Morning Coffee

Maybe honeybees feel? So now you’ve got THAT to worry about. Perhaps you’ve wondered: hey who brought science fiction magazines to America? Perhaps you’ve wondered: hey what’s up with RC Cola? Our lab mice are, like, SO cold. American money…

Finally answering the important questions: how are you even supposed to say 2016? The rise of the pirate library. Here’s your retro, white-privilege explaining board game for the day. Very important young dinosaur news. The world needs more Soviet river…

Who doesn’t love a good street dog? Long lost color footage of David Attenborough’s first voyage (thanks great cool wonderful). Here’s your death defying Victorian balloonists story for the day. We all owe a deep gratitude to the World Instant…

If anyone needs me I’ll be looking through historical pictorial maps. Today in ants being amazing: ant life rafts! A little ruin porn for your Wednesday morning. Dinosaurs were probably already on their way out. Now let’s all hear it…

Great moments in librarians. Photographing wild Chernobyl (is a cool thing to do). Contrarian watch: are people really that much smarter than apes? Your coins are filthy, and that is beautiful. Your oceans are filled with plastic and it’s horrible…

Literally an entire new (to our eyes) galaxy. How an architect became the best bank robber New York has ever known. You’ve been loving that escaped octopus news, now let’s consider the thrilling ethical questions! The Czech Republic is going…

Beverly Cleary at 100. Finding exciting new things to be terrified of every day: severely deficient autobiographical memory. I bet some of you would like to know about the holy weed nuns. Barber shop clubhouses of South Africa (are also…

Have you heard “the Hum“? Behold the new tree of life! The Nakagin Capsule Tower is the actual greatest. The abandoned domes of Casa Grande are pretty neat too though. Map sea monsters are forever.

Some days you just want to look at transit maps. Let’s all call a random Swede! There are (genetic) super heroes among us, we just can’t ever tell them. A bit of good news at last: tigers are rebounding. The…

In the end aren’t we all just a small ray riding a larger ray? Heads up y’all, we’re going to talk about cyberpunk now. “What I Learned From Tickling Apes.” The future happened 56 million years agoand things look bleak.…

We’ll be off tomorrow, see you all on Monday! Everyone wants to see illegal photos from North Korea, admit it. When I die I want to be buried in a luxury tomb in Manila. The viviparous quadrupeds of North America…

Counterpoint: Aaron Burr was pretty cool. Actual brand new state of matter. We all love a good crooked house. What about utopian architecture though? And for that matter, what was up with human sacrifice?