Morning Coffee

I’m hitting the road until August 3rd; you’ll be in good hands while I’m gone I promise. If you live somewhere where I’m coming through, come out and say hi…

So many dang dark matter galaxies! Here are some fish teeth to haunt your nightmares. Poop mysteries and your genetic rights. Look at this weird fossil worm! Great, now the…

Here’s that space age Polish kid’s book you were asking about. News item: apparently some people collect old sugar cubes. Beware the vampire squid. Yeah, sure, I guess I’d like…

Beware the dangers of virtual reality. Some people can’t picture anything. What make water wet? (Like, woah dude.) On the relentless symmetry of jellyfish. The Berlin Wall is everywhere, man.

So, why do you think you hate the word moist so much? No, you can’t live in space yet. Did Vesta eat its moons? (I hope so.) Sara Jane Moore…

It’s a Friday and there’s so much to be angry about so let’s just have a linguist analyze the pop punk accent. We can (probably) go to mars without killing…

Everything seems pretty awful lately but at least there are wild black bears in Indiana again. Old African movie theaters are also pretty neat. Here are those 18th Century architectural…

New York’s rooftop airport dreams. Life is also crazy at the single cell level. My new goal is to become a dinosaur philosopher. All the organic chemistry lab photos you…

Hey look at this adorable new dinosaur! Postcards as horrifying propaganda of colonial pasts. What do we find when the reservoirs dry up? (spoiler alert: some neat stuff and also…

Global warming is making polar bears eat dolphins (the world is dark). Meanwhile, here’s what 2100 is going to look like. A brief history of Little Golden Books. A brief…