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Dan Weiss
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hold everything, Lonesome George is on display in New York! A short history of European animal trials. Look I know that Christmas Island SOUNDS nice, but I promise you it’s crawling in crabs. Important news: Curiosity found a weird ball.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey look, we might have a new oldest person ever. Hey look, we might have a new oldest shipwreck ever. The hidden world of underground cities. Long story short, we should probably all move to Alaska. Remember that time we…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Also climate change is making polar bears eat geese. We’ve got about five billion years left in this galaxy. Let’s all take a tour of the world’s deadliest garden. Here is some British fairground art for you. Did the invention…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the fall (tomorrow), perhaps you’d like to know about the chemistry of autumn leaf color. BBC Earth looks at the insane world of sexual organs. Yes, but what about American secessionist movements? What are you doing there, giant…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Woah woah woah, Chris Ware is releasing a serialized novella over at The Guardian. The mortuary railway and other secrets of Sydney. Asking the important questions: do animals cry? The Atlantic on World War 2 and the beginnings of the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s pretty neat that we can still unearth five thousand year old monuments. Today in global warming being confusing: there is more sea ice around Antarctica than ever before. Would you be able to escape a tsunami on foot? Here…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The water just outside the Golden Gate Bridge is littered with ghost ships. A giant word search puzzle of everything Borges ever wrote is a thing you could make I guess. Photographing the world’s largest container ship being made is…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The world is a beautiful place because one time Neil Armstrong and Edmund Hillary went to the North Pole together. Actually Schizophrenia is a whole lot of different disorders. The future is filled with totally illegal laser weapons. The future…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
There is no such thing as too many soviet space dog links. Look, we’re ALL hallucinating. Here are all of 50 Watts’s Don Quixote posts for you. Aerial shots of Adriatic beach resorts are a pretty neat thing to look…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s Friday and all I want is for you to buy me a soviet cosmonaut dog spacesuit. Meanwhile, the world is full of cat paradises. Just in time for, uh, yesterday: let’s all watch iconic NYC building being constructed! It…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It seems like this is probably a good time to look back at the horrifying world of pre-feminist marriage counseling. Today in things that keep me from sleeping: pain isn’t the worst part of waking up during surgery. Behold! the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey look! We found one of the lost Franklin ships! Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet: let’s all pretend we’re crossing Antarctica in the 50s! Io9 looks at the Islamic roots of science fiction. We could all learn…