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.
Whale evolution is pretty cool right? (via Jon Adams.) Meanwhile, these days, frozen aquarium. We here at the Rumpus are really into Christian Weber’s photography. Ahhhh! Yesterday’s power stations of…
If you’d been hit by six meteors you would probably think aliens were after you too. Well look at you lottery ticket jeep, aren’t you clever? On the very first…
How about a little typography porn to start your Thursday off right? Oh, hello awesome 1960s robot dog. How are you? This is an article about a solar-powered vibrator. Are…
Mary Roach on outer space irrational antagonism. Philip K Dick on the danger of Neo-Nazis in Science Fiction. Japan’s oldest woman is missing too! This is what German museums do…
New findings in a long term monkey annoyance study (scientists are amazing). Flavorwire has your post-apocalyptic photography for the day. The census of marine life. I’m really sorry about all…
Canada has some new sea creatures too. The Horseshoe Shrimp on the other hand is very very old. You can now read Howard Zinn’s FBI file, which is sort of…
I think the Sun might be shining. What I’m getting out of this is that outer space is still totally rad looking. If you are a German political street artist…
Sad news, Elvis’ autopsy tools are no longer up for auction. Why yes, I would like to look at your giant Turkish yacht. This is what Madrid looks like. Public…
It would take the coldest of hearts to not appreciate these baby dream photographs. Retrofitting old cigarette vending machines to save the book industry (this is why Germany is better…
On the 1935 invasion of the US by Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean. (via io9.) Oh, hello human fish. (Note: the ocean is sort of gross.) Thanks to the Internet…