The Rumpus.net » Dan Weiss http://therumpus.net Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:55:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee http://therumpus.net/2012/02/dan-weisss-morning-coffee-348/ http://therumpus.net/2012/02/dan-weisss-morning-coffee-348/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:00:45 +0000 Dan Weiss http://therumpus.net/?p=97599 Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, if you’ve been wondering what to get that special someone.

There is a good chance you will soon have a medically classified mental illness.

Here’s some Diana camera porn for you in the meantime.

1900′s German Brothers Grimm illustrations (are terrifying).

Hey dudes, x-ray fish!

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True story: your pancreas has taste buds. yep.

Noisolation headphones are a thing.

Everyone loves map art.

It’s still Friday. Here is information on burping asteroids.

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If I’m reading this correctly, tarsiers are super sonic spies.

Vulture restaurant is this weeks space tugboat.

The Magic Underground Castle (is delightful).

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Mind-blowing fact of the day: most fish evolved on land.

Industrial design of the future (1944).

An entirely lizard based Noah’s ark is kind of terrifying.

Do not steal Chile’s glaciers dudes. Don’t do it!

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There is some crazy psychedelic stuff going on in the ocean.

Thank you PopSci for this slideshow of mythical beast hunts.

Fact: New Mexico almost required psychiatrists to dress as wizards.

Meanwhile, the robot car is just waiting for our non-robot laws to catch up with it.

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(Largely terrifying) tales of DIY science.

You know what else are neat? Waterfall restaurants.

2011 had some pretty impressive science visualizations it turns out.

And now some 1950s elephant automatons, I think this is going to be a good week. (via Boing Boing.)

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Richard Branson’s lemurs and other assisted migrations.

This is what a mouse’s brain activity looks like.

Perhaps you’d like to see some rad train photography.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes, like, for real, yo.

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Flavorwire has a handy write-up of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

Space tugboat is absolutely the phrase of the day.

The high cost of bad handwriting.

These are the sounds of mind reading.

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Wired wants to talk to you about (actual) bugs.

Uncontacted peoples in the 21st century is one of the most mind blowing concepts I can imagine.

Let’s all listen to Mercury!

Meanwhile, here are some things we’ve found about the atmosphere at the edge of the solar system.

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Oh hello, albino hummingbird.

It is well documented that world’s fairs are awesome.

Here is a look at one of the first sound installations. It is pretty neat too.

What are you doing at the bottom of the ocean Anklyosaur.

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