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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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:…