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Big Mac + Macarons + Heavy dose of creativity = Little Mac (without the special sauce). Culinary explorer Anna whipped up these clever tasty treats and, with a little skill, so can you. Swing over to Diary of a Ladybird for complete instructions. Full recipe at Diary of a Ladybird. (H/T @TheDailyWhat) A huge collection …

Full story at The New Yorker via The Daily What. Ah, the enduring power of poetry.

Sarah from St. Louis submitted this handy coffee maker etiquette flowchart after the IT department at her office didn’t refill the shared java pot one too many times. Via PassiveAgressiveNotes. Delicious coffee news.

Tessellations — those gapless, mesmerizing mosaics of defined shapes — pop up everywhere once you know what you’re looking for. You can find them under microscopes, radiating from sunflowers and even in the hallowed halls of art museums. In their simplest form, tessellations consist of a single shape that repeats over a two-dimensional plane without …

Full story at Endless Origami by Nico DeLucia via Graph Jam. The predictability of Facebook.

For the sentimental guitar player, save reuse your old credit cards and turn them into picks with the Pickmaster Plectrum Punch. Sold for £24.99 on Amazon. Via Bless this Stuff. More cool design.  

Nostalgic gamers may miss the days of arcades, those big, beeping boxes of glorious games. Luckily, ThinkGeek brings us the iCade, an arcade-shaped cabinet that will let us slip our iPads in and relive days of yore. And it doesn’t even take a quarter per round. Full story at Bless This Stuff via Picocool. More …

Crew is a unique sport. Even if you put eight of the world’s strongest guys in a boat and teach them to row, they’re useless without a coxswain. The coxswain steers the boat, makes sure everybody is rowing in sync, and motivates the crew. It’s a tough job, and a gold mine for leadership lessons. …

For companies with many different teams working simultaneously, trust is the grease that keeps everything running smoothly. Thomas Kayser, who has 30 years of experience working with teams, offers ways to build trust in a variety of team-building aspects. For instance, here are Kayser’s tips on building trust while working together. Be responsive to one …

When John Medley Wood collected a sample of an unusual tree he spotted on a steep slope in southern Africa, it’s doubtful he had the slightest idea of the incredible significance that action would take or the heartbreakingly lonely fate he was inadvertently assigning the little tree stem. Once upon a time, when dinosaurs roamed …

The Aztecs are best known as a violent people who expanded their empire through ruthless warfare. In many ways, the Aztecs’ warlike ways were born out of necessity. Originally part of a tribal collective known as the Chichimec, the people who would become the Aztecs wandered toward southern Mexico in the early 12th century. The …