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.
What’s up with the 7 day week though? Important news from the weekend: you could be renting HP Lovecraft’s house right now. Maybe what we need are amphibious houses? Everyone…
It’s time to discuss that dreaded menace, green tea. Whatever happened to Aramaic? No, cryogenic freezing doesn’t work. Why did the CIA (sort of) invent couch syrup? Something to think…
Life in California gets bleaker everyday: now we’re running out of pistachios. On the evolution of city hall architecture. Daffodil revenge is the meanest revenge. Meanwhile: the robots have taken…
London, you have been robbed of your 1,000 foot Golden Tower. Seems like outer space is just filled with global oceans these days. I’m so fascinated by this list of…
I know life seems pretty rough sometimes, but at least you don’t have to deal with fire tornados. Medieval tree skeletons will also haunt your dreams. Here are some geometric…
Let’s start our week by staring into a blue fire volcano. Dinosaur hunting in Inner Mongolia. Retro 1970s moonquakes. Look at this dang giant bug! Howard Blackburn is your historical…
Surely we all want to know more about male seahorse pregnancy. Coca-Cola comes to Paris (1950). Let us now praise the Syrian brown bear who REALLY won WWII. So, is…
The dialects and culture of sperm whales. (Whales!) It’s 2015 so let’s talk about video games and architecture. Letters home from the Dark Ages. This Stonehenge II discovery just gets…
There are, like, so many trees. Pretty awkward how into Hitler’s decor we all used to be. News item: De Brazza monkeys are the best! Welcome to the wild world…
Inside the world of predicting and planning for “the maximums of maximums” disasters. Something else to keep you up at night: giant prehistoric sea scorpions. But don’t worry, TNT sucking…
Why would you want to start your day with a video about rats climbing out of toilets, what’s wrong with you? On top of the official name change, Denali also…