The Curious Corners #87
Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. This edition is a bit later, mostly due to stuff related to moving and a cycle tour of 235 kilometers... (in a single day!). Anyhow, this month might just be history month due to the amount of historical things in this edition, enjoy! 🙏
- Helmets for the art of looking.
- Stamps with mistakes.
- A growing typeface.
- The watch that came from the cold.
- Haribo's history.
- Composing the Windows 95 sound.
- Mining minerals from your body.
- Mithradites of Fond du Lac.
- We domesticated the blueberry.
- Crossing the alps with an elephant in 1959.
- Painting with explosives.
- A rollercoaster in Excel.
- The White House has its own record collection.
- Spotting a bird.
- A timeline on metrication.
- The coaches from Hungary.
- The two envelopes problem.
- Reinventing printmaking in from the 1970s.
- Vintage computer ads.
- On insect intellect.
That's it, thanks for reading! Let us know by email if you have any suggestions for the Curious Corner!