Dan Weiss

Take a moment of your day to remember the incredible Fan Ho. Life, uh, finds a way (to survive off of rocks and electricity). Today in beautiful and terrifying: picturing…

Actual good news from my home state: California will just fund it’s own gun violence research thank you very much. Destroy all grackles. Let’s talk about bug funerals. Don’t worry,…

Is everyone following this daring antarctic scientist rescue? On the existentialism of GPS. Why has no one told me about Brooklyn’s Art Deco airport? Let’s hear it for street fashion…

Bootlegger protips. Too many giant spider crabs if you ask me. It’s the weekend, here are that forgotten 1920s Parisian fetishwear company you were asking about. Let’s all go explore the…

So today you might have found yourself asking: what happens in the mind of the filbusterer? The inimitable Darran Anderson on the archaeology of street names. We’re all afraid of…

Just lovely: Frog and Toad, an amphibious celebration of same sex love. There is absolutely alien life under frozen oceans (hypothetically). Sup with birds being smart tho? The Golden State…

We’re back, sometimes everything seems so awful and confusing and scary. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I believe with all my heart that eventually things are going…

This weekend is Memorial Day and I’m heading off on tour with my band The Yellow Dress to play Camp Daze fest in Missoula, we’ll be taking a short break…

When all is said and done, and rock and roll is all about forgotten, who will historians remember? So much Soviet Brutlist architecture. The death and birth of American Dam.…

Disappearing London, 1870s style. Here’s that 1890 map of indigenous American languages you were asking about. Here’s that beatnik dictionary you were asking about. Very old beer. Meanwhile, something new:…

A brief history of the giraffe. Very important world scrabble competition news. The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines ok cool thanks great. And so it begins: scientists are controlling the…

Mainly just trying to not be a jerk since 1984. It is imperative that we invade these five fictional balkan countries. The bizarre and sordid life of Harrison G Dyar…