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 to look at some photos of caterpillars of New England.…

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 and Squeeky Fromme continue to be fascinating. All of the…

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 anything that might be there. So, like, why can’t we…

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 alphabet engravings you were asking about. Important news: jellyfish are…

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 could possibly ask for. Take a trip back to the…

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 some gross stuff.) John Berger at 88. We don’t live…

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 history of paralyzing spider venom. Colossal squids and toothfish are…

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). Our eyes are amazing! Attention world: please buy me Bedrock…

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 still a slow day for non-political links: did someone say…

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 prettier. Newly unearthed footage of Amelia Earhart right before her…

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! Everyone loves French ghost signs. Wonders of an underground world…