From the Curious Corner of the Internet.. #25: Planes, lavendar and something about loss..
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** The Curious Corner #25
25 is a nice number. And for this edition I think I’ve selected a wide variety of links… Oh and for anyone interested, I will do another live-session on the Curious Corners at the next Permanent Beta day (http://www.meetup.com/PermanentBeta/events/222345799/) , be there, or be square!
Also it will be great if you could share this letter with freinds on any of the services below, thanks! http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT| Share (http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|) http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=|URL:MC_SUBJECT|: |URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT| Tweet (http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=|URL:MC_SUBJECT|: |URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|) http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|&mini=true&title=|URL:MC_SUBJECT| Share (http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|&mini=true&title=|URL:MC_SUBJECT|) https://plus.google.com/share?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT| +1 (https://plus.google.com/share?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|) |FORWARD| Forward to Friend (|FORWARD|) Here we go for this month: * The only doctor in 3000 (https://read.atavist.com/the-doctor) square miles… * Fried eggs with jam (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/15/cccp-cookbook-short-history-of-the-ussr-through-its-food) ? * Gerrymandering: Theory and Practice, a lesson (http://mitesp.tumblr.com/post/130793404248/how-i-teach-gerrymandering) on how to find the best route. * The lowline (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2015-10-13/inside-the-lowline-new-york-city-s-first-underground-park) and underground park in New York. * A double ended bush plane for extra short (https://www.backcountrypilot.org/features/category/featured-bush-planes/the-prototype-double-ender/50-the-prototype-double-ender) landings. * 1491 (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/302445/?single_page=true) , the history of the western hemisphere. * Being or nothingness… A riddle (http://lukemuehlhauser.com/the-riddle-of-being-or-nothingness) in a book.. * Combining drone technology with wisdom from the local tribes (http://www.iafrikan.com/2015/10/15/what-happens-when-you-mix-ancient-bushmen-knowledge-with-the-latest-in-drone-technology) might work wonders for exploration and discovery. * This (http://www.racked.com/2015/10/20/9487775/unclaimed-baggage-center) is a story about loss. * A book (http://hazlitt.net/feature/goes-all-way-queen-puzzle-book-drove-england-madness) drove England to madness with it’s puzzles (http://hazlitt.net/feature/goes-all-way-queen-puzzle-book-drove-england-madness) . * A cosmic landscape (http://www.crawickmultiverse.co.uk) worthy of the ancients
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e8988497f61d90c8fc52a5529/images/df97bec9-3528-4248-bfd6-5c2327ab6655.jpg * Could there be lavender (http://whiskyscience.blogspot.nl/2011/06/lavender-in-whisky-conspiracy-of-french.html) in your whisky? * What shape is the internet (http://noahveltman.com/internet-shape) ? * 800 miles, photographing a pipeline (https://placesjournal.org/article/800-miles-photographing-the-trans-alaska-pipeline) . * In New York, there is someone collecting (http://www.newyorker.com/project/portfolio/the-paper-airplane-collector?mbid=social_facebook) paper planes. * Agloe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York) , a city in New York. * Could sentiment be shown in a more ambient (http://www.jkaufman.io/ambient-sentiment) way? * Two tiny pellets where the first objects to leave the earth, just 12 days (http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/1957-two-tiny-pellets-were-first-man-made-objects-escape-earths-gravity-180954622/?no-ist) after Sputnik. * Have a look at our universe, at different wave-lengths (http://www.chromoscope.net) . * A wonderful video, about input and output (https://vimeo.com/141567420/INPUT) . * An IKEA catalog from the future (http://nearfuturelaboratory.myshopify.com/products/ikea-catalog-from-the-near-future) . * Join this conspiracy (https://upnote.io) of kindness. * NASA put all the photos about moon-landings up on Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive) . * The greatest boat race ever! (made up while drinking beers (http://www.outsideonline.com/2026611/greatest-boat-race-ever-dreamed-over-beers) ) * The man who fought a duel (http://www.thomas-morris.uk/the-man-who-fought-a-duel-in-his-sleep) in his sleep.
That’s it for this month, thanks for reading!
Joost
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