Morning Coffee

There are, like, so many trees. Pretty awkward how into Hitler’s decor we all used to be. News item: De Brazza monkeys are the best! Welcome to the wild world…

Inside the world of predicting and planning for “the maximums of maximums” disasters. Something else to keep you up at night: giant prehistoric sea scorpions. But don’t worry, TNT sucking…

Why would you want to start your day with a video about rats climbing out of toilets, what’s wrong with you? On top of the official name change, Denali also…

Let’s be honest here, basically all psychology studies are probably bogus. Dolphin intelligence though. Elsewhere in the new to me Guardian archives: Brutalism A-Z. Here’s your 17th Century natural history…

This week in questionable decisions: the brand new showers of Auschwitz. Dark matter is, like, SO complex. Let’s talk about the female spies and gender-bending soldiers that helped win the…

Ever so briefly out of town, Morning Coffee will be back tomorrow!

It’s always a good day to appreciate Bruno Munari. Newly discovered glimpse into the 1893 World’s Fair. Vaguely related: woah check out this arts pavilion that could have existed at…

3D printed fish are here to save the day (the future is so weird). Take a moment to appreciate the ampersand. All of us are liars. Welcome back fuzzy nautilus!…

Photographing Montreal’s metro (is a thing one could do.) Behold the world’s maybe oldest flower! Behold the world’s maybe oldest recovered message in a bottle. We are getting closer and…

Gather round, friends, for the story of the dog saint. It seems very obvious that octopuses are aliens (octopuses are not aliens). Here is a story about some fossilized pterosaur…

Digital ruins: let’s all go explore the abandoned college campuses of Second Life. Passing down trauma genetically (the world is dark and scary). Speaking of dark and scary, for some…

We’re probably too late to this, but we’re still just pretty caught up in Banksy’s Dismaland. Blood testing for suicide. A moment of slow motion praise for the mysterious hummingbird…