Morning Coffee
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) The historical quagmire of a plantation tour. When your father’s dark side is really, really dark. Also, the dark side of the Nobel prize.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) The practice of baptizing the dead. Speaking of the dead, who is killing all of these babies in Utah? Running ruckus with the Bloomsbury’s.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m hitting the road until August 3rd; you’ll be in good hands while I’m gone I promise. If you live somewhere where I’m coming through, come out and say hi (if that’s your thing, man)! See you in August. In…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
So many dang dark matter galaxies! Here are some fish teeth to haunt your nightmares. Poop mysteries and your genetic rights. Look at this weird fossil worm! Great, now the robots understand emotions.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here’s that space age Polish kid’s book you were asking about. News item: apparently some people collect old sugar cubes. Beware the vampire squid. Yeah, sure, I guess I’d like to look at some photos of caterpillars of New England.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Beware the dangers of virtual reality. Some people can’t picture anything. What make water wet? (Like, woah dude.) On the relentless symmetry of jellyfish. The Berlin Wall is everywhere, man.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
So, why do you think you hate the word moist so much? No, you can’t live in space yet. Did Vesta eat its moons? (I hope so.) Sara Jane Moore and Squeeky Fromme continue to be fascinating. All of the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s a Friday and there’s so much to be angry about so let’s just have a linguist analyze the pop punk accent. We can (probably) go to mars without killing anything that might be there. So, like, why can’t we…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Everything seems pretty awful lately but at least there are wild black bears in Indiana again. Old African movie theaters are also pretty neat. Here are those 18th Century architectural alphabet engravings you were asking about. Important news: jellyfish are…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
New York’s rooftop airport dreams. Life is also crazy at the single cell level. My new goal is to become a dinosaur philosopher. All the organic chemistry lab photos you could possibly ask for. Take a trip back to the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey look at this adorable new dinosaur! Postcards as horrifying propaganda of colonial pasts. What do we find when the reservoirs dry up? (spoiler alert: some neat stuff and also some gross stuff.) John Berger at 88. We don’t live…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Global warming is making polar bears eat dolphins (the world is dark). Meanwhile, here’s what 2100 is going to look like. A brief history of Little Golden Books. A brief history of paralyzing spider venom. Colossal squids and toothfish are…