Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hackers across America (or what is up with Vermont?) On the candy that powered the first Everest ascent. While we’re here, let’s talk about yetis. The best mysteries are penguin underwater call…
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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
Start you day with some Leonora Carrington statues. Finding Cahokia. What is life but a highwayman beetle? Here’s your midcentury nuclear fallout guide for the week. Call me old fashioned…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy eclipse day. We here at DWMC will be back up and running tomorrow morning, but in the meantime spend your morning reading Annie Dillard’s 1982 essay “Total Eclipse.”
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Another day another clue about a doomed expedition through the Northwest Passage. Here’s your midcentury New York photography for the day. India wants to bring you the world’s longest river.…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Shocked that this is a question that still needs answering: why should we take down Confederate monuments? Do we pass down trauma in our DNA? Maybe! I will never pass…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Everything is still deeply bad so it’s time to read up on the antisemitism that fuels white nationalism. American Nights. The ethical concerns of immortality (welcome to the future). Quantum…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Toni Morrison on the origins of prejudice. Whose heritage? (I can’t recommend the SPLC guide debunking many of the pro-confederate monument talking points enough). If you live near DC get…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This weekend was bleak, Jelani Cobb has a great rumination on it. On that note, he also discusses if it’s right to call them Nazis or not. Godwin gives you…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Forget atomic war, the real worst thing are frozen pizza spills. Today in not at all surprising news: your Instagram is saying a lot about your mental health. Here’s your…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Just putting this out there: NO ONE should have the sole authority to launch a nuke. At least American chess is great again. The wonderful world of thomassons. On the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Could we slow the spread of disease by changing how we board planes? Maybe! Here’s your Modernist Middle Eastern architecture Tumblr for the day. Let’s all explore some mid-century hotel…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Start your week right with Japanese funicular trains. We’re probably totally wrong about when farming started. Fill your nightmares with visions of prehistoric anus-eyed creatures. All my favorite scientific breakthroughs…