Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Roadkill in the age of the autonomous car. What happens when we start thinking like algorithms? Hey, look at this remarkable new supernova discovery! Sometimes you find a dead grasshopper…
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Dan Weiss is a professional bookseller, amateur dilettante. He writes and plays in the band The Yellow Dress. He firmly believes that everything is going to be okay.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What is life but a Potemkin village? New things to be terrified of every day: the zombie viruses of climate change. Sup with this giant void in the Great Pyramid?…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Why do all Chinatowns look alike (and not terribly like China)? And you may ask yourself: what is daylight-saving time anyway? Life inside the RVs of Silicon Valley (everything is…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all enjoy some freshly declassified aboveground atomic bomb test photos to prepare for the end of the world. Here are your Japanese subway entrances and footbridges for the day.…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Jelani Cobb on the wrongness of Kelly’s bizarre Civil War mythology. Let’s talk about the coded language of London’s queer community. Actually let’s just talk about the evolution of language…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
On the street chairs of Beirut. Maybe we can learn something from the Las Vegas shooter’s brain? The art of the fang. Look I’m not saying this is Atlantis but…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy Halloween! Let’s enjoy some surrealist german costumes from the 1920s. Portuguese hydroelectric power stations (are a thing we all might enjoy). Hong Kong Flora. Look at this giant weird…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What happens when local news is no more. Cruising Google streetview for brutalist architecture. Elon Musk wants you to look at his tunnel I guess! What is life but a…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s time to get spooky with forgotten traditions of Halloweens past. Mapping Brooklyn’s Edison bulbs: the illumination of gentrification. Visit exciting mundane Aberdeen. Today in cultural tourism: the flower men…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s time to talk about America’s contempt for the black soldier (good morning). Expired library books are nice though. Bringing fireflies back to urban Taipei. Here are you Japanese milk…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Asking the important questions: why is this deer licking this fox? Life in the world’s coldest town. Life in the world’s northern most city. It is time to go to…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Fun to live in a world where the University of Hawaii has to send an email about nuclear attacks. It is time to acknowledge we don’t really understand death. At…