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.
Greetings newly (twice) discovered hog nosed rat! Mary Anning is your historical bad ass for the week. Why is the placebo effect getting stronger? (Like, seriously, what is wrong with…
It’s October 7th, is the world ending today? On the decline of play and the rise of children’s mental disorders. Here’s your Belgian installation art for the day. Laser razors…
So many space photos. Thank you for everything prehistoric beaver. A brief history of owls. News item: volcanoes control everything basically. Let us now discuss the drinking habits of Antarctic…
Important news: Astrid Lindgren was so great! Somehow I missed this news story about sending robot squids to Europa. Backyard atomic gardens of the 1960s. Here are some 19th Century…
And you may ask yourself, what DO crows understand about death? Protip: spend your weekend watching wildebeest migrations. The future is all bamboo pavilions as far as the eye can…
Slow day out here, so let’s talk about pooping in space. Might as well have some space sounds too. Welcome to the ultimate map of punny businesses. Swinging Toronto. Hooray…
As long as it’s on everyone’s mind, let’s enjoy some old maps of mars. Is there an evolutionary purpose to masturbation? The Book of Delightful and Strange Design. Viruses are…
Who wants to help me find New York’s hidden grid bolts? The beautiful specificity of insurance codes. Let’s all take a look inside an astronaut training simulator. Let’s all also…
Still working on some hiccups over here so please pardon our digital dust. I bet you’d be into this Dali illustrated Alice in Wonderland. Now what we really need to…
Our humblest apologies, we’ve been having some ridiculous technical problems over here at MC, we promise to get it all straightened out and be back up and running ASAP. Thanks…
But why is there a speed of light at all? new dinosaurs every dang day. The fact is, most white people are probably racist. Let’s all go mine for diamonds in…
Maybe you’re interested in Ursula Le Guin’s writing advice? If you want to be a good liar just wait until your bladder is about to burst. Photographing the dead zones…