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A drink from Chinese coffee chain Mellower Coffee in which a puff of candy floss is suspended above a hot Americano. Steam rises, melting the floss, which drips down and sweetens the coffee.
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Behold: the weird and wonderful 1939 Porsche Type 64 Coupe – built for the 1,500-kilometer Berlin-Rome race, which never happened.
Regarded as the missing link between the Mk1 Beetle (whose engine it shares) and the post-WWII Porsche 356, only three were ever made and this is the third – kept by Professor Ferdinand Porsche himself as a family car.
Up for auction at Monterey this August.
A perfectly timed mashup by booyapictures in which a despondent Tyrion Lannister vainly attempts to parlay with John Cleese’s Taunting Frenchman.
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Behold: the bright young stars of the Trumpler 14 cluster – some as young as a mere 5 million years and still so hot, they emit detectable x-rays. Listen up, grandad:
In older star clusters, most stars this young have already died — typically exploding in a supernova — leaving behind stars that are fainter and redder. Trumpler 14 spans about 40 light years and lies about 9,000 light years away on the edge of the famous Carina Nebula. A discerning eye can spot two unusual objects in this detailed 2006 image of Trumpler 14 by the Hubble Space Telescope. First, a dark cloud just left of center may be a planetary system trying to form before being destroyed by the energetic winds ofTrumpler 14‘s massive stars. Second is the arc at the bottom left, which one hypothesis holds is the supersonic shock wave of a fast star ejected 100,000 years ago from a completely different star cluster.
(Image: NASA, ESA, and J. Maíz Apellániz (IoAoA Spain); N. Smith (U. Arizona)
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Colm tweetz:
Random item in the shape of Ireland. (Single Bran Flake, on tile, North Kildare, 2019)
The Broadsheet Book Of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland (New Island)
The Wisteria Puzzle Cabinet – a delightful work of inlay and fine marquetry created by furniture craftsman Craig Thibodeau but not just that.
The cabinet also incorporates hidden compartments and secretly accessed drawers designed by Robert ‘Stickman’ Yarger.
A pixel art short by animator Lumpy Touch that reimagines Jim Davis’ lasagne-fixated feline as 32-bit nightmare fuel in some survival horror game on the Game Boy Advance.
German educational design channel Kurzgesagt applies infuriatingly balanced and logical reasoning to the conspiracy-theory-roach-motel that is vaccination. To wit:
Vaccines are one of our best tools to prevent dangerous diseases, but they come with side effects. So would it be safer not to vaccinate?
Previously: Strange Matter