The game that influenced the design of the Apple II, tales from Mars, the matter-creating shampoo and what people ate in the Middle Ages are just the beginning of what you'll find in this week's recommended links. If you want to know more, you'll have to keep reading. Enjoy!
The History of Breakout – The game that influenced the design of the Apple II: "A chronicle of challenges, betrayals, broken blocks, and the computer that put Apple on the map. A story with notable protagonists: Nolan Bushnell, Steve Jobs, and Steve Wozniak, among others. A narrative of past events that changed our future and are still latent."
Relatos de Marte: "Mars is a world that has fascinated us since time immemorial: god of war in antiquity and promise for those who dream of colonizing the Solar System some day. In the meantime, we can let our imagination fly. And that is precisely what the listeners of the podcast Radio Skylab have done in a set of almost ninety short science fiction stories that we can now enjoy under the name of «Relatos de Marte» (and remember there are also «Relatos de Encélado»)."
Matter-creating shampoo - science or nonsense: "Recently the Nobel science prizes have been awarded and, as is customary, jokes have been made on social media about it. This time the target of the jokes has been a 'matter-creating' shampoo, for some deserving of a Nobel. Can a shampoo 'create matter'? Does this slogan have scientific basis or is it nonsense?"
How they ate in the Middle Ages, lots of bread and 6 liters of beer: "If we go back to Prehistory, man followed a limited diet based on plants, leaves, small seeds, tubers, wild fruits, and later, the meat of the wild animals that lived around him. These ingredients lasted until a European Middle Ages where social classes determined the type of food a diner had access to. Although now it only serves as a supplement, bread represented for centuries 70% of a person's daily ration. The rest of the meals were prepared exclusively to accompany bread."
Did you know that the "chaise longue" became fashionable because of the consequences of wearing a corset?: "As a symbol of everything the Ancien Régime represented, with the French Revolution the corset fell into disuse… but not into oblivion. In the nineteenth century women took up the corset again, this time from a very early age and from any social stratum. And although it was usual for it not to be a permanent garment, its daily use and the continuous subjection of the body to excessive constriction resulted in body deformations to the point of affecting the arrangement of the organs. In 1790 the German doctor Samuel von Sommering already warned that the corset caused serious deformations of the ribs."
This Japanese city needs ninjas and is willing to pay salaries of 85,000 dollars a year: "Iga is a small city of barely 100,000 inhabitants located in Mie Prefecture, Japan. It is also considered the birthplace of the shinobi, the mythical ninja warriors, but times change and Iga has a serious problem: it is running out of professional ninjas. Every year, for five weeks (from April 1 to May 6), the city hosts a colorful Festival called Iga Ueno Ninja Festa that attracts more than 30,000 visitors. The problem is that for this festival to continue attracting tourism and benefits, the city needs ninjas or, to be more exact, professional actors specialized in acting as Shinobi."
Let's talk about piracy in video games, is the use of DRM justified?: "As if the almost null effectiveness of the technology in question were not enough, little by little rumors and testimonies emerged from players who claimed that their gaming experience and even their hardware was being harmed. Denuvo would be decreasing the useful life of SSDs due to its operation; remember that it uses encryption itself, which required intensive writing to the disk. Faced with this, Denuvo Software Solutions said they were nothing more than malicious or mistaken rumors and that it was not the way their system worked. Another element that caused discomfort among consumers was that in the terms and conditions of use, it was stated that some files belonging to the anti-sabotage would remain on the systems even after uninstalling the products."
Jean-Claude Van Damme was full of cocaine during the filming of 'Street Fighter': "Apparently, the actor consumed about 10 grams of cocaine a day, an addiction that often led to delays and cancellations during filming. That, along with his excessive ego and difficult demeanor, made workdays a torment. Van Damme was staying in the same hotel in Thailand where all the actors were, but he occupied the presidential suite, with a gym installed in his room. He always arrived late to shoots claiming he had to pump his muscles, but De Souza is sure that what he was doing was not exactly exercising."
Hollywood is looking for a black cat: "Hollywood is looking for a black cat", one could read in the surprising ad published on November 27, 1961 in the Los Angeles Times. It seemed like a joke or a play on words, but it wasn't. What followed was one of the strangest and most crowded castings (in terms of number of animals): an endless line of black cats, with their respective owners, went to the studios for the test of The Black Cat, a classic directed in 1941 by Roger Corman and with the participation of the famous Vincent Price (and Peter Lorre) in an episode of Tales of Terror, a film of three episodes that were adaptations of stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
I don't want to play on a team, I'm a lone wolf: "High-performance hyper-individualism in the office is heavily punished sometimes for good reasons and other times because of the consensus of fools, the shortsighted, the poor devils, and chronic gregarious people. Then the wolf hunt occurs and its physical and symbolic expulsion from the pack. Did you want solitude? You will suffer cold and hunger. You will return to us begging for help. We will tame you until you become a rabid poodle. You will return. Metaphors are never neutral. Wolves, popularly, are treacherous, thieving, aggressive beings that normally need their community to survive. When men become one of them, they kill each other, and when women do, they simply accuse them of prostituting themselves."
18,000 euros for an oil change on a Veyron? Here's the reason: "Having one of the most spectacular sports cars of all time is the dream of any petrolhead... but no one said it had to be cheap: changing the oil of a Veyron costs no less than 18,000 euros and today I bring you a video in which you will perfectly understand the reason. Is everyone ready to be amazed? Well. Let's start."
Why does being high make you hungry?: "When a human feels hunger, a hormone called ghrelin is secreted, which is responsible for making us feel like eating. In their experiment, the researchers gave small doses of cannabis to a group of mice, and found that it indeed increased the production of that hormone and with it the appetite, and they ran to look for more food even though they had already eaten. On the other hand, when they used another substance to inhibit the production of ghrelin, the mice did not feel hungry even when they were high."
Videos
Videos: Turtle chasing its owner, Jelly Tetris, instant flood, short "Photorealism", the future of prosthetics, the killer wasp of Japan, car consumed by storm, how an AI learns to play the hardest game in the world, he paints to disappear, the squeaky puppy is back, how to make strawberry-shaped candies, puppies vs robotic dinosaur, danger in the depths, the origin of Super Mario Bros., dance "Body Language", coin tricks, he jumps with a flying suit, the evolution of Michael Jackson's dance, skiing around the world and wood ash cement.
Galleries
Galleries: Winners of the 2018 dog photography contest, they open a sarcophagus with 'corpse stew' inside, dog portraits, Ilona Bugaeva's cosplay, surprising mutants by Ben Avlis, weird things, underwater paintings, a car with an included tent, the art of Agnes Ric, Disney characters as real people, photos showing similarities between nature and the human body, fake Japanese food, multidimensional illustrations, things under the microscope, turns walls into art, hypnotic things, the week's Animated Dump and the Visual Dump.
This week at NeoTeo
You know I insert links to NeoTeo things everywhere, and what's left comes here, among the best: Women's wrestling in Japan, how memory cards are made, check your hard drive speed, a 3D book about the insides of a computer, Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, programs to edit audio and alternatives to Raspberry Pi.
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