Morning Coffee

Remember that time Canada accidentally bombed Washington? We are all very literally singing like birds. The strange beauty of electrical discharges. Meanwhile, in David Attenborough news. The days of anti-love drugs are getting disturbingly close.

Welcome the world, Ice XVI. Welcome to the known world, strange ancient arctic mollusk. Meanwhile, in manta ray busting news. Actually water probably DIDN’T come from comets. The Parable of the Polygons (is pretty fascinating).

There are moon trees among us. It’s mind blowing to think that it’s time to consider the best possible Mars landing sites. Very soon you’ll be able to watch the first ever British sci-fi film. Also: very soon you may…

Let’s just get one thing straight, NO ONE needs steam-punk themed luxury condos. Incidentally: artificial leaches and other failed Victorian inventions. Let’s all take a trip through PT Anderson’s San Fernando Valley. Endre Neme (is pretty great). It’s way harder…

Albert Einstein tells Marie Curie to ignore the haters. This just in: sea caves are neat. Walter Pichler’s wearable architecture. Crabs understand the importance of not dancing in time. And now an ancient map of Fairyland.

Breaking: the NSA are big nerds who used to write communist fan fiction. Breaking: electric eels are nuts! It’s time to count a jar of coins on the internet for science. A geologic map of the moon. On a related…

Here is a story about some stolen brains in Texas. And here is a photo-essay about them. Thanks ants for keeping New York streets hotdog free. Thants. I almost forgot to talk about this angler fish! Hello there, unpublished Raymond…

You most certainly need a sonic guide to afrofuturism in your life. Photographing London’s lost female subcultures. Elsewhere missing: New York’s lost museums. Obviously reading fiction makes you a better person. And now the 1960s house of the future.

Hello there, eight new spiders. It’s almost 2015, where’s my floating French super city? Here’s your psych ward ruin porn for the week. Plankton! Are neat! And now, accidental deaths in Tudor England.

I’m back! For real! NASA’s abandoned launch pads. (Seriously internet, am I that predictable?) This NY Times article on the significance of passwords is pretty great! Seriously everyone, bullying is just incomprehensibly awful. Here’s your Norwegian grass-based art for the…

will really return next Monday. I can’t begin to say how thankful I am for all of you who’ve been reading this dang thing for so long and for the whole Rumpus community. See you soon.

Will return on Tuesday as we prepare to move back across this fine country of ours. In the meantime here’s a short article about Gorbachev the Twin Peaks fanatic.