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Dan Weiss
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey look, it’s my birthday! Maybe you feel like donating to my band’s new kickstarter campaign? I’m sorry, I won’t mention it again. Deserted shopping malls are the ancient ruins of the future. Delightful surrealist Japanese sci-fi art (you are…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I can’t believe it took me so long to check for Big Picture’s eclipse photos. This has been a weird week for things on auction. exhibit b: Reagan’s blood. Holy wine Jesus popsicles (sacrilicious). The obvious solution to weeds is…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Steinbeck’s love advice. Dinosaur controversy! Dinosaur dance! Dinosaur controversy updated! Mapping out Phineas Gage’s brain.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy Monday, let’s talk about ichthyosaurus’s breathing troubles. Midcentury Modern luggage labels! Flavorwire has your week’s worth of ruin porn with these abandoned rail stations from around the world. Way to be bad-ass, 73 year old Tamae Watanabe. Fact: some…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I, for one, am entirely excited about New Mexico’s new science ghost city. It looks like the Soviets had us beat there back when that was still a thing. Meanwhile, the Chinese are crushing us when it comes to teleportation.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in this-really-happened: John Waters picked up hitchhiking by Here We Go Magic. Let’s power the world with viruses! Telepathic robot arms are no longer just for monkeys. Globe houses of futures past. I’m glad to know other people…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It begins. Scientists just made a pretty incredible anti-aging break-through. Portfolio Magazine used to be a pretty cool thing. Vesta! Your kid’s crappy haircut may be giving them lazy eyes. Approaching a platonic ideal subway system.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Who wants to get drunk at the bottom of the sea with me? Did you know the Easter Island heads have bodies too? Here’s what you need to know about the current triceratops controversy. Update: bioluminescense is still great. It…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I hope everyone had a good weekend, now let’s visualize Deep Time. Want to know about LBJ and RFK’s mutual hatred but don’t want to read an entire 700 page book? This thorough review will do the trick! The 20th…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Mother’s Day is Sunday, but Norway won’t need a reminder. TECHNOLOGY! Anything can be a touch screen now. On the incredible amounts of “upcycling” copies of National Geographic go through. “Futuro, the idea home that wasn’t.” No, the Mayans didn’t…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
One last memorial: Art Spiegelman on Sendak. “We jump over camels.” Tomorrow in Libertarian u/dystopias: obscenely rich tech giants building their own floating, government-free, start-up island. Meanwhile, Dubai has the rest of the world beat in insane building ideas. I…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Mother’s Day is coming up, maybe you should buy a flying hovercraft. Here are some delightfully morbid 19th century biology book illustrations. This Jewel Caterpillar is pretty neat. Document roadkill, for science! Patents for unusual houses, 1930s-2000s. Huzzah.