Upgrade your mind to a computer, play board games solo and online, bad movies are for smart people, precision synchronized group walking championships, and when record players were like an iPod. All that, and much more, only in the week's recommended links.
How to play board games for more than two people solo: "There are numerous pages that let you play hundreds of board games online. Do you feel like a game of Puerto Rico but can't meet anyone? That's not a problem anymore, because surely there are more people in the world in your situation than you think. These are the best options we've found. We've focused mainly on those that offer more and better games, since there are pages specialized in specific games or alternative versions of popular games." Pure vice. Not recommended if you have things to do, because you'll stay on those sites forever.
A taste for bad movies might be linked to higher intelligence: "As the king of trash cinema, John Waters, said: 'You have to have good taste to enjoy the irony of bad taste. If you have bad taste, you don't understand it.' So, if you're tired of people not understanding that you can watch the worst movies to the end and also enjoy them, this interests you. For the first time, academics have researched and discussed this phenomenon in an essay published last week in the journal Poetics. Those involved decided to investigate this topic given the paradox that some people are capable of deliberately watching movies so badly made that they even cause second-hand embarrassment. But above all, because they can enjoy them." Obvious.
Transferable minds: "When I say 'my body' instead of simply 'I', I'm confessing that I feel it a little alien, that somehow I'm an intruder who has taken control of an object. And it's true, but that intruder is not the famous 'I', nor the soul or anything like it: it's the past, the past that refuses to fade away, that clings to neurons or gets stuck to them like insects on a spider web. In principle – although we still don't know how – it would be possible to create elementary backups of that personal history for emergencies, so that after an accident, they don't just revive us but also reinstall the past. Just as they give us air through mouth-to-mouth resuscitation or a blood transfusion, they could also inject the lost personality after that moment of total amnesia we call 'death'." Let's hope the lawyers don't ruin it all.
No, today's young people are not less smart than those of yesterday: "Every so often the debate arises about whether the current generation is smarter or less so than the previous one. A summer classic (especially) that has visited us again these days and has the networks a little stirred up. We don't know to what extent carrying a Kafka book in your pocket is (or was) a good indicator of social and sexual success, but what we do know is that today's young people are not less smart than those of yesterday. In fact, they are more intelligent." They must watch a lot of bad movies, then.
10 self-contained Marvel Comics of this century: "Last July, the Eisner Awards once again gave the 'Best Single Issue' award to a Marvel episode, in this case Silver Surfer #11 by Dan Slott and Mike Allred, with a more Moebius feel than ever in all its pages. This fact, repeated if we take into account that Marvel has won this award four times in seven consecutive years, made us think a bit... What would be, in our opinion (that is, yours truly), the ten best self-contained Marvel Comics of the 21st century?" If you Google the names, you'll surely find them to read online.
The story of the best photograph in the world of athletics: "Boston had achieved the record in 1965, was Olympic runner-up in Tokyo and gold medal in the Rome 60 games; moreover, on his legs rested the honor of having beaten, also in 1960, the legendary record of 8.13 that Jesse Owens set in 1935. The three were Olympic medalists, all three were formidable competitors, and all three were over six feet tall. And all three feared a lanky twenty-two-year-old kid of 1.91 meters who watched the swirling clouds in the sky of the Aztec capital. His name was Bob Beamon and he was the first to jump." It's very good, I don't know if theeeee best, but...
The spectacular Japanese tournaments of "precision synchronized group walking": "Another reason to love Japan: the Shuudan koudou, precision synchronized group walking contests. These contests started by the NSSU (Japan Sports Science University) have been held behind closed doors for more than half a century, and recently they have become public, attracting a large audience. They gather in November students from all over Japan, but mainly from NSSU, to participate in the so-called Shuudan koudou (collective action). The routines require months of training, to the point that they can be done perfectly from memory and with eyes closed (and that's no exaggeration)." Hahaha, Japan, never change!
The most notorious failures in Kickstarter history: "In exchange for a contribution, a series of rewards are offered that vary in each campaign. In this way, whoever is interested in the product contributes the necessary amount to get it and, incidentally, it is with that money that it is manufactured. Participating in one of these campaigns can be like a lottery: you might invest your money and never see any benefit, despite the control exercised over the creators. Don't miss this compilation of the most notorious failures in Kickstarter history." Have you put money into a canceled project?
When portable record players were the closest thing to an iPod: "Although it may be surprising, blasting your fellow passengers with reggaeton from an iPod, MP3 or any other mobile device is not a new phenomenon. Already in the 60s and 70s, those who are now parents and grandparents had the possibility to play their favorite music anywhere thanks to portable vinyl players. As is usually the case with everything technological, the production of this type of device reached unimaginable heights in Japan, both because of the power of its industry and the peculiarities of that society, including the small size of Japanese homes and the habit of the population to go to parks to see almond trees in bloom or enjoy shooting stars, experiences that always win with a bit of sake and music." Hipsters will drool.
Checkmate: 7 incredible (but true) stories from the world of chess: "In the summer of 1972, the world championship final took place in the city of Reykjavik, facing the US champion, Bobby Fischer, and the title defender, the Soviet Boris Spassky. In the middle of the Cold War, the last thing that mattered was the games. That encounter left numerous anecdotes, each more bizarre than the last, which added to the list of stories that took place beyond the chessboard. Now that 34 years have passed since then (and with the release of a film by Edward Zwick about the clash), we recall some brilliant stories from the world of chess." Only for connoisseurs.
The story of the Argentine who made panties in the 50s and named them "Internet": "The Internet already existed before the Internet. How is that? Well, by pure coincidence, an Argentine textile entrepreneur coined the term several decades before the virtual network that surrounds us all began to function. The man in question was Ernesto Rigoni, who in 1953 named his women's underwear manufacturing company Internet SRL. The garments were sold at Creaciones Zule, a store located at Viamonte 611 and named in honor of one of the entrepreneur's daughters." Panties = underwear
This was the first female orgasm in film history: "The beauty of Hedy Lamarr (Vienna, November 9, 1914) was overwhelming and her life could well be the plot of a good movie. A life of cinema and not only for the cinematographic part. She was a woman who, in addition to revolutionizing the seventh art with her nudity and her orgasm, had a prodigious mind that allowed her to develop the theory of spread spectrum, the precursor to wifi. As with every good story, nothing suggested that Hedwing Eva Maria Kiesler, a Hollywood actress, Jewish and Viennese, would end up being the first woman to appear nude in the history of cinema and also the first to portray the first orgasm in the seventh art." Sexy.
Videos
Here are some videos: How Pokemon GO scatters its monsters around the world, Super Fox Bros., the Hypnotoad of Futurama made into a sculpture, the silent film with the fake Chaplin, shadow sculptures, velcro skate, can you steal the Rolls Royce figurine?, atmospheric truck tank explodes in the middle of the street, the parrot that thinks it's a cat, cancelled furry exhibition, stick that balances itself, huge hammock that spins 360°, a pigeon on the highway, the longest rally in badminton history, a whale eating underwater, and genetic engineering is going to change everything forever.
Galleries
The lost boys of Hook today, deflecting a fireball with a lightsaber, great model for playing D&D, saving an arcade collection (from the same ones who rescued the machines from an abandoned ship: the most astonishing rescue of lost arcades), majestic cats, giant cat, couples who lose weight together (before and after), 'humanizing' Disney women, the beauty of women from all over the world, dogs before and after a bath, food art, abandoned Olympic venues, and the adult baby.
This week at NeoTeo
If you miss the best of NeoTeo, all this was for nothing. So don't you dare! The best external batteries, another Microsoft stupidity, how to send anonymous emails, a 60TB capacity drive, a 100TB SSD from Toshiba, obtaining energy from salt water, a Prisma for PC, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, the easiest and hardest Pokemon to catch, how to choose the best Pokemon to fight another, Pokemon Uranium free, online games of the week, and mobile games of the week.
Thank you very much for reading, friends! With a bit of luck, we'll read each other next weekend.
