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 the Southern California wildfires. A short history of microfiche.

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, we’ve filled the world’s deepest trench up with garbage too.…

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 of 1960s Saigon. In a similar vein: all the vintage…

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 lost hidden cities of Cambodia! Behold the London Time Ball.

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 knowing everything. The Sky-Math Garden. Don’t worry, the aliens are…

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 is one step closer to abolishing Daylight Savings and I…

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 to be ok. Meanwhile, amidst the bleakness, here is a…

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 from MC and be back June 14th. For more info…

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. Very large sponge. This should end well: grizzlies and polar…

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: deep frying water.

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 weather (in Nevada, kind of). Would that we were all…

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 Jr, Smithsonian entomoligist. Balloons! Balloons are the answer! Vancouver: freeway-less…