Tanto bella Barbie, ma sarà anche buona? Preparare degli Hot Dog un po' speciali come forma d'arte. Fico.
Money quote: "the creative handiwork of Anna Hezel and Gabriella Paiella, the resident dynamic “Deranged Crafts” duo from Lucky Peach. When they recently put their heads together and thought about what kinds of Disney princesses would inspire them most, they thought of hot dogs… “Obviously.”"
https://womenyoushouldknow.net/grossly-appealing-disney-princesses-reimagined-as-hot-dogs/
Money quote: "the creative handiwork of Anna Hezel and Gabriella Paiella, the resident dynamic “Deranged Crafts” duo from Lucky Peach. When they recently put their heads together and thought about what kinds of Disney princesses would inspire them most, they thought of hot dogs… “Obviously.”"
https://womenyoushouldknow.net/grossly-appealing-disney-princesses-reimagined-as-hot-dogs/
Women You Should Know®
Grossly Appealing: Disney Princesses Reimagined As Hot Dogs
When "deranged crafters" Anna Hezel and Gabriella Paiella thought about what kinds of Disney Princesses would inspire them most, they thought of... hot dogs
C'è da dire che in effetti è passato molto tempo da quando abbiamo visto l'ultima vera innovazione negli aerei di linea. Probabilmente il Concorde, il B747 e poi l'A380. Beh, ecco qua a voi l'aereo a freccia, il Boomerang. È un concept che probabilmente non andrà mai da nessuna parte perché come potete vedere nel video ha un discreto difetto. Però almeno un po' ci si muove, dai!
Money quote: "In this video by the YouTube channel Found and Explained, you can learn more about this futuristic aircraft. The passenger cabin, cargo compartment, and fuel tanks are all located in the wings of the Flying-V, thanks to its revolutionary design. According to some experts, the plane's aerodynamic form will lower fuel consumption by 20 percent when compared to contemporary aircraft, which is pretty significant."
https://interestingengineering.com/video/flying-v
Money quote: "In this video by the YouTube channel Found and Explained, you can learn more about this futuristic aircraft. The passenger cabin, cargo compartment, and fuel tanks are all located in the wings of the Flying-V, thanks to its revolutionary design. According to some experts, the plane's aerodynamic form will lower fuel consumption by 20 percent when compared to contemporary aircraft, which is pretty significant."
https://interestingengineering.com/video/flying-v
Interestingengineering
The new Flying-V substantially upgrades speed and carries passengers in its wings
In this video, you can learn more about Flying-V, a futuristic aircraft that carries passengers on its wings.
La scienza è quella attività che non smette mai di scoprire cose nuove. Anche dove meno te lo aspetti: prendi il ghiaccio, ad esempio.
Money quote: "While experimenting with different pressures, the researchers discovered a completely new type of ice, as a transitional stage between two known forms. At around 5.1 GigaPascals of pressure, the cubic structure known as ice VII transformed into a never-before-seen phase consisting of symmetrical tetragonal crystals. This new phase was named ice VIIt. After that, it then settled into another known phase called ice X."
https://newatlas.com/science/ice-viit-new-type/
Money quote: "While experimenting with different pressures, the researchers discovered a completely new type of ice, as a transitional stage between two known forms. At around 5.1 GigaPascals of pressure, the cubic structure known as ice VII transformed into a never-before-seen phase consisting of symmetrical tetragonal crystals. This new phase was named ice VIIt. After that, it then settled into another known phase called ice X."
https://newatlas.com/science/ice-viit-new-type/
New Atlas
Strange new form of ice discovered in high pressure experiments
Ice may seem pretty simple in our everyday experience, but it actually comes in at least 20 different forms. Scientists at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) have now discovered a new type of ice that may be found deep in the Earth’s mantle or on distant…
Le parole sono importanti. Contano. Servono a descrivere le cose, anche i sentimenti. Per questo quando si parla di riconciliazione e perdono bisogna capire che sono due cose diverse e che si tratta di comprendere meglio cosa vogliamo e cosa cerchiamo. Ci sono persone che non ammetteranno mai di aver fatto qualcosa di sbagliato, ma questo non vuol dire che non sia possibile perdonarle e andare avanti lo stesso.
Money quote: "Both Enright and Davis say that forgiveness exists separately from reconciliation, and also from accountability — which is why forgiving someone doesn’t require an apology or even their participation. “Reconciliation is a negotiation strategy between two or more people trying to make their way back together to mutual trust,” explains Enright, whereas forgiveness is a one-way endeavor. Put another way: Forgiveness might be a step on the path to reconciliation, but you don’t have to traverse the full route if you’d prefer not to."
https://www.vox.com/22967752/how-to-forgive-someone-who-isnt-sorry-wont-apologize
Money quote: "Both Enright and Davis say that forgiveness exists separately from reconciliation, and also from accountability — which is why forgiving someone doesn’t require an apology or even their participation. “Reconciliation is a negotiation strategy between two or more people trying to make their way back together to mutual trust,” explains Enright, whereas forgiveness is a one-way endeavor. Put another way: Forgiveness might be a step on the path to reconciliation, but you don’t have to traverse the full route if you’d prefer not to."
https://www.vox.com/22967752/how-to-forgive-someone-who-isnt-sorry-wont-apologize
Vox
How to forgive someone who isn’t sorry
Some people will never admit wrongdoing. It’s still possible for you to move forward.
Backup. Chi segue il canale lo sa: è l’unica funzione che promuovo perché ci metto la faccia: la pago e la uso personalmente da anni. Backup completo nel cloud con BackBlaze. Perfetto. Se seguite il mio link, un mese gratuito a voi e un mese gratuito a me. Dovete usare il link, però.
https://secure.backblaze.com/r/01ti3i
https://secure.backblaze.com/r/01ti3i
Ritorna lo scontro di civiltà. O piuttosto ritorna l'orso russo, spietato e famelico come tutti gli orsi? L'abisso dell'anima russa in questo articolo del 2014, anno dell'inglobamento della Crimea.
Money quote: "Non c’è da stupirsi che questi ultimi abbiano finito per percepire la Russia come una forza distruttrice. Joseph Conrad, che nella sua nativa Polonia sperimentò in prima persona l’insaziabile fame di territorio dell’impero russo, lo definì un impero del nulla. In “Autocrazia e guerra” (1905), per esempio, scrisse che fin dalla sua nascita in Russia “la brutale distruzione della dignità, della verità, della rettitudine, di tutto ciò che è buono nella natura umana è stata la condizione della sua esistenza”. Sotto l’ombra opprimente dell’autocrazia russa “nulla poteva crescere”. Circa otto decenni dopo, in “La tragedia dell’Europa centrale” (1984), Milan Kundera avrebbe fatto un’osservazione simile: quando i russi portarono il totalitarismo nel suo paese “fecero tutto il possibile per distruggere la cultura ceca”. Infatti, per lui, la “civiltà russa totalitaria è la negazione radicale dell’Occidente moderno”. “"
https://www.indiscreto.org/i-due-abissi-dellanima-russa/
Money quote: "Non c’è da stupirsi che questi ultimi abbiano finito per percepire la Russia come una forza distruttrice. Joseph Conrad, che nella sua nativa Polonia sperimentò in prima persona l’insaziabile fame di territorio dell’impero russo, lo definì un impero del nulla. In “Autocrazia e guerra” (1905), per esempio, scrisse che fin dalla sua nascita in Russia “la brutale distruzione della dignità, della verità, della rettitudine, di tutto ciò che è buono nella natura umana è stata la condizione della sua esistenza”. Sotto l’ombra opprimente dell’autocrazia russa “nulla poteva crescere”. Circa otto decenni dopo, in “La tragedia dell’Europa centrale” (1984), Milan Kundera avrebbe fatto un’osservazione simile: quando i russi portarono il totalitarismo nel suo paese “fecero tutto il possibile per distruggere la cultura ceca”. Infatti, per lui, la “civiltà russa totalitaria è la negazione radicale dell’Occidente moderno”. “"
https://www.indiscreto.org/i-due-abissi-dellanima-russa/
L'INDISCRETO
I due abissi dell’anima russa
L'occupazione russa della Crimea - la cui importanza è sfuggita a noi europei dell'ovest - è il momento in cui, invece, in Europa dell'est la paura dell'espansionismo russo è tornata. Un fantasma della storia che oggi si è ripresentato. Per questo oggi è…
Una donna racconta la sua trasformazione: passare dall'ambizione alla ricerca dell'equilibrio, affondando nella mediocrità (dal punto di vista di chi vuol fare carriera) e nel benessere. Cos'è successo? Perché mollare adesso, dopo la pandemia? Essere sconfitti e avere una sola vita vuol dire anche capire quando staccare e cambiare direzione, prima di finire come il Titanic in fondo al mare.
Money quote: "2022 may be the year my ambition truly dies, and to that I say, “Good riddance, bitch.”
As a young adult, I had to be ambitious; it was my only chance of escaping poverty. I knew if I wanted security and stability and comfort, I had to work harder, be smarter, and strive in the most active sense. (I chose journalism, so obviously I wasn’t quite as wealth-focused as I could have been, but still.) As hard as I worked and as much as I strived, though, I watched far less capable people get promoted ahead of me. I sat through countless interviews for promotions I was more than qualified for only to hear, “We loved you, but …” I would inevitably end up training the new hire to do the job I didn’t get."
https://www.thecut.com/2022/03/post-pandemic-loss-of-ambition.html
Money quote: "2022 may be the year my ambition truly dies, and to that I say, “Good riddance, bitch.”
As a young adult, I had to be ambitious; it was my only chance of escaping poverty. I knew if I wanted security and stability and comfort, I had to work harder, be smarter, and strive in the most active sense. (I chose journalism, so obviously I wasn’t quite as wealth-focused as I could have been, but still.) As hard as I worked and as much as I strived, though, I watched far less capable people get promoted ahead of me. I sat through countless interviews for promotions I was more than qualified for only to hear, “We loved you, but …” I would inevitably end up training the new hire to do the job I didn’t get."
https://www.thecut.com/2022/03/post-pandemic-loss-of-ambition.html
The Cut
Losing My Ambition
After a career of making “strategic” moves, I’m embracing mediocrity.
Guardare una sola, piccola galassia (la nostra) tra le miliardi di miliardi osservabili nell'universo "conosciuto" (e chissà quante altre) ha senso oppure no? Ecco, secondo tre astrofisici, sì, ha senso. Eccome se ha senso.
Money quote: "Imagine if you could look at a snowflake at the South Pole and determine the size and the climate of all of Antarctica. Or study a randomly selected tree in the Amazon rain forest and, from that one tree—be it rare or common, narrow or wide, young or old—deduce characteristics of the forest as a whole. Or, what if, by looking at one galaxy among the hundred billion or so in the observable universe, one could say something substantial about the universe as a whole? A recent paper, whose lead authors include a cosmologist, a galaxy-formation expert, and an undergraduate named Jupiter (who did the initial work), suggests that this may be the case. The result at first seemed “crazy” to the paper’s authors. Now, having discussed their work with other astrophysicists and done various “sanity checks,” trying to find errors in their methods, the results are beginning to seem pretty clear. Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, one of the lead authors of the work, said, “It does look like galaxies somehow retain a memory of the entire universe.”"
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/what-can-we-learn-about-the-universe-from-just-one-galaxy
Money quote: "Imagine if you could look at a snowflake at the South Pole and determine the size and the climate of all of Antarctica. Or study a randomly selected tree in the Amazon rain forest and, from that one tree—be it rare or common, narrow or wide, young or old—deduce characteristics of the forest as a whole. Or, what if, by looking at one galaxy among the hundred billion or so in the observable universe, one could say something substantial about the universe as a whole? A recent paper, whose lead authors include a cosmologist, a galaxy-formation expert, and an undergraduate named Jupiter (who did the initial work), suggests that this may be the case. The result at first seemed “crazy” to the paper’s authors. Now, having discussed their work with other astrophysicists and done various “sanity checks,” trying to find errors in their methods, the results are beginning to seem pretty clear. Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, one of the lead authors of the work, said, “It does look like galaxies somehow retain a memory of the entire universe.”"
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/what-can-we-learn-about-the-universe-from-just-one-galaxy
The New Yorker
What Can We Learn About the Universe from Just One Galaxy?
In new research, begun by an undergraduate, William Blake’s phrase “to see a world in a grain of sand” is suddenly relevant to astrophysics.
Una volta li chiamavano "mestieri logoranti" e, in maniera molto democristiana (negare ma un po' provvedere) li trattavamo meglio ad esempio dal punto di vista pensionistico: si andava a casa prima. Oggi è un disastro. E c'è chi si sta rendendo conto che in realtà trattare "in maniera uguale" i lavoratori e le lavoratrici di alcune tipologie di mestieri tipo Uber è uno sfruttamento abietto e durissimo.
Money quote: "Although sleep is a need, it is a negotiable one. Societies have historically varied in their practices, and minorities have got by on less than is needed, sometimes for a lengthy period. Everyone weighs sleep against other priorities. This plasticity is what gives scope for the individual to be exploited, by herself and others, as sleep’s nonessential component is eroded. Sleep inequalities persist because their consequences can be deferred – but they cannot be deferred indefinitely."
https://aeon.co/essays/being-underslept-and-out-of-sync-is-a-political-injustice
Money quote: "Although sleep is a need, it is a negotiable one. Societies have historically varied in their practices, and minorities have got by on less than is needed, sometimes for a lengthy period. Everyone weighs sleep against other priorities. This plasticity is what gives scope for the individual to be exploited, by herself and others, as sleep’s nonessential component is eroded. Sleep inequalities persist because their consequences can be deferred – but they cannot be deferred indefinitely."
https://aeon.co/essays/being-underslept-and-out-of-sync-is-a-political-injustice
Aeon
Poor sleep
Being on-call, out-of-sync and underslept is not just personal but a pervasive political injustice. Bold change is needed
Guglielmo: "L'Italia è quel Paese dove i portali online della pubblica amministrazione hanno un orario di apertura e uno di chiusura.
Questa cosa continua a tormentarmi
perché dal lunedì al venerdì
perché in orario da ufficio
cosa succede il weekend per cui UN SITO WEB DEVE RIMANERE CHIUSO
tutti gli indizi portano a un dirigente pubblico che pensa che le piattaforme online siano come gli sportelli aperti al pubblico e che quindi dev'essere accessibile solo quando pare a lui. Sigh".
Questa cosa continua a tormentarmi
perché dal lunedì al venerdì
perché in orario da ufficio
cosa succede il weekend per cui UN SITO WEB DEVE RIMANERE CHIUSO
tutti gli indizi portano a un dirigente pubblico che pensa che le piattaforme online siano come gli sportelli aperti al pubblico e che quindi dev'essere accessibile solo quando pare a lui. Sigh".
Ve le ricordate quelle meravigliose storie di Zio Paperone con Paperino e i nipotini su macchine avveniristiche alla ricerca di tesori in luoghi esotici, con dialghi scintillanti? Ringraziate Rodolfo CImino per questo e altro!
https://fumettologica.it/2022/04/rodolfo-cimino-fumetti-disney/
https://fumettologica.it/2022/04/rodolfo-cimino-fumetti-disney/
Adoro questo modo di fare giornalismo. Una premessa semplice ("che fine hanno fatto gli scrittori-artisti dipendenti da sostanze o alcolizzati?") e poi un articolo serio che argomenta e al tempo stesso convince e lascia qualcosa. Ad esempio la comprensione che la nostra società è cambiata. Da leggere.
Money quote: "So many artists have lived hard lives and had awful deaths that for years we seemed to expect this of them — that addiction and an early grave were a kind of tax levied on artists, most especially writers, whose profession has gone together with substance abuse like ice goes with bourbon. Everything about the act of writing seems to invite abuse — its solitary nature, its interiority, the misery of sharing yourself with an often indifferent audience. Any list of the great authors and poets of the 20th century would include countless addicts: Lucia Berlin, Elizabeth Bishop, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, Jean Rhys, William Styron, John Williams — all experienced varying degrees of addiction, which they explored over the course of their respective careers. Artist-addicts continue to inspire curiosity and obsession, but as we move farther from the 20th century and toward a reinterpretation of substance abuse that places it in the context of wellness and mental health, this figure seems increasingly a relic of a different era, like beehive hairdos or fallout shelters. Writers today certainly don’t broadcast their vices the way they used to, in their work or otherwise, and American culture no longer abides a drunken stupor as an inevitable state crucial to the creation of great art. Even as drugs have become more widely available and legally sanctioned, their use remains illicit — if a writer tackles the theme of substance abuse, it is almost universally done from the perspective of convalescence, of overcoming the addiction itself, which is what we now require of a user in order to have anything resembling a career. Where, then, have all the addicts gone?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/t-magazine/writers-alcohol-drugs-art.html
Money quote: "So many artists have lived hard lives and had awful deaths that for years we seemed to expect this of them — that addiction and an early grave were a kind of tax levied on artists, most especially writers, whose profession has gone together with substance abuse like ice goes with bourbon. Everything about the act of writing seems to invite abuse — its solitary nature, its interiority, the misery of sharing yourself with an often indifferent audience. Any list of the great authors and poets of the 20th century would include countless addicts: Lucia Berlin, Elizabeth Bishop, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, Jean Rhys, William Styron, John Williams — all experienced varying degrees of addiction, which they explored over the course of their respective careers. Artist-addicts continue to inspire curiosity and obsession, but as we move farther from the 20th century and toward a reinterpretation of substance abuse that places it in the context of wellness and mental health, this figure seems increasingly a relic of a different era, like beehive hairdos or fallout shelters. Writers today certainly don’t broadcast their vices the way they used to, in their work or otherwise, and American culture no longer abides a drunken stupor as an inevitable state crucial to the creation of great art. Even as drugs have become more widely available and legally sanctioned, their use remains illicit — if a writer tackles the theme of substance abuse, it is almost universally done from the perspective of convalescence, of overcoming the addiction itself, which is what we now require of a user in order to have anything resembling a career. Where, then, have all the addicts gone?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/t-magazine/writers-alcohol-drugs-art.html
NY Times
Where Have All the Artist-Addicts Gone?
For much of the 20th century, before the dawn of our own wellness-focused era, madness and substance abuse were often considered prerequisites for great art.
Alcuni scienziati australiani hanno trovato un legame tra geni specifici e la capacità di decondizionare la paura nei topi. L'idea è che ci siano alcune cose particolari che passano in via genetica. I risultati potrebbero portare a nuove terapie per PTSD e fobia. La cosa sarebbe la base per un romanzo di fantascienza da urlo. (letteralmente)
Money quote: ""These data demonstrate that the effect of [the gene knockouts] on fear extinction is due to its influence on cognition rather than on non-specific physiological indicators of generalized anxiety," the researchers wrote in their paper."
https://www.sciencealert.com/genetic-link-to-fear-disorders-found-hiding-within-what-we-once-dismissed-as-junk-dna-in-mice
Money quote: ""These data demonstrate that the effect of [the gene knockouts] on fear extinction is due to its influence on cognition rather than on non-specific physiological indicators of generalized anxiety," the researchers wrote in their paper."
https://www.sciencealert.com/genetic-link-to-fear-disorders-found-hiding-within-what-we-once-dismissed-as-junk-dna-in-mice
ScienceAlert
Genetic Link to Fear Memories Found Hiding Within Mice's "Junk DNA"
Using a powerful new sequencing technique researchers have tracked down genes within mice that work towards soothing fear-related memories. These genes are hidden within relatively unknown regions of the mammalian genome we'd written off as 'junk D
Come tutte le domeniche, Mostly Weekly
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/162/
Co si iscrive qui:
https://antoniodini.com/newsletter/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/162/
Co si iscrive qui:
https://antoniodini.com/newsletter/
Mostly Here
~162
La paura del futuro e altri traumi
Negli Usa stanno studiando il modo per fare sì che il gelato sia cremoso e non croccante (perché sentire i cristalli di ghiaccio che scricchiolano nel gelato non è una bella cosa). La tecnica? Fa un po' impressione.
Money quote: "Wu's graduate student, Min Li, said the team was inspired by the structure and functionality of antifreeze proteins found in certain species of fish, insects, and plants that thrive in sub-zero temperatures. These proteins have also been shown to prevent large ice crystals from forming. The proteins stick to the surface of ice crystals, keeping them from clustering into larger crystals. But there is a limited supply, and the proteins are very expensive, making them impractical for commercial use.
Prior research suggested that the anti-freezing capabilities of such proteins come from the fact that they have both a hydrophilic surface with an affinity for water and a hydrophobic surface that repels water. Because cellulose nanocrystals also have this so-called "amphiphilic" structure, Wu and his team thought they might also inhibit the growth of larger ice crystals. Unlike the antifreeze proteins and commercial stabilizers, "Nanocelluloses are abundant, renewable, and inexpensive," said Li."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/plant-based-nanocrystals-could-be-the-secret-to-preventing-crunchy-ice-cream/
Money quote: "Wu's graduate student, Min Li, said the team was inspired by the structure and functionality of antifreeze proteins found in certain species of fish, insects, and plants that thrive in sub-zero temperatures. These proteins have also been shown to prevent large ice crystals from forming. The proteins stick to the surface of ice crystals, keeping them from clustering into larger crystals. But there is a limited supply, and the proteins are very expensive, making them impractical for commercial use.
Prior research suggested that the anti-freezing capabilities of such proteins come from the fact that they have both a hydrophilic surface with an affinity for water and a hydrophobic surface that repels water. Because cellulose nanocrystals also have this so-called "amphiphilic" structure, Wu and his team thought they might also inhibit the growth of larger ice crystals. Unlike the antifreeze proteins and commercial stabilizers, "Nanocelluloses are abundant, renewable, and inexpensive," said Li."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/plant-based-nanocrystals-could-be-the-secret-to-preventing-crunchy-ice-cream/
Ars Technica
Secret to keeping ice cream creamy (not crunchy) might be plant-based nanocrystals
New research could also help preserve other frozen foods, donated organs, and tissues.
Jerrycan, le taniche per la benzina standardizzata, sono un'invenzione nazista. E ancora oggi, a più di ottanta anni dalla loro creazione, vanno alla grande.
Money quote: "Hitler made mastery of liquid transport a priority, tasking Germany to devise a rigid and robust unit of storage that could withstand wear, pour well, stack conveniently, and carry easily. Müller, in addition to his ownership stake in ABP, was involved with a German-based engineering firm called Müller Engineering that was also working on the jerrycan project. In 1937, Vinzenz Grünvogel, chief engineer at Müller’s namesake firm, was awarded official credit for the creation of the Wehrmacht-Einheitskanister (Armed Forces Unit Canister), but it’s easy to see a through line from Grünvogel’s final design to Müller’s investment in ABP."
https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/jerrycan-design-80-years-no-signs-retirement/
Money quote: "Hitler made mastery of liquid transport a priority, tasking Germany to devise a rigid and robust unit of storage that could withstand wear, pour well, stack conveniently, and carry easily. Müller, in addition to his ownership stake in ABP, was involved with a German-based engineering firm called Müller Engineering that was also working on the jerrycan project. In 1937, Vinzenz Grünvogel, chief engineer at Müller’s namesake firm, was awarded official credit for the creation of the Wehrmacht-Einheitskanister (Armed Forces Unit Canister), but it’s easy to see a through line from Grünvogel’s final design to Müller’s investment in ABP."
https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/jerrycan-design-80-years-no-signs-retirement/
Hagerty Media
The jerrycan design goes back over 80 years, and it’s showing no signs of retirement - Hagerty Media
Now and again, an invention becomes so ubiquitous that it becomes practically invisible. Really, when's the last time you thought about the jerrycan?
Piccoli segreti della vita: anziché inseguire il piacere, cercate di divertirvi. Enjoyment e pleasure non sono sinonimi, e c'è un mare di differenza.
Money quote: "Enjoyment and pleasure are terms often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. Pleasure happens to you; enjoyment is something that you create through your own effort. Pleasure is the lightheadedness you get from a bit of grain alcohol; enjoyment is the satisfaction of a good wine, properly understood. Pleasure is addictive and animal; enjoyment is elective and human."
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/03/enjoyment-not-pleasure-creates-happiness/627583/
Money quote: "Enjoyment and pleasure are terms often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. Pleasure happens to you; enjoyment is something that you create through your own effort. Pleasure is the lightheadedness you get from a bit of grain alcohol; enjoyment is the satisfaction of a good wine, properly understood. Pleasure is addictive and animal; enjoyment is elective and human."
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/03/enjoyment-not-pleasure-creates-happiness/627583/
The Atlantic
Choose Enjoyment Over Pleasure
Pleasure is addictive and animal; enjoyment is elective and human.
La volontà, la politica, la natura, il caso e poi le conseguenze. Nel 1970 un ciclone devastò la baia del Bengala e uccise mezzo milione di persone, mettendo in crisi un inteso sistema politico, con il rischio di una escalation nucleare nella guerra fredda.
Money quote: "When the British partitioned India along religious lines in 1947, the mostly Muslim country of Pakistan was born—two disconnected wings on either side of the mostly Hindu India. In November 1970, just two weeks before Pakistan’s first attempt at a free and fair election, the tropical storm that would become the deadliest cyclone in human history churned northeast through the Bay of Bengal. The locus of political power lay in Islamabad, to the west; East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) was home to 60 percent of the population and was in the direct path of the storm. When the Great Bhola Cyclone made landfall, it didn’t only crash against a coastline, killing half a million people, it also destroyed a fragile political system. This is the story of the cyclone: its fallout and how those events brought together two Cold War superpowers who threatened to destroy the world."
https://www.wired.com/story/cyclone-pakistan-bangladesh/
Money quote: "When the British partitioned India along religious lines in 1947, the mostly Muslim country of Pakistan was born—two disconnected wings on either side of the mostly Hindu India. In November 1970, just two weeks before Pakistan’s first attempt at a free and fair election, the tropical storm that would become the deadliest cyclone in human history churned northeast through the Bay of Bengal. The locus of political power lay in Islamabad, to the west; East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) was home to 60 percent of the population and was in the direct path of the storm. When the Great Bhola Cyclone made landfall, it didn’t only crash against a coastline, killing half a million people, it also destroyed a fragile political system. This is the story of the cyclone: its fallout and how those events brought together two Cold War superpowers who threatened to destroy the world."
https://www.wired.com/story/cyclone-pakistan-bangladesh/
WIRED
The Deadly Cyclone That Changed the Course of the Cold War
A 1970 storm that killed half a million people became a flashpoint for political upheaval in Pakistan—and ultimately brought America and Russia to the brink of war.
A quanto pare in una storia con Amelia il Vesuvio è diventato l'Etna. Ecco il clamoroso errore di Topolino di questa settimana, appena uscito.
Money quote: "Da quando Topolino 3464, in edicola da oggi, è iniziato ad arrivare agli abbonati, nelle comunità social dei fan del fumetto Disney sta girando una immagine che mai ci si sarebbe aspettati di vedere sul settimanale, che da sempre si fa vanto del valore didattico dei suoi contenuti: un marchiano errore di geografia riguardante l’Etna e il Vesuvio, che avrebbe fatto balzare sulla cattedra la vostra professoressa delle medie."
https://fumettologica.it/2022/04/errore-topolino-etna-vesuvio/
Money quote: "Da quando Topolino 3464, in edicola da oggi, è iniziato ad arrivare agli abbonati, nelle comunità social dei fan del fumetto Disney sta girando una immagine che mai ci si sarebbe aspettati di vedere sul settimanale, che da sempre si fa vanto del valore didattico dei suoi contenuti: un marchiano errore di geografia riguardante l’Etna e il Vesuvio, che avrebbe fatto balzare sulla cattedra la vostra professoressa delle medie."
https://fumettologica.it/2022/04/errore-topolino-etna-vesuvio/
Fumettologica
L'incredibile errore di geografia nel nuovo numero di "Topolino"
Nel numero di Topolino in edicola è presente un errore geografico decisamente grave: hanno confuso Etna e Vesuvio.