The young Indiana Jones, an artificial womb, Kirlian Frequency, jamais vu and exceeding planetary limits. In other words, there's something for all tastes and intellects. Welcome to the Recommended Links and hopefully you enjoy them.

Recommended Links of the Week (No. 739)

Architecture as an element of segregation in science fiction: "Science fiction has nearly as many works as worlds and nearly as many worlds as societies. The genre's scope spans from human groups living hidden from machines underground (as in Matrix) to planets where multitudes of alien species coexist in harmony —or semi-harmony— (as in Star Wars), and cities that accumulate futuristic technologies over contemporary elements (as in Blade Runner), conditioning the construction of ficinal worlds."

The first artificial womb for gestating human babies is ready for clinical trial: "In April 2017, a team of researchers from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in Pennsylvania, USA, captured international headlines with an artificial womb in which they had grown up to eight lambs for several weeks. Now, that group of researchers is preparing its technology for use in humans and has requested approval from the US regulatory agency to conduct the first clinical trials."

Earth is close to exceeding seven of the nine planetary limits for life: "The characteristics of planet Earth are increasingly less favorable to continue considering it a safe operational space for humanity. This is the conclusion of a study by 29 scientists from eight countries that analyzed the current state of the so-called planetary limits. The results indicate that six of the nine thresholds that identify critical processes for maintaining the stability and resilience of the Earth system have been exceeded. A seventh case is about to cross the boundary."

The Simpsons (Danny Elfman) - Acoustic cover

'The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles', the 90s series created by George Lucas, is a true treasure for nostalgic fans: "In 'The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles', George Lucas set out to expand the universe of the films, telling us the life of the archaeologist from the beginning and how he showed his intrepid spirit even as a baby. That spirit is later encouraged when his father, a professor and lecturer, is invited to travel the world. Little Henry Jones Jr. thus becomes Indy the explorer, and the adventurer is born."

The true story of Pinocchio, the classic Italian tale Disney popularized: "The story of the world's most famous puppet is at the opposite pole of the sweetened version Disney presented to the world in 1940. Far from being a naive and absent-minded figure, Pinocchio is a very contradictory character. The adventures written on paper by Italian writer Carlo Collodi navigate between moralism and black humor. His mishaps do not fall into sentimentalism but rather reflect the problems of 19th-century Italy."

The Steampunk Bible, about steam and its subculture: "Steampunk is a literary subgenre that enjoyed considerable popularity back in the ¿2000-2010? and as a result quite a few works were published on the subject, like this Steampunk Bible or The Art of Steampunk by Art Donovan, to which I already devoted an article. In today's article I want to show you The Steampunk Bible: an illustrated guide to a world of imaginary airships, corsets and spectacles, mad scientists and strange literature (what a title!) with some photographs and brief comments. Here we go!"

Biking through an abandoned mine

The Kirlian Frequency, radio horror animation: "The independent series, produced by Tangram Cine and of Argentine nationality, began airing in 2017 on YouTube, achieving success among a small group of viewers, which made it a cult product. It is currently distributed by the giant Netflix, which became interested and bet on reaching a larger number of viewers, as it did with series like Cobra Kai a few years ago. Likewise, it has caught the attention of an audience that is gradually getting to know it, instantly turning them into fans."

TARZAN (1966 - 1968): "We were in the mid-sixties, and his booming voice summoning his animal friends filled the room where, sitting in front of the cathode ray tube, we were ready to enjoy another of his adventures. The series was Tarzan, broadcast on NBC from 1966 to 1968, and it was Ron Ely who brought back that hugely popular character that came from literature, had gone through comics, and had starred in a long list of film productions over decades."

The most murdered woman in the world and other beings of the Théâtre du Grand Guignol: "I have been killed a thousand times; I have been cut into pieces; my eyes have been torn out; I have received the famous leper's kiss; my breasts have been removed, I have been hanged, disemboweled... who knows! The pistol, the knife, and the poison have been my companions... according to the diabolical whims of the authors, I have bled out amid atrocious convulsions. And seeing the audience breathless, fainting in horror, I felt great artistic joy."

Walter White in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

A phenomenon opposite to déjà vu is even more mysterious: "A group of researchers led by Cristóbal Moulin, professor of cognitive neuropsychology at Grenoble Alpes University (UGA) in France, and Akira O'Connor, professor of psychology at the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland, has published a study in the journal Memory about a little-known phenomenon that is exactly the opposite of déjà vu: it is called 'jamais vu' and makes a person feel that a repeated and very familiar situation suddenly becomes strange and confusing. Moulin and his team's research was awarded an IG Nobel Prize 2023."

Only a tiny part of the Universe is made of the matter we know: "A new study provides more evidence about the composition of the cosmos: it confirms that 69% is dark energy, while the remaining 31% would be matter. However, only about 20% of that matter would be baryonic or conventional, while 80% would correspond to dark matter. In this way, most of the Universe (around 93.8% of total energy and matter) would be made up of dark energy and matter, which we cannot see, identify, or explain."

Smart contact lenses that charge with tears, preparing us for the hyperconnected AR future: "Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have created a flexible battery coated with glucose that reacts with sodium and chloride ions present in any saline solution such as our tears. The battery is 0.5 millimeters or 500 microns thick, enough to be placed on the human eye like contact lenses. Furthermore, the battery's autonomy allows it to function for a whole day or more."

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Videos

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Galleries

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