Dan Weiss

I’m not going to lie to you, if today was April Fools Day every link would just be this gif. Update: the brain is beautiful and amazing! I have a…

I don’t think you understand how crazy solar tornadoes are. The rise and fall of the expressionist woodcut. Yes. Here are 47 possible names for the 7 dwarfs. I guess…

Lucy was not alone in the age of early hominids. (Ricky? Charlie Brown? Jude? Your choice.) Update from last week: ants aren’t always gross! Let’s make puppets (featuring The Imp…

Good morning, I have bad news for you. There are no more dinosaurs in New York City. This is an article about fish farts. Yep. On the origins of cows.…

It is important, in times of worry, to look back on debunked end of the world fears. Ants are gross! New Scientist has your human evolutiona puzzles round-up. “Death and…

In the future you will have your own medicinal mouse. The future will be weird. I think we can all agree that whats missing from modern music are badgers. Here’s…

Let us consider small moments of comfort as one prepares to freeze to death. Here’s some 1960s mod bubblegum stickers for you. In a similar vein: super cheerful early 20th…

So, uh, here are a bunch of pictures from a Chinese gangster’s stolen cellphone. On the musical preferences of animals (not you). Vintage European circus posters are pretty great. “40,000…

Sometimes you just need to see flying babies. No, you shouldn’t have to give your potential employer your Facebook password. “List of unexplained sounds” is your wikipedia page for the…

Today seems like a good day to talk about bee brains. All you Occupiers out there, try and be as classy as The Pyramid of Capitalism. Over yonder, Keith Haring’s…

Soon air war will be as simple as a thumbs up, yay. . . Let’s all take a look inside Hitler’s LA bunker. This is sort of fascinating, iPads (and…

Welcome to the world, NYC frog. Behold! The entire infrared universe! Book readers of the future (of the 30s). On the magnetism of starling flocks. Using slime molds to chart…