Morning Coffee

First a PSA: Neil Campau is a genuine hero of the diy music scene. He has been making great music (first as World History now as Electrician) and running the invaluable resource dodiy. Now him and his partner are having…

Kumar Pallana has passed, which makes today a great day to revisit his 2003 Believer interview. 1930s Spanish children’s magazine design. Science proves that 60s cinema was the best. Creatures of Cartography. And now some New Yorker commissioned coin sculptures.

Let me tell you it’s getting harder and harder to not be political on here these days. Don’t you hate it when you accidentally create a two-dimensional quasicrystal? Mapping out a work year’s worth of mouse movement. Moon farms will…

Something we might want to remember at the moment: actually it was budget cuts that killed the great library at Alexandria. Dust devils of Mars (are neat). Perhaps you’d like to look at an 18th Century turned ornament manual. Big…

Leonid Rogozov is your amazing badass of the week. If you like the Mars Rover you’ll love his new snake robot buddy. Mollusc teeth are kinda neat. 11 gateways to hell. Thomas Edison made talking dolls and they were the…

Amidst the shutdown we have got some very bored astronauts. Hey look at these new species (the world is still pretty cool). Someone should probably pick up the billions of dollars they left at the Moscow airport. Today in dolphins…

Now we can map the weather on planets outside our solar system (well, one). “The mummy everyone forgot was real.” Here’s your Harlem Renaissance book design for the day. On the greenbelt towns of the New Deal. Perhaps you have…

Hey what’s with all the animal links Dan? News flash: mole rats are super weird! New flash: octopuses are also super weird! You are eating goo from a beaver’s butt. Behold the fishpond city. Animals turning to stone in a…

The perpetually under construction Sagrada Familia is almost almost done, but you can see what it will look like TODAY. Here are some pointless diagrams for you. Let us now discuss Jim Henson’s proposed nightclub and other 60s oddities. Which…

Hey look, this 10 year old girl just accidentally created a new molecule. Similarly, the earth just accidentally created this island. Perhaps you have wondered how the blind perceive race. What are you doing here, on this island, crab? What…

I usually try and steer clear of politics here, but the New Yorker’s look at the GOP’s suicide caucus is top-notch. We’ve got some big Martian water news for you. Atlas-Obscura wants to talk to you about bloody, sexy ancient…