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Dan Weiss
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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 world. Welcome to the age of DNA as date storage.
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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 translate some magical texts for Chicago librarians. Checking in on…
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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? Here’s your North American neon signs tumblr for the day.
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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: How Actual Architecture Inspires Surrealistic Building Art. What is life…
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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 Geographic infographics! Let this terrifying prehistoric crocodile haunt your nightmares.…
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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 1970 is great. Fish farms are pretty terrible, but from…
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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 Television Centre. What you have to understand is that I…
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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 we know anything about the woman who signed the Declaration.…
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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.
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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 of self-driving stores. Seems like a good time to talk…
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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 don’t Facebook censorship victims leave? The Littles of America. Railroad…
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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 Valley. Here are those midcentury female career ads you were looking…