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Dan Weiss
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sup with you, red elephants? This week in meat based Americana art… The Japanese word for unread books and other untranslatable words. On dragons, pterosaurs, and 17th Century fakes. Meanwhile, elsewhere on New Scientist: monkey midwives!
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The Codex Seraphinianus is a good way to start any day. Hey, all mammals, meet your great-great-great-great-great-great-etc grand-rat-thing. This dang tick wants you to stop eating meat I guess. ROCKET CAT! And now some midcentury science book design porn.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very important news: now there is a monopoly cat. Our new closest best chance for life is 13 light years away. Why wouldn’t you want to look at pictures of the first mobile Antarctica research station? Technology is pretty neat…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
There is a chance I’ve linked to this before, but I don’t care because the Tetrahedra of Space is my favorite thing I’ve seen today. Here come the 3D printed stem cells (this is huge by the way). Behold the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all discuss the sharksucker fish’s sucking disc, because what else are you going to do this morning? Oh, there you are Richard III. The Shackleton recreation seems to be going pretty well. This is what a solar flare sounds…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If you haven’t yet, I’d highly encourage you to start your day with Michael Chabon’s essay on Wes Anderson. Perhaps you’d like to see the view from the top of the London Shard. IO9 on the noblest plant. Are we…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Life’s greatest mystery revealed: sup with owl necks? If you are need of some medieval torture equipment this is your lucky weekend. The harshest rejection is Satan’s rejection. Maybe the craziest thing I’ve read this week: science has created a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I bet you already read about the Russian family cut-off from the world for 40 years, but did you read about the 23 year long game of tag? Let’s keep things literary with 200 years of Pride and Prejudice (covers).…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Bad news internet, cats are the worst. I bet you could use some 19th century space cartography. The Art of Swimming is pretty neat too! Your molar roots are hella old dawg. Gangs used to be a lot cooler (and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Fare thee well gentle guinea worm. Important space news: supernova remnants are rad. Behold the Thomas Friedman Op-Ed Generator. WTF Evolution is your Tumblr of the day. And now let us geometrically chart human consciousness (in the 19th century).
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Important question: what do astronauts eat? Furthermore, what do they listen to to pump them up in the morning? As long as we are talking about space, the weather on mars is bad ass and terrifying. And what of the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
And you may ask yourself, what do birds know about fractal geometry? And you may ask yourself, what do dung beetles understand about the Milky Way? And you may say to yourself, oh good maybe there is a future for…