Sex with vacuum cleaners, the environmental cost of your old emails, the Suzuki Hayabusa, the deadliest animal and the Ouroboros. These things, among many more, are what you'll find in this week's Recommended Links, with lots of videos and some galleries, all for your complete enjoyment. Enjoy!
The environmental cost of hoarding old emails and other files: "Every day, we upload, download and store large amounts of information online. Data that, on many occasions, we do not use. For example, a large part of the emails we receive every day we leave forgotten in our inbox. These emails form part of what is known as digital garbage. That is, structured data, with little use, like waste in a landfill that no one takes care of cleaning, however, they consume a lot of space and, with it, energy."
Injuries from sucking your penis with a vacuum cleaner: "This type of genital injuries have been documented since 1960 and have common points: a man takes advantage of solitude to satisfy his sexual desire with the suction of this device, but ends up in the hospital. Out of shame, sometimes he hides the real cause, attributing it to a dog bite, getting trapped in a door or accidental suction with a device, sometimes while naked. The profile is varied, but young people around 20 years old predominate on one side and those over 50 on the other."
15 fascinating facts about the Sumerians: "The ancient Sumerian civilization never ceases to captivate and intrigue. Scholars and historians are constantly busy discovering new details and aspects of this civilization, even centuries after the first discoveries were made. Long ago forgotten and buried by the sands of time, Sumer and its cities were the first foundations of all human progress and civilization. That is why it never fails to impress. These are just some of the most fascinating facts about the ancient Sumerian civilization."
Hello world!: "The first Hello world! program was written in BCPL, a computer language devised back in 1967. And the first time the greeting was used as an example was in a seventies guide to C initiation, a language so effective as to spawn offspring like C++ or C#, useful and widespread jargon that would be a pain to break down here. COBOL was born at the end of the fifties with a tie on, like a code oriented to business and the exciting world of management computing. Java appeared in the nineties with the visor of its cap backwards and chill."
The Gods Themselves (1972), by Isaac Asimov: "Asimov considered "The Gods Themselves" his favorite novel. It is not surprising that he felt proud of it because it was the work that, after fifteen years absent from the front line of SF, placed him back on the podium, earning him praise and awards and demonstrating with it not only that he could offer SF more complex in scope and structure than anything he had done to date and more in tune with the era than his Golden Age contributions, but that he was capable of writing about aliens and sex."
25 years of the Suzuki Hayabusa, the motorcycle that was faster than the AVE: "Now 25 years ago Suzuki surprised the whole world. It happened at the International Intermot Show, held in Germany. There, starring in the Japanese brand's stand, a motorcycle muscled to the point of incredibility announced a dizzying speed that you had to read twice to understand in its true dimension: more than 315 km/h top speed, thanks to its in-line four-cylinder engine and 1.3 liters with a 16-valve head and 176 CV of power. That is, when it was 'born' it was already faster than the AVE."
The famous theme of 'Futurama' is not only cool, its story connects avant-garde music, the Beatles and DJ culture: "The return of 'Futurama', even if it is not entirely satisfactory for some, provides a feeling of comfort and joy for seeing such memorable characters again and for being able to enjoy again that opening sequence. An introduction that always puts you in perfect shape with its futuristic and playful tone, with that music perfectly designed to sell the series. The melody of this theme is not only cool and fun, perfect for a futuristic comedy, but it has exciting origins."
What is the deadliest animal for humans?: "What is the deadliest animal for humans? It has no fangs, nor claws, nor does it weigh tons. Quite the opposite: it is a small and fragile being, but capable of transmitting deadly diseases. We are referring to the mosquito, which in 2018 alone was responsible for around 725,000 deaths, according to Science Alert. Some figures indicate that the number of deaths could rise to 1,000,000 per year. In that same year, the second position was occupied by humans themselves, who caused the death of 437,000 fellow beings."
The forgotten victims of the explosion in the first atomic bomb test: "They carried out the Gadget test at that point in New Mexico because it was an uninhabited desert for kilometers around. Or so they believed, because in reality there were some ranchers - and their livestock - about 20 km away. Further out, within a radius of about 80 km, thousands of people lived in small towns, like those of the Tularosa basin. Local residents were never alerted that at 05:30 am on July 16, 1945, the detonation of the Gadget was scheduled."
Ouroboros, the symbol of eternal cycles whose first representation was found in Tutankhamun's tomb: "In its simplest representation, the ouroboros consists of a snake or dragon that bites its own tail and thus forms a circle, a metaphor for the eternal cycle of things, of life, death and rebirth. That an ophidian is the animal most frequently designated to depict it iconographically is no coincidence, since those reptiles shed their skin as if it were a rebirth, although in some cultures a more abstract sign is used, as happens with the taijitu"
"It climbed like an ape, walked like a human," that's how humans started walking on two legs: "Human bipedalism did not begin in the African savannas: on the contrary, it seems to have begun among the branches of the trees, with chimpanzees. For decades, as part of the legacy that Charles Darwin left to the scientific eye, it was thought that hominids had begun to walk on two legs in Africa. As the 'Cradle of Humanity', it was most likely that human bipedalism had begun in the wide desert savannas, where hominids had to stand upright to find food. It seems it was not so."
The pioneers of British radar: "At the beginning of the 1930s, Britain felt the threat of imminent war with Germany and given that its geographical position was clearly very vulnerable to air attacks, the British made a great effort to have equipment that would allow early warning of the presence of enemy aircraft, a matter that radar would solve, whose origins in Britain I describe here. We can place the beginning of effective work on British radar in the mid-1930s."
VIDEOS: Making a skateboard with a manhole cover, Timelapse of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Mischievous dog in the heat, Dolly Parton - We Are The Champions/We Will Rock You, LEGO animation of an octopus in the water, Star Wars directed by Guy Ritchie, Harry Potter directed by Robert Rodriguez, Video game addiction in 1982, Herd of elephants crosses the street and one says thanks, The process of making a calligraphy brush by the old Japanese master, Doing TikTok dances with a single photo, Gray bear attack, This is how a helicopter moves and that's how the pilot controls it, They get stuck between a tree, How elastic bands are made, Crab sticks in a food factory, Bear in a hammock plate, How psychedelics work and what risks they have, Flood in the city of Nara generated this surreal scene, Barbie in the microwave, Recovering a radio-controlled plane with a helicopter, The not-so-little kid still likes turtles, How to survive a free fall without a parachute, The smartest cow (Guinness World Records), Steely Dan - Do It Again (Gayageum ver. by Luna Lee), Star Wars ship models made from paper, Handmade wicker chair, Walter White in Oppenheimer and 'The Star Room', stop-motion music video made by hand.
GALLERIES: Deep ocean creatures, 2023 architecture awards, daily science fiction, bad haircuts on animals, boring photorealistic AI, long exposure storm, retro toy car racing, black humor, sculptures by Michael Alfano, the macabre portraits of Dos Diablos, the Animated Dump of the Week and the Visual Dump to complete.
https://old.neoteo.com/ilusion-de-las-lineas-sinuosas/Well, game over and see you next time, buddy. Bye bye byeeee!
