Dan Weiss

Here’s that space age Polish kid’s book you were asking about. News item: apparently some people collect old sugar cubes. Beware the vampire squid. Yeah, sure, I guess I’d like…

Beware the dangers of virtual reality. Some people can’t picture anything. What make water wet? (Like, woah dude.) On the relentless symmetry of jellyfish. The Berlin Wall is everywhere, man.

So, why do you think you hate the word moist so much? No, you can’t live in space yet. Did Vesta eat its moons? (I hope so.) Sara Jane Moore…

It’s a Friday and there’s so much to be angry about so let’s just have a linguist analyze the pop punk accent. We can (probably) go to mars without killing…

Everything seems pretty awful lately but at least there are wild black bears in Indiana again. Old African movie theaters are also pretty neat. Here are those 18th Century architectural…

New York’s rooftop airport dreams. Life is also crazy at the single cell level. My new goal is to become a dinosaur philosopher. All the organic chemistry lab photos you…

Hey look at this adorable new dinosaur! Postcards as horrifying propaganda of colonial pasts. What do we find when the reservoirs dry up? (spoiler alert: some neat stuff and also…

Global warming is making polar bears eat dolphins (the world is dark). Meanwhile, here’s what 2100 is going to look like. A brief history of Little Golden Books. A brief…

Happy Friday, enjoy some weirdo VHS cover art. Carl Tanzler’s mummified dream girl. The government has always been at war with lemonade stands (because sometimes they give the public Polio).…

This article about the future of songs has some interesting ideas but also says some of the dumbest things I’ve ever read, so there you go. Dept. of yep it’s…

What can we learn from chimp war? (More importantly: chimp war!) News item: it takes a very large telescope to look into black holes. Money used to be so much…

On the strange afterlife of Edgar Allen Poe’s hair. Meanwhile, in I guess it’s a slow news day: Neil deGrasse Tyson denies your hoverboard dreams. Everyone loves French film posters!…