Hasta La Gadget!

According to a 2013 survey, over eighty three percent of Americans drink coffee in the morning and the average citizen drinks multiple cups per day. Between the dark brew, the flavored lattes, the frozen caffeinated treats, and the whirling gadgets, coffee is now a thirty billion dollar industry. Coffee is big business and companies like Starbucks, Peets, and Folgers have spent gobs of money to get people to drink more of it. Despite all of that, the most expensive coffee probably can’t be found in your downtown coffee shop. No, the most expensive coffee in the world lives alongside feces in the intestinal gut of an Asian palm civet.

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Adorable. We’ve seen dogs ride skateboards before and though it’s extremely cute when they’re pawing the ground to lunge forward and crashing into walls, they’re not really busting tricks with the board. This cat though? It does its feline version of ollies and skateboard grinds.

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From BBC’s Penguin – Sky in the Huddle, comes this adorable footage taken by John Dowder of a bird of prey, the Striated Caracara, stealing a hidden camera inside a Penguin egg and taking it for a fly to film an entire Penguin colony. The bird made sure to get the camera angle just right to capture the massive amounts of happy feet dancers.

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A new report by the BBC reveals that China isn’t just experimenting with cloning—it’s doing it on an "industrial scale." Which is at best interesting and at worst more than a small cause for concern.

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The advent of the railroad collapsed our notions of time and space, and it carved out entire industries whole—we of the 21st century have only the internet for comparison. It also swallowed entire species: The story of how railroads drove the passenger pigeon to extinction—and bison to the brink of it—is a story of how a technological system can radically transform an entire landscape in just a few years.

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