Morning Coffee

I guess sending bonsai trees into space is a thing we could do. For the last nearly 20 years legos have been washing up in Cornwall. How about some 17th Century German natural history illustration? Behold the first known exo-planet…

Start your week with some punk rock NYC. A brief history of homes built from spite. Ukrainian sci-fi writers have been predicting all this for years. The race for space (beers). I sure would like to go hang out in…

Late 60’s Soviet space children’s book? yes thx. Very important dinosaur flight news. Can we drink the water on Mars? (spoiler alert: no) It’s the time of year for Japanese goldfish based art. Books on book covers.

George Kourounis was the first person to ever explore inside “the door to hell.” Desert Realty (is pretty great). Our bears and gorillas are all hooked on Prozac. 50 Watts takes you on a Journey to the West.

Great news: the entire library of the HMS Beagle is now online. Amphibians have been swimming the same way for 270 million years (showoffs). Technologies of heartbreak is real important I think. Animals as 3D printers (this is the wrong…

Behold the new blackest of the black. Did we just find an 8,00 year old piece of brain? Did we just find a 200 year old bottle of seltzer water (this is much less impressive)? New York used to be…

The lives of human real estate props. So, uh, huh: maybe smelling farts is good for you? (maybe a lot of things.) The extinct animals of the world are stuffed and waiting in Paris. Hey kids, it’s the Skycar! Don’t…

Climate change is probably giving you more kidney stones. Look, we all love Jacques Cousteau. Yesterday was Tesla’s birthday, Atlas Obscura has your Tesla tour all mapped out for you. Whales are the most important. The guinea worm is almost…

Underground Australian cities are the new thing. Chinese folk kites are pretty neat too. We have entered the age of scanning baby mammoths and I couldn’t be more excited. Giant flying things (are just the worst). Now let’s all watch…

1920s Avant-garde Soviet Fashion? Yes thanks. Oh whoops, we found some more small pox (in vials). The confederate helicopters that almost were. Very large books. Galileo gives history the bird.  

Atlas Obscura brings you the very best in abandoned things. One of the last uncontacted tribes is no longer that. Let’s all celebrate a century of the fridge! Perhaps it’s time to redesign the parking sign.

Look, obviously you want jeans designed by a tiger or bear. Sometimes I need to link to things like the history of the Calvin peeing on things decal. Important news: the Soviet “lightning machine” is pretty neat! Revising the timeline…