Dan Weiss

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 a bit further: Thirty-six Views of the Eiffel Tower. All…

We’ll be back tomorrow morning bright and early. Everything is everything. Thank you for being here.

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 Bridged wants you to! Cool thanks, back to MC! Edward…

If you think I’m not going to link to pictures of the dawn of the Soviet space program you clearly don’t know me. Can we meet halfway here and just let dogs live forever? I think we’re all supposed to…

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 quarries. The lost gardens of Emily Dickinson (are pretty neat).

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 dreams. When did the Americas come together anyway?    

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 Hawaii got its curve. The best retrofuturism comes from old…

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 days.

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 these dang Albanian bunkers.

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 today. The question of the raised fist. Hey look at…

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 the mind-bending public sculptures of the world. Huzzah for automata!…

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. Meanwhile: the Arctic is the next big super confusing frontier.…