Dan Weiss

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 loves the hum of giraffes.

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 about this weekend: the ethics of having sex with robots.

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 over deep sea exploration too. Did we make dogs lazy…

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 every movie Jimmy Carter watched in the White House. Very…

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 shapes to calm you. On board the Orient Express (1950).…

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 badass for the week.

We’re having some for real technical difficulties here at MC. We’ll be back in Monday. I hope your weekend is a dream.

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 speed reading even actually possible? Jezebel takes a deep dive…

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 more intense by the day! And now some abandoned mall…

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 of academic leisure studies. Hopefully this virtual tour of 1960s…

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 plants are here to save us all. Give a moment…

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 shrunk. I know this is everywhere, but I’m just so…