Recommended Links of the Week (No. 630)

The Moon is a spaceship, hyperstition, coffee overdose and how to watch all of Evangelion. If that interests you, then you'll love the rest of the links. All seasoned with viral videos and super powerful galleries. Enjoy!

Odd theory: the strange Soviet study that claims the Moon is a spaceship: "In early 1970, scientists Alexander Shcherbakov and Mikhail Vasin of the USSR became the leading exponents of the hollow Moon theory by publishing an article titled: Is the Moon a Creation of Intelligent Beings? In the essay, the researchers presented a surprising hypothesis with scientific foundations and also claimed that the satellite is an artificial structure created by an alien race."

What is hyperstition, the concept of self-fulfilling prophecies that corroborates the power of fiction: "Hyperstition is a philosophical and subcultural concept of the Internet that has recently been gaining more and more popularity. To understand what it means, let's briefly review the concept. In a basic and simplified definition, hyperstition can be understood as a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. This will almost certainly be the way the concept ends up settling, although there is much more behind it."

The Roman school system: "In early Rome, education was carried out in the private sphere. The mother was the teacher until the child turned seven; she was in charge of the children's education. They had the help of nutrix, wet nurses, tutors and pedagogues, and some close female relative, grandmothers and aunts, could also get involved. From the age of seven, boys passed to the father's control and it was the father who took charge of the education of male children, while girls remained under the care of their mothers, who would train them as future wives and mothers."

De la Cierva, the aeronautics genius who started with paper airplanes and ended up surprising Edison: "Eighty-five years after his death, De la Cierva is rightfully part of the Olympus of aeronautical geniuses, on par with Wilbur and Orville Wright, the brothers who in 1903 achieved a brief but successful flight in North Carolina with a plane of their own design. His memory, however, has been partly tarnished by another facet of his life, completely unrelated to the autogyro: politics."

How the iconic Singer sewing machine changed the lives of millions of people around the world: "The Sewing Machine Company was the creation of an eccentric American named Isaac Merritt Singer, who invented what he called the "sewing motor" and patented it in 1851. Although it was not the first sewing machine, since it had been invented by Walter Hunt in 1833, the Singer was more reliable and capable of continuously sewing 900 stitches per minute, 20 times more than an expert seamstress. Two years later it was acclaimed as "one of the most efficient labor-saving devices ever presented to the public.""

Schrödinger, a quantum physicist behind the secret of life: "However, Schrödinger is unique in one thing, perhaps the least known of his legacy: he was the physicist who inspired a revolution in biology, by anticipating ideas as important as the existence of a 'genetic code', ten years before the great discovery of Watson and Crick about DNA. In 1926 he had developed a formulation of quantum theory alternative to the original of Heisenberg (1926), which is condensed in the Schrödinger wave equation."

Fake OnlyFans accounts - Reaction manual: "The exponential growth of victims, the selection criteria of the original accounts, the limits and modes of cloning of fake accounts, the selection of images for the PPPV profile and the accuracy in the different cases of texts added by the aggressor, lead to a clear conclusion: The process has been automated and is being carried out by one or more bots. The worst part? They don't always use OnlyFans (which at least responds to our authorities), since registration on this platform requires verification with an identity document and validation of a bank account."

How much coffee do you need to drink to die of an overdose?: "A cup of coffee with about 250 ml of water will have about 135 mg of caffeine. The lethal dose in rats, which have a similar but not identical metabolism to humans, is 192 mg/kg. Knowing this, to kill an average 80 kg adult would take 15,360 mg of caffeine, that is, about 113 cups of coffee. The problem is that, given the size of the cup, you would also drink 28.25 liters of water."

Complete Evangelion - Where and in what order to watch the series and films that changed anime: "Twenty-six years after all this fuss began, and nine since the third installment of a promised reboot and closure tetralogy premiered, the last one finally reaches us via streaming and, to celebrate, we review all the official works of the anime that changed everything, checking the platforms where each one is available and ordering the productions according to their release date, the canonical order to follow for the most traditionalist current of the fandom. However..."

75 years since the death of H.G. Wells, one of the fathers of science fiction: "Wells was permeable to all the cultural and scientific development that was happening around him and, although he had a childhood full of scarcity, from a very young age he came into contact with the works of different writers. This was due to an accident that caused a fracture in his leg and forced the eight-year-old boy to be bedridden for several weeks and to fight boredom by reading books from the local library that his father brought him. Immersed in the texts, Wells discovered new worlds and the desire to write."

Rutger Hauer's black cat: "On Rutger Hauer's website we find two small articles about a black cat that decided to live with him. On the entire Internet there are only two photos of the actor with a cat, but it is not black, but tabby. They both seem to know each other. For once, we have allowed ourselves to add photos of unknown cats to the entry; but yes, all Dutch, specifically from Amsterdam and Utrecht, the actor's hometown. And this is the translation of the first text on Rutger Hauer's website."

Endless content, cinema in the streaming era: "There is no actor with Tom Cruise's box-office record. There probably will never be again. Cruise, 59, has a limited profitability time, but franchises like Fast and Furious, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Marvel, among others, will still be able to generate multi-million-dollar revenue in the years to come. Audience loyalty is no longer placed in actors, but in cinematic universes."

VIDEOS: Loki OST (Piano Medley), Disney Medley by Nick Pitera, matches in stop motion, how restaurant fries are made, Highway to Hell on the bodhralele, Alien King model made from 200 tires, micro-world on a human scale, replacing railway sleepers, hermit descends the mountain to get vaccinated, newly discovered jellyfish, "Unsolved Mysteries" in metal, breaking down a car for recycling, Batman ruins Mr. Freeze's life, repairing a hole in a tooth, how the immune system works, speeds in perspective, modern furniture according to 1950s standards, touring Starbase with Elon Musk, the short stop-motion Fishboy, and Kurt Cobain's horror shorts.

GALLERIES: Mythologically shaped rice, famous animals sorted by species, between heaven and hell, almost impossible color challenge, the everyday Olympics, historical figures recreated in modern times, transforms into optical illusions, Russian inventiveness, cute and weird little toys, (NSFW) horrible boobed monster (NSFW), retro mechanical hands, the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump of the Week.

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