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.
I don’t want to alarm anyone but we are getting closer and closer to proving the existence of the ghost planet. Let’s all go inside Nigeria’s hyperrealist art scene. Please…
Very important news: hippos poop so much that sometimes it kills all the fish. Maybe Artificial Intelligence can help us find Aliens? Understanding winter in Antarctica. A slow-moving terrestrial sea.…
Picturing the gas masks of Gaza (this should make you uncomfortable; things are not okay). In significantly and awkwardly more frivolous news: The true history of Yanny and Laurel. Lost pages…
Everything is still very very bad, what do we do? Eureka is full of icey surprises. Does our shifting orbit effect evolution? Probably! Silicon Valley is making the world very…
Don’t get too excited about Pluto becoming a planet again. Yes, your healing crystals are very bad, too. Let’s go inside the chicken church! Technology is changing how we use…
Firmly anti-Uber, but dang am I ready for an air taxi. Look at these terrifying, weird deep-sea creatures! Sofas of LA. Facebook is just bumming everybody out these days. Reading…
Important reminder: David Foster Wallace was a garbage person. Ta-Nehesi Coates on Kanye is the only Kanye think piece you need I promise. Please stop demolishing modernism. No thanks bobbit…
The worst spreadable disease is vaccine refusal. Space allergies. You know who’s great? Fred Moten is great! Hacking your way out of a valedictorian. Guess it’s time for Cat’s Cradle…
Happy Friday! Let’s talk about the past, present, and future of Chernobyl architecture. Welcome to the age of drone crime. Today in now I have this to worry about: Lightning…
Actually very huge gig economy labor law news. Say goodbye to the world’s oldest spider. SUGAR. Cities from the sea (the world is scary). The dying scientist’s rogue vaccine trial.
Very important wildlife photography scandal news. Fun with Soviet spy maps. What is life but a constantly erupting geyser? 100 year old houses of Hungary (are nice). Sometimes a spider…