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Dan Weiss
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I suppose this means it’s time to look back at some of the horrible ways we tried to take over Cuba. Unbuilt London (I live for these sorts of things. Diving bells are also pretty neat. On the bright side,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Actually important linguistic news: the rise of the singular they. Ghana’s bootleg movie posters are some of my favorite things in the universe. Welcome to the future, the UN is debating a killer robot treaty. Welcome to the past, relic…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Flying oceans of magma is a good phrase to start your week with. Oh great, a newly discovered terror bird (the universe is terrifying). Everything is also terrible: the drought versus endangered fish. 19th century astronomy quilts are pretty neat…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The most delicious space cloud. Brighton’s unfinished necropolis. What can we learn from the feral chickens of Kauai? (spoiler alert: a lot I guess.) The time has come to construct a train through Mt Everest. Pouchee’s lost alphabets (are pretty).
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If you live in the Bay Area the Dan Weiss Institute for Dan Weiss Studies and Technologies has its second meeting tonight. If you DON’T live in the Bay Area, there’s still some pretty good stuff on the tumblr. I’m…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
GREATEST news: welcome back brontosaurus! Meanwhile, NASA is pretty sure we’ll see aliens in the next decade. I realize I should have linked to the moon hoax a week ago, but better late than never. The time has come for…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Why hasn’t anyone invited me to an Explorer’s Club dinner yet? Inside the (pretty racist but working on it) theme park town of South of the Border, South Carolina. Speaking of problematic vacations, atomic tourism in the American South West.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sometimes you just need to start your week with some hypnotic geometric GIFs. Complicated sexy mice songs. It’s time to meet Lucy’s neighbor Little Foot. 1920s California offshore casinos were pretty neat I bet. Stop asking about what’s on the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Self-promotion watch #2: if you live in the bay area DWIF DWEST begins tonight. Important news: Manchester’s sewers are neat looking. Great news long-eared bat fans! So many baby galaxies. I had no idea that moonquakes were a thing. No…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Also there’s a World Worm Charming Championship I guess. It’s time to redesign the most isolated town in the world. Some 1920s Japanese children’s textbook covers for you. Fire ants are literally the worst. Everyone loves pictures of Scott’s doomed…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Nothing stays the same: let’s watch the constellations change over millennia! Randomized Dystopia. Oh hey there possible lost nazi compound. Here’s that 19th Century New York stench map you were asking about. Behold the highest building in France.