Dan Weiss

Stop everything and read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s piece “My President Was Black.” The allure of submerged civilizations. Mummering is making a comeback. This is the most genuinely evil computer virus I’ve…

What should you be terrified of in 2017? The answer was floating monorails the whole time! Woah woah woah, newly discovered Da Vinci? Did Milton create Sci-Fi? (spoiler alert: I…

As we near the end of this shitty shitty year we could all use some 1920s Bauhaus ballet. Weighing a planet’s worth of human made stuff. Let’s talk about Napoleon Hill,…

As we approach the weekend, we’d just like to take one more moment to encourage you to donate to those suffering from the Ghost Ship fire and to take a…

Don’t worry, eventually we’ll get that extra hour. 2016 as trolley problem. We all need more biosphere in our lives. Here’s a story about thousands of geese accidentally landing in…

Here are still more (and some of the same repeated) resources to help victims of the Ghost Ship fire, and a sampling of the music by many of those lost.…

Here are some more resources and places to help in the aftermath of the Ghost Ship fire. Increasingly we are finding the neurological evidence of gender dysmorphia. Today in cultural…

Our heart goes out to all who are hurting today in the wake of the Oakland fire. If you have the resources please give here. Some perspective from the East…

Just like everything else in the world, architecture is having an identity crisis right now. Let’s all explore the world of North Korea’s wealthy elite. Important news: empty streets look…

Lucy was small but very mighty (and tree dwelling). Hey look, it’s a new ancient Egyptian city. The art of gentrification (spoiler alert: these are just aesthetically pleasing graphs). Artificial…

The time has come for a thorough atlas of the literal underworld. I know what you’re wondering, what is the internet’s favorite color? More hard hitting questions: are semester abroad…

Well the good news is now we have a better idea of how to survive on Mars. Quiet down! You’re hurting natural bridges! Here are all the vintage batteries you…