Recommended Links of the Week (No. 696)

Come on, keep reading, because in the Recommended Links we have something for everyone. Want a taste? Look: Lithium bubbles, Rocco Siffredi's hell, is death bad?, Dark Web prices and the schoolgirl problem. As I said, don't miss the links and enjoy them!

The lithium bubble - What they don't tell you about the electric car: "They call it the new gold. Everyone is joining the race to extract it, but like other minerals such as graphite, cobalt or rare earths, it is in a critical state. It is not enough to supply this energy and technological model based on electricity that they want to implement."

Eight things you do that you think are eco-friendly but actually aren't: "Do you throw your plastic bags into the yellow recycling bin? If you do, you might not be helping the environment much, and that's not all. We all care about climate change and the destruction of the environment, but ordinary people often receive confusing messages about which actions are appropriate to alleviate these ills."

Chinese illegal fishing boats are devastating the oceans of the entire planet: "China continuously violates international laws that protect fishing worldwide, and that poses a serious environmental problem of planetary scale. When Asian-flagged vessels sail near the protected coasts of Latin America or Africa, they immediately turn off their position transmitters and thus remain hidden from maritime monitoring systems."

Rocco Siffredi, his glory in adult cinema is also his personal hell: "The truth is that, as with many other adult film actors, the general public knows more about Rocco's member than his personal life or his character. In Italy he has had other kinds of television programs and has been able to show his ironic character, affable, a bit rascally in a good sense, and also fun and very polite. Italians love him; Siffredi is a myth."

The best-selling products on the Dark Web and their prices, in this surprising chart: "As shown in the infographic, one of the most expensive items in the dataset is premium malware, which costs around 5,500 euros per 1,000 installations. At the other end of the spectrum are details for accessing PayPal accounts, Netflix logins, or stolen credit card data, all available for less than 20 euros."

Is death bad for the person who dies?: "Philosophers who deny the 'requirement of existence' deny that a person must exist for something to be bad for them. More specifically, they deny that one must exist at the moment death is bad for the one who dies. The problem is that by denying this they must face the following question: When is death bad for the person who dies?"

Sylvester Stallone explains what his relationship with Arnold Schwarzenegger used to be like: "We really hated each other": "Although over the years, Stallone and Schwarzenegger have become great friends, it wasn't always like that, and the words of the former confirm it: 'We really didn't get along; there was immense animosity. It might sound a bit vain, but I think at that time we were pioneers in a genre that since then has really not been seen again.'"

Science accidentally discovers why some stools float and others simply sink: "And it is here that a recent study with mice that had been created to be germ-free appears. The team that conducted it noticed something unusual in the mice's poop. They report in the study that while about 10 percent of healthy humans consistently produce floating stools, this percentage is much higher in mice, around 50 percent."

There are 10 ancient copies of the Rosetta Stone with the same text, what do they have written?: "The text of the Rosetta Stone begins with the date of the decree, which is not the date of issuance but that of the meeting of the priests of Memphis —whose favor they sought to win— coinciding with the pharaoh's coronation. Then it highlights royal generosity through various tax exemptions, an amnesty granted to prisoners, and the abolition of conscription. It also details his protection of the temples, which he restored and made generous donations to."

When the US Navy infected San Francisco to 'see what happened': "At the height of the early Cold War, research on weapons of mass destruction was reaching its peak. It is true that most resources were devoted to nuclear research following the Manhattan Project, but biological warfare was another strong point; one of the terrible tactics designed to cause as much damage as possible to the enemy. But we knew little."

What is Kirkman's schoolgirl problem that has fascinated mathematicians for 172 years: "Kirkman published the schoolgirl problem in The Lady's and Gentleman's Diary, a magazine dedicated to mathematical questions, puzzles and poetry. (...) 'Fifteen young students go for a walk every day of the week, from Monday to Sunday, in an orderly manner, forming five rows of three students each. How can they be arranged every day of the week so that no pair of girls share a row more than one day?'"

Rakispor-Sarapspor, the football match between workers from a liquor factory and a wine factory that was played drunk: "The match pits workers from a raki factory, a Turkish aniseed liquor, against workers from a wine factory (sarap in Turkish). During the hours before the match, each team drinks the alcohol it produces, and the referee drinks from both to maintain his impartiality. Some wear white, the color raki turns when diluted with water, while their opponents wear burgundy, and the stains of quickly drinking wine are noticeable on them."

VIDEOS: The moment you find a bird you thought was extinct, beating Elden Ring with a Dance Pad, how to build a sand battery, the ballet of the spider, intense training, a tourbillon watch, if Andor had come out in the 70s, Knight Rider on a pocket synthesizer, Pentium computers (1993), celebration in Japan after their victory against Germany, computational acoustics, theater 2.0 (very good), restoring a vintage toy car, the oldest song with harmony in history, feast in the style of Spirited Away, amazing drone handling, Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees on a giant organ, Santa Claus (1898) - the first Christmas short, the animation Fear the Furry, and The Daywalker (prequel to Blade).

GALLERIES: Terrifying vintage Christmas cards, discovering interesting places, pixel art of movies and series, the golden age of cooperative kitsch, Messerschmitt KR200 in 1959, websites from the year 2000, brutalist buildings in Barcelona, magnetic photos, animal sculptures, metal flowers, posters of past illusionists, the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump of the Week.

Thank you for reading, friend! A big hug and, hopefully, see you next week.