Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Science can now tell you if you’re going to live to be 100 AND let you watch comets crashing into the sun. Meanwhile, on the terrible news front: the Supreme…
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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
Yesterday’s SOPA protests made today’s column extra hard to do, it did however make for some excellent images and confused twitter posts. Google maps are making the world of prehistoric…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Good news all: the Valley of the Kings isn’t just for royals anymore. How about a little typography porn? Public service billboards from times past. Jelly fish jelly fish jelly…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What does (the readership of the BBC think) the future holds! In the meantime, it’s time to start drinking our pee probably. I am in love with this history of…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We’re going to be keeping things low key today. Lest we forget the reason for the season, here’s MLK’s letter to Sammy Davis Jr on the importance of art and…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very important dinosaur hands news. Data visualizations as self portrait. Behold the classroom-less school (way to go Sweden). Can we all agree that Japanese monsters are the most terrifying? Hello…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What the world really needs is video games for pigs. If I’ve learned anything doing this column, it’s that Berlin has the best hotels. “Don’t be HER pin-up boy.” Similarly:…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The Japanese understand the key to depression is baby robots (robot babies). Peter Newell’s The Rocket Book is your early 20th Century kids book of the day. By the way,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The year in animals killing each other. I promise this is (possibly) the last year-in-review link. Let’s take a moment to discuss the most kissed face in the world. The…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
These were the weirdest new animals of 2011. 2012, on the other hand, will be the year of single person helicopters. Fake holidays are pretty wonderful. Let’s take a moment…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Every day is a good day to talk about ghost hunting. Aqua Velvet brings you their top posts of 2011 (we still have a couple more weeks for year-end wrap-ups…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
“What do you think most about during the day?” “Women. They are a complete mystery.” Stephen Hawking at 70. Oh hello, wonderful space ephemera. Philippe Ramette’s impossible photographs. The future…