Morning Coffee

Very 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?

Let’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…

I 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…

The 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…

I 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…

We’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…

After 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.…

Sometimes 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…

Darran 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.

The 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.

Will 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…

What 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…