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Dan Weiss
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Why are barns painted red? Because of dying stars. Very important news: yesterday the world’s biggest crocodile turned 110 (maybe). On the other side of feelings about the world, welcome to the age of beard billboards. Soviet board games of…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We, as a species, have built one large scale dam a day for the last 130 years (on average). Here are some books with awful original titles. I’m not going to pretend to understand this huge breakthrough in prime number…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the week! good news: the world won’t be hit by a giant asteroid at the end of the month. Happy 50th birthday chaos theory! It is very sad that the world does not have this desert crossing vehicle…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Venezuela is out of toilet paper. Behold the Alternative Limb Project. If I’m reading this correctly, I could really use some electrical brain shocks. And now you’re midcentury design for the day, available in school library poster or Buckminster Fuller…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Watch out for the solar flare you guys. On plate tectonics and the origins of monkeys vs apes. Children of the 1980s build the city of the future. We all need some industrial disaster porn from time to time. And…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The time has come for vintage Swedish movie posters. Perhaps there is a submerged continent off the coast of Brazil. I imagine we’ve all wondered what New York City would look like on different planets. A NASA scientist explains to…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m sure we’ve all asked ourselves “why is Mercury like an orange and not a peach?” 19th Century Japanese bird paintings (are neat). This just in: gas masks are terrifying huh? On standing in line in India. I am afraid…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Just in time for, uh, yesterday: did you know that the founder of Mother’s Day fought to have it abolished? Split in half food is a good thing to photograph. Abandoned Star Wars sets are too. Headlines of the future…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
You will be missed western black rhino. No, glass really isn’t a liquid. Not to keep being a bummer, but the Toba super-volcano probably didn’t happen either. Now let’s talk about the occult and the father of rocket science. (Under)…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Some good news: Disney isn’t going to trademark Dia de los Muertos after all. Wired worms its way farther into my heart via a list of recent awesome dinosaur discoveries. Vintage science ads huzzah! Peter Lipton photographs endangered and soon…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What’s it like sailing a top the Arctic? What’s it like, swimming below the Arctic? Our solar system is actually pretty weird. Unwanted moles are basically the best archaeologists. Now let’s all take a moment to appreciate how totally great…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in ruin porn, the world of abandoned borscht belt resorts. Banner ads are basically the least effective thing ever. Here is everything you need to know about the coming cicada swarm. We are all using incredibly old words. KILLER…