Dan Weiss

As if this year wasn’t awful enough, it’s going to be an extra second long. Your facebook feed condensed: Pokemon go and race. Psychologists want children to be bored in the summer. Psychologists are jerks. Soviet monuments and the question…

A year later still painfully relevant and important: police training is dangerously lacking in actual science. Your guide to the various things we have up in space rn. The archaeology of street names. Vaguely related: Hayward’s seismic curb has been…

My new goal is to be the night mayor. Let’s all take a trip to the castle at the heart of Death Valley. The world’s most efficient languages. Important news: goats are still good. Take a moment today to think…

Someday I too hope to live in Sea City. If I’m reading this correctly pears just destroyed time travel. The golden age of drive-through trees. Yes I’m going to post this article about cosmonaut patches, why would you even ask…

You’ve probably already read this but if you haven’t take the time to read George Saunders adventures with Trump supporters. On Elena Ferrante’s covers and the double standard of “women’s fiction”. So much to learn from a Revolution Era toilet…

Let’s all go flying straight into the rarest of galaxies. The surprising history of the infographic. It is imperative that we wage electric war against the pigs. Or something. On the mirage of Utopia. Very important PSA: THERE ARE TOO…

The future of archaeology is in the (garbage we’ve left in the) stars. The future of tourism is all garbage tourism all the time. Hey look at this dinosaur-era bird wing. Lost gardens of old New York. Now I’ve got…

The future is all senior citizens in VR. Continuing a theme from yesterday: LA is the perfect bank robbing city. Electrocution, the 1920s favorite pastime. Looking back on 16 years of the Serpentine Pavilion. Here are all the African animals…

Start your day with some weirdo inventions of the 40s. Important news: whale sharks are great! Let’s all enjoy the art of Zelda Fitzgerald. Very important Mars travel news. Welcome to the age of electronic (actual) highways.

Start your week right, with a tale of watch thieving rings. I always knew seagulls would bring about the end of the world. But don’t worry, we can eat the plants we grow in space now. Air BNB as protest…

The war that keeps on giving! Archaeologists are finding ancient ruins in Cold War spy photos. Also from up above: picturing the urban legacy of apartheid. Why “Bugsy” tho? Also we’re running out of sand (have a good and safe…

Let’s all watch 20 satellites get launched at the same time. The Caribbean Sea is whistling into the cosmos. Here are those crumbling communist murals you were asking me about. Nabokov maps out Ulysses. Behold! The world’s ugliest color!