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Dan Weiss
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We here at MC are going to be taking the holidays off, so this it for 2013! It’s been a pleasure as always. The Big Picture’s year in pictures part 2 (be sure to look for part 3, which will…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s the end of the year, which means things like this. 2013 in Science (hooray for the olinguito!) The Big Picture has begun their always fantastic year-in-review. Here are the films the Library of Congress are adding this year (the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
A bit of good news: maybe, just maybe, Amazon will start unionizing. There totally might be water flowing on Mars right now. Here are your BioScapes for the year. We are now living in a world where one’s hands can be…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Yes, Neanderthals buried their dead. Meanwhile: the future is vertical cemeteries! Can sci-fi survive in Saudi Arabia? Younger siblings of the world, beware of the baby illusion! Hey look, Europa seems to have plate tectonics too.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
My favorite Christmas tradition is the burning of Gavle Goat (spoiler alert: yes it burned again this year). This is real big: China has landed on the moon. This is similarly real big: turns out the universe could totally collapse…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Oh right, it’s almost Christmas (Budapest style). You guys, the volcano under Yellowstone is terrifyingly big. We’re all here today because of how scary snakes are. Another look inside CERN. Victorian parents being creepers.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Yes, but why do we have squirrels? I have a legal obligation to link to anything with the word “aquanaut” in it. Gods of the ancients. Here is an article about time crystals or something else I don’t really understand…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Meet Peggy, the strange object at the edge of Saturn’s rings. Scientists prove the universe is a hologram. (“prove”) Scientists also claim to have found the coldest place on earth. Related: now you can use a cellphone on Antarctica. I…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sadly chimpanzees are not (legal) persons (yet). Behold the minimum wage machine! On the Smithsonian’s 1200-year-old phone. We all need some lovely subway station design porn from time to time. The Earth is ruled by superbugs.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The important questions: what can we learn about a whale from its earwax? Can we just talk about this US spy rocket logo for a second? In 1938, a scientist recorded the heartbeat of a man being executed. Medieval diseased…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Mandela’s Struggle in Posters. Photographing Norwegian reindeer herders and the American frontier. Sad fact: 75 percent of all American silent films are lost forever. Bug mimicry is pretty fascinating.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Bad news, everyone: snakes are totally winning the evolution game. It’s time to bring back Victorian-era slang. Here is an old chart of the world’s tallest mountains that forgot to include Everest in case that’s the sort of thing you like.…