Afronauts, synthesizers, return to barbarism, singularity, and what happens when you don't have sex. All that and much more, only for those who aren't afraid to dive into the dark depths of the Recommended Links of the Week.
This week's picks
The tragedy of Vic Morrow, the actor who was decapitated in “The Twilight Zone” and predicted his fate: “One of the key theorists of psychoanalysis, Carl Gustav Jung, did not believe in coincidences. Therefore, he formulated the principle of synchronicity in his work Synchronicity as a principle of acausal connections in 1952. There he explained that events that supposedly happen by chance to a person are related to the inner meaning of actions and manifestations that arise from different connections. This synchronicity seems to shelter, with a special sinister halo, the tragedy of Vic Morrow on the set of The Twilight Zone: The Movie. It was one of the worst accidents in Hollywood history, in which negligence, misfortune, and even an astonishing fatal premonition were mixed.”
The Afronauts - The space program that Zambia launched in the 1960s: “When you think of the space race of the 1950s and 60s, the first thing that comes to most people's minds is the United States and the Soviet Union. That's normal, because those two giants were the main players, but there were also other less important and less well-known participants, such as Zambia, which launched in that decade a space program run by a single man, Professor Edward Mukuka Nkoloso.”
History of synthesizers: “Who was the first? The first experiments that combined sound and electricity came from Alfred Graham in 1895 and led to the first voltage-controlled device: Electric Musical Tones. Mistakes and “lighting” helped a lot in its development: when the London administration tried to fix a buzzing problem in the street lighting, in 1899 William Du Bois Duddell realized that the frequencies emitted by light bulbs are audible and can be controlled by changing the voltage applied to the electrodes.”
(and the behind the scenes)
This is everything that happens to your body when you stop having sex: “It's easy to understand why sex is enjoyable. The attraction, the companionship, and the physical pleasure that this activity brings improve your mood. The hormones released with orgasm also contribute. An extra boost of endorphins, oxytocin, and adrenaline linked to euphoria, well-being, and relaxation. That's the answer to why you feel so good when you do it. It doesn't just improve your mental state. Sex can also contribute to better health, according to science.”
Is humanity's return to barbarism inevitable?: “We live in a period of great global complexity, confusion, and uncertainty. We are in the middle of a whirlwind of events and facts that are eroding our ability to manage human affairs in a way that leads to the achievement of a political and economic order based on stability, justice, and sustainability. In fact, the contemporary world is full of dangers and challenges that will severely test humanity's ability to maintain a steady course toward anything resembling a civilized life.”
TikTok and minors, insecure by nature: “With these features so attractive to minors, it's normal that TikTok already exceeds the percentage of users between 4 and 15 years old (no, the 4 is not a typo) who participate in social media: It is estimated that more than 60% of the accounts of this network belong to minors under 20, and its growth, during the first week of confinement, rose to 180%, according to Qustodio. Minors were already using an average of 82 minutes a day watching its content.”
The myth of singularity, or why artificial intelligence won't inherit the Earth: “Technological singularity is a concept that may owe its success in recent years precisely to how vague and confusing it is. If an idea is not clearly defined, it can be used for many more things than if its meaning were well established. And so, anyone can use it as they please. In its most primordial sense, the word comes from substantiating the adjective singular, that is, different. In physics, it is used when we find ourselves in a completely anomalous situation, where some law or fundamental principle that does apply in the rest of the universe is not fulfilled.”
Life and adventures of a very well-traveled mammoth: “From the samples taken from the mammoth's tusks and teeth, the team of Wooller at the Alaska Stable Isotope Center, which he directs, generated 400,000 microscopic reference points using lasers and other techniques. What they have found is the first direct evidence that mammoths traveled long distances and that this particular individual covered the equivalent of two trips around the planet Earth during his life. “It is not entirely clear if it only migrated seasonally, but it covered a significant amount of ground,” Wooller asserts.”
The surprising 4,500-year-old Egyptian statue made of wood with rock crystal eyes: “A group of experts found a 4,500-year-old Egyptian wooden statue with rock crystal eyes in perfect condition. It is the image of the scribe, priest, and reader Ka’aper (known as Kaaper or Sheikh el-Balad), a realistic work carved in wood that has remained intact for thousands of years. The statue of Ka’aper was found in perfect condition in a tomb called Mastaba C8 in the northern part of the Saqqara necropolis. The sculpture dates from around 2500 BC, during the fifth dynasty of the Old Kingdom; it is currently displayed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, along with thousands of other pieces.”
(regarding the Tesla Bot)
The Chinese furniture industry leaves Sierra Leone without trees: “A century ago, their predecessors felled centennial specimens to build violins, pianos, and other classic instruments with which the aristocracy of the British metropolis delighted their ears. The roaring 20s were beginning, radios were reaching homes, and their melody flooded the houses of the elites and the yards of the working-class tenements. Now, what these trunks that remain piled up on the roads and highways of northern Sierra Leone radiate is the dull sound of deforestation: most reports estimate that the forested area of Sierra Leone is already less than 5%.”
The largest sailing ship in the world: “On December 14, 1907, a great sailing ship wrecked off the coast of Annet, in the Isles of Scilly (United Kingdom), killing all but two of its eighteen crew members and causing the world's first major marine oil spill. The ship involved in the accident, the Thomas W. Lawson, was an incredible ship. The Thomas W. Lawson was the largest pure sailing ship in the world, that is, without an auxiliary engine, and the only seven-masted schooner.”
65 years without Bela Lugosi, the eccentric actor who ended up devoured by his addictions (and by Dracula): “The versatile actor was wounded in the leg and back during the conflict, and over the years he became addicted to the morphine he took to relieve his chronic pain. He even created an actors' union in his country, although his leftist ideology forced him to flee to Germany in 1919. Lugosi believed in the American Dream, so he ended up crossing the pond the following year. At first he had a hard time, but he managed to make his way in the American theater scene.”
Videos
Videos: classic of hallucinations without drugs, you need more than expertise for this bike route, Lost Woods cover (Zelda Ocarina of Time), Polish animation from 1968, Conan the Barbarian live concert, dachshund puppies fighting, Small World 2021 winners, daily life in New York in old footage, the Galician horn, drone over Venezuela's beauties, flamingo eating underwater, bow that always hits moving targets, crab disguising itself as a plant, 8-bit trip 2, that man in the movie who is about to die, and the works: Night Watch, p e r m u t a t i o n . c i t y, Maneuvers, and Irradiation (highly recommended).
Galleries
Galleries: Nesflix (the Netflix of movies that don't exist), abstract photography awards, “Diatermia” from the 30s, yokai monsters with modern objects, nice perspectives in nature, Natural World Photography 2021 winners, cosplay cat, the intimacy of nature, family in a prehistoric forest in 1979, kids delivering newspapers, Animated Dump, and the Visual Dump of the Week.
https://old.neoteo.com/puede-un-super-iman-afectar-el-hierro-en-nuestra-sangre/
