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.
Hey guess what? Climate change is destroying the world! Everything is very bad but at least we live at a time where Warner Brothers legally has to prove ghosts exist. You…
Spend your weekend listening to the sounds of old Mannahatta. Alternatively: read up on a short fraught history of urban silence. Let’s all take a trip back to Modernist New…
Mastodons ruin everything (that we think we know about human migration). Honestly maybe nothing is a planet? Vast unreadable libraries of the modern age. Ancient shark secrets are pretty good…
Thirty One years later the lights come back on in Chernobyl (because someone wanted to take pictures). Let’s all explore Bangkok’s very first and unchanged department store. Sometimes life is…
Hey guess what? No one really fully understands how AI works! But we DO know it can be pretty racist! Hey guess what? Facebook is, like, really bad for you!…
You know what are weird? German trade shows are weird. You know what are weird? Naked mole rats are weird. Post-Soviet postcards. It’s time to go back to the age…
Hope everyone out there is having a chill 4/20, here’s an article about how Hawaii is extra afraid of nuclear attack again. No one really knows anything about lethal injection.…
Sometimes you just need to watch a beaver herd some cows. Don’t love linking to the Sun, DO love talking about Russia’s secret Arctic base. As long as we’re staying…
The future is all drone made carbon fiber moth webs. But spiders do a pretty good job too. Isn’t it time for deep sea tourism though? Searching the stars for…
Today in this horrifying dystopia we call life: of course someone broadcast a murder on Facebook Live. “An Ice Scientist’s Worst Nightmare” is my favorite headline of the day. Sometimes…
Everything is very bad, but at least we’re finding new spiders? New ancient Canadian villages too! Amidst the big news of Enceladus maybe having life, let’s take a moment to…