Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s be honest here, basically all psychology studies are probably bogus. Dolphin intelligence though. Elsewhere in the new to me Guardian archives: Brutalism A-Z. Here’s your 17th Century natural history…
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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
This week in questionable decisions: the brand new showers of Auschwitz. Dark matter is, like, SO complex. Let’s talk about the female spies and gender-bending soldiers that helped win the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s always a good day to appreciate Bruno Munari. Newly discovered glimpse into the 1893 World’s Fair. Vaguely related: woah check out this arts pavilion that could have existed at…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
3D printed fish are here to save the day (the future is so weird). Take a moment to appreciate the ampersand. All of us are liars. Welcome back fuzzy nautilus!…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Photographing Montreal’s metro (is a thing one could do.) Behold the world’s maybe oldest flower! Behold the world’s maybe oldest recovered message in a bottle. We are getting closer and…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Gather round, friends, for the story of the dog saint. It seems very obvious that octopuses are aliens (octopuses are not aliens). Here is a story about some fossilized pterosaur…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Digital ruins: let’s all go explore the abandoned college campuses of Second Life. Passing down trauma genetically (the world is dark and scary). Speaking of dark and scary, for some…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We’re probably too late to this, but we’re still just pretty caught up in Banksy’s Dismaland. Blood testing for suicide. A moment of slow motion praise for the mysterious hummingbird…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the age of terrifying glass sky pools. You’re so biased about your biases. Preventing book theft in Medieval Times (evidently this was a big concern). Here is an…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s been, like, SO long since we were hanging in the trees. Everyone loves a good historical archaeology hoax. Behold the world’s youngest master penman (not going to lie here,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Due to technical difficulties MC will be back tomorrow bright and early, but in the meantime enjoy some book covers from the British Library.