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This is how the first animals on Earth were: "During 4 billion years, nothing living on Earth was more complex than a simple cell. Then, without anyone knowing why, about 575 million years ago, multicellular life forms began to multiply. That event, dubbed the Avalon explosion, occurred when the planet had left behind the icy phase of the Cryogenian Period to enter the Ediacaran, which lasted from 635 to 542 million years ago."
The society of strangers: "Furthermore, to make up for this lack, the system offers us a most peculiar solution: consume, consume a lot, throw away, squander and consume more. We feel estranged again because to form an identity by consuming at the level demanded of us, we must always be in fashion, and of course, always being in fashion is literally changing socks every half hour."
The prank that boosted spiritualism: "During the 19th century in the United States, the rapid scientific progress and the freedom of worship that allowed the creation of numerous sects made the population receptive to novelties, even if they were not well understood. Thus, just as the daguerreotype fostered the development of optography to capture the last vision of corpses, the creation of communication methods such as the telegraph raised the question of whether, in addition to overcoming distances, the barrier of death could be surpassed and one could communicate with the dead."
The 20 animals that kill the most humans each year: "Are you afraid of spiders? And scorpions? Whatever your answer, you should know that they are living beings on the list of animals that kill the most humans each year. But there are others, much more adorable, that you wouldn't imagine could be part of this top 20. Horses, dogs and even deer are part of this curious list that, on the other hand, shows that many of our phobias and fears of some living beings are not so irrational."
Why didn't Philip K. Dick want to try LSD in Krakow with Stanisław Lem?: "Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) denounced it, fully convinced, to the FBI: Stanisław Lem –with whom he corresponded– did not exist, he was a collective built by communist intelligence, with the initials of Lenin, Engels and Marx, to infiltrate the minds of Western readers and kidnap American writers (the very Nixon, a masked communist, was in on it). Dick wielded as proof that Lem's books were written in very different styles."
Inovac-Rima magnetic games: "Among the resources used for toys in the eighties were magnets, nothing particularly novel because they had been known for millennia, but the generation of children at the time was beginning the transition to digital. The theory of magnetic games was simple: challenge gravity to take your entertainment to the schoolyard without needing batteries, or to avoid annoying people during the seven-hour trip to the village."
The logical speed of supermarket checkout lines: "But what might seem slow, unfair and denounceable (even beatable with a baseball bat) is actually much more logical than it seems. Do you think supermarket managers haven't carefully studied how to make their cashiers faster and more efficient? That employers don't have access to computerized files on the productivity of the cashiers in their establishment?"
Josef Mengele - The doctor of Nazi genetic experiments escaped all punishment: "Rivers of ink have been spilled about Josef Mengele and his medical experiments, leaving his figure in the collective consciousness as an icon of evil: the 'Angel of Death'. However, there were other Nazis who committed more abject crimes and experiments that were at least as inhuman. So why is it that whenever a Nazi war criminal is asked about at the popular level, the name Mengele always arises? Multiple factors have intervened in this story."
The lunar rocks China brought back are younger than the Apollo samples and no one knows why: "The subsequent analysis of lunar material confirmed that volcanism on the Moon had occurred much later than previously thought, becoming a kind of scientific enigma. At the beginning, in October of last year, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis dated a fragment of the lunar rock samples as about 1.97 billion years old. (...) Until then, all rock samples collected by the Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972 were more than three billion years old."
The fluorine in our bones, detected in a galaxy 12.3 billion light-years away: "Fluorine, the element found in our bones and teeth, was forged, like many others around us, in stars. But until now, scientists were not clear when and how it was produced. An international team has discovered fluorine farther than ever, in a galaxy so distant that its light has taken more than 12.3 billion years to reach us."
The Soviet Union in space: "In Nebo Zovyot (1959, adapted as Battle Beyond the Sun for its release in the United States in 1962), a Soviet spacecraft is forced to abandon its expedition to Mars to help an American spacecraft that launched prematurely in a desperate attempt to be the first to reach the Red Planet. After having saved the American crew, the Soviets now have little fuel and need to make an emergency landing on an asteroid." https://www.directoalpaladar.com/cultura-gastronomica/prosciutto-di-parma-asi-joya-culinaria-que-no-queremos-oir-hablar-espana
6 famous Japanese movies you must see: "We have put together a selection of the 6 current film productions best rated by critics and users, which you shouldn't miss if you are also a movie lover. Discover more about Japanese culture through their most famous films of recent decades, and enjoy some of the best images you will ever see on the big screen. You will never watch cinema the same way once you immerse yourself in Asian films!"
Videos: the Ghostbusters theme by 14 electronic devices, retro animation found in an Estonian bookstore, a secret passage in a 500-year-old mansion, the beauty of Bézier curves, the trick of slashers, how long can you survive on supermarket food?, you are immune to all diseases, spider devouring snake, the glider with bubble wings, Holding Out for a Hero (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli), Tokyo's electronic music from 1993, raising ladybugs, comparing spacesuits from the US and the Soviet Union, gargoyles, catching everything, jumping beans, the dollhouses that changed forensic science, an elevator for cats, Broken Peach - Tainted Love (Halloween special), the creative death of YouTube, and the super shorts: "Cosmo" (sci-fi western), "Against All Odds" (Star Wars short), "Another Unknown Mystery" (VHS horror) and Sprite Fright (animated film by Blender Studio).
Galleries: Original iPod prototype (2001), monsters abducting women, delicious art, dreamlike sculptures, the skulls of well-known characters, the photography of Marcus Hausser, D-Day in color photos, the best photos of Wild Europe, the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump of the Week.
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