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Dan Weiss
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let us now listen to the sound of the Jurassic bush-cricket. There is some crazy psychedelic stuff going on in the ocean. Thank you PopSci for this slideshow of mythical beast hunts. Fact: New Mexico almost required psychiatrists to dress…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I know it’s only Monday, but I’m pretty sure “tiny volcanic moon” is the phrase of the week. (Largely terrifying) tales of DIY science. You know what else are neat? Waterfall restaurants. 2011 had some pretty impressive science visualizations it…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to your new home, Planet GJ 667Cc (it’s been an exciting week in space). Richard Branson’s lemurs and other assisted migrations. This is what a mouse’s brain activity looks like. Perhaps you’d like to see some rad train photography.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The orb-web spider will go to great lengths to avoid rough sex. Flavorwire has a handy write-up of the most beautiful bookstores in the world. Space tugboat is absolutely the phrase of the day. The high cost of bad handwriting.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dept. of the-future-is-totally-here-dudes: bullet proof skin! Wired wants to talk to you about (actual) bugs. Uncontacted peoples in the 21st century is one of the most mind blowing concepts I can imagine. Let’s all listen to Mercury! Meanwhile, here are…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Science has determined aliens are probably being reclusive dicks. Oh hello, albino hummingbird. It is well documented that world’s fairs are awesome. Here is a look at one of the first sound installations. It is pretty neat too. What are…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let us welcome the week with reflections on crab design. Here’s your weeks worth of solar storm sky porn. What do false memories look like? Bad news navigation fans: the north star might be shrinking. But what about the OTHER…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the known universe 26 new planets (it’s been a big week for outer space). The New York Public Library is first in the field of 3D gif making. The new Kazakhstan subway is the classiest subway system I’ve…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Mind blowing fact of the day: President John “the Tenth President” Tyler’s grandchildren are still alive! You know what makes international diplomacy rules way more interesting? Outer space! By the way, have you seen NASA’s new highest resolution ever picture…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Update from yesterday: also dolphins are speaking whale. (via Boing Boing.) On John Updike and other unlikely children’s authors. Maybe you’d like to know some things about patricide. (via Atlas Obscura.) Siphusauctum gregarium is literally the strangest thing in the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Super important news: dolphins and whales are bffs now. (via Metafilter.) 1970s Olivetti ads (are neat). It is time to play the subway. Here are some illustrations of animals cooking food. Maybe there is life on Venus (no, there probably…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
By the year 2000 all women will be amazonian super women. Mental Floss has the alternative presidential candidate information you desire. The Russian mafia understands the art of the tombstone. Huzzah! Vintage Swiss stamps. The natural (microscopic) world can be…