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Dan Weiss
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
George Kourounis was the first person to ever explore inside “the door to hell.” Desert Realty (is pretty great). Our bears and gorillas are all hooked on Prozac. 50 Watts takes you on a Journey to the West.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Great news: the entire library of the HMS Beagle is now online. Amphibians have been swimming the same way for 270 million years (showoffs). Technologies of heartbreak is real important I think. Animals as 3D printers (this is the wrong…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Behold the new blackest of the black. Did we just find an 8,00 year old piece of brain? Did we just find a 200 year old bottle of seltzer water (this is much less impressive)? New York used to be…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The lives of human real estate props. So, uh, huh: maybe smelling farts is good for you? (maybe a lot of things.) The extinct animals of the world are stuffed and waiting in Paris. Hey kids, it’s the Skycar! Don’t…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Climate change is probably giving you more kidney stones. Look, we all love Jacques Cousteau. Yesterday was Tesla’s birthday, Atlas Obscura has your Tesla tour all mapped out for you. Whales are the most important. The guinea worm is almost…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Underground Australian cities are the new thing. Chinese folk kites are pretty neat too. We have entered the age of scanning baby mammoths and I couldn’t be more excited. Giant flying things (are just the worst). Now let’s all watch…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
1920s Avant-garde Soviet Fashion? Yes thanks. Oh whoops, we found some more small pox (in vials). The confederate helicopters that almost were. Very large books. Galileo gives history the bird.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Atlas Obscura brings you the very best in abandoned things. One of the last uncontacted tribes is no longer that. Let’s all celebrate a century of the fridge! Perhaps it’s time to redesign the parking sign.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Look, obviously you want jeans designed by a tiger or bear. Sometimes I need to link to things like the history of the Calvin peeing on things decal. Important news: the Soviet “lightning machine” is pretty neat! Revising the timeline…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
When it comes right down to it, do kangaroos have five legs? The art of b-movie title cards. Actually, there used to be all sorts of steam-powered cars. Hanging with Hemingway’s cats. Oh look, it’s (maybe) Nero’s dining room.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Department of hometown pride: way to find a new elephant shrew SF scientists! Why are your chords such a mess? (Spoiler alert: it’s because of physics.) Important desert pool news. Important squirrel bridge news. The thing that you have to…