Morning Coffee

Hey remember that time we almost blew up the world over a solar flare? “Fun” fact: the site of Trump’s call to assassinate Hillary yesterday was also home to a white supremacist coup. What a time to be alive! Totalitarian architecture…

Brazil’s fading love hotels is my favorite thing today. What happened to Babylon? Congratulations everybody! We ran through our resources even earlier this year! Speaking of things being awful: photographing Syria before and after. Not everything’s bad though, it looks…

Here’s your Monday morning photocrome. Flossing (maybe) doesn’t do anything WAKE UP SHEEPLE! Exhaustion as status symbol. The crows are way too smart and are coming to get us WAKE UP SHEEPLE! Fun news everybody, global warming is about to…

It’s Friday, so let’s start off with a trip through the history of tiki bars. Architecture in the age of mass shootings (everything is horrible). Don’t worry though, the universe is becoming more hospitable. What the Olympics leave behind. The…

Australia isn’t (quite) where you think it is, and that’s going to throw everything off. Niels Helmink’s Shopkeepers is your photo series for the day. As a West Coast child I dream of the golden days of midwestern firefly hunting.…

Not ready to leave the conventions behind, let’s compare the state roll call brags. Wait,why are all the corpse flowers blooming now? I’m going to miss the lil slimers but it’s probably time to stop breeding bulldogs. Vikings were buried…

It’s hard to explain just how much time I spend thinking about hoisin sauce. Today is super cool fun news: climate change is literally unleashing anthrax now. Meanwhile, studying forgotten photographs to chart Iceland’s melting glaciers. Indian street graphics are…

Don’t forget to watch the corpse flower bloom today. Germs! The New Towns of Seoul. The 70s towns of England. Light pollution is everywhere.

As long as we’re leaking stuff, wanna read the CIA’s file on the former leftist Prime Minister of Australia? What is life but a museum of shit? The unfinished buildings of Albania (are neat to look at). Why can’t you…

Here’s your horrifying thought for the day to start off the morning: Mass killings seem to have created a contagion that’s perpetuating itself. Let’s change gears entirely and go inside the Met swimsuit collection. Maybe you want to know about…

Ancient bottom wiper is your phrase of the day. Evolution is happening faster than we’d thought. Also: an evolutionary history of menstruation. We even hallucinate differently. Cute studies is the best kind of study.

Don’t worry, here’s a story about baby ducks to start your week on a nicer note. What’s a guy got to do to live in a Rougerie structure? Today in creepy imperialism: enjoy this 1920s brochure to Colonial East Africa.…