From 2017, a tour of a house in North Carolina decorated with thousands of coffee mugs. According to an Atlas Obscura article from 2016, there’s no charge to see the collection, “but donations are welcome.”
The owner does not drink much coffee, though his wife does.
Via Boing Boing
Early 20th-century autochrome pictures of France’s Oise Valley, by art collector Antonin Personnaz.
↩︎ Flashbak
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Young influencers are being offered cheap or free cosmetic surgery in exchange for promotion. Some regret “ruining” their face.
↩︎ NBC News
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“Fictosexuals” are people—there are said to be thousands in Japan—who enter into unofficial marriages with fictional characters.
↩︎ The New York Times…
From 2019, Carl Cheng’s Tar Pool Project invites the viewer to observe the wonderfully calming phenomenon of dripping tar.
See also: A survey covering decades of Cheng’s work is now on display at LA’s Philip Martin gallery.
“It is archival quality. It is future proof. It is one of one.” T Bone Burnett touts his new audio format, the Ionic Original.
↩︎ Stereogum
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According to a new report, Harvard had “extensive financial ties” to slavery, and faculty and staff enslaved more than 70 people.
↩︎ The Harvard Crims…
Of course, getting rid of policies that restrict hate speech will most likely affect women and minorities much more than it does white men like Mr. Musk, and unlike him, most people on the receiving end of threats and har…
“We can’t confidently make controlled policy changes or external commitments such as ‘we will not use X data for Y purpose.’ And yet, this is exactly what regulators expect us to do, increasing our…
Meteorites may have first delivered the essential building blocks of DNA to Earth.
↩︎ Space
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