From the Curious Corner of the Internet.. #40: Puzzles, skateparks and inkblots
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** The Curious Corner #40
Hello there! Welcome to another edition of the Curious Corner. Slowly but surely the list keeps on growing, thanks for sticking around! If you like the the Curious Corner, please help us further along by sharing this newsletter (it’s as easy as one click! Thanks for spreading the word!): 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: * We want to find this 35-metre ship (http://www.wired.co.uk/article/cocaine-specialist-drug-squad-bust) somewhere out in the Atlantic Ocean. * Typography (http://www.masswerk.at/misc/card-punch-typography/) for punch-cards. * Houdini was an inventor (http:///www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/harry-houdini-ingenious-innovator-didnt-want-anybody-know-180961078/) , but he wanted nobody to know. * How to build a medieval castle (http:///www.historyextra.com/article/premium/how-build-medieval-castle) . * Illustrated chimeras (http://www.lisaericson.com/prints/) . * The secret life of time (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/the-secret-life-of-time) . * A tour (http://ru-submarine.livejournal.com/17486.html) of the biggest submarine in the world. * Tokyo (http://masa-photo.tumblr.com/) at night. * The first eagle huntress (https://sports.good.is/features/the-eagle-huntress-soars) of her tribe? * The robots (http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-robots-of-cern) of the large hadron collider and CERN.
http://www.mccallstudios.com/what-lies-beyond/ * Diamonds (http://visualoop.com/infographics/diamonds-are-forever) are forever. * The greater ring (http://strelka.com/en/magazine/2017/02/07/bmo) of Moscow. * Walter Giers (http://cdm.link/2017/02/enter-wondrous-world-walter-giers-electronic-sound-art/) , would it be art, or could it be sound… * A figure to show how much each stamp (http://www.theoldie.co.uk/article/strange-passions) was worth in cowrie shells, the currency at that time. * This camera takes a shot that takes 1000 years (https://petapixel.com/2015/03/05/this-camera-will-capture-a-1000-year-exposure-that-ends-in-3015-for-historys-slowest-photo/) . Thanks Pim! * A bike powered live stream (http://veniceskatepark.com) of a skatepark. * A website dedicated to the electricity pylon (http://www.pylonofthemonth.org/) of the month. * Photos of palm oil plantations (https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2017/02/21/palm-oil-production/F1HUaMtQbObEFtaoiTJTuN/story.html) . * How inkblots (https://newrepublic.com/article/140266/eye-beholder-rorschach-inkblots-personality-testing-art-damion-searls-review) turned into a personality test. * On finding the biggest anagram (http://blog.plover.com/lang/anagram-scoring.html) in the english language. * Solved this puzzle (http://puzzelpost.nl/) last weekend, highly recommended! (dutch only for now) * Renger, a friend of mine collected his minimal music in a nice playlist (https://soundcloud.com/soundbase_renger/sets/minimal-themes) .
That’s it, thanks for reading! Let me know by email (mailto:jsplattel@gmail.com?subject=A%20suggestion%20for%20the%20Curious%20Corner!&body=Hi%20Joost!) if you have any suggestions for the Curious Corner!
Joost
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