in case you want to watch this over and over

the grid

You could drive out there your whole life, de Ruijter realized, and not realize that certain stop signs and intersections exist not because of eccentric real estate deals, but because they are mathematical devices used to help planners wrap a rectilinear planning scheme onto the surface of a spherical planet.

important investigative journalism

Will #CaptainAmericaCivilWar be a hot gay love story? @e_alexjung has a GIF investigation: https://t.co/uD4Oahul9v pic.twitter.com/PdXHuSnWxs

— Vulture (@vulture) November 25, 2015

happy thanksgiving...

i can't stop staring at this gif

Mapping the US by property value instead of land area http://t.co/v3eeHv32Mg via @CityLab pic.twitter.com/bYucQwrWJg

— Guardian Cities (@guardiancities) July 8, 2015

daily ri ri

this is what tidal looks like.

radiolab : american football

this ep is fascinating.

two interesting sources of information about US energy trends

and HERE bloomberg has every graph you need to understand how "America Is Shaking Off its Addiction to Oil"

weird stuff like this is why i follow the American Museum of Natural History on twitter and instagram

From the archives: an illustration of "the destruction of Saint Pierre, Martinique" 1902 http://t.co/95k6EXAJiK #tbt pic.twitter.com/bbjZKeILGq

— AMNH (@AMNH) December 4, 2014

someone (or some THING) put these two faded out American flags on the Brooklyn Bridge piers overnight and the NYPD just removed them

more info here

did you have a good 4th?

did you see this video of a drone flying through the new york fireworks show?

happy birthday to ALL of america

just how much america is there?

U! S! A! U! S! A!

Because no one is rich anymore. n'est-ce pas?

Cadillac 1% ad vs. Ford Parody ad:

#1 - America is a bunch of old white male baby boomers who wish they were astronauts 

#2 - America is a bunch of people like  Pasho Murray, a real woman who founded Detroit Dirt, a company that turns waste into compost and sells it to people who want to create urban gardens.

via : http://www.towleroad.com/2014/03/ford-skewers-cadillacs-1-percent-ad-with-locally-grown-parody-video.html

mariah carey was a hot mess on GMA this morning

Rich Juzwiack at gawker just loved it and so did i.

nErD aLeRt!

toot toooOOOooOoOooootttTtt!!!

guess who's finally 1776 feet tall!!

boring.

here in america...

...we have beautiful alive dalphins in our rivers, instead of thousands of dead-ass pigs.

According to various witnesses, a dolphin has been spotted in the East River—the most heavily trafficked, overly contaminated waterway on the Eastern seaboard—near 96th Street. It was first spotted sometime after 10 a.m., and locals tell ABC that it keeps surfacing. At least one person said they saw it swimming in circles between the Randall’s Island pedestrian bridge and Mill Rock. (via)

don't die, dalphin!

the death of vignelli

american airlines has redesigned their brand. take a look-see at the process:

FOUR MORE YEARS.

what voting was like.