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 bad-ass: jetpacking over the Swiss Alps. Context-free patent art is the best thing today. How do you single out friends’ voices in a crowded party? Science is…
On the regional dialects of certain hyraxes. Everyone needs some undersea photography now and then. “In 1950, an elephant fell out of a monorail in Germany.” Let’s all make some…
What does space sound like? Life goal of the day: visit Deception Island. Computer as swarm of crabs. “Astrologers Predict 1929 Will Be Year of Prosperity.” Here are all the…
Today in the-answer-to-your-problems-are-slides: they help you get to class on time! Here are some 19th century visual puns (classy). Evidently the time has come for cyborg plants. Incidentally, maybe the…
I’ll be out of town for a couple days, I will however return to you with open arms. Sometimes you have to give the people what they want: 1870s proto-lol…
A graphic designer looks back at his old homemade cassettes. This is very important: the dinosaur world was constantly on fire. 50 Watts is here to fill the Estonian children’s…
Fact: Swimming pool balconies are almost certainly an awful idea. Monkeys can’t handle the social pressure! Here are some lovely insect wall charts. So, uh, we sent these mice into…
Just in time for, uh, yesterday: dinosaur Easter eggs (for reals!) The street-legal flying car is here! Here are your bad-ass gifs for the week. The department of forgotten mascots.…
Today in lets-watch-this-be-constucted: the Rio Jesus! Sexual kidney is the expression I’ll be thinking of this weekend. Let’s look inside famous author’s bedrooms. Did people evolve from dolphins? No, not…
Thank you so much Atlas Obscura, for pointing us to the sex worker habits of penguins. Let’s look at some ugly, ugly buildings. Wired on feathered tyrannosaurs and the possibilities…
Maybe we should turn NYC’s big box stores into a giant mountain. (Yeah! Maybe!) This fireplace is very old. We are getting closer and closer to understanding dark energy. 33…
Let’s take a moment to talk about ARCTIC MADNESS. Look, I know I’m not supposed to link to pop culture things, but I think it’s pretty cool that Neil deGrasse…