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Dan Weiss
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Morning Coffee
Start your day off right with a little Japanese library design porn. “Man is not to end his days on Earth,” Gyula Kosice’s space architecture is on display in Houston. It took people 60 years to figure out that Raymond…
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Why Am I So Different
We here at the Rumpus are fairly sure this is one of the signs of the apocalypse. Thanks everythingisterrible!
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Morning Coffee
Helmet Palla’s extremely painful furniture. I think this says something about the fundamental problem with human beings. Squid embryos! the 2009 Princeton Art of Science awards. It’s friday, that must mean it’s time to link to another forgotten Eastern European…
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Morning Coffee
It’s nice when green design actually look pretty cool, such as this Mexico City stackable solar powered park. On the other hand you have these bus shelters, which leave something to be desired. Actually, it turns out the answer to…
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Morning Coffee
National Geographic has a slideshow on animals glowing in the name of science. Thank you Science. Brock Davis’ shattered art. Scientists in the Pacific Northwest have figured out how to grow plastic on trees, making the idea of independence from…
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Morning Coffee
A touching memorial to a British TV artist. As it so happens, the reason we haven’t found any evidence of life may be our own dang fault. And as long as we’re linking to New Scientist: Pfizer is giving free…
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Dan’s Top 20 Morning Coffee Links
Since today is Memorial Day, yesterday your humble Morning Coffee editor’s birthday, and the exact two month mark of holding said title, here are his top 20 links from his residency here on the Rumpus.net. Enjoy. 13 scientific truths that…
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Morning Coffee
Creepy twine sculptures and potato portraits. Happy memorial day weekend. Minimalist architectural pornography. House of Diffusion. If we here at the Morning Coffee were a single issue voter, that issue would probably be urban planning/public transportation. Which is why we…
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Morning Coffee
From one our personal favorite blogs: questions young people ask. Images from the 1973 Iranian children’s book, The Story of a Silkworm. Speaking of whimsy, check out this Finish environmental art. Taking participatory art to something of a logical extreme,…
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Morning Coffee
Japanese shipyard gone feral. We are pretty sure this is what the next Pixar movie is going to be about. (via Metafilter) Kerouac as fantasy baseball enthusiast. From New Scientist, half of all raindrops fall faster than thought possible. I…
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Morning Coffee
Passive-aggressive notes. Bird’s eye view photography is pretty rad. Jason Hawkes has figured this out. The Big Picture has figured out that Jason Hawkes has figured this out. Dinosaur comics. We must have linked to this before but yesterday’s strip…
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Morning Coffee
The controversial hobbit-like Homo Floresiensis were a seperate species after all. And thus the world is a little more magical. My Home Birth: A Graphic Memoir from SMITHMAG. Made of This: the first of three installments. “Michael Morpugo, Susan Greenfield,…