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# Further Reading
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2014/12/30/further-reading-12/
- Published: 2014-12-30T21:14:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-08-19T20:23:48.000Z
- Description: The girl with a pearl earring may not be wearing a pearl earring. How a commercial airplane is built. Longform Best of 2014. What happens when you strike a match. The Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal remembered. Why is everyone so busy? Britain’s war in Afghanistan. Books of the year. And more.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Further Reading

The girl with a pearl earring [may not be wearing a pearl earring](http://t.co/h2geuu4IJ1?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[Banksy's take on](http://t.co/mPR7NyFUha?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) the Girl with a pearl earring.

[Ever wondered how a commercial airplane is built?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rMgpExA4kM&ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

"[To be a foreigner is to be perpetually detached, but it is also to be continually surprised](http://t.co/Rr5fxAiIsN?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)" - Pico Iyer.

What happens when you strike a match? [Fascinating high-speed video](http://t.co/TycdO6kwT9?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) using schlieren imaging.

[Longform Best of 2014](http://t.co/l7TaGJ9Dug?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[The ghost ship by visualSKIN](http://t.co/BvXKKZDFvm?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) is 1 of the highlights of this year's Amsterdam Light Festival.

[Why is everyone so busy?](http://t.co/jszKfcRIty?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com)

[New statistical test](https://t.co/TczVMhFr3A?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) uses noise in data to tease apart cause and effect.

"A triumph of organised, poetic insanity touched with magic." [A review of The Hayao Miyazaki Collection](http://t.co/nYFhrHM7Js?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[30 Years ago this month](http://t.co/QUJWVtBKXN?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) a gas leak at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India killed thousands of people. 30 years after the worst chemical accident in history, [the disaster is hitting a new generation](http://t.co/srlcBXNk69?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[Excellent but lengthy essay](http://t.co/nBuvS0RH5z?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) on Britain’s war in Afghanistan. The books reviewed are longer, though.

[Series of striking aerial photos of Detroit](http://t.co/rlfAw8iWid?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

*The Economist* [books of the year](http://t.co/oM28Nd5WvC?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). *Financial Times* editors, columnist and a number of authors list their [books of the year](http://t.co/nKkoc3u4VB?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).