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Dan Weiss
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
There is a good chance that you would like to know more about ricin today. The Offshore Freeway and other visions of the Los Angeles that could have been. It’s pretty great seeing scientists bicker about where we should look…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This just in: Tetris is the best. Leonardo da Vinci applies for a job. Perhaps you’d like some 1970s science textbook design today. Not sleeping with your cousin is very hard if you live in Iceland. Let’s all take a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today seems like a day when everyone could use a baby hippo. WWI era infographics. Finland has won the coolest passport contest. Vintage speakeasy cards (are also a neat thing). Maybe you’d like to read the entirety of Captain Scott’s…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the age of Google Death. The idea of the shadow biosphere is my favorite concept of the day. Hey, so, maybe Soviet balloons saw rain on Venus. It is time to map the internet! And now a bunch…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
An Iranian scientist has (maybe) created a (sort of) time machine. Let’s all explore the world through it’s lowest currencies. Alternatively: the world’s librarians pick their countries best children’s books. I’m sure you would like to see NASA’s original astronaut…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This has been a really good week for bat links. I am of course legally obliged to report any and all dinosaur baby news. The NY Times looks at the history of Great Gatsby covers. 50 Watts has your macabre…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in seemingly horrible places to call home: Johannesburg’s Ponte Tower and the underground homeless suburb of Kansas City. Creepy White Guys is your (dispiriting, insightful and hilarious) tumblr of the day. We are also very close to being…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today seems like a good day to discuss density, cities, and human geography (and infographics). Your blood loves the taste of chocolate. Werner Freund is your badass human being of the week. Let’s listen to the sound of the Earth…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy Monday, here is a baby bat. It is our duty, as Americans, to lasso an asteroid and park it near the moon. Elsewhere in the (occasionally dystopian) future being now: we have entered the age of essay grading computers.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I know this isn’t normally the place for these sorts of things, but I just can’t stop thinking about Roger Ebert. Elsewhere: clearly what robots are best for is finding secret NY Times haikus. A (already adult) mosquito is born.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey, so, how far is it to Mars? News update: abandoned theme parks still look rad. Here are some pictures of malformed human brains in jars. We are totally wrong about how smart animals are (probably). Perhaps now is a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Everyday is a good day to talk about rat kings. NASA doesn’t want you to get out of bed. 4 percent of all voters believe in the lizard people (and other conspiracy theory statistics). Maybe you want to look at…