From the Curious Corner of the Internet.. #52: Flowers, owls & pearls
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** The Curious Corner #52!
If I’d sent out one curious corner every week we would have covered an entire year, awesome! Thanks for sticking around and I’ll hope you find some gems in this edition!
If you like what I do, please feel free to share it with your friends! 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: * Holes full of drawn (https://www.instagram.com/p/BUtxcjbDTeJ/?taken-by=visothkakvei) flowers. * A railroad (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/L%C3%BCttmoorsiel-Nordstrandischmoor_island_railway) to an island. * The weird science behind the chain restaurant menu (https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/bjp9xv/how-chain-restaurant-menus-get-made) . * A list of screw (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_screw_drives) drives. * The concorde (https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-b) that was never build. * The island that runs on stones (http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180502-the-tiny-island-with-human-sized-money) as money. * The Kruskal (http://faculty.uml.edu/rmontenegro/research/kruskal_count/kruskal.html) count card trick. * The forever (https://longreads.com/2018/04/30/the-forever-nomad/) nomad. * The last cave dwellers (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/world/asia/zhong-cave-dwellers.html) in China. * The deep time (http://nautil.us/issue/60/searches/the-deep-time-of-walden-pond) at Walden’s pond. * Ditching GPS, or how to navigate on common sense (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/06/ditching-the-satnav-the-lost-secrets-of-natural-navigation) .
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6uvy9d/dont_panic_look_around_interact_with_reality/ * Memory transfer between snails (https://www.statnews.com/2018/05/14/memory-transfer-between-snails-challenges-standard-theory/) . * The owl (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/stealing-owls/559136/) thieves of Sweden * Turning power plants (https://www.wallpaper.com/art/joaquin-vaquero-palacios-murals-spanish-modernist-power-plants) into art. * A hidden world below (http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20180514-a-hidden-world-30m-below-budapest) Budapest. * The busiest island (http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.nl/2018/05/the-santa-cruz-school-of-street-view.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+GoogleMapsMania+(Google+Maps+Mania)) with street view. * 4 seasons (http://www.mathewborrett.com/hypnagogic-city/22d8bdbme1u37fz8zoonxczk6cducs) of abandoned Toronto. * The heartbeat (http://tubeheartbeat.com/london/) of the London Underground. * A mysterious 12 string (http://fraulini.com/2017/07/lonnie-johnsons-mysterious-12-string/) . * Tired of living on an euclidean plane, try the poincaré (https://pointatinfinityblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/life-on-the-poincare-disk/) disk! * Chasing the pearl (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-pearl-of-lao-tzu/559109/) of Lao Tzu. * A history of L0pht (https://duo.com/decipher/an-oral-history-of-the-l0pht) . * The desolate places (https://www.edfreeman.com/collections/desert-realty) in California. * Hunting for crows (https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/world/asia/07crows.html) . * The complete history of lemmings (http://www.javalemmings.com/DMA/Lem_1.htm) . * Including cheese gifs, this page lists molecules (http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/motm.htm) of the month!
That’s it, thanks for reading! Let us 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 (https://jplattel.nl/) & Kees (https://ikbenke.es/)
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