Recommended Links of the Week (N°690)

Love for CGA, the history of Out Run, Carrie Fisher, a laser to kill cockroaches, and Sinéad O’Connor against the world are some of the highlighted articles in this week's Recommended Links. If any of that caught your attention, welcome and enjoy.

Dear CGA: "So CGA was the first graphical standard for PCs, and the boring green phosphor monitors gave way to screens full of color... well, 4 colors to be exact. Although the main purpose of launching the CGA graphics card was still geared toward the professional field, it opened Pandora's box by finally allowing the possibility of programming games for PC-compatible computers."

'Out Run', when all the kids had a Ferrari: "Immersed in this delirium, also heavily influenced by Miami Vice, the definitive arcade machine arrived at bars, the space where kids spent their free time among gentlemen who smoked four packs a day and had a breakfast of firewater: the Out Run. A machine, as they were called, with a steering wheel, gear shift, and pedals."

Carrie Fisher - Bipolar, alcoholic... A talent from another galaxy on the edge of the abyss: "Then came serious problems with drugs and alcohol, a whirlwind marriage to singer Paul Simon, a nearly fatal overdose, rehabilitation, bipolar disorder, a husband who left her for a man, a daughter, electroconvulsive therapies, and mental institutions."

How World War II bombings affected the climate: "Beyond human and material losses, studies conducted by the University of Reading in the UK have focused on another type of damage that these bombings could have caused. These are the meteorological damages that World War II could have brought to the planet."

Artificial intelligence reduces quantum physics problem from 100,000 equations to just four: "Physicists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce a challenging and enormous quantum problem that previously required 100,000 equations to a manageable effort of just four equations, all without losing precision."

Today's trees are much bigger than those decades ago. The key is in the air: "We emit a lot of CO2. A lot, to be more faithful to reality. Already in 2010, a study by the University of Almería calculated that only in our food, from producing it to expelling it, each Spaniard emits around two tons of carbon dioxide annually."

China will build a magnet in Wuhan 2 million times more powerful than Earth's: "China has proposed building facilities to obtain a pulsed magnetic field by induction of 110 tesla (the unit of magnetic induction), which means it could be more than two million times more powerful than Earth's magnetic field."

China has delivered another tech blow to the US and this time even the iPhone is involved: "Its advances threaten to move the chair and even take leaders of this industry out of play, such as American Western Digital and Micron or South Korean Samsung or SK Hynyx. This fear has gained strength with one of its latest achievements, a 3D NAND memory chip with 232 layers. This figure is a reference that, roughly speaking, would indicate how advanced the piece is."

This homemade laser that anyone can program at home finds and kills cockroaches: "They are said to be the most resistant insects in the world, and some of them would survive a nuclear attack. Nocturnal, lovers of humidity and food remains, almost invincible — they can live without a head, they can stay alive underwater and they already resist some insecticides — cockroaches can now be exterminated with a laser with AI."

This was the monstrous tsunami caused by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs: "The asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago killed almost all dinosaurs also triggered a monstrous tsunami with waves more than a thousand meters high that swept the ocean floor thousands of kilometers from the impact site in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, according to a new study led by the University of Michigan."

https://www.vozpopuli.com/next/tsunami-meteorito-mato-dinosaurios.html

30 years since the day Sinéad O’Connor challenged the world: "The Saturday Night Live set went cold. No one applauded. The director removed the applause sign. In her words, that day, the studio 'ran out of air'. On Saturday, October 3, 1992, Sinéad O’Connor tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II in front of the camera of the most-watched show in the United States, and starred in a scene that the world cannot forget."

https://jenesaispop.com/2022/10/04/442315/30-anos-sinead-snl/

James Lind and scurvy: The first clinical trial in history? "After eight weeks at sea, and when scurvy began to take its toll on the crew, Lind decided to test his idea that the rotting of the body caused by the disease could be prevented with acids. On May 20, he divided 12 sick sailors into six pairs, and each pair was given a different supplement in their diet: cider, vitriolic elixir (diluted sulfuric acid), vinegar, seawater, two oranges and a lemon, or a purgative mixture."

https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/ciencia/grandes-personajes/james-lind-y-el-escorbuto-el-primer-ensayo-clinico-de-la-historia/

VIDEOS: Nómada Digital (Pantomima Full), whales eating a great white shark, flying inside photographs, Elon's robot, nitro on a cheap motorcycle, identifying drugs with the nose, Mozart & Minaj, Ghost Riders In The Sky (with deep voice), The Dolomites (4K timelapse), the physics of falling things, melting iron in a brick furnace, Seven Nation Army (Bluegrass), Hurricane Ian dragging a house, the spinal fluid that cleans our brain while we sleep, GTA in real life, a trip to the most extreme place in the universe, jumping on a trampoline with colors in super slow motion, Ace Ventura in Cyberpunk 2077, The MOST IMPORTANT BOOK IN THE WORLD: Euclid's Elements, a music video made with a drone, 20 well-known songs that you probably don't know the names of, Detroit in 1930 in color, super versatile aircraft design, the brilliant AI-animated short about the human experience and Star Wars: Larry - Episode 5.

GALLERIES: Detection of planes before radar, Soviet Ukraine in color, how Roman structures looked in the past, winners of travel photography 2022, the little chef, Paa Joe's artistic coffins, old shopping malls, winners of Siena International Photo Awards 2022, the AI that makes Victorian women with large breasts, winners of Climate photos of the year, before and after having children, the behind-the-scenes of professional photography, David Morrison's drawings, the Vertedero Animado and the Tiradero Visual as the finishing touch.

That's it. We're done. See you next weekend!