Dystopia as a natural state, Chandler Bing, how smart devices spy on us, the lost continent, and hidden chaos. An edition of Recommended Links full of scientific wonders and all kinds of curiosities. I hope you have a good time and... enjoy it!
Dystopia, natural state: "We agree that utopia is a social state that meets two requirements: besides being ideally good, it neither exists nor could exist—hence its name, literally, land without territory. In this way, it is outlined as an asymptotic horizon, something we approach infinitely without ever reaching it. On the other hand, we agree that dystopia—also called negative utopia—is a naturally harmful social state that, unlike utopia, could actually exist."
Chandler Bing, how to create a memorable comic character through humor and compassion: "Science tells us that watching a series can trigger internal and psychological mechanisms in the audience with the characters similar to those we develop when interacting with real people. That's why it's so hard to say goodbye to a series and its characters endure over time. That's why audiovisual fictions can also be transformative in people's lives."
The origin and revolution of popcorn in cinema: "We travel to Kansas City, in the state of Missouri, where Julia had a brilliant idea, so she decided to put it into practice. She went to the Linwood Theatre, where after intense negotiation, she reached a pact with the cinema owners: set up a popcorn stand in the inner hall, where she could sell them when the hungry audience came. At first, the managers of the place didn't find it funny at all, but..."
SolarBall, the invention of a student that purifies dirty water without electricity: "Although there are similar devices for water purification, the SolarBall was meticulously designed to meet a specific need. Its simplicity, combined with efficiency, makes it ideal for those facing water scarcity. This innovative tool can produce up to 3 liters of purified water. Users only need to pour water into the SolarBall and place it under direct sunlight."
This is how smart devices spy on us and reveal information about our homes: "Choffnes and his team set up at their university a "living laboratory/apartment with more than 100 devices" called Mon(IoT)r Lab [IoT stands for the Internet of Things in English]. It's like a huge celebration, more of devices. There, scholars from the university and other centers study the full plurality of behaviors and relationships that occur between them, from lamps and refrigerators to routers and speakers, which communicate with each other."
Argoland, the continent that was lost under the ocean (almost) without a trace: "155 million years ago. A team of researchers from Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, has reconstructed the history of the continent of Argoland, a landmass that existed 155 million years ago, during the Jurassic period. According to the reconstruction carried out by the researchers, 215 million years ago (late Triassic) Argoland would have been an archipelago south of the Tethys Ocean, off the coast of what would today be Australia."
Scientists reveal the 'universal law of evolution': "This suggests that evolution, in all its manifestations, inevitably leads to the generation of patterns, diversity, and complexity in complex natural systems. As the study's first author, astrobiologist Michael Wong of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC, points out, 'The Universe generates new combinations of atoms, molecules, cells, and much more.' Evolution is not limited to Earth's biosphere but manifests in extremely complex systems."
Scientists already know how the Sun will die and it will be monstrous: "An international team of astronomers turned it around again in 2018 and discovered that a planetary nebula is, in fact, the most likely solar corpse, reports Science Alert. The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old, measured by the age of other objects in the Solar System that formed around the same time. Based on observations of other stars, astronomers predict it will reach the end of its life in about 10 billion more years."
2001 - Star Trek: Enterprise: "Nobody knew what had happened between 'First Contact' and the voyages of Kirk and Spock's Enterprise, a hundred years later. Star Trek canon did not explain how Earth had evolved from a post-apocalyptic nightmare to an interstellar utopia. So Berman and Braga decided to choose an intermediate era in which space travel was in its infancy, humans were taking their first steps in ships with warp technology, and they began their explorations with a caution far from the security with which Kirk and his crew moved throughout the galaxy."
Luxury emissions - Why not ban private jets?: "572,806 annual flights. That is the total number of private flights in Europe in the past 2022, according to Greenpeace data. The European Business Association (EBA) raises them, only in the Old Continent, to 700,510. This year, with data up to September, the number of routes made by these aircraft reaches 513,972 trips. An increase that is also reflected in emissions, which last year doubled to 3.3 million tons of CO2, equivalent to those emitted annually on average by 555,000 inhabitants of the European Union."
What is Occam's razor? An introduction to critical thinking: "William of Ockham (1285–1349) was an eminent English philosopher, specialized in the field of logic. He is often considered one of the forerunners of analytical philosophy, empiricism, and modern science. A great contribution of Ockham was to prioritize rationality over metaphysical speculation. In this sense, he inspired Umberto Eco to develop the famous protagonist of The Name of the Rose, Friar William of Baskerville. But probably what he is most known for is the philosophical principle that bears his name."
Discovering the hidden order in chaos: "Mathematicians, and also meteorologists, anthropologists, sociologists, physicists, philosophers, computer scientists, engineers, or economists began to see beyond the apparent random disorder of nature, finding connections in the behavior of financial markets, meteorological phenomena, the movement of certain celestial bodies, the evolution of an ecosystem... Chaos theory became the perfect mathematical tool to extract ordered structures from a sea of chaos."
Videos
- Playing with a 1-euro processor
- replacing horses with robots
- a portable Super Nintendo
- cover of Divinity Original Sin 2 by Gingertail
- an impossible maze for scammers
- the hilarity of real-time cutscenes
- how dangerous it was to be a jester
- candy thieves vs tricked candy bowl
- brain implant with AI for a paralyzed woman to speak
- comparison of moon sizes
- the best Mortal Kombat fatalities
- kitten with a wheelchair
- the swimming doll Ondine
- how contact lenses were made in 1948
- Spiral blower (Primitive Technology)
- chocolate spider
- Michelle by The Beatles on a 20-string harp guitar
- Cinderella's Mice Are Traumatized
- short film made entirely with AI
- horror short Sushi Noh
- full series Ulises 31 in Spanish
- The Dark, Sad Life of Boogie2988
Galleries
Covers of Cavalier Magazine, European Photography 2023, Dog Photo Awards 2023, more Winona Ryder, Garden Photographers of the Year, when they sheltered flamingos for a hurricane, Nature Conservation Contest, photos of Japanese women from the Meiji Era, the eel that pierced the heron's neck in mid-flight, weird things in old cars, photos of nuns having fun, the Animated Dump and the Visual Dump.
https://old.neoteo.com/cuanto-tiempo-les-llevaria-a-monos-infinitos-escribir-un-texto-cualquiera/Well, folks. I'm sure you've watched some video and read some article. That's enough for me this week. Thanks for stopping by!
