Sex with Neanderthals, the moments when we age, girdle books and apocalyptic numbers. These are just a few of the many things that make up this collection of links. Recommended Links, only on NeoTeo.
Was there something before the Big Bang?: “The evolution of the universe is a very interesting topic because it becomes stranger and less intuitive as we go back further into the distant past. But, if I've learned anything from the talks I give from time to time, it's that when talking about the Big Bang theory, there's one question that immediately comes to everyone's mind: what was there before the universe started, before that 'Big Explosion' took place?”
They debunk the calculations of the EmDrive, the impossible engine that NASA even tested: “Such a device would refute the basic principles of physics as we know them, and would eliminate a huge barrier we have for trips into deep space: the need to carry fuel on board. Hopes were set on the EmDrive being able to help us travel to distant objects, like the outer solar system and even nearby extrasolar systems like Alpha Centauri.”
The impact that killed the dinosaurs created the Amazon rainforest: “In a paper published in the journal Science, the team led by Mónica Carvalho presents the results of 12 years of research in which they collected samples at 53 locations in Colombia, in geological strata from the period before the impact and from the 10 million years after, which gives them a sequence of the biodiversity of the area from 72 to 58 million years ago.”
What Neanderthal sex was like: “Because the genome contained long stretches of uninterrupted Neanderthal sequences, experts calculated that the owner of the jaw likely had a Neanderthal ancestor only four to six generations back. They determined that the link probably occurred less than 200 years before the time he lived.”
Giant study suggests our bodies age mainly at 3 key moments in our lives: “Contrary to what we think, we do not age continuously. According to American researchers, the body seems to change three times during our lives, considering the ages of 34, 60 and 78 as key thresholds. The results were published in Nature Medicine.”
Medieval girdle books: “Girdle books were well hidden at the waist like a discreet bag. However, in the case of ladies, many used to wear them elegantly as a sign not only of their 'literacy', but also of their social position. In the book published in 2005 by Margit Smith and Jim Bloxam, titled “The Medieval Girdle Book”, they tell us about this curious fashion and how this detail appeared in many portraits of the time.”
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki leaflets: warning of nuclear hell?: “In the World War II Museum in New Orleans, there is an interesting almost unknown document that seems to show that Americans warned the Japanese before the nuclear attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The first potential 'warning' is the Potsdam Declaration, of July 26, 1945, which says in its last point.”
Is there a 100% objective world map?: “But how can this happen? Well, the answer is simple, it is not that we are clumsy at making maps, it is that it is mathematically impossible to represent the surface of a sphere (3 dimensions) on a plane (2 dimensions) without distorting it in some way. (...) Faced with this dilemma of how to represent the world map, countless projections and proposals from different cartographers have emerged throughout history, all with their inevitable imperfections. We review some of the best-known attempts.”
The apocalyptic numbers: “Another family of numbers related to the number of the Beast are those numbers that we could call apocalypse numbers (note that in the translation of the book The Wonder of Numbers, by Clifford A. Pickover, they are called 'apocalyptic', but that is the name given to other numbers we will see later), which are those that have 666 digits in their decimal representation.”
The origin of the Game of the Goose: “The first theory places the origins of the Game of the Goose in ancient Greece. This is based on the discovery of the Phaistos Disc, in 1908, in the ruins of the Palace of Crete. This disc is recorded in the Middle Minoan III period. Its age is estimated to date between 1580 and 1700 BC. Around this theory there is a legend, which says that the game was created by Greek warriors during the Trojan War.”
Antibiotic resistance, a pandemic that can only get worse: “The massive and indiscriminate use of antibiotics has had the terrible consequence of the appearance of bacteria multiresistant to all known antimicrobials, with the consequent danger to world health, where all forecasts predict a pessimistic future with millions of annual deaths and the return to a not-so-distant era where medicine was a dangerous game of chance.”
We were hypercarnivores for two million years: “One of the most widespread ideas about human evolution states that we were able to develop and survive thanks to our ability to eat everything. Being omnivores was a great fortune, as it allowed us to adapt to climate changes or the arrival of other predators, feeding on what was available at each moment. However, a new study carried out by Israeli researchers proposes a complete paradigm shift.”
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- The super telephoto Leica 2.8/400 mm
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- Surfing the city
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Galleries
Victorian surrealism, sexy covers of Italian comics, beautiful and strange balaclavas, 3D video game girls, finalists of Bird Photographer of the Year 2021, repainted second-hand paintings, King Kong art around the world, Willy Verginer's wood sculptures, watercolors of urban scenes, and as the cherry on top, the Vertedero Animado and the Tiradero Visual.
