Recommended Links of the Week (No. 583)

When you overdo caffeine, red Ferraris, the suicide of men, Hitler's condoms, a game with a colossal prize, and many other things, in an anthology worthy of your eyes and only in the Recommended Links.

Does coffee make you sleepy? Here's the explanation: "Are you one of those people who, no matter how hard they try, only get the opposite effects when they drink coffee? If one of the most famous drinks for keeping you alert makes you sleepy, maybe it's because you're more active than you think."

What happens to your body when you overdo caffeine (and how much coffee you need to drink to overdo it): "Contrary to what has sometimes been believed, coffee consumption doesn't have to be a health problem. On the contrary, some studies find that, in appropriate doses - and when it's not mixed with sugars or fats - it could even help reduce the risk of mortality or of suffering diseases like diabetes, multiple sclerosis, or cancer. But what happens when we overdo the dose?"

The Decoy Effect, or how brands manipulate your mind to make you buy what they want: "Why do we buy what we buy? It's a question that marketing has been trying to answer since consumption became the engine of the economy. Behind a trivial decision like one box of cereal over another lie countless motivations. From personal biases (we like one color more than another) to material elements, like price."

Ferraris are red because they are Italian cars: "Let's start by saying that not all Ferraris are red, and it's not unusual to see a black or yellow one. In any case, the bright red typical of Ferraris is an association we all have in our heads. And not only in Formula 1 races, but also in popular culture. And that association has a reason. Ferraris are red because they are Italian cars."

Top 5 - Eccentric dictators: "In this case, we will talk about perfectly sane people who, upon coming to power, began to act eccentrically. We present some of the 20th-century dictators who used their power in the most strange and megalomaniacal way possible."

The suicide of men: "We know that mental health is a factor but also that it's not the only one and that some exogenous factors are involved: low socioeconomic status and financial problems, relationship issues, divorce and associated circumstances like ending up separated from their children, the harshness of many of the unskilled jobs they do (manual outdoor work), alcohol and drug use, illnesses, homelessness, social isolation, as well as a combination of all of them."

The punk kid who declared war on the world: "However, what interests us is that hyperactive and playful child, tireless and creative, who appears as a strange and abrupt presence in a photograph where we see Andy Warhol next to Joe Strummer during The Clash's American tour and where Harley is an infiltrator, the kid who is everywhere: front row at Dead Boys shows, next to Debbie Harry or teenage Beastie Boys."

Koi Krylgan Kala, a fascinating fortress from 400 BC discovered by a Soviet expedition in 1938: "The expedition discovered a kind of fortress built between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. A surprising circular two-story building with 9 vaulted rooms, with a diameter of 44.5 meters and an approximate height of 9.5 meters, surrounded by a also circular wall 7 meters thick and with 8 towers."

Moebius, the world builder: "After experimenting with several short stories, that nickname became better known in society thanks to an album, Le bandard fou, based on a universal science fiction premise: a man woke up with a permanent erection and, because of that unresolved muscle tension, was chased by a bunch of weird people through time and space. Some mischievous pages that raised both the libido of its suffering protagonist and the career of one of the most imaginative pens in the history of the arts."

Hitler's condom war: "As in the 18th and 19th centuries, the distances were still enormous and made the supply lines of any invading force difficult, which would also have to face fierce resistance and the general winter. Despite everything, the Nazis and their allies invaded the USSR with all the weapons at their disposal. Including an unconventional one... Condoms."

Does humanity suffer from Diogenes syndrome?: "The word ecology etymologically means the study of the home (oikos, in Greek). Ökologie was the German term coined by Haeckel in 1866 for this science that studies the relationships between organisms and their environment. What state is our home, the Earth, in now? Let's see if our global home is affected by the behavior of one of its inhabitants."

A game with a colossal prize: "The rules of the game are as follows: each participant receives two dice with faces numbered in an unusual way. The first die has the numbers 2, 7, 7, 12, 12, and 17 on its faces, and the second has 3, 8, 8, 13, 13, and 18. The dice are balanced, meaning each face has the same probability of coming up, which is 1/6."

Videos

Videos: The jealous bride tells her story, creating a Tetris AI to dominate nerds, bubbles bouncing off lasers, simply Firulais, living in an abandoned school, Tom Savini's best roles, Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 minutes (explaining the world record), things in super slow motion and reverse, a building complex in Chengdu that looks like a forest, the impressive Palau Nautilus, explaining Machine Learning with chickens, how to draw a 3D staircase, a train in the US in 1987, what it was like to buy a computer in 1994, jumping off a building while eating pizza, talking to the cow, a musical instrument made of teeth, performing "Canario" by G.G. Kapsberger (1580-1651), the takeoff speed of a plane, a Bob Ross painting in 3D, a masterpiece of editing, an hour of airplane stuff, bat recovers its strength, eagle catches a shark alive, and three short films: STUFFED (animated, very cute), The Speed of Time (science fiction), and Love at First Fight - Love, Guns and Level Ups (web series).

Galleries

Galleries: The Simpsons in classic art, slashers, animals in everyday life, the art of Tailjar, a Lithuanian lady on Facebook, funerals for sex dolls, takes photos of people on public transport, Carl Warner's photos, an AI designer and influencer, combines with Disney characters, children suffering from education via Zoom, the best astronomical photographs of the year, a forest full of war tanks, drawings by Gal Yosef, rotten fruits with fantasy stones, sweet things in adorable shapes, the terrifying art of Bronisaw, Asta Nielsen (silent film diva), the Lo-Fi Study Girl, the Animated Dump and, of course, the Visual Dump.

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