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.
There should be some big black hole information coming in a couple hours. This week’s ephemera: Victorian teens, the legs of the Paris opera, and early 20th century bathing machines.…
The winner of this year’s New Scientist Eureka photography prize is everyone. Today’s bad ass of the week: astronaut/antarctic doctor Scott Parazynski. Oh hey look, it’s all the mars landings…
It is of course the best possible time to see what E.B. White wrote about the moon landing. Also, here are some space pictures. Underwater secrets are cool too! Oh,…
Today’s terrifying thing: a bioluminenscent cockroach. Robot sports are the best kind of sports. Fridtjof Nasen, Polar Explorer is this weeks most bad-ass dude. Maybe the universe started with a…
Breaking: we are even fatter than we think. E.B. White was sort of awesome (and grumpy). Behold the (maybe) oldest star in the universe! Bonobo’s are using tools, this is…
Someday we’ll run out of abandoned things to photograph and just have to resort to flying houses. Welcome to the world, crazy new cave spider. Big week for long missing…
The future is filled with 3-d printed meat and glasses free 3-d. The battle between man and shark has always been awesome (when drawn). Maybe you want to look at…
Oh, hello, baby cage. Here come the colorfully camouflaged spineless robots. It is time to solve some caveman murders. Also I guess we’re counterfeiting honey these days. All that said,…
After a hundred years, Captain Scott’s wreckage has been found. Related (only in my mind), it is very important to go through your storage, art museums. We live in a…
Big Picture brings you Early 20th century Russia: In Color! Let’s all play the game of Urban Renewal. Here come the 1800’s female sword swallowers. This would be the ideal…
The three parent babies are coming! Maybe sending someone a scented postcard of your food is a thing you’d like to do. Maybe you’ve wondered what it would be like…
This week’s nominee for most bad-ass dude is Wave Vidmar. Maybe you need some Japanese dream imagery illustration? Marsquakes! The world is still full of new things, some of them…