Morning Coffee

Also Soviet fashion spies. Here come the genetically supersized  fruits and vegetables. Antarctica by drone (I sure wish we had a different word for the cool nature film getting drones). Let’s all enjoy Buckminster Fuller’s FBI file. Atlas Obscura has…

Important news: if there are aliens they (maybe) are probably (the size of) bears. On the ocean’s tiniest life. I’d find Silicon Valley a whole lot more charming if it was still home to Dog City. Let’s all look at…

Is taking the long weekend. Have a good Memorial Day. Be good to each other. We’ll be back Tuesday.

Great moments in faking your own death. Archaeology can ALSO be improved with lasers. Growing up a child test subject. The etymological mystery behind “The Holocaust”. I think you deserve some baby red pandas now.

Important news to start your day: you’re pooping wrong. Here’s some Japanese falconry woodblocks for you. The birds are all screaming at everyone. Hey look at this giant siphonophone. Can we all agree that the early days of brain surgery…

Sometimes your best defense is gay propaganda. Purring wolf spiders. Literally the James Bond of rodents has been discovered. All the 20th Century pictorial maps you could hope for. Now let us remember the ghost army of WWII.

Welcome to the age of archaeologist robots. As long as we’re out here, let’s talk about what we really need to colonize other planets. Reconsidering Joseph Heller’s OTHER book. So, like, what’s the deal with highways huh? From Soviet secret…

Welcome to the gross world of wood frog mating. Hello warm blooded fish! In the end we’d all rather not be punished than be rewarded. Understanding leprosy through ancient skeletons (is a thing you could do). Maps as 20th century…

Big news in the bigfoot conspiracy theory world. Big news in the shaking robots hands world. Real talk: what are we going to do about this drought? Is it just me or are we finding more and more rare shipwrecks…

It’s pretty great/terrifying that scientists are still trying to reverse engineer a dinosaur. On the rise of “mama“. Your DNA changes with the seasons. (life is amazing!) I don’t normally link to things like this, but I’m super fascinated by…

Journey to the (literal) center of the country. The question of the morning is: can zebras be domesticated? Now you too can write like Einstein (for the record there’s a mistake in the subheader here that made me laugh). Very…

It’s important for my sake that you realize beards are probably NOT filled with poop. John Quincy Adams, hollow Earther. What’s up with purring though? That time a microwave baffled astronomers for two decades. Let’s all watch the sun set…