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Dan Weiss
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
And now 2012 in microscope images and camera-trap pictures. Popular Mechanics predicts the future! In the here and now though, we have some very important hamburger technology innovation. Here is a picture of some butterflies drinking a turtle’s tears.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Architizer has your year in buildings. New York as linguistic graveyard. Not entirely dissimilar, The NY Times has a sweet slideshow of 80s subway graffiti. Perhaps you have wondered what age people are their least happy. The future of music…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The best typos, mistakes, and corrections of 2012. We’ve entered the time of year where it’s increasingly impossible not to link to year-end lists… It’s pretty cool to re-discover a 100 year old Antarctic camp site. Self-bestowed titles of the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all start the day with a river system on Titan. Important news update: snow is pretty. Everyone loves abandoned high school photos. And now a French kid’s book from the 1920s. The short version is that ketamine will make…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
In case you wondering, here is NASA’s official 2012 disclaimer. Today’s awesomest thing: MIT’s transforming robot. The golden age of the bicycle vs the great bicycle menace. Elements of Color is your midcentury design porn for the week. And now…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Science is awesome! Now we can convert urine into brain cells. Behold the Obamadon. It is pretty crazy that there are still 10 living daughters of Union Army Civil War vets. 70’s Polish children’s books are pretty great. Even the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I imagine you’d like to read Margaret Atwood’s thoughts on the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring. Slate loves space colony art too! Yes, but do they love Eastern European space age children’s books? I apologize for this brief venture into…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s true! Rich people will be able to walk on the moon pretty soon. It is important sometimes to celebrate the awful parts of London. Behold the snowflake! Children’s games and toys stripped of colors are pretty fascinating. And now,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Georgian kindergartens are cooler than yours. Incidentally, every day is a good day to revisit crazy Soviet architecture. Old plant anatomy charts (are neat). James Cameron presents: giant crustaceans and maybe an Alzheimers cure. And now all the vintage toy…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Chillin’ out on the magnetic highway. Today in vintage illustration porn: WPA literacy posters and old kid’s stamps. Old timey explorer disputes are the best disputes. Curiosity is getting a new brother (eventually).
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
People sure are talking a lot about maybe going back to the moon. Dante’s monsters and mythical beasts. On genetic accidents and the origin of intelligence. Superfecundation is pretty nuts. And now some lovely mid-century technical children’s books.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Bad Kids Jokes is the best thing that happened to me this weekend. Perhaps you’d like to see one of Kurt Vonnegut’s writing prompts? It is terrifying when wax museums burn down. Constantly discovering ancient shipwrecks make civic improvements difficult.…