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.
And now a response to that article last week about European architecture’s fear of color. Important space weather news. Here are your 19th century astronomy illustrations for the day. Many…
Start your week right, with a trip back to mermaid city. Start your week right, thinking about a nuke going off in Manhattan. Mapping out the America’s noisiest places. No,…
Something to spend your weekend thinking about: Maybe instead of trying to end death Silicon Valley should be working on making life better for people living? Do we need robot…
Don’t have enough to be terrified of? Let’s ask a near future speculative writer to tell us why we’re completely unprepared for the next pandemic! Welp, here come the robocops…
Got a thousand years to spare? Why not watch a digital coliseum disintegrate? There is literally nothing sadder than polar bears in captivity. On the hungry burglar. It’s time to…
Another day, another newly exposed Soviet nuclear fall-out that was worse than Chernobyl. What is life but a ghost street? Here is your Bavarian Pagan ritual for the day. At least…
Seems like an unfortunately good time for a brief history of North Korean Misadventures. Mapping humanity’s topographic footprint. New York’s lost rooftop theaters (were also pretty neat). Important news: Manila…
At least the world is still full of mysterious things hidden under rabbit holes. I think we could all use a little universal amnesia. On rewilding. The bots are talking…
The world is ending so might as well spend your day watching old atomic bomb test footage. Very important buffalo migration history news. Heck yes I want to look at…
The New Yorker on Catherine Opie, all-American subversive. (is a very good thing to read). Exploring the universe for magnetic fields. Let’s all look into the eyes of a monster…
Seems like a good time to ask “What would Europe look like if every secession movement had succeeded?” Giant fungal spires of the ancient world. Welcome to Mars, land of…
Maybe the geometrists can get us out of this mess. Remembering Mark Fisher. There are absolutely alien spaceships trying to talk to us and don’t you dare tell me any…