From the Curious Corner of the Internet.. #23: Divers, Hotels and Violins
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** The Curious Corner #23
Hi there! This will be the 23th edition of the Curious Corner. The subscriber-count is slowly increasing, something I rather like! I would love to even have a bigger audience, and you can help by sharing this newsletter with the buttons below and telling your friends about it! 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 infinity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUZVv0nr2rc) train. * In Japan, history (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/t-magazine/hotel-okura-tokyo.html) has no place. * A new Stradivarius? (http://www.3d-varius.com) * What happens when you travel the Trans-siberian with a camera and put it in a slitscan algorithm (http://archive.section9.co.uk/transsiberian) . * The Oregon Pint runneth (http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2015/08/19/the-oregon-pint-runneth-over) over. * The Lyubov Orlova, a ghost ship (http://www.sobify.com/the-lyubov-orlova-a-russian-cruise-ship-drifting-through-international-waters) . * A tour of a abandoned missile base (http://triggur.org/silo) . * The Hollerith Tabulator, counting for census (https://www.census.gov/history/www/innovations/technology/the_hollerith_tabulator.html) , as quickly as possible. * Don’t want to use the left part of your brain when talking? Whistle (http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/08/the-curious-case-of-whistled-languages-and-their-lack-of-left-brain-dominance) ! * Old futuristic (http://smithsonianlibraries.tumblr.com/post/126994695181/the-frank-reade-weekly-magazine-was-a-series-of) airships and submarines.
http://fredy3d.deviantart.com/art/We-Built-This-City-2015-Remake-523944838 * Sorting numbers in the attic (http://www.wired.com/2015/08/meet-guy-sorts-worlds-numbers-attic) ? It might be the greatest repository in all of mathematics. * Wondering what happens to your bag (http://hellogiggles.com/suitcase-airport) once you check in at the airport? * This 61-year-old hotel has never had a single (http://fortune.com/2015/08/11/hotel-italy-no-guests) guest. * Reuleaux Collection of Kinematic Mechanisms, a database of fascinating mechanical joints (http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/model.php?m=reuleaux) . * Deep diving with attention deconcentration (http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/the-disappearance-of-the-worlds-greatest-free-diver) . * The LEGO architect (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1593276133/uncrate-20) . * Using runes (http://sciencenordic.com/isolated-people-sweden-only-stopped-using-runes-100-years-ago) isn’t that old. * Can you scratch your left ear (https://medium.com/elepath-exports/spatial-interfaces-886bccc5d1e9) without looking? * Kudos to Christiaan, pointing me to a less distracting (https://freedom.to) web. * Take some time off, and play a mega-game with 300 other people (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/welcome-to-the-world-of-megagames-300-players-take-part-in-watch-the-skies-board-game-10213384.html) ! * Raising the dead from the deepest (http://www.outsideonline.com/1922711/raising-dead) of deeps.
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