From the Curious Corner of the Internet.. #42: Bamboo, airplanes and puzzles
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** The Curious Corner #42
Hi there! May the 4th be with you! And with this edition being the answer to life, the universe and everything, this has to be one hell of a list! 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’s this month: * Why is the Pentagon a pentagon (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-pentagon-pentagon-180962719/) ? * A photographic journey to the end of the world (https://www.wired.com/2017/04/britt-vangenechten-tierra-del-fuego/#slide-1) . * A visit to the spaceship (https://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/into-the-spaceship-a-visit-to-the-old-burroughs-wellcome-building/) , a Burroughs Wellcome building. * The bamboo (http://www.designboom.com/architecture/bamboo-international-biennale-2016-rural-china-baoxi-04-13-2017/?utm_content=bufferfe323&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer) biennale. * When is a mummy (http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/mummies-take-manhattan) not a mummy? * Drawn windows (http://www.windowsofnewyork.com/#aboutwofny) of New York. * A machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide-predicting_machine) to predict the tides. * Emotional trajectories (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/07/the-six-main-arcs-in-storytelling-identified-by-a-computer/490733/?single_page=true&utm_content=buffere167e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=athnshah&utm_campaign=buffer) in a story, defined by a machine. Thanks Marcel! * Calcutta to Bihar, a journey (http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2017/04/calcutta-to-bihar-an-artists-journey.html) drawn by an artist. * An upside-down (http://www.alluringworld.com/slovak-radio-building/) pyramid that’s a radio building. * Pictures from Astana (http://www.gerdludwig.com/recent-work/tomorrowland-astana-kazakhstans-new-grandiose-capital-city/#id=album-57#=content-698) , the capitol of Kazakhstan. * The other five thousand plus mammals among us do fine without it (http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/the-kekul-problem) . * A voltage indicator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_galvanoscope?oldformat=true) made with a leg from a frog.
http://www.chrisfossart.com/ * Shanty (http://vigilism.com/Improvised-Shanty-Megastructures) mega-structures. * An error in Flight Simulator solved with an unexpected answer (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170418-00/?p=95985) . * Why the Dzhanibekov effect (https://mathoverflow.net/questions/81960/the-dzhanibekov-effect-an-exercise-in-mechanics-or-fiction-explain-mathemat) works. * Horseshoe (http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a26038/the-blood-of-the-crab/) crab blood is a detective. * Flying (http://www.realclearlife.com/architecture/shaolin-monks-levitate-birthplace-of-zen-buddhism-with-the-help-of-an-amphitheater-designed-by-latvian-architects/) shaolin monks, in a wind-tunnel. * Dandelion wave (https://www.reubenmargolin.com/waves/dandelion-wave/video/) . * Perceptions (https://github.com/zonination/perceptions/blob/master/README.md/perceptions/README.md at master · zonination) of chance and numbers. * Rhubarb and Edinburgh share a history (http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/jrcpe_47_1_lee.pdf) . * Drawings of visitors (http://joncarling.com/store/books/visitor-book-with-sticker/) . * Why links on the web are blue (https://www.crazyegg.com/blog/why-hyperlinks-are-blue/) . * Betting (https://www.adn.com/opinions/2017/05/01/this-antique-engineering-marvel-records-spring-breakup-in-alaska-like-clockwork/) on ice to crack. * An assembly line for airplanes (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/magazine/a-look-inside-airbuss-epic-assembly-line.html) . * The remnants (http://www.bldgblog.com/2017/05/the-remnants/) of Toronto. * Where oil rigs die (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/02/where-oil-rigs-go-to-die) . * Infinite patterns (http://sub.blue/) . * If you read, you forget (http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/06/26/reading-is-forgetting/) . * Sorting lego has always been trouble, but no longer (https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego) ! * Small puzzles (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/) . * Baking with the bread whisperers (http://www.saveur.com/baker-apprentice-frederic-lalos) .
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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