321 is a beautiful number to play the lottery, but also for these links, which are packed with tons of interesting things and countless videos to have a good time. How to spot an incompetent person, the computer housewives of the 70s, hacking a laser printer, space lettuce, and the confusion of veganism. And you know, if you hit the lottery with 320, share!
How to discover an incompetent person: "The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias, according to which individuals with little skill or knowledge suffer from an illusory superiority effect, considering themselves more intelligent than other more prepared people, incorrectly measuring their ability above what is real. It is a meta-cognitive disability of the subject to recognize their own ineptitude. Because their real ability would weaken their own confidence, since competent individuals assume, without sufficient basis, that others have an equivalent capacity or knowledge to theirs." Are you one of them?
How two nonconformist housewives built a PC empire in the 70s: "Two things then happened, apparently unrelated, that sparked the entrepreneurial flame in the Harp's lives. Lore met her soulmate, Carole Ely, a neighbor who felt the same way. Together they decided to channel that desire to break with routine by starting an entrepreneurial project. The problem was deciding how. At the same time, an Altair 8800 arrived at the Harp household. There was, however, one snag: the little gadget Bob had bought was defective. Instead of returning the 'kit', this physicist from Stanford University decided to fix the problem himself. To do so, he had to develop his own 8 'kilobyte' memory card." Women to power!
How the internet manages to cross oceans at 8,000 meters depth: "That's why the cables from all the houses in our neighborhood go to local exchange boxes where the information is transmitted to a thicker cable that in turn carries that information to other regional exchanges, larger, passing it to other thicker cables that connect to even larger exchanges that... Well, and so on until the point where the information from hundreds of thousands of homes has been concentrated into a single cable that can travel thousands of kilometers passing through mountains, crossing deserts and, hold your pants, even connecting different continents by passing through the oceans." That's why it's common to find so many sharks with Facebook profiles.
They discover a mysterious message from 2000 years ago and it begins to disappear at once: "Air and sunlight don't usually do much good to ancient relics. That's exactly what happened two months ago when officials from the Israel Antiquities Authority, with the IAA acronym in English, were conducting a routine inspection at a construction site in the Arnona neighborhood of Jerusalem and found an underground installation with benches for bathers." The mystery of the shrinking message.
Why I hacked my laser printer (and what that says about the entire industry): "We keep buying ink printers that cost pennies and that manufacturers finance with the old trick of cartridges at a gold price, or laser printers that follow a similar scheme. The cost per page, the fundamental factor for users, remains unchanged, and on top of that, manufacturers put all kinds of obstacles so that one takes control of their printer. Which is precisely why I hacked mine." Don't let planned obsolescence defeat you!
Horror movies (and lions) manipulate emotions with infrasound: "Generally, low sounds are associated in nature with dangerous situations, such as earthquakes, storms and other potentially dangerous phenomena. The lower the sounds, the more they affect us, even if we stop being able to hear them... Horror movie soundtracks often include sounds that are below the range that a human can hear. Even so, they are sounds in every other sense: microphones capture them and speakers reproduce them. Although we don't hear them, we can feel them and it has been shown that they cause us anxiety, palpitations, chills, nausea and other typical symptoms of fear..." Lions scare me more than horror movies. Lions exist and I am chubby and tasty.
10 Fruit and Vegetable Scraps That Can Regrow: "When it comes to cooking, having fresh fruit and vegetables at our disposal is essential for preparing a delicious meal; however, there is a series of fruits and vegetables that you throw away after eating without being aware that they can easily grow again through different methods. That's why we list 10 fruit and vegetable scraps that you can bring back to life at home to reuse." For your garden / orchard / balcony.
The confusion of veganism: "Visit a livestock field and an agricultural field in the same region and note the diversity of life forms you see in each one. This exercise can be done by recording only the presence of birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, mammals, butterflies, fungi or plants, or all of these groups. The result will be unequivocal: a crop (soy, wheat, corn or rice, to mention the most widespread) does not coexist with much more than itself. Even the most organic garden in the world experiences this. Animal species are not only not welcome but in non-organic crops (the majority) they are combated with biocides or agrotoxics (poisons), if not with gunshots or other forms of struggle to avoid the presence of predators that cause damage and economic losses." Vegans furious in 3, 2, 1...
Astronauts try space lettuce: "Astronaut Scott Kelly and his colleagues pulled out this Monday the lettuce they have grown for weeks in a small receptacle on the International Space Station (ISS) and included it as part of their menu. Dressed with oil and vinegar, the astronauts ate only half of this purple-looking lettuce and packed the other half for later analysis on Earth. This particular lettuce, of a variety they have christened "Outredgeous" (a play on the words 'outrageous' and 'red', in English) was planted by Kelly himself on July 8th and he has cared for it for 33 days under the light of two red and blue LEDs that it needs." Space lettuce, excellent title for a sci-fi movie.
How to fake a death online, become a digital assassin: "Easy, aseptic and colorless (without blood), painless and very useful. That is the 'death' that arouses the curiosity (and profit) of cybercriminals and that has been made known in the framework of the last edition of DefCon - one of the most important online security and privacy conventions in the world that brings together hackers from all over the globe - whose conference I Will Kill You has had special reception and greater media impact. But why? What are the advantages of declaring someone officially deceased?" I can think of a few...
The evidence of human responsibility in climate change: "'Extremely likely' means that the probability of an outcome is between 95 and 100 percent. The IPCC adds that it is 'virtually certain' - which implies that the probability is between 95 and 100% - 'that internal variation alone cannot explain global warming since 1951'. In the summary for policymakers, the authors clearly synthesize: 'According to the best estimates, the contribution of human activity to warming is similar to the observed warming during the mentioned period'. That is, the best estimate is that humans have caused essentially all the global warming that has occurred." The report is a couple of years old, but it's well explained in the article.
Serge Voronoff and testicular grafts: "Let's see, the reasoning that governed thereafter the life and thought of Voronoff is extremely simple, not to say simpleminded: if the lack of testicles leads to accelerated senility, the ingestion, injection or graft of young testicular matter must lead to rejuvenation. The willing surgeon tried the idea on himself, but it seems that injections of animal testicular tissue extracts did not cause the expected effects. Therefore, he went on to experiment with animals and, subsequently, with humans, performing in his case animal thyroid grafts into humans and, of course, monkey testicular tissue into elderly men." Ouch.
Videos
Recipe for 2000-year-old bread, skier falls into a crevice, Uptown Funk sung by movies, eyes in slow motion, Chris Hadfield – Feet Up, entering 1000 contests, the dangers of social media, destructive dog, music video in pixel art, doll artisan, Simon's Cat - Kitten Collection!, kittens jumping, the ketchup robot, fish bites nipple, eagle versus drone, parrot slides down stairs, great fireworks, the optical illusion dance, tightrope over the void, geeky politician, brother annoys sister, music video with morning sounds, raccoon washes things, drunk on escalator, people with hair dryers on their faces, swimming with orcas, Golden Retriever playing in the rain, silly puppy loves cheese, kicks the marmot out of its house, alternative vehicles, Zelda in western style, Cosmos Laundromat (short film by Blender Foundation), Seed, Timelike, and songs from the tribute band to Ned Flanders.
Galleries
Actors who look exactly as they did as kids, an impressive amount of gamebooks (in English), high toxicity zone, hermit crab with a chapel, Pokemon art, how to make the best paper airplanes, imitations from China, butterflies drinking turtle tears, Hiroshima after the bomb, China in the 70s, XXX stars with and without makeup, meteor shower, VHS images, old video game ads, and the oldest printed book.
This week on NeoTeo
There's a lot to read on NeoTeo! Don't even think about leaving without checking this list: Free ebooks, the 16TB SSD, the best tablets for kids, the first reversible micro USB cable, free VPN, the death of LOL, a 360 tour with the P-51D Mustang Valhalla airplane, gadget to open doors with wireless systems, repair corrupt files, the adoption of browsers around the world, Google Drive as hosting for your page, send a free fax, Windows backups, online programming courses, online games of the week, and mobile games.
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