Dan Weiss

And now 2012 in microscope images and camera-trap pictures. Popular Mechanics predicts the future! In the here and now though, we have some very important hamburger technology innovation. Here is…

Architizer has your year in buildings. New York as linguistic graveyard. Not entirely dissimilar, The NY Times has a sweet slideshow of 80s subway graffiti. Perhaps you have wondered what…

The best typos, mistakes, and corrections of 2012. We’ve entered the time of year where it’s increasingly impossible not to link to year-end lists… It’s pretty cool to re-discover a…

Let’s all start the day with a river system on Titan. Important news update: snow is pretty. Everyone loves abandoned high school photos. And now a French kid’s book from…

In case you wondering, here is NASA’s official 2012 disclaimer. Today’s awesomest thing: MIT’s transforming robot. The golden age of the bicycle vs the great bicycle menace. Elements of Color…

Science is awesome! Now we can convert urine into brain cells. Behold the Obamadon. It is pretty crazy that there are still 10 living daughters of Union Army Civil War…

I imagine you’d like to read Margaret Atwood’s thoughts on the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring. Slate loves space colony art too! Yes, but do they love Eastern European space…

It’s true! Rich people will be able to walk on the moon pretty soon. It is important sometimes to celebrate the awful parts of London. Behold the snowflake! Children’s games…

Georgian kindergartens are cooler than yours. Incidentally, every day is a good day to revisit crazy Soviet architecture. Old plant anatomy charts (are neat). James Cameron presents: giant crustaceans and…

Chillin’ out on the magnetic highway. Today in vintage illustration porn: WPA literacy posters and old kid’s stamps. Old timey explorer disputes are the best disputes. Curiosity is getting a…

People sure are talking a lot about maybe going back to the moon. Dante’s monsters and mythical beasts. On genetic accidents and the origin of intelligence. Superfecundation is pretty nuts.…

Bad Kids Jokes is the best thing that happened to me this weekend. Perhaps you’d like to see one of Kurt Vonnegut’s writing prompts? It is terrifying when wax museums…