Dan Weiss

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 be into. The mystery of the mule deer. Here’s your…

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 is.

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 for you.

We’ve been having a lot of technical problems with our internet access recently, please accept our humble apologies and promises to get everything fixed and back to normal ASAP.

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 devastation footage for you. Don’t worry Australia, America had our…

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. Will you be replaced by a robot? (Spoiler alert: we’ll…

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 Town. There were just, like, so many different kinds of…

Our humble apologies, a terrible cold has been getting the better of us this last week, we’ll be back tomorrow. We miss you horribly.

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). Let’s all enjoy Buckminster Fuller’s FBI file. Atlas Obscura has…

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 was still home to Dog City. Let’s all look at…

Is taking the long weekend. Have a good Memorial Day. Be good to each other. We’ll be back Tuesday.

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 some baby red pandas now.