Morning Coffee

In honor of the birth/death of our country we’ll be taking the week off! See you bright and early next week!

Honestly at this point we should just let the crows take over. Congratulations on setting new records for the coldest AND hottest temperatures on earth, 2018. I guess we’re in…

Everyone is wrong about everyone (and no one knows how many gay people there are.) Bumblebees love cities too. When a Mars simulation goes wrong. On the neuroscience of pain.…

A few days late but you should still read Jelani Cobb on Juneteenth and the detention of children. Let’s all visit the world’s smallest desert. Messing with the census is…

Want to fix the opioid crisis? Don’t ban needle exchanges! Today in words that never should have been said: “At least during the internment…” Photographing Stalin’s Road Road. Great, now…

On the essential cruelty of prison architecture. What is life but a spite building? Our ocean floor is littered with weapons of war (and the fish are figuring out how…

No more words today but please, if you can, do something.

Things are very very bad, extremely bad, here are some ways you can help. What is life but a never built utopia? Here’s your secret volcano rainforest for the day.…

In the midst of so much awful, some actual progress: Google translate can no longer offer consent. People are finally realizing that Coco is the best possible movie for right…

We are making all animals nocturnal, so that’s cool! Time to listen to some narwhals everybody. Very old frogs. I live for California novelty architecture. 30 years of photographing 36…

I was feeling upset that my city didn’t elect the most progressive democrat mayor, and then I read we are literally building concentration camps and, well, sometimes perspective is necessary.…

Maybe the giant baobab trees dying will wake us up? (Spoiler alert: it won’t.) Elsewhere: watching the extinction of the vaquita. And you may ask yourself, what if the land and…