Dan Weiss

Behold the wi-fi dowsing rod (this is what it’s come to). Eeee! Dinosaur footprints! Atlas Obscura’s 31 days of Halloween project brings LA’s Sowden House. Perhaps it is time to explore vintage paper cutout theater sets. What we should really…

It’s getting sort of list-y around here. It’s time for 2012’s endangered places, and the winners of this year’s Nikon Small World contest! Mother Jones on cephalopods and political cartoons. These maps are the absolute best thing about today. The…

How did people call each other terrible before Hitler? Perhaps you’d like to look at some solar prominences. The phrase of the week is “speculative polar cartography“. And some good space news! We’ve found three new weird planets, and we…

Perhaps you are curious about that Physics Nobel Prize they gave out yesterday. Thank you for this: mid-century sci-fi illustration! While we’re on the subject, perhaps you have wondered what the 1920s version of sites like 50 Watts was. Salvador…

Way to award a dead guy, Nobel Prize committee! Robot umbilical chords are sort of unfortunate. Eeeee! Cosmonaut return vessel graveyard! The time has come for earthscrapers. I am a sucker for vintage transportation art.

In the year 2000 we will all drive Pussycars. Atlas Obscura wants to take you on a tour of Lovecraftian locales. There are people who dedicate themselves to writing about what discovering aliens will mean for people of faith. Using…

This has been a morbid week: the last minutes of famous people’s lives. On Fridays, sometimes you just want to watch Indonesian wildlife. The temple of muses (classy guys, way classy). Here is an atlas of Saturn’s moon. HOLY SHIT…

Sometimes the only thing that gets me through the week is an awesome photo-collection of old tvs. Tiny tiny England, 1930s style! Why are men terrible? Maybe evolution? Behold the Pacman Nebula! Also, here’s your weeks worth of animals-over-taking-ruin porn.

I’m not going to lie to you, I think pictures of taxidermy are way more wonderful than actual taxidermy. Anarchy (covers)! In the future we will all commute by private airplane and spies will communicate via microbes. Baboons are pretty…

Fun fact: a couple years ago scientists found a dodo bird mass grave! (via Atlas Obscura.) Important: Johnny Cash was a pretty great dude. Important: North Korea is awe inspiring and terrifying. Welcome to the vertical zoo. London’s Natural History…

The positive side of global warming is that sea life is gonna get a lot cuter. Here are some Norwegian lamps. The Youtube videos of our minds (this is amazing, for reals). Avant-garde toys (sorry, MORE avant-garde toys). Famous last…

This is pretty delightful: Women of the Future (1902). Egypt has some pretty cool pigeon houses. It is probably time to redesign the way the NY subway works. Holy cow, the face scrambler is here. Now, where did I put…