From the Curious Corner of the Internet.. #47: Wine, gombocs, smarties & flamenco

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** The Curious Corner #46

Happy new year! Thanks for staying with this newsletter and if you’re new, welcome! Have a nice 2018! As usual for me I collected all my 8:36pm photos in a little movie you can watch over at Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/249402769) . Just like that project I want to continue with the Curious Corner (and maybe even put up a Patreon for it?)

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Here we go: * 26 words English doesn’t want to lose (http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171122-twenty-six-words-we-dont-want-to-lose) . * An eight legged (https://www.gearhungry.com/octopod/) clock. * 2088 voice clips (http://www.bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com/) , a bicycle build for two thousand. * The petrol zoo (http://www.offbeattravel.com/coalinga.html) in Coalinga. * How did cocoa (http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/12/07/pods-pots-and-potions-putting-cacao-to-paper-in-early-modern-europe/) end up in Europe? * A mechanical (http://jkbrickworks.com/mechanical-lego-keyboard) lego keyboard. * A laboratory layered (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01852-2) latte. * A handbook of Ethiopian magic (http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2017/12/a-handbook-of-ethiopian-magic-incantations-and-talisman-art-.html#) . * Almond (http://medievalcookery.com/recipes/almondmilk.html) milk was popular in the middle ages. * Wonder how a book is binded (http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/book/) ? * They call me a pig tracker (https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/motel-living-and-slowly-dying/#!) . * The typeface (https://www.typotheque.com/articles/nara_-_the_typeface_that_never_existed) that never existed.

• Harpoons, gatling guns and spears are weapons (https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/watch-militarized-microbes-use-some-sophisticated-weapons-to-snare-prey/) of the microbes.
• Graham Bell not only invented the phone, but also special kites (https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/alexander-graham-bells-tetrahedral-kites-1903-9/) .
• Since the 1700, the size of a wine glass (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wine-glasses-growth-history) has grown by 7!
• Wonder why (https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/46755/why-do-airplanes-use-mayday-when-in-danger-but-ships-send-sos) it’s mayday on airplanes and SOS on ships?
• What do Tolkien & Pulp Fiction have in common (http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/26/a-history-of-the-silmarils-in-the-fifth-age/) ?
• How smarties (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-42244389) got their name.
• The fish (http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/the-fish-that-took-a-century-to-name) that took a century to get a name.
• The flamenco (http://www.pelicanomecanico.com/melquiades-maquina-de-ritmos-flamencos/) machine.
• An unsolved murder (http://www.historytoday.com/catherine-fletcher/murder-vatican) at the Vatican.
• The gomboc (https://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue52/features/gomboc/index?nl=0) , a self-righting object.
• Kenyan time (https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/12/31/574537270/under-kenyan-time-you-re-expected-to-arrive-oh-whenever) is not actually time, just a number used to solidify the event
• The autopen (http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/5/whatsinaname.php/CABINET /) , a lifesaver for important persons.

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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