Morning Coffee

Welcome to the age of impossible space missions. New railroad lines are great for archaeology. I guess I’ll link to this thing on the future of skate parks too. Photos of history’s greatest failed explorers. Don’t worry, we’re not running…

Moscow is filled with zombie pigeons. Elsewhere in the former USSR: the decaying tramways of Chiatura, Georgia (are neat). Young Proust visits a brothel. We are living in a world where Dentist’s can try and clone John Lennon (they will…

Today in animals being amazing: birds understand speed limits. Coffee is bad for you again (if you are under 55) (I guess). Fill the Silence is your Tumblr of the whatever. Let’s all take a vacation in a secret hidden…

Oh hey, Area 51 is a for real (not terribly alien-infested) place. As a bad movie connoisseur it’s pretty great hearing Jerry Lewis talk about “The Day the Clown Cried”. Isabella Rozendaal takes pictures of modern hunting culture. Perhaps you…

Welcome to the working week, here are two timelines of slang for genitals. Important news update: San Miguel Island is pretty neat. 1920s Australian criminals were very dapper. Everyone loves naked mole rats. Maybe you’d like to see some paintings…

Why hello there new adorable mammal. Let’s all check out some of the new UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Moving sidewalks are (yesterday’s) the future! A brief history of “hello”. Here are some great spiders for you.

Head is in outer space today. NPR pines (and sees reason to maybe hope) for real big alien life. On the other hand, it turns out the Milky Way is in pretty fit shape. X-rays of space suits. I don’t…

It brings me so much pleasure knowing there is an impassioned debate in the scientific community about what jumping into a black hole would do to you. The time has come for a roofie detecting straw. Chinese copy towns continue…

It is very important to remember to put elevators in your skyscrapers. You guys, I’m so excited about the Hyperloop. The solar bell is neat too. Now let us discuss bee colors of North America. The time has come to…

I’m back. This one goes out to my Chicago reader. Good news everyone! Our kid’s are getting slightly less fat! This week in dolphins being the best: they can remember their tankmate’s whistles from 20 years earlier. This week in…

Dan Weiss is on tour with his band through August 10, but fear not: We’ll still be serving up your morning coffee. This might make you look at the cracks in the wall a little closer But there’s no way you could miss…

Dan Weiss is on tour with his band through August 10, but fear not: We’ll still be serving up your morning coffee. A picture is worth a thousand words but this site will turn your words into pictures. And there may be no…