From the Curious Corner of the Internet.. #20: Lenin, lasers and architecture
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** The Curious Corner #20
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- Could you unlearn (http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/how-to-unlearn-a-disease) a disease?
- Finnagans Wake (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake) , a book written for the internet, published on 1939!
- Ever hear of narrative architecture (http://bldgblog.blogspot.nl/2015/03/grimm-city.html) ?
- How do you design the library (https://medium.com/@Oxford_University/how-do-you-design-the-library-of-the-future-22d9344e40f7) of the future?
- MapBag is a derive (http://www.joshbillions.org/post/3974357210/mapbag) in a bag, a proprioceptive augmentation.
- What happens when you let florists plant 4000 (http://magazine.good.is/articles/florists-plant-flowers-on-abandoned-detroit-home) flowers in an abandoned home?
- In 1963 Jerry Gretzinger began drawing a map of an imaginary city. Now, 52 years later, you can explore Jerry’s city (http://www.jerrysmap.com/) .
- Do we really want to fuse our minds together (http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/do-we-really-want-to-fuse-our-minds-together) ?
- I re-made my little website, have a look (http://jplattel.nl/) !
- This is awesome! The Large Hadron Collider sounds like lazers (http://josephg.com/blog/this-is-what-the-lhc-sounds-like) !
Do you have an attention-span that covers these 20 links all at once? Amazing… That’s it for this month! Any suggestions for the next edition? Email me at: jsplattel@gmail.com (mailto:jsplattel@gmail.com?subject=Curious%20Corner!) . On to the next edition
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