Dan Weiss

Perhaps you’d like to see a glock being fired underwater. Let us now discuss the lost states. Good news! Maggot farms will save us all. 50 years of New York Film Festival posters. If you are exploring the arctic, don’t…

Hello chief officer dog. Plankton is neat! 60 year old (pictures of) skeletons. I am totally fascinated by this true size of Africa map. Hey look you guys, the Curiosity found a river bed.

I would highly encourage you to check out John Coulthart’s tentacle week posts. Perhaps the 7 dollar Renoir WAS too good to be true. The best part of Google Street View underwater are the tiny seahorses. Hey, so we measured…

Good news everyone! Google sea-view is now! I’m so bored of these tectonic plates, I’m ready for some new ones. Are you very rich? Maybe you’d like to reenact Shackleton’s voyage. Castration is good for you! (in a very limited…

Is it ok to link to a story about the coming bacon shortage on Yom Kippur? Meanwhile, something to look forward to in 2013, there is a pretty sick new comet coming dudes. Let’s talk about 19th Century infographics. News…

I guess it’s getting to be that time of year again, here are the Royal Observatory’s picks for space photos of the year. The internet was invented so I could look at 1929 Soviet avant-garde submissions for a Columbus memorial.…

Despite how it may feel a lot of the time, people appear to be getting smarter. This week in alarmism: if you have a poor sense of smell you are probably a psychopath! Jeez ladies of 1962, why don’t you…

Now let’s take a look inside mausoleums. Thor’s Hammer is a pretty bad ass name for a space project. Let’s take a look at food through an electron microscope. The future is all about how people walk. I lead you…

This the world we live in you guys! Swedish doctors announce first mother-to-daughter womb transplant. The scariest ghost of all is the one-legged umbrella ghost. Mount Everest is getting deadlier. Let’s take a look inside opera houses and prisons. Consider…

We are ready to start taking pictures of dark matter. Which is important because maybe the warp drive will be here soon! Puffer fish are the tortured artists of the deep. Here some 1950s french medicine ads. Perhaps you’d like…

Today seems like a good day to check in on developments in xtreme wheelchairs. Huntington’s Disease makes you smarter (before, you know, it takes effect)! This week the Rumpus has been digging the drawn out days blog. Let’s take a…

Let’s talk about the ampersand. (via Gerry Canavan.) Animated cave paintings and the very first color films (huzzah I say)! We are all deep sea explorers now. This just in: the New York Public Library stacks have always been great.