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.
The rich are getting the eff out of here. Welcome to the age of drone cops (weeeeeee). Elsewhere in the Atlantic: Mr Roger’s simple set of rules for talking to…
First things first, a quick reminder that everything is unfathomably terrible and we are letting it happen. At least we have some new information about the past life of Mars.…
Today in things to be terrified of: airline hacking! Celebrating the hidden women of architecture and design. Heaven is a Japanese mascot. Facebook has reinvigorated the illegal wildlife trafficking trade. Thanks…
If you live in California (or Iowa, Montana, South Dakota, New Jersey, or New Mexico) it’s Election Day today. If you happen to live in districts 39, 48, or 49…
Good morning everybody! We are killing Alaska! And you may ask yourself: why do we sign yearbooks anyway? Here’s your Soviet secret map of Seattle for the day. Is it…
The election really did make you spend less time with family. Here are your 2018 California Academy of Science Big Picture winners to get you through. The new AP Stylebook…
Glory be thy pineapple. Welcome to the age of robot dog funeral services. Very important stick bug/bird poop news. Here are your Japanese air conditioners for the day. We all…
Everything is still very very terrible but maybe you just want to look at hooved animals in water? Jelani Cobb on Starbucks and the issue of white space. Maybe the…
So this is how the world ends, with a parrot operating Alexa. So you want to name an animal in German. Thrones! What is life but a Chinese trinket town? Here…
Summer is almost here, we’re another year older, and we here at DWMC are taking a long weekend. We’ll be back bright and early Tuesday morning. Be good to each…
Start your day with some good old-fashioned Jordan Peterson debunking. And you may ask yourself, what did ninjas eat? On the lost history of the women of Bauhaus. Very anti-social marmosets.…
Let’s all take a deep dive into the epic scam that was Theranos. Guess we’re all living in drain pipes now. What is life but an underground Everest? On the…