The election really did make you spend less time with family. Here are your 2018 California Academy of Science Big Picture winners to get you through. The new AP Stylebook is here and emoji are plural now I guess! Important news: waves are neat. Why elevator music?
...moreGlory be thy pineapple. Welcome to the age of robot dog funeral services. Very important stick bug/bird poop news. Here are your Japanese air conditioners for the day. We all live in Transnistria now.
...moreEverything is still very very terrible but maybe you just want to look at hooved animals in water? Jelani Cobb on Starbucks and the issue of white space. Maybe the world needs pee beds? The important questions: why are Medieval lions so bad? Here’s your French early 90s neo-futuristic architecture for the day.
...moreSo this is how the world ends, with a parrot operating Alexa. So you want to name an animal in German. Thrones! What is life but a Chinese trinket town? Here are your French roundabouts for the day.
...moreSummer is almost here, we’re another year older, and we here at DWMC are taking a long weekend. We’ll be back bright and early Tuesday morning. Be good to each other.
...moreStart your day with some good old-fashioned Jordan Peterson debunking. And you may ask yourself, what did ninjas eat? On the lost history of the women of Bauhaus. Very anti-social marmosets. Here’s your Pachinko arcade neon for the day.
...moreLet’s all take a deep dive into the epic scam that was Theranos. Guess we’re all living in drain pipes now. What is life but an underground Everest? On the architectural excess of data storage (this is the world we live in). Hurray for NASA’s wind tunnels!
...moreI don’t want to alarm anyone but we are getting closer and closer to proving the existence of the ghost planet. Let’s all go inside Nigeria’s hyperrealist art scene. Please stop blowing up garbage trucks (by throwing away cell phone batteries). Welcome to the age of Genealogy murder mystery busting. Sometimes you just want to […]
...moreVery important news: hippos poop so much that sometimes it kills all the fish. Maybe Artificial Intelligence can help us find Aliens? Understanding winter in Antarctica. A slow-moving terrestrial sea. Photographing life under overpasses.
...morePicturing the gas masks of Gaza (this should make you uncomfortable; things are not okay). In significantly and awkwardly more frivolous news: The true history of Yanny and Laurel. Lost pages of Anne Frank’s diary found! How Spain’s powerplants became works of art. NYRB on Wakanda Forever.
...moreEverything is still very very bad, what do we do? Eureka is full of icey surprises. Does our shifting orbit effect evolution? Probably! Silicon Valley is making the world very boring. Meanwhile: inside China’s first robot bank. Important baleen whale evolution news.
...moreDon’t get too excited about Pluto becoming a planet again. Yes, your healing crystals are very bad, too. Let’s go inside the chicken church! Technology is changing how we use “useless” space. How to live one hour past the end of the world.
...moreIt is time to acknowledge that we are still living in the age of the dinosaurs. We have seriously had Hep B for SO LONG. The ultimate contraband is a North Korean pizza vid. Wombat sex. Here’s your Soviet children’s book for the day.
...moreFirmly anti-Uber, but dang am I ready for an air taxi. Look at these terrifying, weird deep-sea creatures! Sofas of LA. Facebook is just bumming everybody out these days. Reading American history through our handkerchiefs.
...moreImportant reminder: David Foster Wallace was a garbage person. Ta-Nehesi Coates on Kanye is the only Kanye think piece you need I promise. Please stop demolishing modernism. No thanks bobbit worm! JK! There aren’t any secret chambers behind King Tut’s tomb.
...moreThe worst spreadable disease is vaccine refusal. Space allergies. You know who’s great? Fred Moten is great! Hacking your way out of a valedictorian. Guess it’s time for Cat’s Cradle IRL.
...moreHappy Friday! Let’s talk about the past, present, and future of Chernobyl architecture. Welcome to the age of drone crime. Today in now I have this to worry about: Lightning struck her home. Then her brain implant stopped working. Inside the West Virginia quiet zone. Important sea nomad evolution news.
...moreActually very huge gig economy labor law news. Say goodbye to the world’s oldest spider. SUGAR. Cities from the sea (the world is scary). The dying scientist’s rogue vaccine trial.
...moreVery important wildlife photography scandal news. Fun with Soviet spy maps. What is life but a constantly erupting geyser? 100 year old houses of Hungary (are nice). Sometimes a spider just wants to get eaten you know?
...moreLet’s put aside our troubles and disagreements and watch Rodrigo Koxa surf the world’s largest wave ever surfed. Perhaps you’d like a socialist case for space exploration? On Transylvania and other states that could have been. Here are your DDR drink labels for the day. Don’t be afraid of the multiverse.
...moreI can’t stop reading about the Golden State Killer; it turns out it was all genealogy that solved the case! Alternatively, maybe you’d like some dodo bird true crime. Hey look! Zaha Hadid’s only house is finally done! Let’s all look at Japan’s new sea walls. Spending your weekend with the world’s lesser-known giant statues.
...moreThe National Memorial for Peace and Justice is now open. What’s wrong with growing globs of brain anyway? Here are your Japanese winter playgrounds for the day. Can’t believe fatbergs aren’t totally chill and great. What do you do when science just disappears?
...moreI hope you’re all ready to be interviewed by racist bots. Elsewhere in the dystopia: life on the polluted coasts of Cambodia. The rise of the cupholder. And you may ask yourself “which animal kills the most people?” Barranquilla’s technicolored sound system culture, on the other hand, is very good.
...moreWe’re back! We saw 21 Alligators! Wow! San Francisco’s skyscrapers are even more terrifying than you thought! No one knows what’s going on in China’s air! Everyone’s password is dragon. Infrared North Korea. Here are your Indian wedding chariots for the day. Please, be kind to animals.
...moreAfter this post we here at DWMC are taking off on a vacation; we’ll be back on Monday, April 23! All hail the sweet potato, colonizer of worlds. Let’s just let AI do our neuroscience for us. Ottoman bird palaces. Enter the lava dome (or just photograph it from afar, whatever). Looking for Frankenstein.
...moreSometimes it seems like we know everything and then sometimes we find out that puffin beaks are fluorescent. Volcanos of Io. Milk bars of Melbourne. Hey look! Ocean beach is leading the way in preparing for sea level rise. The randomest of random number generators.
...moreDarran Anderson on the late great Isao Takahata. Salt! What is life but an empty Japanese telephone booth? Sounds like a dare to me. Now let’s listen to some rhubarb.
...moreThe ice is melting but at least Antarctica is getting snowier. Today in cultural tourism/voyeurism: Cuban movie theaters and Korean schoolyards. Medieval churches will save the (wireless internet) world. Here is your Ottoman fashion for the day.
...moreWill we survive the era of fake video? The benevolent voyeur. Maybe Patagonia can save us? (Probably not but thanks for trying!) How do you count endangered species? Get the astronomers to help! Let us now appreciate the beauty of forest thaw circles.
...moreWhat is life but a designer mobile office? The FBI and the mystery of the mummy’s head. Asking the important questions: do you weigh more at the poles or at the equator? What’s up with Neanderthal faces? If you need me I’ll be looking up photos of Dubai under construction.
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