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Jessica Helfand's got a great read on hands and artifacts, manicures and cup holders. Here's the absolute best bit on the latter:

Which brings me to my next observation: now that we constantly need to be drinking something, our cups--when not in the direct vicinity of our hands--need to take up temporary residence somewhere. Enter the cup holder, an odd sort of conical vessel that basically babysits your coffee: for a generation raised in the age of the remote control, access to a cup holder is like putting your drink on pause.

Read the whole thing here.