science
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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.
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Morning Coffee
1970s lowbrow super 8 design. hurray! Journey Around my Skull continues its look at Polish children’s books. Is ALL marriage illegal in Texas? 15 uses for newspapers. Imaging alien Earths in the near future. Turning videogames into art.
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Morning Coffee
Jim Kazanjian’s aberrations. We try to stay away from foreign language links as much as possible, but these x-rays of speech are pretty universally rad. Warhol’s Little Red Hen. If your kid isn’t afraid of things they are going to…
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Morning Coffee
In Sweden, official’s have decided to start rounding up bunny rabbits and burning them for bio-fuel. Looks like SOMEONE’S got a case of the Mondays! “The placebo effect is not only real; its ability to deaden pain has been pinpointed…
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The Rumpus Interview with Alasdair Gray
Writer and artist Alasdair Gray is his own best nightmare. It took the modern Scottish bard twenty-five years to finish Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981), his fat, strangely inspirational novel of urbanism gone awry.
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Morning Coffee
Johnny Cash in German. IS the Large Hadron Collider being sabotaged by ITS OWN FUTURE? A behind the scenes look at Swedish rug mill. Because, really, why not? One of my closest friend’s doesn’t have a sense of smell, if…
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Morning Coffee
The Heart of Great Alone: haunting images of polar expedition. Lighting design exhibition uses actual dandelions. What makes Ardi, the oldest known skeleton of a human-like primate, so dang important. Vermont domes of the alternate future. (via Mefi.) Time remembers…
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Morning Coffee
90 Years of Vogue Magazine covers. You know, if that’s your thing. New Scientist wants to tell you about the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in physics. Sometimes extreme measures are needed to stop book theft. NY Magazine on…
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Morning Coffee
Water on Lens celebrates the art of cinematic underwater photography. Chimpanzee masks make your crippling fear of breathing the air fun! What do optical illusions tell us about our brains? The best and worst thing about the internet is that…
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Morning Coffee
Howard Hughes’ un-flyable plane makes for a pretty great boat. One bank is letting people with good credit deposit checks by phone. Ohio is a piano for some reason. Trying to photograph Raymond Chandler’s LA. New Scientist on bomb-throwing deep…
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Seven Thousand Skulls and a Tolerant Spouse
“How many people want to spend their entire day — their entire life, I guess, at this point — collecting heads from rotting marine mammals? Well, Ray does!” From Shelf Life, a 25-minute documentary you can watch here, about Ray…
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Romantic Poets and Scientists
“A good history of science unreels like the practice of science itself. It wends through a world of experiments until a new reality arises. But the more layered story of that journey is that science is not just a process…