Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Don’t worry, income inequality will survive the apocalypse. Here’s your 1930s aerial photography for the day. Looking to Calvino for principles of architecture. Finding Vonnegut’s alien ice in the real…
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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
Ok, but like, among all the collusion and end of the world news we haven’t talked nearly enough about TELEPORTATION BREAKTHROUGHS. Maybe a robot should president? It’s time to help…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the known universe, tiniest star. Guess we’re all talk about John Quincy Adams now. Looking for Betty Crocker. Sometimes you just gotta eat your fellow caterpillar, you know?…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all explore the newly UNESCO World Heritage Sight minted, Asmara. Here are your demon illustrations for the day. Important news: empty amusement parks and scary and neat! Reshaping Reality:…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Surely nothing could go wrong if we bring back an extinct smallpox relative. Great news everybody! We’re all gonna get untreatable gonorrhoea soon! You know what are great though? National…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Spend your weekend dreaming of George Barris’s ridiculous custom cars. Look at this megamouth shark! I repeat: LOOK AT THIS MEGAMOUTH SHARK! You know what else is great? Osaka Expo…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sure seems like Amelia Earhart actually survived and was captured. It’s Friday so let’s talk about (how your brain reacts to) weed. Time for one last look around the BBC’s…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s (always) time for a crash course in the sounds of Afrofuturism. On the origins of the modern alien abduction phenomenon. A couple days late for this but: why don’t…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We here at MC are taking a long weekend in honor of the holiday. Remember that no matter what people say there are few things more patriotic than dissent.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Important news: there’s a lot of pretty cool life under the ice in Antarctica. Keep your eyes out for the pin-tailed whydah (because they are bad). Welcome to the age…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Everything you know is a lie: I before E, except after C isn’t even kind of true. Inside Facebook’s deeply problematic anti-hate speech algorithm. While we’re on the subject: why…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Beauty amid chaos: picturing Syria through Instagram. And you may ask yourself what happens when you peel off 30 years of graffiti. Honey in the Anthropocene. On the poverty just outside Silicon…