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.
Another day another over 200 pterosaur eggs found. Remembering the time four lesbian activists invaded the BBC. Let’s all take a trip back to 1940s Sao Paulo. Let’s all take…
The rats of Manhattan are truly incredible (and genetically distinct from uptown to downtown). Here are your Soviet watches for the day. Let’s all take a dive through a Mexican…
Jelani Cobb on the justice department’s history of racist paranoia. On the surface, Ulaanbaatar, San Francisco, Calais and Jerusalem could not be more different – but for the people squeezed…
Get ready to say goodbye to bananas (the future is very bad). The best street scenes are Baltimore street scenes. Mapping the blurred lines of Beirut’s language. Sao Paulo’s homeless…
Another week another possibly habitable planet. Maybe income inequality has ALWAYS been rising? Guess we have to talk about the normalization of Nazis again. On Lebanon’s forgotten space program. Let’s…
Was the passenger pigeon doomed by it’s too large gene pool? On the other side of this: the Indiana Amish’s genetic fountain of youth. Here’s your Middle Eastern Modernist architecture…
You know who ELSE loved decaf? The Nazis! Welcome to the age of the AI coworker. Here are your Japanese and Taiwanese urban typeface hunters for the day. The more educated…
Here are your comedy wildlife photography finalists for the year. Blessed be. Can carbon-dioxide removal save us all? Is it even a real thing? Two stars slammed into each other…
What is life but an isolated Arctic meteorologist? Are people REALLY better than robots in the first place? Here’s your daily supply of retrofuturism. Here’s your daily supply of disused…
Today in very obvious headlines: dinosaurs might not be extinct had asteroid struck elsewhere. China is totally going to beat us to aliens. Let’s all take a trip inside Bogota’s…