Dan Weiss is a professional bookseller, amateur dilettante. He writes and plays in the band The Yellow Dress. He firmly believes that everything is going to be okay.
Sup with you, red elephants? This week in meat based Americana art… The Japanese word for unread books and other untranslatable words. On dragons, pterosaurs, and 17th Century fakes. Meanwhile,…
The Codex Seraphinianus is a good way to start any day. Hey, all mammals, meet your great-great-great-great-great-great-etc grand-rat-thing. This dang tick wants you to stop eating meat I guess. ROCKET…
Very important news: now there is a monopoly cat. Our new closest best chance for life is 13 light years away. Why wouldn’t you want to look at pictures of…
There is a chance I’ve linked to this before, but I don’t care because the Tetrahedra of Space is my favorite thing I’ve seen today. Here come the 3D printed…
Let’s all discuss the sharksucker fish’s sucking disc, because what else are you going to do this morning? Oh, there you are Richard III. The Shackleton recreation seems to be…
If you haven’t yet, I’d highly encourage you to start your day with Michael Chabon’s essay on Wes Anderson. Perhaps you’d like to see the view from the top of…
Life’s greatest mystery revealed: sup with owl necks? If you are need of some medieval torture equipment this is your lucky weekend. The harshest rejection is Satan’s rejection. Maybe the…
Bad news internet, cats are the worst. I bet you could use some 19th century space cartography. The Art of Swimming is pretty neat too! Your molar roots are hella…
Fare thee well gentle guinea worm. Important space news: supernova remnants are rad. Behold the Thomas Friedman Op-Ed Generator. WTF Evolution is your Tumblr of the day. And now let…
Important question: what do astronauts eat? Furthermore, what do they listen to to pump them up in the morning? As long as we are talking about space, the weather on…
And you may ask yourself, what do birds know about fractal geometry? And you may ask yourself, what do dung beetles understand about the Milky Way? And you may say…