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Dan Weiss
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m not going to lie to you, if today was April Fools Day every link would just be this gif. Update: the brain is beautiful and amazing! I have a lot of problems with Amazon, but I think it’s pretty…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I don’t think you understand how crazy solar tornadoes are. The rise and fall of the expressionist woodcut. Yes. Here are 47 possible names for the 7 dwarfs. I guess we’re all in a New York state of mind! I’m…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Lucy was not alone in the age of early hominids. (Ricky? Charlie Brown? Jude? Your choice.) Update from last week: ants aren’t always gross! Let’s make puppets (featuring The Imp of Mischief)! Never forget the Crimean War. Tomorrow’s mobile homes…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Good morning, I have bad news for you. There are no more dinosaurs in New York City. This is an article about fish farts. Yep. On the origins of cows. Everest climbing gear, then and now. Where are all the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is important, in times of worry, to look back on debunked end of the world fears. Ants are gross! New Scientist has your human evolutiona puzzles round-up. “Death and Burial of Sir Cock Robin.” Please take me to the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
In the future you will have your own medicinal mouse. The future will be weird. I think we can all agree that whats missing from modern music are badgers. Here’s your SPACE DANGER story for the week. Let’s all take…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let us consider small moments of comfort as one prepares to freeze to death. Here’s some 1960s mod bubblegum stickers for you. In a similar vein: super cheerful early 20th century Bengalese design. Maybe going back to living in caves…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
So, uh, here are a bunch of pictures from a Chinese gangster’s stolen cellphone. On the musical preferences of animals (not you). Vintage European circus posters are pretty great. “40,000 years of human-dominated history is about to end.” Long story…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sometimes you just need to see flying babies. No, you shouldn’t have to give your potential employer your Facebook password. “List of unexplained sounds” is your wikipedia page for the week. Here are all of Io’s volcanoes. And now the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today seems like a good day to talk about bee brains. All you Occupiers out there, try and be as classy as The Pyramid of Capitalism. Over yonder, Keith Haring’s journal is being unveiled day by day. The Boston Molasses…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Soon air war will be as simple as a thumbs up, yay. . . Let’s all take a look inside Hitler’s LA bunker. This is sort of fascinating, iPads (and other screens) under the microscope. Maybe you’d like to buy…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the world, NYC frog. Behold! The entire infrared universe! Book readers of the future (of the 30s). On the magnetism of starling flocks. Using slime molds to chart the efficiency of highway systems. yep.