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.
Breaking news: Pluto’s moons are crazy. I bet some of you would like to look at these John Ashbery and Guy Maddin collages, seems like the sort of things you’d…
Articles on cassette culture involve basically all of my interests. Very important pizza reportage. Arnar Ásgeirsson’s living sections. News item: fish are so dang weird. Update: actually the whole ocean…
Bus stops of Belarus (are neat). Welcome to the exciting world of highpointers. More Arctic artifacts. Important news: male beetles are dumb. And now some 19th Century glass sea creatures…
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Hello, this robot can perform brain surgery on fruit flies. There’s nothing special about being related to Charlemagne. Why do we keep finding new animals anyway? Here’s some more environmental…
Today in yes the drought is really that bad. Important news: seeing awesome stuff is awesome/makes you awesome. Plants don’t like being eaten either. A definitive guide to posthumous marriage.…
When I die bury me in a Ghanaian fantasy coffin. The NY Times takes you on a trip through the wild world of retracted scientific studies. Moving Day in Feather…
Also Soviet fashion spies. Here come the genetically supersized fruits and vegetables. Antarctica by drone (I sure wish we had a different word for the cool nature film getting drones).…
Important news: if there are aliens they (maybe) are probably (the size of) bears. On the ocean’s tiniest life. I’d find Silicon Valley a whole lot more charming if it…
Great moments in faking your own death. Archaeology can ALSO be improved with lasers. Growing up a child test subject. The etymological mystery behind “The Holocaust”. I think you deserve…