Morning Coffee
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Morning Coffee
Mysterious Russian Ice Rings! An annotated first sentence of William Gass’ “On Being Blue.” As a life long ornithophobiac people tend to think I’m irrational. How then do you explain this MAN HUNTING EAGLE? Jonathan Lethem on Ballard. This is…
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Morning Coffee
Twelve things left on the moon. Grace Kim’s Love Hotel series takes you inside pay-by-the-hour hotels. Wikipedia has a list of inventors killed by their own inventions. A new twist on urban decay photography: Mike Tyson’s abandoned Ohio mansion. My…
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Morning Coffee
Have you been trying to find someone to date who shares your love of Sean Hannity? Despite all of our advances in technology, sometimes pigeons are the way to go. Department of questionable science: Scientists levitate mice using magnetic fields.…
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Morning Coffee
This is really dumb but I can’t stop staring at it; tiny versions of bigger things. Gerry Canavan points us in the direction of THE BLOOP. Sea monster? Cthulu? Nothing at all? The National Library of New Zealand on Flickr.…
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Morning Coffee
Giant rat discovered in secret volcano. The new species of rat doesn’t have a name yet, if anyone has any ideas. Slate on new bubble technologies. Man accidentally fires a cannon through neighbor’s house. Buddha shaped pears are a pretty…
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Morning Coffee: Labor Day Edition
The season is drawing to a close and with it we bring you our favorite MC links of the summer. Life takes you inside a fish hospital (my heart breaks everytime I see that goldfish taking its shot). Atlas Obscura…
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Morning Coffee
I am mildly in love with these photographs by Estelle Hanania. Tiny dancer…? John Waters made me the man I am today, here is an article about his art. Carta di credito “I Simpson”! Scienceray would like to talk to…
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Morning Coffee
Keetra Dean Dixon’s objects of co-dependency. Know your audience: monkeys respond to music made with them in mind. (via Metafilter.) And on a similar note, looking to the sexual habits of gorillas to explain human monogamy. Confirmed: we are ALL…
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Morning Coffee
The internet was created that we could see from a bison’s perspective when it has a stand-off with another bison. (More here). Hubble Deef Field: an overwhelming feeling of insignificance, now in 3-D! Feral houses (it’s been what, two weeks…
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Morning Coffee
On football and independent bookselling. Bolivian salt flats, way more interesting than it sounds! The evolutionary benefits of chronic depression. Life on mars? probably! The film version of the Wizard of Oz turns 70 this year, some dudes want to…
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Morning Coffee
The 10 geekiest tattoos. “An essay on the horrors of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, in the form of a Choose Your Own Adventure® story” from Rudolph Delson. It is hard to have babies in outer space. Mythical creatures vendiagram-ed.…
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Morning Coffee
Proof that everything that could possibly exist does somewhere: Life takes you inside a fish hospital. Library themed ice cream? It turns out that coin flips aren’t fair at all. Dang, I guess I should have gone to grad school…