Dan Weiss

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 stop blowing up garbage trucks (by throwing away cell phone…

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. Photographing life under overpasses.

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 of Anne Frank’s diary found! How Spain’s powerplants became works…

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 boring. Meanwhile: inside China’s first robot bank. Important baleen whale…

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 “useless” space. How to live one hour past the end…

It is time to acknowledge that we are still living in the age of the dinosaurs. We have seriously had Hep B for SO LONG. The ultimate contraband is a North Korean pizza vid. Wombat sex. Here’s your Soviet children’s…

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 American history through our handkerchiefs.

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 worm! JK! There aren’t any secret chambers behind King Tut’s…

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 IRL.

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 struck her home. Then her brain implant stopped working. Inside…

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 just wants to get eaten you know?