Morning Coffee

It’s Monday so let’s just enjoy some Japanese grain elevators and VHS box art. Hey look at this dang ice age cavern discovered under Montreal! This surgeon wants to connect…

Another day another over 200 pterosaur eggs found. Remembering the time four lesbian activists invaded the BBC. Let’s all take a trip back to 1940s Sao Paulo. Let’s all take…

The rats of Manhattan are truly incredible (and genetically distinct from uptown to downtown). Here are your Soviet watches for the day. Let’s all take a dive through a Mexican…

Jelani Cobb on the justice department’s history of racist paranoia. On the surface, Ulaanbaatar, San Francisco, Calais and Jerusalem could not be more different – but for the people squeezed…

Get ready to say goodbye to bananas (the future is very bad). The best street scenes are Baltimore street scenes. Mapping the blurred lines of Beirut’s language. Sao Paulo’s homeless…

Another week another possibly habitable planet. Maybe income inequality has ALWAYS been rising? Guess we have to talk about the normalization of Nazis again. On Lebanon’s forgotten space program. Let’s…

We’ll be taking the week off for the holiday. We’ll be back on Monday; be good to each other. We’ll miss you dearly.

Was the passenger pigeon doomed by it’s too large gene pool? On the other side of this: the Indiana Amish’s genetic fountain of youth. Here’s your Middle Eastern Modernist architecture…

You know who ELSE loved decaf? The Nazis! Welcome to the age of the AI coworker. Here are your Japanese and Taiwanese urban typeface hunters for the day. The more educated…

Here are your comedy wildlife photography finalists for the year. Blessed be. Can carbon-dioxide removal save us all? Is it even a real thing? Two stars slammed into each other…

What is life but an isolated Arctic meteorologist? Are people REALLY better than robots in the first place? Here’s your daily supply of retrofuturism. Here’s your daily supply of disused…

Guess it’s time for us all to take a holiday in a Soviet sanatorium. Or maybe we should take a trip along the mother road. More on the future of…