Morning Coffee
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Morning Coffee
Mystery lights in the Norwegian sky. I love the universe! (update: Bad Astronomy has gotten to the bottom of it!) Photographing Las Vegas’ neon boneyard. Gerry Canavan points us to this epic document of classic scams. A family portrait of…
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Morning Coffee
Fun fact: lobsters don’t age! Scientists want to know why your brother won’t share with you. Chip Kidd on designing Nabokov. Everyday is a good day for insect macro-photography. The world’s coolest subway stations. Hurray for public transportation!
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Morning Coffee
New Scientist photo-essay on homosexual animals. Aww! Other countries are a lot better at rad eco design than us: the Greenspotlight. Warsaw urban art. On the other end of the spectrum: Norman Rockwell’s research photos. (via MeFi.) A look into…
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Morning Coffee
“Nothing can’t be made with wood.” Street legal wooden car! I don’t know about you, but I could use some good news this Monday morning. Cell phones might not cause brain tumors after all! Evidently the US Defense Department is…
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Morning Coffee
A recent death gives the NY Times reason to consider the origin of the Hokey Pokey. The Rotating Kitchen. Cities before and after catastrophe. (via Gerrycanvan.) Friendly bird feeders are changing evolution. A look at all the buildings Dubai could…
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Morning Coffee
What to get the Rumpus for Christmas. The sounds of dripping glaciers, printed onto the glaciers from whence they came. We here are entirely in favor of book based art. Tom Bendsten makes some pretty good ones. This has been…
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Morning Coffee
Feelin’ kind of teenaged today. Vintage Polish fashion magazine advertisements? Yes please. Hearing with our skin. Department of beautiful but terrifying implications: Dead tire graveyard. Guardian UK on the unsure cause of Jane Austen’s demise. Yesterday was the first day…
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Morning Coffee
Evidently we’re thinking about cities today. New Scientist takes an in-depth look at drowned cities, fact and fiction. Thank you New Scientist. The winning design for Mexico’s pavillion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. 1/100 scale architectural models. If that…
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Morning Coffee
Octopus pulp covers. I heart you internet. Expert in alienation, Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore subpoenaed in World of Warcraft law suit. Patent for a “fabricated baked potato” (via Alexis Madrigal) Scientists working to extend our lives indefinitely by 2029. More…
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Morning Coffee
Have a good Thanksgiving, we’ll see you on Monday. Famous missing body parts. Alice’s copy of “Through the Looking Glass” is up for auction. LA without traffic is a pretty unsettling thing. Secrets of pinball economics. What was once thought…
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Morning Coffee
Flavorwire on the loss of Pop-up pioneer Wally Hunt and the best Pop-up Books of all time. I don’t know how people made found art before google maps. It is pretty terrifying to imagine being fully conscious and in a…
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Morning Coffee
Kurt Vonnegut’s letter home. Abandoned wood burning stoves. A look inside a San Francisco opium den circa 1889. Rebecca Ward‘s tape installations. Pickled evidence for evolution.