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.
“Hey I was hoping I could look at some New York buildings on other planets today.” This week in cultural tourism: let’s all check out a Slavic Muslim wedding. I love old movie…
I don’t care if you’ve already read too many Lemonade think-pieces, it’s time to read what Hilton Als has to say. Longstory short: Walt Whitman pretty much was a cooler…
It’s that time again! Time to talk about the actual stakes and misunderstandings of the vice-presidency. Where’s my underwater bridge to Gibraltar? All the turn of the century tornado pictures…
Mapping the brain’s language filing system (is apparently a thing we can do). Here’s an adorable lil new distant moon for you. Perhaps you have wondered: sup with the rattle…
Do plants have memories? Maybe! Let’s talk about water taste. Now let’s go on a tour of a Stasi prison! What the world needs is a very tall wooden Swedish…
Do dolphins speak in holograms? I’m going to say absolutely yes. I’ve been saying this for years: Chicago is probably the best positioned major US city for global warming. End…
Maybe honeybees feel? So now you’ve got THAT to worry about. Perhaps you’ve wondered: hey who brought science fiction magazines to America? Perhaps you’ve wondered: hey what’s up with RC…
Finally answering the important questions: how are you even supposed to say 2016? The rise of the pirate library. Here’s your retro, white-privilege explaining board game for the day. Very…
Who doesn’t love a good street dog? Long lost color footage of David Attenborough’s first voyage (thanks great cool wonderful). Here’s your death defying Victorian balloonists story for the day.…
If anyone needs me I’ll be looking through historical pictorial maps. Today in ants being amazing: ant life rafts! A little ruin porn for your Wednesday morning. Dinosaurs were probably…
Great moments in librarians. Photographing wild Chernobyl (is a cool thing to do). Contrarian watch: are people really that much smarter than apes? Your coins are filthy, and that is…