Morning Coffee

Look, there’s a million reasons I shouldn’t link to this, but it’s Monday and I’m not made out of stone so here are some quokka selfies. Why yes there was a Strategic Defense Initiative video game. Celebrating African modernist architecture.…

Let’s get this out of the way: io9’ll explain how that dang colored dress things works. Maybe what we need is a water pipeline from Alaska? (spoiler alert: probably not.) The world is still full of magic: Mongolian reindeer riders.…

Today in impossible black holes: hey check out this impossible black hole! Maybe we’ll be ready for full body transplants in two years. Maybe a lot of things. Let people go crazy in Antarctica before they go crazy on Mars!…

Behold the world’s oldest cheese. On a similar note: Atlas Obscura looks at the world’s oldest still operating companies (spoiler alert: they are mainly in the Japan). Darwin would put basically anything in his mouth. On the mathematics of snow…

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Get to know Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. On Bolvia’s spaceship architecture (this is great but it would be better if it was literal). Way to even be Antarctic fish. Enter the world of medieval crime reports. Neanderthals…

I can’t believe I missed this dragon dinosaur news, truly I have failed you. Pity the city robin. We have entered the age of space parking. Limpet teeth are like, SO strong. There is a definite chance that we are…

Let’s hear it for the Portuguese man o’ war. The strange tale of Marble Hill, Manhattan. Here is that Romanian Wizard of Oz illustration you asked for. Life-saving spider cunnilingus. The thing is, I LOVE presidential libraries.

Some design porn from the dying days of the Soviet Bloc. Elsewhere in the Cold War: remember that time we almost started a war because of a simulation? You have no idea how important your mom’s germs were. But, like, why…

If you live in the bay area, you should spend your Valentine’s Day at the Museum of Broken Relationships. Who needs blood diamonds when you can have peanut butter ones? China’s unfinished Manhattan replica is a lonely place. Elsewhere in…

Time to take a trip inside the world of CIA psychological profiles of dictators and world leaders. Hospital robots hurray! Hospital robots boo! Also here come the AI poets. It’s always a good day to talk about Emperor Norton. Very…

Darwinian doodles. The last of the clamshell gas stations. Let’s all watch some people destroy New York buildings in the 50s. More about vintage rolling pins than you probably thought you’d read today. Before 1948, LA’s power grid was incompatible…