Morning Coffee
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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.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What I’m reading here is that math makes you sad. Radical cartography: William Bunge’s Detroit. Maybe we’ll all get to live in 1970s future space colonies after all! Duchamp’s optical disks (are cool). This salt mining history museum is pretty…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Chris Hadfield has some pictures to show you. SPACE pictures. Mice inherit memories, so there’s that. Maybe we found the original Alamo! Someone please buy me a hand-carved cave cathedral thanks. Atlas Obscura looks for Edo, the lost city beneath…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Um, so, the nuclear launch code was 00000000. The metropolis of tomorrow (1929). Meanwhile: The (dystopian) future is now! Amazon wants to send you your items via drones. Perhaps you’d like to watch a small squid fight an owlfish. The BBC takes a look at…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We’ll be taking the rest of the week off, see you on Monday! Important news update: Amazon is still literally the worst. Old news but news to me: No, lobsters are not immortal. Perhaps you would like to know about…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Way to go science! Finding the oldest Buddhist shrine AND the number one pre-T-Rex predator dinosaur. Like I said, you’re doing great science, so hey why not try and grow some plants on the moon. On Dorothy Parker’s Lolita. Look,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Good news Olympic athletes: you have a very small chance at winning part of a meteor next year. The Upworthy generator is my favorite thing today. The Lake Monsters of America is pretty great though too. Picturing the Large Hadron…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Someone please buy me a diplodocus. Medieval kids’ doodles and embellished matriculation manuscripts (classy today). Let’s talk about mourning our pets. Soviet architecture was just the best.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe people were in the Americas a lot earlier than we thought (and killing giant sloths). New York is a real toxic town. The world is full of awesome things part 1: Finnish golden ratio tree mountain. The world is…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The world’s oldest animal is no more (way to go scientists). More and more it seems obvious that the world of early man was just a crazy sex party. Here are all the vintage sci-fi book and comic covers you…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
OH MY GOD LOOK AT THIS GIANT SQUID! Exciting boredom developments. All I want is to go to the island of swimming pigs. Home improvements 70s style. The hero shrew could maybe support your weight (please don’t try).
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Would anyone like to join me on a road trip to find all the forgotten arrows pointing across America? Did you know that Galapagos tortoises can have 1,360 babies in their lifetimes? On the origins of Red Riding Hood (they…