Morning Coffee
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Morning Coffee
70 golden cages of light in Northern France. We’re not sure what the point is, but it certainly is pretty. In Oslo they are building new crystaline skyscrapers. Meanwhile, in Hiroshima, they are going in the opposite direction. The worst…
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Morning Coffee
Did you know that in the 1950s and 60s the CIA used prostitutes to test out the possible mind control effects of LSD on the general populace. Operation Midnight Climax has all the details. (via Metafilter.) While we’re on the…
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Morning Coffee
Pictures of people looking at monuments. Eventually all of photography will just fold into itself. Using Google Earth and the country of Slovenia to create a satelite alphabet. (via Metafilter.) Did I just mention Slovenia? That must mean it’s time…
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Morning Coffee: Science Edition
Hey there July, how are you today? Steven Pinker picks his three favorite pieces of science writing for 3quarkdaily. (via Metafilter.) Bacteria as psychedelic art piece. Scientists have developed a way to fuel hydrogen based engines on chicken feathers. I…
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Morning Coffee
It sure is hot these days. Wired on the personhood of whales. A famous person has died. DJs buy own music using stolen cards. The coolest bridge in the entire world: the Falkirk Wheel. IFC on the greatest movie trailers…
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Morning Coffee
Wes Anderson on screening Rushmore for Pauline Kael. (thanks Craig) Hey, City of Toronto, you can do better than this. Chicago’s South Side nightclubs in the 1970s. The inventor of instant noodles answers the age-old question: Should I quit my…
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Morning Coffee
The world’s most pointless machine. Sweet! According to Scientists, Earth is going to be habitable 1 billion years longer than previously projected. Motel pools of yesteryear. (via kieravebutler) J.D. Salinger emerges to stop an unauthorized sequel to Catcher in the…
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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
The best morning of your life, every weekday at 6a.m. NPR on the books that James “Sawyer” Ford reads and the literature of Lost. The blog of unnecessary quotation marks. Bulgaria v. Czech Republic, a hoax sculpture sparks a diplomatic…