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.
For four days, Portugal was (kind of accidentally) the greenest country on earth. Today in the Anthropocene: the shape of cities shape the weather. Art of Paris 68. Going back…
Self-promotion watch: if you live in the Bay Area you should come see my band The Yellow Dress play at Bottom of the Hill with Soar and Pumpkin. The Bay…
Actually we’re probably just in a draught forever. #moletruth. Bummer news: the Bavinger House is no more. A rainy year in the UK means brand new sink holes and rediscovered…
Every day is a good to appreciate Moscow’s metro stations. Hey look, they’re summiting Everest again! Hey look, old computers. Asmara is the fascist modernist architecture city of your wildest…
The transcendental revelations of astronauts (file under: great, thanks). Catch panoramic map fever! Sometimes your AI class TA is an AI because that’s the world we live in. Rethinking how…
Hey so what was up El Niño this year? Let’s talk about flags I guess people! Where’s my 19th Century Hyperloop? Everyone loves bioluminescence. Back in the good old soupy…
Ta-Nehisi Coates comes home. Maybe you’d like a computer injected into your eye? Hey no thanks. Facebook as digital graveyard. Maps of the end of the world. Look at all…
The 1950’s imagine nuclear New York. I think we’ve gone through this before but why do you hate the word moist? All the 1900s tipi decorations you could ask for…
Admit it, you’d like to know about the woman who rooted out spiritual fraud for Houdini. Here’s your simple guide to quantum entanglement. Let’s all take a moment to appreciate…
Happy 100th birthday (yesterday) Jane Jacobs. What’s going on in the UAE? Not much, just building a mountain to increase rainfall. Today in cultural tourism: school photos in the Arctic.…