From manipulating space-time to the dystopia of WALL-E, the Area 51 brothel, and the addiction to true crime, among other things, these are this week's Recommended Links, a classic section on the WWW. Enjoy!
The ABC of Japanese Castles, Defense Infrastructure: "Japanese castles reached their peak splendor during the Sengoku period. Attention usually focuses on the beauty of the keeps as buildings, but castles become more interesting when you know the characteristics of their structure and appearance, as well as their strategic meaning. In this article we will discuss defense infrastructure, mainly walls and moats."
Project Camelot, How Adobe Created the PDF Format We Still Use 30 Years Later: "In 2023, the 30th anniversary of Adobe Acrobat is celebrated. A computer program known to many. But the PDF format that was born with this software is much better known. A digital file format that was born out of a need in a different era from today. A time when there were many applications, platforms, and computer systems. Incompatible with each other. Someone had to create a format readable by all of them and easy to print. A standard. And they achieved it!"
Mortal Kombat - The Legendary Fighting Game That Challenged Morality: "Since its debut in 1992, Mortal Kombat has been a phenomenon in the world of video games. With its unmistakable bloody fighting style and its cast of iconic characters, the franchise became an immediate success. But in its early days it was not free of controversy and problems with parent-teacher associations, educators, and Christian groups due to its extreme violence, who feared that their children would become killing psychopaths by playing it. Do you want to know the story?"
It's Science, Not Science Fiction: Space-Time Has Been Manipulated in a Simulated Universe in a Laboratory: "Understanding in all its complexity what space and time are is not easy. We don't say it; Álvaro de Rújula, a prestigious particle physicist who, among many other achievements, has taught at Harvard and led the theoretical physics division at CERN, says it. He has even had the opportunity to travel through time to speak face-to-face with Albert Einstein (in fiction and with a lot of charm, of course)."
WALL-E, All the Dystopias: "WALL-E (Pixar), a film for all audiences that tells the love story of two robots from different robotic generations, the heap of scrap iron WALL-E and the very sophisticated EVA, in a dystopian setting: Earth has become an uninhabitable landfill, where, besides WALL-E compacting trash, there is a cockroach, while what remains of humanity (obese men, women, and children, always sitting in flying chairs) communicates through screens."
The Mysterious Area 51 and a Brothel in the Middle of the Mohave: "Everything that happens at Area 51 is Information Classified as Top Secret. The secrecy surrounding this military base, whose existence was not recognized by the government until 1995, has become the main topic of conspiracy theories and the UFO phenomenon. Besides the military signs prohibiting entry, the most striking thing I found when I approached there in 2013 were the remains of a crashed plane and a sign pointing to the facilities of an old brothel."
Rescue at Sea - Göteborg, the Largest Wooden Sailing Ship in the World, Saves a Sailboat Adrift: "Two sailors who began to drift after losing their rudder tell of their surreal experience when a replica of an 18th-century merchant ship came to rescue them off the coast of France. The largest wooden high-seas sailing ship in the world, Göteborg of Sweden, was heading to its next stop at the port of Jersey when it received a distress call from the MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centers) about a small sailboat that was adrift after losing its rudder."
Why Do Witches Fly on Brooms?: "Basically, it alerted bishops to the deceptions and charms that threatened the Christian community, charging them to find out if any woman claimed to ride beasts with female-looking demons. The church started from a pagan base to form the image of the witch. In this way, it shared the period of activity, method of locomotion, shape-shifting, and the ability to attack young people in their homes like the ancient strix did."
The Plot Thickens in the Search for Planet Nine: "The outer reaches of the solar system could harbor the sought-after Planet Nine, or evidence that modifies the laws of gravity. Researchers Harsh Mathur, a physics professor at Case Western Reserve University, and Katherine Brown, an associate professor of physics at Hamilton College, reached this conclusion after studying the effect that the Milky Way would have on objects in the outer solar system: if the laws of gravity were governed by a theory known as Modified Newtonian Dynamics (or MOND)."
What's Behind Your True Crime Addiction?: Vicente Garrido maintains that the deep interest in crime is imbued in our genetic code. "The criminal episode captures our attention and, unconsciously, our mind tells us 'look what you can learn that could save your life if you find yourself in a similar situation'," explains the professor of criminology. Furthermore, the expert continues, in those situations where we experience fear in a safe environment, brain biochemistry releases dopamine and adrenaline. "Hence the pleasure of being scared in front of criminal works," he adds.
Curiosities of Cutthroat Island, the Film That Bankrupted Carolco: "After a production full of problems, with constant script changes, the final cost of the production was approximately 95 million dollars; however, the film Cutthroat Island was a resounding failure with critics and audiences, grossing barely 10 million dollars at the box office. This led to the film being included in the Guinness Book of Records as "the biggest box-office disaster of all time". Unable to absorb the enormous losses, Carolco Pictures went bankrupt shortly after."
Horrible Jobs - Leeches Collectors Used Amputated Legs to Get Leeches: "If you lived in the 18th or 19th century and worked as a leech collector, your daily tasks would have been, to say the least, gruesome. In charge of obtaining leeches for medical purposes, these collectors searched for these slippery creatures in their murky habitats: swamps, marshes, and other swampy areas. But how exactly did they attract these leeches?"
VIDEOS: Playing DOOM with an Electric Guitar, the Guinness record for grotesque face, Final Fantasy VII - Cosmo Canyon Acapella, the smallest apartment in Japan, baby platypus, Frasier remake animated by various artists, towards the metal asteroid, the complete history of video games in 12 hours, Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers with Donkey Kong County sounds, Egyptian fortresses in 3D, Safety Last! (1923) (colorized in 50fps and 4k], The Amazing Digital Circus (PILOT), satisfying 3D animations, hermit crab steals robotic shell, how they thought in 1989 that houses would look in 2020, and the karate rap (classic!)
GALLERIES: Winning photos of the International Pano Awards 2023, winning photos of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023, AI photo competition, winning photos of the CEWE Photo Award 2023, 4700 free photos released by photographer, corrupting children's coloring book, metal animals, winning photos of fat bears 2023, the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump.
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