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The morning coffee, tigers, zelda and chemical crayons

September 1st, 2010 1 comment

We kick off your September with a quick guide on how not to smuggle a tiger out of Thailand.


(Awesome live-action Zelda re-creation from The Zelda Project.)

Looking to raise a little genius? Then ditch the traditional crayon colour names, and go with Chemistry Crayons.

Ladies, do you hate not having anywhere to put your phone when you’re wearing that dress? A solution is now available — your phone and your dress can now be one and the same!

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The morning coffee and the laws of time travel

August 18th, 2010 No comments

Have you built a time machine?

Have you been sitting putting off using it, for fear of the grandfather paradox?

Fear no more! Grandfather paradox-free time travel is now available!


(Math from Tenso Graphics.)

There are plenty of people in the world who cannot read Chinese (or Japanese). Yet a significant portion of these people insist on getting tattooed with Chinese (or Japanese) characters. Here are their stories.

London is amazingly unfriendly to the disabled. It has many old buildings which are (unsurprisingly) inaccessible. Most of the tube stations require that patrons traverse stairs, nevermind the conundrum of minding the gap while in a wheelchair. Apparently the brains behind the 2012 Olympics are extending this inaccessibility to the internet, as well.

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The morning coffee and the medical menagerie

August 12th, 2010 No comments

Medical story #1: The case of the hungry dog.

A man in Michigan had his life saved when his dog ate his toe. His toe was infected — and deadly — and the dog only ate the infected area. No non-infected flesh eating.


(Credit unknown. Found here.)

Medical story #2: The case of the impatient tailor.

A man in Sweden was waiting in the hospital for over an hour. He needed stitches in his leg. Eventually he got tired of waiting and sewed himself up. Unimpressed, the medical staff decided to have him charged with a crime. He did, after all, use their thread.

This story has monkeys and flying squirrels in it. Both of which are awesome in their own right, and join the cats and dogs already present this morning to make for quite the menagerie. But even better than the awesome animals is that the article reveals that there are scientists who study how to best annoy monkeys.

If I knew this was an option in my adolescence, my career would be entirely different, I tell you.

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The morning coffee: sex, science and rocks from space

August 4th, 2010 No comments

Warning: I am listening to Dire Straits’ Money for Nothing while writing this morning. And things are going to happen OUT OF ORDER.

We are apparently wired for incest, and naturally attracted to people who look like family members. As family members look like family members … well … hello Oedipus.

From sex (with a little bit of science), we move to rocks (also with a little bit of science), and give you the truth behind media reports that we will all be crushed by a giant asteroid.

Next – double entendre and ukulele:


(A tattoo of muscle anatomy, found amongst other biology-related tattoos at Blag Hag, and originating somewhere in the depths of makezine.)

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