Dan Weiss

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 how. Masters on 45s is sort of neat. Do you…

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 musical jelly. Edison, Ford, Firestone, and Harding go camping (I…

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 vintage circus posters fit to print (for now).

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 key to saving the forests are robots. Angler fish hurray!…

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 cats. Behind the very first cartoon (neat!) News item: I…

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 illustration shaped hole in your heart. Here are some pictures…

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 space for a crazy amount of time, and, uh, now…

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. Damn you HD 10180! Stealing our solar systems planetary thunder.

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 they absolutely did not. We are just ticking off terrible…

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 of triggering volcanoes. Here is all the astronaut/rocketship photography you…

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 year olds are the happiest. Here is a handy guide…

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 Tyson fixed the stars in Titanic for the re-release. As…