The Curious Corner #42

• Why is the Pentagon a pentagon?
• A photographic journey to the end of the world.
• A visit to the spaceship, a Burroughs Wellcome building.
• The bamboo biennale.
• When is a mummy not a mummy?
• Drawn windows of New York.
• A machine to predict the tides.
• Emotional trajectories in a story, defined by a machine. Thanks Marcel!
• Calcutta to Bihar, a journey drawn by an artist.
• An upside-down pyramid that's a radio building.
• Pictures from Astana, the capitol of Kazakhstan.
• The other five thousand plus mammals among us do fine without it.
• A voltage indicator made with a leg from a frog.

• Shanty mega-structures.
• An error in Flight Simulator solved with an unexpected answer.
• Why the Dzhanibekov effect works.
• Horseshoe crab blood is a detective.
• Flying shaolin monks, in a wind-tunnel.
• Dandelion wave.
• Perceptions of chance and numbers.
• Rhubarb and Edinburgh share a history.
• Drawings of visitors.
• Why links on the web are blue.
• Betting on ice to crack.
• An assembly line for airplanes.
• The remnants of Toronto.
• Where oil rigs die.
• Infinite patterns.
• If you read, you forget.
• Sorting lego has always been trouble, but no longer!
• Small puzzles.
• Baking with the bread whisperers.