We are dangerously one week away from the number of the beast. Luckily it didn't fall exactly on Easter Sunday or it would have been a bad omen! This edition of the Recommended Links of the Week is a bit sparse, but with enough juice to quench your thirst. I hope you enjoy it!

Recommended Links of the Week (No. 665)

If Maurice Hilleman is the person who has saved the most lives, why doesn't the public know him?: "That same night he went to the laboratory where he worked, gathered the necessary material and, back home, took samples from his daughter's throat with which he would later cultivate the virus. Three years later, after weakening it, he was testing a vaccine on more or less forced volunteers like his older sister, and only a year later its use was approved. Over time it would become part of the MMR vaccine, with which millions of boys and girls are vaccinated every year."

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Cumma Metawriter, the software vending machine (1983): "The Cumma Metawriter allowed any buyer to select from hundreds of different software titles with the push of a button. Its operation was very similar to classic beverage vending machines, but oriented to computing and where consumers had to bring their own 'bottles'. Customers of the Metawriter had to insert their own ROM cartridges into the machine's slot, select the program they wanted, and the system copied it onto the cartridge after payment."

Strange atmospheric phenomena surround us: "Expressions like 'cold drop' and 'explosive cyclogenesis' have also become widespread, 'but their meaning does not translate well to people and they end up being used inappropriately,' argues the expert. Gutiérrez Rubio is one of the authors of the 'Guide to meteorological phenomena recorded in the Notification System for Singular Atmospheric Observations, SINOBAS'. This work brings together the events that are most repeated within a citizen science project. The website has more than a thousand registered users who collect singular events."

Ricardo Patrese con su esposa

It wasn't agricultural productivity that favored the emergence of state entities, but rather the possibility of accumulating and taxing cereal surpluses: "The researchers demonstrate a causal effect from cereal cultivation in the emergence of political-social hierarchy, by observing empirical evidence extracted from multiple datasets spanning several millennia, and they have not found a similar effect derived from land productivity. (...) In their research they also analyzed the natural experiment of the 'Columbian exchange'."

What did we play in 1984? These are the 15 best classic video games from that year: "We continue traveling to the past with a retrospective that is helping us remember classic video games and successful formulas that debuted and spread like wildfire over time. This time, we get to see which games debuted in 1984. A year where several revolutionary formulas were born that are still valid today. Do you know which classics we're talking about? Surely some will surprise you."

'The Last Boy Scout', the movie that saved Bruce Willis's prestige: "Fans of this film usually boast that it broke the record for saying 'fuck' on screen: 102 times. That already gives us an idea of the level of swagger that the script of the sought-after Shane Blake handles, which set another record of the era: no less than 1.75 million dollars for his text (the first million in advance). Warner needed its star, Bruce Willis, to recover from the slip of Hudson Hawk (1991) and put all the meat on the grill to repeat the success of Die Hard (1988)."

El primer robot líquido

Apocalyptic cinema, nuclear wars: "This subgenre began practically in the 1940s, after the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. With that event, a before and after began in the history of humanity. Since then, fear of a possible nuclear war only increased over the years. During the Cold War, this fear was the order of the day. Many people feared that outcome, and others even feared the end of the world. Of course, art, but especially cinema, used it to its advantage."

Your boss doesn't promote you for fear you'll replace him: this is Cronos syndrome: "Taking into account, with Cronos syndrome we refer to the profile that some people have, normally with certain authority within the organization, such as executives, managers or team leaders, and that leads them to hinder or impede the professional growth of their own team for fear that their own position may be threatened by them. This type of behavior can become a big problem."

The 19th century leech fever: "Leeches have been used for medicinal purposes since Babylonian times, when they were known as daughters of Gula, Mesopotamian goddess of medicine. They were used for centuries by Egyptians, Chinese, Greeks and Romans and, following Avicenna's instructions, their use was standardized until the 18th century, combining with humoral theory. However, a century before its abandonment, the French Revolution gave it a last breath of life."

Robot con IA cantante

Paperboy (1986) Elite Systems Ltd: "They called him the newspaper boy (or newsboy), Paperboy. It was the typical first paid job for children, a way to enter the labor market for minors whose families needed economic contribution from all family members, something unthinkable today. The famous American lifestyle evolved to large subdivisions with single-family landscaped houses and newspaper boys got on bicycles and started delivering the press to their subscribers. These children were in the collective imagination. They were part of American culture."

Why did airships disappear? The story of a sky we never knew: "Aircraft that stay in the air with the help of helium, that remain in the sky, that allow practically living up there... Can you imagine? Well, something like that already existed. Between the 1900s and 1930s, airships were a present option, the first idea of long-duration flight capable of being controlled. You will remember them from images, paintings, illustrations, an occasional photograph... However, it is only part of an imaginary that, today, seems more unreal than anything else."

The fascinating dissection of Harriet, the body separated nerve by nerve that gave rise to forensic medicine: "Over the following six months, Professor Weaver, armed with patience, eyesight and a seamstress's pulse, dedicated himself to extracting the entire cerebrospinal nervous system. A glance at the result is enough to understand that the work was anything but simple. Only the base of the skull demanded two weeks of dedication, almost half a month during which he cut the bones piece by piece to keep the dura mater intact and the eyes attached to the optic nerves."

Videos

Cómo hacer una ballena mecánica

Galleries

Ancient photos in color, the best photos from Sony World 2022, a NatGeo series on the state of trees in the world, flowers under UV light, street photography of Amsterdam in 1960/1970, winners of Press Photos 2022, meteor blades, ornithographies, liquid photography, the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump.

https://old.neoteo.com/100-000-estrellas-todo-un-tour-galactico-en-tu-navegador/

Well, did you like it? I hope so, otherwise... we'll try again next week.