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Dan Weiss
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Morning Coffee
Look, I know you’d like to think we are above such things, but damn it sometimes we just want to look at pictures of baby animals. Thank you Big Picture for helping us come to terms with this. 15 unusual…
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Morning Coffee
13 Scientific truths that do not make any sense at all. Frustrated by the state of the stock market? Perhaps trained rats could do a better job. Biology Today, a 1972 science textbook that is beautiful and bizarrely psychedelic. The…
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Morning Coffee
The best science magazine in the world, on the importance of research, alarmacy toward new technology, and the effect of social networking sites on the plasticity of our brains. Speaking of neuroscience: the brain orchestra recently had its world premier.…
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Morning Coffee
sometimes, when it rains, we have our doubts… Start your day off right, with gratutious black and white pictures of bridges. In 1944 Japan launched an attack on the US using entirely unmanned balloon bombs. It was pretty rad. (via…
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Morning Coffee
Morning Coffee, now two hours earlier for our friends on the east coast. Count on it every weekday at 7, Atlantic! Our Rozalia reviews Throw Down Your Heart, the documentary of Bela Fleck’s travels in Africa. Heavypetting. A blog about…
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Morning Coffee
The Ordos 100 is a project wherein 100 different architects from around the world will design a village in Inner Mongolia. The designs have been slowly coming out. Here is the most recent one. Everyman his own historian. 1931 annual…
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Morning Coffee
This flickr photo pool of grain elevators is entirely hypnotic. Thank you Death Wish Three for bringing this to our attention. Should our online relationships effect our real life relationships? I can’t unfollow you. Google book search settlement gives Google…
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Documenting the Human Cost
In 1991 the first President Bush signed a law making it illegal for the media to document the return of fallen US Soldiers. This law remained in effect until shortly after Obama’s swearing in. Big Picture offers a photo essay…
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Morning Coffee
2010 is just around the corner, where are my Flying Cars? The New York Times on why they will never happen and why they are right around the corner. Coney Island 1952. (via Metafilter) also the 1939 New York World’s…
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Morning Coffee
Need a little twee to start your day off right? Kacie Kinzer is sending a tiny cardboard robot across New York. They need your help. Green Apple on cool books that will never sell. (via The Millions) 15 year of…
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Morning Coffee
We here at the Rumpus do not speak nor read Russian. We are however, totally terrified and fascinated by this dying merman statue. Republican are a bunch of teabaggers and the National Organization for Marriage starts the M4M initiative (aka…
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Melting City/Empty Forest
Teppei Kaneuji is a young Japanese artist who uses collage techniques to create new objects that are whimsical and strangely familiar. He has his very first solo show at the Yokohama Museum of Art. (via Designboom)