Morning Coffee

Beauty amid chaos: picturing Syria through Instagram. And you may ask yourself what happens when you peel off 30 years of graffiti. Honey in the Anthropocene. On the poverty just outside Silicon…

Jon Ronson on the recent outbreak of questionable San Francisco fires is exactly what I didn’t know I was waiting for. News you can use: mountain lions don’t like Limbaugh…

First things first, if you haven’t yet you should read Obama’s response to the repeal bill. Literally impossible to get enough of diver fish friendships. So what animal will kill…

At least the world is filled with Siberian mammoth tuskers. Why aren’t we all flirting with pneumatic tubes? Sometimes you find a very old sword in a bog you know?…

I didn’t realize I was waiting for Zadie Smith’s thoughts on Get Out, and yet here we are. Let’s all spend our day listening to the eerie music that plays…

But, like, what if there’s nothing left to discover? Oh but here’s a lost ancient Ethiopian city. Jack MacKenzie was the oldest person to ski to the North Pole. Spend…

Start your week with some nice pictures of library interiors. Now let’s talk about how climate change is pushing tropical diseases toward the Arctic. Why doesn’t Google know my dad…

Look I don’t want to terrify anyone, but AI is making up its own non-human languages for no apparent reason. Imagining President Pence (ugh). Much more pleasant: Japanese water towers…

Technical problems are keeping us down today, we here at DWMC are working to get it all straightened out but in the meantime take solace in that fact that soon…

It’s official: the Hillary step is no more. Photographing the kneeling shops of Bulgaria. You know what’s wild? Dubai is wild. On the architecture of Superman. Hey look at this…

Here’s your Tehran signage Instagram account for the day. Whoops, we almost made the Japanese badger extinct. The world is filled with terrifying political malware. Is your fear of flying…

This breaks a lot of personal rules for the kinds of things I link to but the world must know: Russian hackers were hanging out on Britney Spears’s Instagram page.…