Morning Coffee

Start your week right with Japanese funicular trains. We’re probably totally wrong about when farming started. Fill your nightmares with visions of prehistoric anus-eyed creatures. All my favorite scientific breakthroughs involve the phrase shrinking bat. In praise of the Automat.

This feels like a good time to talk about trans soldiers of the Civil War. Sweet sweet slime music. Important armored dinosaur news! On the architecture of sports. I bet you were looking for an oral history of the Darpa…

Start your day weeping at Patti’s Smith’s words for her buddy Sam Shepard. Now cheer up with some talk about the co-evolution of humans and dogs. Modernist brickwork of the world. Gross horror show over Niagara Falls. Mapping the psychological…

Travel back in time to the scientific advances of the great eclipse of 1919. What’s the point of Sci-fi if it can’t help your with you business am I right? Doorways of India (are nice). Here’s your computer written alphabetized…

Wake up and think about Emperor Norton. You wouldn’t think North Dakota would be leading the way in prison reform, yet here we are. The important questions: who invented the high five? One step closer to interstellar travel. Crows are,…

Give a moment, here at the start of your day, to remembering the great June Foray. Hypnotized by the Hyperloop. Sometimes you just want to look at brick walls of Chicago. Amazon is ready to store your things underwater I…

I mean who DOESN’T love a brain in a jar? Maybe decreasing sperm counts is what will finally doom us? We could all stand to learn a thing or two from maggots (like what a good way for a robot…

Take a moment of your day to remember the dearly departed Microsoft Paint. Future cities rising from the past. Here come the self-driving ships. Don’t worry, ticks are doing GREAT. Today in cultural imperialism: Chinese families and their possessions.

Today in Everything is Fine: so, CAN the president be indited? Masses of beautiful alabaster, on the poetry of icebergs. And you may ask yourself: how do the cities of Europe and North America line up latitude wise? Let’s all…

Everything is bad but at least we’re living in a golden age for microbiology. Droning your way across Hong Kong’s vertical architecture. But are video drones just creating aerial imperialism? Hard to be snide about wearable technology that gives sight…

Giants of Modernist Architecture arena tour 2017. Important dog origin news. Still more giant squid news while we’re at it. What is life but a Florida firefighter’s Instagram? The best mysteries are cheese theft mysteries.

Look at this dang peacock mantis shrimp. So you’ve been struck by lightning. There are so many giant squids off the coast of Ireland (apparently). Protecting Constructivist Ukraine. Sup with Mars’s asteroids huh?