Welcome to this week's Recommended Links: Censored album covers, logic and the fish, the happiest songs in history, and people who lie well. And much more, of course. How much more? Keep reading and you'll find out. Enjoy!
Using logic to find the fish: "We are in Sumerlandia. A thief entered the aquarium in this city at night and stole the last known specimen of the golden fish of Sumerlandia. The city police followed the trail left by the thief to Five Street, which has five identical houses. They don't have enough officers to enter all the houses simultaneously. They fear that if they enter one and it's not the thief's, he might realize the police are closing in and escape with the fish."
Revolutionary hardware brings a new model of quantum computing: "A potentially innovative theoretical approach to quantum computing hardware avoids much of the problematic complexity found in current quantum computers. The strategy implements an algorithm in natural quantum interactions to process a variety of real-world problems faster than classical computers or conventional gate-based quantum computers."
Construction begins on the nuclear fusion engine that could take us to Mars in weeks: "The British aerospace company Pulsar Fusion has already begun construction of its nuclear fusion engine that promises speeds of up to 800,000 km/h, or, equivalently, trips to Mars in half the time. If they succeed, we will not only be able to reach all corners of the solar system more easily, but we will also do so using only a small fraction of the fuel used by traditional thrusters."
Censored covers, the most controversial album covers in history (NSFW): "Album covers have served as canvases on which artists express their visual concepts and provoke all kinds of emotional reactions. However, throughout history, many of these covers have been censored, generating debates about freedom of expression, the limits of creativity, and the clash between artistic sensibility and social values. Many of you might think these are things of the past, but in the 21st century some are still considered offensive for their content."
Why some people are great at lying and others aren't: "They say you catch a liar sooner than a cripple, but if that saying were entirely true, we probably wouldn't have so many disappointments with people we know and trust and who, from one day to the next, betray us. Nor should we be scandalized: we all lie to a greater or lesser extent, and sometimes it is very useful for navigating the complicated world of human relations, since we have different interests, although sometimes they coincide with those of others."
This is the happiest song in history for science: "Music is wherever we go. Any everyday situation can be accompanied by a song. Every day, whether to get over a breakup, exercise, relax, or lift our spirits, music is a good friend. And, although there are tracks we might like more than others, there are a series of songs that, as a rule, brighten anyone's day. Below, we tell you which ones science considers the most optimal."
I Want My MTV, the first pre-internet viral that revolutionized the music industry: "On August 1, 1981, a group of young people celebrated with hugs and tears of joy the image of man's arrival on the moon broadcast on television. Twelve years had passed since Buzz Aldrin planted the United States flag on Earth's satellite, but this time, the stars and stripes had been replaced by the logo of the first 24-hour music channel on television."
Mars Attacks (1996, Tim Burton): "Given that they haven't always combined well, it's not surprising that many films that have mixed comedy and SF have done so to laugh at the clichés and traditions of the latter. 'El Dormilón' (1973) satirized the idealized white-robed futures of productions like 'La Vida Futura' (1936); 'La Loca Historia de las Galaxias' (1987) is a point-by-point parody of 'Star Wars' (1977); the infamous 'El Ataque de los Tomates Asesinos' (1978) laughs at the mutant monster subgenre that blossomed in 50s cinema; and 'Mars Attacks' does the same with the alien invasion films that proliferated in the same decade."
Fanta, the European brand that energizes the American Coke empire: "Technically, I shouldn't write about Fanta, because it's not a company. It's a brand, but its origins are so curious that it's worth telling its story as part of Coca-Cola. It was born as a German drink that used apple, died for a decade, and was resurrected as an Italian orange soda. In a few years, it would become another symbol of American 'neocolonialism,' reaching every corner of the globe by the hand of the most famous cola multinational."
Videos
Videos: Ferrofluid speaker, Automatic T-shirt shaker, Mount Etna eruption, The town of hot coins, The betrayal of uTorrent, An automatic NES controller, Tattoo on transparent skin at 20,000 fps, Optimism for the human future, Air Crash Averted (1926), The oldest engineering, Climbs 19 stories to save his mother, The 10 largest nuclear explosions in history, Glass squid, Violin cover of 'Stargate Atlantis: Main Title', Hip-Hop from 1973 to 2023, and the short films: Peephole (Horror, 2018), 'Scooby Doo, Where Are You? In... SPRINGTRAPPED!' (stop motion) and My Best Friend Lisa (short horror film)
Galleries
Galleries: ASCII art in 1939, glass spiders, the best sports photos, this is how ChatGPT's brain looks, influencers made with AI, the 1955 Lincoln Indianapolis, what life in Russia is like according to AI, sculptures by Levi Van Velluw, cats and dogs, pregnant with eight babies, unpredictable genetics, the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump.
It is with terrible pain that I must confess I lost the battle against nicotine that I so gallantly announced last week. I gained four kilos in five days practically without sleeping. I had to quit. At the first beep, all my problems were solved. Now the tar controls me, its tentacles extend beyond my will. See you next time!
