Dan Weiss

Let’s put aside our troubles and disagreements and watch Rodrigo Koxa surf the world’s largest wave ever surfed. Perhaps you’d like a socialist case for space exploration? On Transylvania and…

I can’t stop reading about the Golden State Killer; it turns out it was all genealogy that solved the case! Alternatively, maybe you’d like some dodo bird true crime. Hey look!…

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is now open. What’s wrong with growing globs of brain anyway? Here are your Japanese winter playgrounds for the day. Can’t believe fatbergs aren’t…

I hope you’re all ready to be interviewed by racist bots. Elsewhere in the dystopia: life on the polluted coasts of Cambodia. The rise of the cupholder. And you may…

We’re back! We saw 21 Alligators! Wow! San Francisco’s skyscrapers are even more terrifying than you thought! No one knows what’s going on in China’s air! Everyone’s password is dragon.…

After this post we here at DWMC are taking off on a vacation; we’ll be back on Monday, April 23! All hail the sweet potato, colonizer of worlds. Let’s just…

Sometimes it seems like we know everything and then sometimes we find out that puffin beaks are fluorescent. Volcanos of Io. Milk bars of Melbourne. Hey look! Ocean beach is…

Darran Anderson on the late great Isao Takahata. Salt! What is life but an empty Japanese telephone booth? Sounds like a dare to me. Now let’s listen to some rhubarb.

The ice is melting but at least Antarctica is getting snowier. Today in cultural tourism/voyeurism: Cuban movie theaters and Korean schoolyards. Medieval churches will save the (wireless internet) world. Here…

Will we survive the era of fake video? The benevolent voyeur. Maybe Patagonia can save us? (Probably not but thanks for trying!) How do you count endangered species? Get the…

What is life but a designer mobile office? The FBI and the mystery of the mummy’s head. Asking the important questions: do you weigh more at the poles or at…

Jelani Cobb on honoring MLK 50 years later. Here are some quarries for you. (Some) frogs are doing great! Today in the dystopia: direction apps are taking people up streets…