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 of academic leisure studies. Hopefully this virtual tour of 1960s…

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 plants are here to save us all. Give a moment…

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 shrunk. I know this is everywhere, but I’m just so…

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 illustration for the day. Why have we done this to…

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 Civil War. Soo Kim’s reconstructed cityscapes (are cool). There sure…

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 1970 Osaka Exposition. Important public urinal news. And now a…

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! Stephen Hawking has some new things to tell you about…

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 closer to a universal flu vaccine. And now some lonely…

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 poop. Illuminated appreciate albums of the 1890s. Very important Hungarian…

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 reason there are tons of dead whales washing ashore in…

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 tongue. The Evolution of Woman, 1896. We’ll leave you for…