Morning Coffee

Spend a bit of time exploring Fivethirtyeight’s Gerrymandering Project. Fare thee well, high school locker. Fare thee well, cheese-rolling competition. What is life but a Victorian hair shrine? Mosquitoes are learning every time you swat them.

If you didn’t do it yesterday, start your day today by reading Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. Meanwhile: never forget that Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K Dick went to high school together. Here is…

Everything about the Government is broken but hey at the least the Capital Subway is neat! We all love a Borscht Belt resort (abandoned or not). Digitizing the New York Quilt Project. On our ever-shifting and renamed airport runways. Why…

Welcome to the age of weekly Elena Ferante columns. A short history of seafaring pets. Where have all the saigas gone (they have all died and it’s very upsetting)? Here are your Russian “Welcome To” signs for the day. All…

People don’t understand what their state’s ugliest building is (for the most part). Why the world only has two words for tea. Let’s just enjoy some chameleon biofluorescence and pretend like the world isn’t falling apart. Einstein’s refrigerator. Here is…

You know what’s terrifying? The way anesthesia works on your brain! Welcome to the luxury biosphere. Recycling Alaska’s roadkill (very gross). Super-black is IN. Where did all the tail weapons go?

What’s up with the rise of tiny political books? Spare a moment of your day to remembering social architecture pioneer Neave Brown. Great work everyone! We finally know why people are left or right handed! Staging Octavia Butler in Abu…

Everything is still very bad! Let’s all take a trip inside the terrifying world of New York’s private garbage collectors. Maybe we can geo-engineer our way out of this mess? Rescuing photos from Beijing recycling plants (is a fun thing…

A brief history of the airport chapel. What is life but an accidental Rothko? Bring back the burrowing bat. Guess it’s time to talk about the rise of doggo. What to draw and how to draw it.

If you missed it when it aired, this seems like a great week to listen to the Making Oprah podcast. Very important growing astronaut news. The color of 2018 is Ultra Violet. Why do we need to sleep anyway? I…

Start your Tuesday right, by thinking about how we’ve intentionally racially gerrymandered our school districts. Scientists have figured out how to find the lost branches of the tree of life even faster! Way to go! The Hyperloop is one step…

At least cancer deaths are on the decline! How Ukraine became Russia’s test ground for cyberwar. What is life but a doomed mouse utopia? Highways to nowhere. Guess it’s time to go see the world’s largest picture frame!