From the Curious Corner of the Internet.. #21: Penguins, bottles and sikhs.
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** The Curious Corner #21
21! We’re grownup now! Let’s dive into the great links: * Travel is supposed to make us feel more alive so why is the hotel room a place of such loneliness and despair (http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/hotel-rooms-and-the-despair-of-endless-travl) ? * To make the first portrait (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/science/black-hole-event-horizon-telescope.html) of the hungry monster at the center of our galaxy. * The making of lemmings (http://readonlymemory.vg/the-making-of-lemmings) . * A mirror. Of penguins (https://vimeo.com/129674054) . * Goodnight (http://goodnightdune.com) Dune. * So, “What is code?” is open-source (https://github.com/BloombergMedia/whatiscode/BloombergMedia) . * We all don’t exist without it, but it seems we still don’t now a lot about it (http://nautil.us/issue/25/water/five-things-we-still-dont-know-about-water) . * Who knew? Even the sovjet union was building a shuttle (http://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-sad-remains-of-the-soviet-space-shuttle-p-1710827956) . * The Heinrich Manuever, a very nice motorbike (http://thefoxisblack.com/2015/06/10/the-heinrich-manuever-a-work-of-art-in-motorcycle-form) . * A man with 1000 Klein bottles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU) beneath his house, and his robot to fetch them.
- Parbunkells (http://work.deaccession.org/reach) , the word that doesn’t exist on the web.
- The sikhs (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33149580) who saved parmesan cheese.
- What will happen when the technology to record everything arrives (https://writtenonbart.com/ubiquitous-machine-listening-and-watching-20a8ab9009c6) ?
- The rare (http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/leave-your-screens-behind-at-rare-book-school) book school.
- How the world (http://engineering.foursquare.com/2015/07/02/how-the-world-looks-to-your-phone) looks to you phone.
- How a steakhouse chooses (http://kottke.org/15/07/how-peter-luger-chooses-their-beef) it steak.
- When I learned that computers have soul (https://medium.com/backchannel/making-computers-do-magical-things-d666d73d47a3) .
- What is the most oddly specific word (http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-oddly-specific-word-you-know) you know?
- Suddenly, a leopard print (http://rocknrollnerd.github.io/ml/2015/05/27/leopard-sofa.html) sofa appears.
- The e-mail productivity curve (http://calnewport.com/blog/2015/06/18/the-e-mail-productivity-curve) .
- Mysticism and (http://www.historytoday.com/er-truitt/mysticism-and-machines) machines.
- The Square (http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-square) .
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