A New Coffee That Contains the Health Benefits of Broccoli

If people ate broccoli as routinely as they drank coffee, the entire population’s health would vastly improve—and that’s kind of what the creators behind Barassica Coffee are planning. The fledgling coffee company is the collaborative product between Brassica Protection Products and Baltimore Coffee and Tea Co, who have found a way to incorporate glucoraphanin—a cancer-preventing molecule found in broccoli—into coffee. “It’s a nice easy way …

One Man is Illustrating Every NYC Subway Station

For the past 38 years, New Jersey native Philip Ashforth Coppola has spent his evenings, weekends and vacation days underground in New York City’s subway system. There, he studies and illustrates the city’s historical subway architecture, mosaics and signage as a means of preserving old New York. So far, with just a black pen, he’s drawn out four volumes worth of subway stations and won’t …

The Japanese Art of Shaping Shiny Spheres of Mud

The Japanese art of hikaru dorodango involves hand-shaping mud and soil into smooth, shining earthen spheres. P2 Photography caught up with dorodango practitioner Bruce Gardner in the second installation of their “Buck the Cubicle” video series for an inside look at the odd yet hypnotizing hobby. After forming an initially wet ball of mud from soil found just outside his studio, Gardner slowly works layer …