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.
Dangerous life-affirmation watch: being drunk and sleepy is totally (scientifically) good for your creativity. Meanwhile, also from Wired, antiquarian science books hurray! Way to be gross, new amphibian family. I’ve…
The world’s most interesting man is no more. (via Atlas Obscura.) You guys! Steam planet! Steam planet you guys! Dept. of this-is-a-thing: Occupy Riverdale. Way to find a hidden 298…
What was until recently one of the world’s oldest things, is no more. NY phone booths as tiny libraries. How do snakes drink (this is something I wonder every day).…
Here’s your weekends worth of circus sideshow banners. You know who was really inconvenienced by Japan’s earthquake last year? Underwater creatures. It turns out pollution is really bad for your…
Holy tower of Lincoln! Let us take a moment to appreciate take out beverage lids. A look inside the Don’ts and Be Carefuls of old Hollywood. OMG YOU GUYS! WORLD’S…
I hope you guys all spent Valentine’s Day correctly (by looking at a crazy old skull). Maybe we’re all just holograms from the edge of the universe. Maybe a lot…
They tell me that today is Valentine’s Day. What better way to celebrate than 1930s Fleischer Animation cards? Meanwhile, I missed the opportunity for Darwin’s pros and cons of marriage…
Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, if you’ve been wondering what to get that special someone. There is a good chance you will soon have a medically classified mental illness. Here’s some…
It’s Friday. Here is a shark eating a shark. True story: your pancreas has taste buds. yep. Noisolation headphones are a thing. Everyone loves map art. It’s still Friday. Here…
The Enchanted Forest and North Brother Island will provide your ruin porn for the week. If I’m reading this correctly, tarsiers are super sonic spies. Vulture restaurant is this weeks…
I don’t care what you say, I want to watch Disneyland get constructed. Mind-blowing fact of the day: most fish evolved on land. Industrial design of the future (1944). An…