war with the United States</strong>: "This offered a perfect opportunity for the conspirators to assassinate the prime minister and Chaplin at the same moment and place. The death of the first would cause enough instability for them to seize power. The second’s death, its promoters thought, would increase the tension between the United States and Japan, and the plotters would feed that tension to end up provoking a war."
<strong>Bronze Age miners took prepared food from home, the curious discovery</strong>: "Researchers have just discovered that already in the full Bronze Age those robust men who went to the mines to work took processed food to feed themselves during breaks. By processed food is meant any food that has been previously treated for later consumption at another point."
<strong>From the pharaohs to Napoleon - History and curiosities of the Suez Canal</strong>: "For its construction, 10 years of work were needed, and it cost about 20 million euros of the time, more than double what was initially budgeted. More than a million and a half employees worked to build it, and many of them (some speak of 30,000) lost their lives in it. But this is not an innovative project of the 19th century. Many centuries earlier, in the time of the pharaohs, a communication channel already existed in the area that connected the Nile River with the bitter lakes."
<strong>Automata of the Tibidabo - Half human, half robot</strong>: "These particular artists used to reproduce circus acts, do magic tricks, play musical pieces, or recreate costumbrist scenes. The choice of these motifs responded, simply, to the fact that they were the ones most liked by the public of the time. However, unaware of the passage of time, the automata of the late 19th and early 20th centuries continued to perform their acts almost a century later."
<strong>Jan Švankmajer, the alchemist of Czech cinema</strong>: "His irreplaceable surrealist work has turned the director, animator, and plastic artist Jan Švankmajer into one of the most internationally recognized Czech filmmakers. (...) Abundant imagination, magical elements, black humor, and dreams intertwined with reality are some of the characteristics of the cinematographic work of Jan Švankmajer, with which he has inspired characters like Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, and other directors of worldwide fame."
<strong>Famine, plague, and war. The consequences of the Late Antiquity Little Ice Age</strong>: "Apparently the sun darkened in large part due to a kind of dust veil in the upper parts of the atmosphere that caused an uninterrupted series of bad harvests, droughts, and famine in Europe, Mesopotamia, China, etc., which will lead to the death of a considerable part of the population. According to Michael McCormick, Harvard history professor and scholar of the most devastating catastrophes that occurred in Europe, in the journal Science he states that the period between 536 and 660 "was the beginning of one of the worst periods, if not the worst, to be alive"."
<strong>VIDEOS</strong>: Time-lapse video of the eruption in Iceland, drone in traffic, Kong with laser sabers, diamonds under a hydraulic press, concept for "The Last Starfighters", teenager can "delay" his voice at will, "The Goddess of Spring" - Silly Symphony, locust plague in Australia, can banana peels make a go-kart slip?, YMCA (sad cover), Falcon 9 looks like an alien invasion, 60 songs from 1998 in three and a half minutes, the circle of life, the ingredients of a Big Mac, the hen that hatches... what?, giant plane against fires, vulture crosses in the video, doesn’t reflect until you smile, inside a tornado, puppy playing with a butterfly, Warsaw siege colorized to 4K, the last journey of the Hindenburg colorized to 4K, and the shorts: Field of Vision, Don't Peek, Black Water, and The Beauty.
<strong>GALLERIES</strong>: Few but good. What it’s like living with dementia, photos of serious people who then smile, the best travel photos of the year, the demonic art of Daena Key, failed stair design, spring in Russia, the surrealist photography of Maria Svarbova, award for minimalist photography, the Animated Dump, and the Visual Dump.
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