From the Curious Corner of the Internet.. #42: Bamboo, airplanes and puzzles
Find the most interesting corners of the Internet this month below!
View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|)
** The Curious Corner #43
Hello! Edition 43… phew, as I was curating this newsletter I saw that I started this newsletter in 2013, that’s a while ago and number 50 is slowly creeping up on us… Thanks for being a member of this curious little newsletter so far! If you like it, I would invite you to share this newsletter with someone who would love these kind of things. (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: * The only blind person (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/15/seeing-with-your-tongue) to have climbed Mt. Everest. * Lesser known (http://fabricefouillet.com/galerie/colosses/) giant statues. * One leg (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/flamingos-one-leg/527781/) is better than two. * Paper money (https://jpkoning.blogspot.nl/2017/03/bringing-back-somali-shilling.html) without a bank. * A game about a game (https://www.wired.com/2017/05/arc-symphony-games-memory/) , that doesn’t exist. * Who owns land (http://map.whoownsengland.org/) in England. * Make your own medieval city (https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator) . * More and more (https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-18/maine-is-drowning-in-lobsters) lobster! * A tailor (http://kottke.org/17/05/the-bullfighters-tailor) for bullfighters. * The difference, between roads, avenues, drives, lanes, courts and boulevards (http://99percentinvisible.org/article/beyond-streets-avenues-simple-visual-guide-different-types-roads/) . * It’s red, delicious and the worst apple (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-reign-of-the-red-delicious/379892/) . * Explore one of the largest temple complex (http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Karnak/) in the world, with your browser.
https://www.artstation.com/artist/dzunguyen * Which country has the lowest password strength (http://fsecurify.com/password-analysis-based-on-countries/) ? * This (https://mosaicscience.com/story/what-its-be-struck-lightning) is what it’s like to be struck by lightning. * Paintings of monkeys getting drunk (https://resobscura.blogspot.nl/2017/05/why-are-there-so-many-17th-century.html) . * Winning the battle for Riddler Nation (https://ntguardian.wordpress.com/2017/05/29/winning-the-battle-for-riddler-nation-an-agent-based-modelling-approach/) . * The first cookbook (http://ilovetypography.com/2017/05/31/the-first-cookbook/) . * Trade stock with other people together (http://stockstream.live/) ! * Eight days on Kumano Kodo (https://walkkumano.com/) . * It’s better to read the best book on the topic 5 times, than to read 5 different books (https://jovicailic.org/2016/11/lessons-learned-300-books-4-years/) on the topic once. * Typography of signs (https://berlintypography.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/street-signs-of-berlin/) in Berlin. * A concrete jungle, by Edward James (https://thespaces.com/2017/02/14/exploring-las-pozas-escher-like-playground-mexican-jungle/) . * A reverse (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Emirp) prime. * Hilldegarden, a green pyramid from a bunker (http://www.hilldegarden.org/) . * So to make the ocean’s plight (https://radicaloceanfutures.earth/home#about-project) more relatable, a Swedish sustainability group is putting out a message that will hit you where it counts: right in the nerd. * Left to right, or right to left for printing a spine (http://cognitionandculture.net/blog/dans-blog/tilting-tilted-titling) of a book?
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
============================================================ Copyright © |CURRENT_YEAR| |LIST:COMPANY|, All rights reserved. |IFNOT:ARCHIVE_PAGE| |LIST:DESCRIPTION|
Our mailing address is: |LIST_ADDRESS| |END:IF|
unsubscribe from this list (|UNSUB|) update subscription preferences (|UPDATE_PROFILE|)
|IF:REWARDS| |REWARDS_TEXT| |END:IF|