Dan Weiss

Things might seem pretty bad right now, but at least wild horses are back. Bad sex in the animal kingdom. A brief history of allergies. Let’s all go eat invasive…

In my next life I’d like to come back as one of the Flying Cholitas. The Defense Dept. was SO PISSED about email (being created). Photographing life in the Russian…

And you may find yourself (listening to recordings made) at the bottom of the ocean. We’ve entered a new golden age of side saddle. Seems like a good time to…

Everything you know is wrong: the idea of taste zones comes from a mistranslation. Some birds are as smart as apes (all birds are terrible though). Today in ruin porn:…

We’re back, let’s all enjoy some horrible 1980s art. On the physics of Hell. I sure hope the world we live in is one with chimpanzee spiritual rituals. When schizophrenics…

After today we’ll be taking a long weekend, see you all on Tuesday, try to keep a clear head about things. Not to be all alarmist, but it’s feeling like…

So, what did the year in space do to Scott Kelly’s body? The Prohibition Party is still out there fighting the good fight. Never forget all the crazy ways we…

Give a moment of your day to remember the life of Claude Parent, the supermodernist. Oh hey look, it’s a mummy. My actual favorite things: relics of the space age. And…

So what happens if a third-party candidate keeps anyone from a majority in the electoral college (we’re living in weird times folks)? Give a moment of your day to appreciating…

I bet you’d like to know more about that secret society of hunters. Let’s all take a tour of an unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright house. Beautiful toilets of old Paris.…

The question we’ve all been wondering: what books did Shackleton bring to Antarctica? California Topiaries is your photoseries for the day. Lake Michigan is, like, SO clear right now buddies.…

Victorian era cosmetic arsenic eating (is a thing that happened). Glad to know I’m not the only person who’s wondered if you can suntan through a window. Very important vintage…