Recommended Links of the Week (No. 615)

Necrophiliac women, a voracious man, ultrasound in cinema, and ergot of rye. Without a doubt a psychedelic edition, with much more of what you like and always something more. Welcome to Recommended Links.

Enamored of death: the confessions of Karen and Leilah, the world's most famous necrophiliacs: "These two women broke the mold and dared to talk about a phenomenon about which little is known. The story of two friends who told the planet what moved them to relate to corpses. Not suitable for the impressionable. (...) This article focuses on two people who not only did it, but also had the courage to confess openly and without shame. Both are women, Americans, and friends. Their names are Karen Greenlee and Leilah Wendell."

The man whose voracious hunger led him to eat cork, snakes, and even human corpses: "Sometimes hunger and cravings can become a sentence. Especially when a disease causes the normal intake of an adult human to be so insufficient that it can kill you from starvation. That is precisely what happened to a French citizen known as Tarrare. To this day, more than two centuries after his death, it is not known what medical condition tormented him."

Experts warn that sterilizing hippos in Colombia will not be enough to stop them: "An abandoned farm in Colombia is the epicenter of a hippo plague. Pablo Escobar decided they were his favorite animals, and during the height of his drug empire, he imported them from Africa to live with him. Today, these massive animals infect the country's natural water bodies with their feces, as well as other ecosystems. The government doesn't know what to do."

Infrasound and ultrasound in cinema: "The option of recording any soundtrack on celluloid marked the starting point for the development and perfection of a discipline that from then on would always accompany the image. So much so that today there are directors like David Lynch or Gaspar Noé who decide to give special attention to the soundtrack, even using sounds that human beings cannot perceive."

The 15 best animated movies that are NOT Disney: "Are you looking for animated movies to watch with your children, but you can't stand Disney productions anymore? Do the clichés of their films threaten your nervous system... and circulatory system, full of red blood and with the heart on the left? And if you hear another song from 'Frozen', do you think about slitting your wrists? Calm down, there are more people like you. Fortunately, animation doesn't end with Walt Disney, and we offer you a list of the 15 best animated movies that are NOT Disney."

"En 'Playground' me sentía sucia": how the fall of 'millennial' press burned its children: "The great high: alternative 'millennial' digital media (MDMA) discovers a magic button to increase its audience, multiplies its staff by two, by three, by four... by 30, moves to a bigger headquarters, moves again to a bigger headquarters, surpasses the world's major newspapers in social traffic. But one fateful morning, someone in Silicon Valley decides to touch the Facebook algorithm. MDMA's traffic plummets, its executives panic, and half of its staff hits the street. The big letdown."

Ergot of rye, the 'LSD' of Galician grandmothers that also inspired philosophers: "What would you think if the trigger for Plato writing the Theory of Ideas were a hallucinogenic drug? It could be a possibility. Numerous academics who have analyzed the rituals where the sages of Ancient Greece gathered affirm that they consumed a potion composed of a hallucinogenic fungus that managed to change their perception of the world."

The Sator Square, a magic square with 20 centuries of history: "Palindrome, logically, you either are or you aren't. It's always curious to see those phrases, some with interesting meaning, that read the same from right to left as from left to right. This is what happens with the Sator Square, a magic square with 20 centuries of history, and that actually goes a little further. It is called Sator because it starts with those 5 letters. It is made up of 5 Latin phrases and resembles magic squares made with numbers, which are more common."

How the seven deadly sins began as 'eight evil thoughts': "In the 4th century, a Christian monk named Evagrius Ponticus wrote what is known as the "eight evil thoughts": gluttony, lust, avarice, anger, sloth, sadness, vainglory, and pride. Evagrius was not writing for a general audience. As an ascetic monk of the Eastern Christian church, his texts were addressed to other monks about how these eight thoughts could interfere with their spiritual practice."

Stephen Hawking, the secret life with his women (one feared having sex because it 'could kill him', another humiliated him but was his slave): "He was one of the brightest minds. He was also stubborn, irascible, obstinate, irritable. Leonid Mlodinow, a physicist friend of Hawking, reveals in his book 'A Memory of Friendship and Physics' surprising facts about his intimacy unknown until now. And he plunges his pen into the two love relationships - with blind love, infidelities, fears, and mistreatment - that marked the genius's life."

Towards a planet without Nature and with certain disaster: "A group of Israeli researchers has quantified the human footprint on the planet, comparing it with the whole of terrestrial biomass, and the conclusions are directly terrifying. According to the following graph, which represents the total weight of all objects made by man (from simple plastic packaging, through cars or planes, up to including the total weight of skyscrapers or highways)"

What do witnesses have to do with testicles?: "It is often shared that, when testifying in trials, Romans squeezed their testicles with their right hand, as if lying could hurt their 'pride'. Another version says that in the papal election, an official palpates the pontiff to testify that he was a male. Both etymologies of the word witness are false, but that does not mean that there is no relationship between witness and testicle."

VIDEOS

Comparison of toxicity, NASA's 1970 control, Anthony Hopkins' transformation, 1,500 birds invade a house, fat puppy runs in slow motion, a GoPro on the dog's head, Resident Evil Village with puppets, they save a thirsty turtle, the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in the world, the ENIGMA of Beethoven's metronome... solved??, goats on a seesaw, creatures of light, the lowest female note Guinness record, Disney's robots, insects taking off and in slow motion, kkrieger - the impossible FPS, and the shorts: When an alien speaks without subtitles, The Fabric of You (phenomenal stop-motion animation), and The Best Hacker in the World.

GALLERIES

Characteristics of nuclear reactors, haunted beauty in Natalie Shau's art, extreme corset fashion, Manila in neon noir style, surreal photomontages, 2020 winners of Light Competition, 1979 cocaine calendar, the baby mammoth in perfect condition, Polaroid photos with embroidery, more photos of a young Pfeiffer, International Gastronomic Photography Contest, the thread of how a 14-year-old boy started a cave, the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump of the Week.

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