Morning Coffee

I Heart Soviet Mind Control. As always, perhaps the solution is astronaut pee and sweat. Here come the Buddhist funeral robots. Kurosawa on Tarkovsky. An infographic of the far future…

Hackers across America (or what is up with Vermont?) On the candy that powered the first Everest ascent. While we’re here, let’s talk about yetis. The best mysteries are penguin underwater call…

Start you day with some Leonora Carrington statues. Finding Cahokia. What is life but a highwayman beetle? Here’s your midcentury nuclear fallout guide for the week. Call me old fashioned…

Happy eclipse day. We here at DWMC will be back up and running tomorrow morning, but in the meantime spend your morning reading Annie Dillard’s 1982 essay “Total Eclipse.”

Another day another clue about a doomed expedition through the Northwest Passage. Here’s your midcentury New York photography for the day. India wants to bring you the world’s longest river.…

Shocked that this is a question that still needs answering: why should we take down Confederate monuments? Do we pass down trauma in our DNA? Maybe! I will never pass…

Everything is still deeply bad so it’s time to read up on the antisemitism that fuels white nationalism. American Nights. The ethical concerns of immortality (welcome to the future). Quantum…

Toni Morrison on the origins of prejudice. Whose heritage? (I can’t recommend the SPLC guide debunking many of the pro-confederate monument talking points enough). If you live near DC get…

This weekend was bleak, Jelani Cobb has a great rumination on it. On that note, he also discusses if it’s right to call them Nazis or not. Godwin gives you…

Forget atomic war, the real worst thing are frozen pizza spills. Today in not at all surprising news: your Instagram is saying a lot about your mental health. Here’s your…

Just putting this out there: NO ONE should have the sole authority to launch a nuke. At least American chess is great again. The wonderful world of thomassons. On the…

Could we slow the spread of disease by changing how we board planes? Maybe! Here’s your Modernist Middle Eastern architecture Tumblr for the day. Let’s all explore some mid-century hotel…