[nonostantement #221] - guerrilla gardener / ducking autocorrect / blood drones
Now with MORE railroad gundams!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with superb, inspiring, and impolite stuff found all over the Internet.
Hello everyone from Barcelona! I'm Joele, I'm an online communication consultant and every Sunday I send this email to my friends. Inside there are all the most interesting links I find during the week spent working online.
Soundtrack for today? Adoniran Barbosa - O trem das onze, Thievery Corporation - Saudade and Luca Aquino - La mer feat. Lucio Dalla, Audun Erlien, Wetle Holte
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[Video] - The Teaching Tool That Makes LoFi Beats To Study To
[…] Made by many companies like Califone, Eiki and Bell & Howell, these are basically the Instagram of magnetic tape recorders. Originally meant for learning languages, these have since found use for LoFi […][Video] - A guerilla gardener in South Central LA | Ron Finley
Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys."Gordon Hempton — Silence and the Presence of Everything
Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton collects sounds from around the world. He’s recorded inside Sitka spruce logs in the Pacific Northwest, thunder in the Kalahari Desert, and dawn breaking across six continents.[Video] - THE MOUNTAINS - Cinematic Short Film
People are always asking me "Why are you always in the mountains? Don't you get tired of it?". Hope this videos answers that questions and explains why I'm doing what I'm doing and what The Mountains really mean to me.More than 300 languages are spoken along this NYC street
Queens, New YorkIn this vibrant borough there is a street called Roosevelt Avenue that cuts a cross-section through some of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods on Earth. Spanish, Bengali, Punjabi, Mixtec, Seke, and Kuranko are among the hundreds of languages spoken here.[Video] - Duckin’ Autocorrect: The Inventor of iPhone’s Autocorrect Explains How It Works | WSJ
Embarrassing word swaps, grammatical errors and other typos? WSJ’s Joanna Stern headed to a duck farm and called up the creator of the iPhone’s autocorrect system, to find out why we sometimes get these typing fails.[Video] - A Day With a Michelin-Starred Chef, Making Fresh Pasta & Running a Kitchen | Bon Appétit
Follow chef/owner Stefano Secchi through an entire day at his rustic Italian restaurant Rezdôra, from organizing a kitchen of line cooks and rolling fresh pasta through serving dinner each night in the heart of Manhattan.
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China is hatching a plan to find Earth 2.0
A satellite will scour the Milky Way for exoplanets orbiting stars just like the Sun.Amazon is quietly developing a 'new-to-world' AR product
The company has in the past explored the idea of glasses-free AR.Drones Have Transformed Blood Delivery in Rwanda
The autonomous aircraft have shuttled blood to rural, mountainous areas for years. A new analysis proves they’re faster than driving.Digital Services Act: Council and European Parliament provisional agreement for making the internet a safer space for European citizens
An important step has been taken today with the provisional political agreement reached on the Digital Services Act (DSA) between the Council and the European Parliament.Japanese Railroad Builds Giant Gundam-Style Robot to Fix Power Lines
As New Atlas and other blogs reported, the West Japan Rail Company, also known as JR West, is now using a humongous Gundam-style robot to fix remote railway power lines — and to make it even cooler, the robot is piloted by an actual human wearing a VR setup.
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