The Rumpus.net » morning coffee http://therumpus.net Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:27:49 +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-343/ http://therumpus.net/2012/02/dan-weisss-morning-coffee-343/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:00:47 +0000 Dan Weiss http://therumpus.net/?p=97122 I know it’s only Monday, but I’m pretty sure “tiny volcanic moon” is the phrase of the week.

(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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Here’s your weeks worth of solar storm sky porn.

What do false memories look like?

Bad news navigation fans: the north star might be shrinking.

But what about the OTHER Vitruvian man?

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You know what makes international diplomacy rules way more interesting? Outer space!

By the way, have you seen NASA’s new highest resolution ever picture of the Earth?

Behold the chemobile.

It it is time to find out what the rings of tree trunks sound like.

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Data visualizations as self portrait.

Behold the classroom-less school (way to go Sweden).

Can we all agree that Japanese monsters are the most terrifying?

Hello there lil world’s smallest vertebrae fella.

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Peter Newell’s The Rocket Book is your early 20th Century kids book of the day.

By the way, it’s time to start thinking about historically preserving the moon.

The ocean floor is a pretty crazy place.

Perhaps you’ve wondered why JRR Tolkien never won a Nobel Prize (I have never wondered this).

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2012, on the other hand, will be the year of single person helicopters.

Fake holidays are pretty wonderful.

Let’s take a moment to appreciate gender swapping fish.

Pigeons look at 19th Century Europe.

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