Morning Coffee (3/13/13)

Stolen Rembrandt recovered!

Whoa: Check out this amazing Lego Hogwarts.

This piece about treating children with severe food allergies was fascinating.

Ooh! Kingsmead Quarry dig unearths Neolithic settlement

A Midwife for Harrowing Memoirs

Do not want: A tablet simple enough for women

On the other hand: Vintage Infographics: Where Women Worked in 1920

Maybe you're gonna be the one that saves me

Morning Coffee (3/12/13)

Sweden's Princess Lilian has died, and her story is fascinating.

I miss Legends of the Hidden Temple.

The very best responses to Safe Haven's batsh*t ending

Interesting: Frankenfoods reduce global warming

The Romanov Legacy Finds New Life

Believe it or not, Mark Sanford is making a comeback.

How the Boy Scouts Became the Heroes of the 1913 Parade for Women's Suffrage

Distant Cheeses, Local Farmers: Cheddar Across Continents

Morning Coffee (3/11/13)

Happy Monday? Blergh. I hate DST, because yesterday just felt weird and then this morning my alarm clock went off and WHY WAS IT THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT?

Not to start the week on a down note, but I'm still so sad that this third season of The Hour isn't happening.

For International Women's Day (belatedly): Women's political rights around the world

And here's the annual look at whether women's books are being reviewed.

Inside Adam Levine's $35 Million-Plus a Year Empire

Fascinating and heartbreaking and hopeful: Nora Ephron's Final Act

Belgium is making their stamps taste like chocolate.

Have you seen Lady Clementina Hawarden's photographs? You should.

Wow: The Professor, the Bikini Model, and the Suitcase Full of Trouble

Morning Coffee (3/8/13)

People seemed to like the all-positive/funny/cute links last Friday, so I'm going to keep that up on a weekly basis for a while. Happy weekend!

Prince Harry in a Paddington Bear apron

Adorable rabbit wears life jacket, receives hydrotherapy.

The funniest thing I've read all week: How to eat: baked potatoes

A food writer discovers her roots in Sicily.

So true: Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game Of ‘Big City’

Cutest police witness statement ever: "I chase him. I bite him. Bad man. He tasty. Good boy. Good boy Peach."

Choose your own mitten adventure!

Check out some March royal brides of the last 150 years.

Morning Coffee (3/7/13)

You should read my friend Hannah on Mattel's ridiculous "women don't know how to play with toy cars" thing.

Fear of a Black Pundit: Ta-Nehisi Coates raises his voice in American media

Whoa: Trouble at the Bolshoi Ballet. To put it mildly.

Don't Blame the Victim, or the Photographer

This piece about figuring out which portraits are actually Mozart is fascinating.

Inside the Demise of NBC's Once-Promising Comedy Up All Night

How the Mango Became the Fruit of Mao

Treasures in the Wall

Morning Coffee (3/6/13)

The Duchess of Cambridge may have hinted that she's having a girl. Maybe.

I am so excited about this Agatha Christie movie in the works.

On the other hand, this news has made me much less interested in The American Baking Competition.

Andrew Preston's Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith has won Canada's Charles Taylor Prize. I actually heard a long interview with Preston on the CBC's As It Happens over the weekend, and it was fascinating and I recommend it.

9 Houses Built Just for Spite. Shockingly, a full third of them are in Massachusetts.

English whisky? Sure, I'd try it.

The American Government's Advice for Yeti Hunters, 1959

I'm sure you will be shocked to learn that Coke uses complicated algorithms to make its orange juice.

Movie Trailer: Renoir

Ooooh. Theoretically this will be in limited release in the U.S. at the end of the month.

Morning Coffee (3/5/13)

Wow: Escort says Menendez prostitution claims were made up

Whose Line Is It Anyway? is coming back!

Eddie Redmayne modeled for a knitting book. I actually remember that book from when it came out, but I don't think I have it.

Oh, New Hampshire: N.H. Republican Lawmakers Allege Missing Constitutional Amendment Was Purposely Deleted in 1871

Amy's, the company that makes surprisingly edible vegetarian frozen food, is starting a fast food chain. WANT.

Ha: Peanut Butter and Jelly as Interviewed by Esquire Magazine

The True-Life Horror That Inspired Moby-Dick

Soup: older than we thought.

Morning Coffee (3/4/13)

The Oxford Dictionaries' baby name generator is amazing.

This makes a pretty compelling case that New Hampshire isn't a real place.

The Ghost Writes Back

How “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” Ruled The Internet

The New and Improved Leading Man

America's Hardest-Working Know-It-All

Is Oklahoma the Right Model for Universal Pre-K?

How Crazy Is Too Crazy to Be Executed?

Morning Coffee (3/1/13)

HAPPY FRIDAY. And YAY, IT'S MARCH. I promised you a whole post of happy/fun links to make up for yesterday, so here we go.

Depressed Wombat Cured by Hugs

We Found Our Son in the Subway

Cory Booker Helps Newarker Pop the Question

Check out the beautiful new covers for Stephanie Perkins's books.

'I Urge You to Drop E67-02': Course Syllabi by Famous Authors

See Every Single Outfit Olivia Pope Has Worn on Scandal This Season

Book cakes!

And a fun toy: Pulp-O-Mizer