Dan Weiss

I guess we’re all from Morocco now! Great, now I have spontaneous mummification to me afraid of. We are noise polluting the ocean into being terrible parents. On the rich men who drink rhino horns (hey don’t drink rhino horns…

Radical developments in the way we look at ancient poo. Noor Inayat Khan is the forgotten WWII heroine you’ve been looking for. Important news: the Australian Ocean is filled with weird and terrifying things. The secret history of frozen food.…

I was in Arcata yesterday which meant I totally missed Dead Duck Day! The cosmos is filled with gravitational waves I guess. What the world needs more of is the Tokyo Subway. Psst. Don’t forget that the entire coal industry…

Hi! Everything is still really bad!  Maybe we can inoculate our way out of this? Maybe we can board game our way out of this? The white supremacists don’t even understand the vikings. Why do you look so familiar? Anyway,…

So you want to clean your blue whale. Actually important: the preservation crisis of African American cemeteries. Breaking glass in infinite dimensions. Pity the Mexican mole lizard. Let’s all go under the salt dome.

If you went to sleep early last night you missed out on the first good moment of this administration. Sometimes you just want to look at pictures of payphones. Generating energy where saltwater meets fresh (seems like a good idea).…

We are running out of sand. I will never not link to pictures of North Korean architecture TBH. Yo, but like, why are whales so big? Utopian mall architecture as prison hellscape. How did Hungary become a haven for the…

Picturing the (for real) end of the Greatest Show on Earth. Tl;dr: we didn’t know ANYTHING about Jupiter. Let’s all take a walking tour of 1767 New York. On the unused bunkers of Albania. In the future all cities will…

Will return Friday. Be good to each other.

Facebook has been letting advertisers target users at their most vulnerable. Also: never forget that while people have been arguing about political correctness, there’s been an unprecedented spike in white supremacist actions on college campuses. Sometimes, amidst all this bleakness,…

Welcome to the age of flammable ice. Staying in china for a second: a ghost city in the sand comes to life. Photographing the architectural skeletons of Spain. Maybe you’d like to look at the archival photos behind the book…

In these dark times Medieval Death Bot is the hero we need. Hey at least climate change is making Antarctica greener. Someday I would like to be a smell archivist. The important questions: how much bubble wrap does it take…