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.
This week in crazy-ass things: Zombie-Ant Fungus has it’s own Killer Fungus. This is what the super moon looked like from outer space (spoiler: it’s not as impressive). THIS ARTICLE…
Yes, I would like to see some 1920s Japanese illustrations for Hans Christian Andersen tales. Why are you trying to wake up sleeping chicken babies all the time scientists? Stopping…
Newsflash: dinosaur era fleas were very big. Meanwhile, elsewhere in dinosaur news, there was a press release about alien dinosaurs the other day. Margaret De Patta’s jewelry (is great). Science…
Last week two of my favorite websites in the whole dang internet joined forces to feature rad bookplates. Maybe the key to helping premature babies lies in the kangaroo. Everyone…
There is rarely a need to smash things. Just in time for yesterday, Diego Rivera’s Moscow May Day. It’s a whole dang world out there. Chinese fast food. People were…
Happy Monday, let’s all plan a trip to a Japanese cat cafe. Why are we waterproof? Ruined Polaroids are a cool thing. Fact: the Danish are a million times better…
Very important update: there are a lot of stars. Hey, how did Technicolor work? If you are bad at math than you probably believe in things (or something, I guess,…
Dear people, please stop eating bats. Eeee! Floating jellyfish robot! On the bureaucratic nightmare of Russian laundry. And now here are some stereoscopic Civil War pictures. Leave Saturn’s weirdest ring…
Hurray for spillways! If I’m reading this correctly, the point is that whale’s ears are gross. 1980’s disco-blasting robot waiters (heart). Here’s some mid-century astronaut photography porn for you. Fitzgerald’s…
It’s Tuesday, here are some harvest mice. Monitoring crazy urban sprawl from space! The new hip thing is asteroid mining. Vintage headphone ads (I think we could all use a…
Let’s talk about drilling lasers in outer space. Today in almost timely political street art: Pinocchio Sarkozy. These 17th century fish sketches are my favorite thing today. Viewing the world…