Hi! Here we are with the Recommended Links of the Week, in case you were looking for something to entertain yourself for a while. Some of the things in this edition: idiotizing, tetrachromats, the deadly tree, and the photograph that saved a man's life. If you want to find out the rest, keep reading. Enjoy!

Recommended Links of the Week (N°698)
Debra Winger

22 Years Ago, the PS2 Was Launched. It Was So Powerful That Japan Didn't Want to Export It for Fear It Would Be Used for Military Weapons: "In 1994 Sony made a splash with the original PlayStation. That console managed to shake the foundations of that segment dominated by Sega and Nintendo. Its success was huge and the Japanese company quickly got to work on its successor. One that turned out to be so powerful that it was even dangerous. It was called PlayStation 2."

Tetrachromats: the superpower of seeing 100 million colors: "You've probably said 'I'm blown away by the colors' at some point. But do you know exactly how many colors? Most human beings perceive around one million different shades. But there is a group, quite numerous by the way, that can distinguish up to 100 million. Where does such a superpower come from?"

The idiotization of Western society: "The fact that a Chinese company designs a tool with an algorithm capable of turning practically into addicts users who spend several hours a day scrolling from one short video to the next, and that, moreover, uses it in a markedly different way in its country, where educational content flourishes and where young people have strictly limited use to 40 minutes a day, and in a completely different and unlimited way outside it, should make us think."

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Captain Tsubasa, the video game of the Champions series (Tecmo Cup Football Game): "Captain Tsubasa is a peculiar football video game with RPG elements, originally published in Japan in 1988 by the company Tecmo for the NES (Famicom) console, which is based on the manga of the same name popularized worldwide thanks to the successful animated television series, known in Spain as "Campeones: Oliver y Benji" or "Supercampeones" in Latin America."

Return to Monkey Island: "The offer was varied: immediate arcades posed skill challenges while genres like the graphic adventure developed complex plots having a much more literary and cinematic soul. To feel like Arnold Schwarzenegger we plugged in Super Probotector, to live a version of Treasure Island with touches of supernatural comedy we ventured into Monkey Island, and to believe we were Indiana Jones we played Lucasfilm's Last Crusade."

The fascinating myth of 'Knights of the Zodiac' that continues to spread around the world: "As a result, the anime version that aired was also a success. Not only did it gain popularity in Japan, but it was shown in 80 countries abroad, and Saint Seiya expanded its fan base worldwide. The anime is known for having a particularly passionate fandom in South America and France. There were fans who traveled from France to Japan to visit Toei, and even approached the studio of Araki Shingo."

Don't worry, I'm getting dressed

This tree can kill you: "Strickland took a bite of the fruit and found it pleasantly sweet. He also offered it to his companion. Moments later, they began to notice a strange itch in their mouths that progressed to a sharp burning sensation and tightness in the throat. The symptoms worsened after two hours: they could barely swallow due to the terrible pain and the feeling of a huge knot obstructing their pharynx."

The story of the photograph that saved a man's life by noticing the most banal thing, a trunk: "The story of a veteran photographer, Jerry Ayres, and a young journalist, Mark Winne. They discovered on the road a car that the police were looking for with a hand sticking out of the trunk. It is one of the most curious and unknown photographs in the history of photojournalism. You won't see it in books, but on social media they have rescued it for all readers who want to enjoy a true story that seems straight out of a Coen brothers movie."

The tangle of cables that darkened the sky of Stockholm: "The name Telefontornet might not mean anything to you. In Swedish it means telephone tower. And accustomed to wireless mobile telephony, telephone cables are a thing of the past. So it's hard to imagine thousands of telephone cables crossing the skies to connect an entire city to the telephone network. Today that network is invisible, by radio waves. But in the 19th century and early 20th century, that network was clearly visible in the skies of Stockholm."

When you flush the toilet without the lid

1995 - The Outer Limits: "Modern viewers have always tended to favor television series with a fixed cast of characters as opposed to thematic anthologies with independent stories each week. It would be interesting to study the reason, although perhaps an important factor is that the public wants to identify with the adventures of characters they learn to love, while an anthology means starting from scratch each week, demanding from the viewer a certain intellectual rather than emotional predisposition."

The 10 best film adaptations of Russian classics: "Bondarchuk's magnum opus, six hours long, became the first Soviet film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1969. War and Peace also won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. The film took seven years to make, becoming the most expensive production ever made in the USSR. Tolstoy's characteristic narrative style, epic battle scenes, and larger-than-life characters come to life in this cinematic masterpiece."

Novachord. The first polyphonic synthesizer in 1938?: "In the instrument, based entirely on vacuum tube technology, 163 vacuum tubes were used, more than a thousand capacitors, and it contained kilometers of hand-soldered wiring. The Novachord included many of the specifications that years later would be common in synthesizers based on transistor technology, such as filters, VCA, and a primitive implementation of ADSR (ADS in this case), controlled by envelope generators."

Mission Impossible on Banjo

Videos

Camera on a model train

Galleries

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Well, friends. We'll end here for today. Thanks for everything and I hope to read you soon. See you next time!