Dan Weiss

Hey look, it’s my birthday! Maybe you feel like donating to my band’s new kickstarter campaign? I’m sorry, I won’t mention it again. Deserted shopping malls are the ancient ruins…

I can’t believe it took me so long to check for Big Picture’s eclipse photos. This has been a weird week for things on auction. exhibit b: Reagan’s blood. Holy…

Steinbeck’s love advice. Dinosaur controversy! Dinosaur dance! Dinosaur controversy updated! Mapping out Phineas Gage’s brain.

Happy Monday, let’s talk about ichthyosaurus’s breathing troubles. Midcentury Modern luggage labels! Flavorwire has your week’s worth of ruin porn with these abandoned rail stations from around the world. Way…

I, for one, am entirely excited about New Mexico’s new science ghost city. It looks like the Soviets had us beat there back when that was still a thing. Meanwhile,…

This week in this-really-happened: John Waters picked up hitchhiking by Here We Go Magic. Let’s power the world with viruses! Telepathic robot arms are no longer just for monkeys. Globe…

It begins. Scientists just made a pretty incredible anti-aging break-through. Portfolio Magazine used to be a pretty cool thing. Vesta! Your kid’s crappy haircut may be giving them lazy eyes.…

Who wants to get drunk at the bottom of the sea with me? Did you know the Easter Island heads have bodies too? Here’s what you need to know about…

I hope everyone had a good weekend, now let’s visualize Deep Time. Want to know about LBJ and RFK’s mutual hatred but don’t want to read an entire 700 page…

Mother’s Day is Sunday, but Norway won’t need a reminder. TECHNOLOGY! Anything can be a touch screen now. On the incredible amounts of “upcycling” copies of National Geographic go through.…

One last memorial: Art Spiegelman on Sendak. “We jump over camels.” Tomorrow in Libertarian u/dystopias: obscenely rich tech giants building their own floating, government-free, start-up island. Meanwhile, Dubai has the…

Mother’s Day is coming up, maybe you should buy a flying hovercraft. Here are some delightfully morbid 19th century biology book illustrations. This Jewel Caterpillar is pretty neat. Document roadkill,…