Dan Weiss

Important news to start your day: you’re pooping wrong. Here’s some Japanese falconry woodblocks for you. The birds are all screaming at everyone. Hey look at this giant siphonophone. Can we all agree that the early days of brain surgery…

Sometimes your best defense is gay propaganda. Purring wolf spiders. Literally the James Bond of rodents has been discovered. All the 20th Century pictorial maps you could hope for. Now let us remember the ghost army of WWII.

Welcome to the age of archaeologist robots. As long as we’re out here, let’s talk about what we really need to colonize other planets. Reconsidering Joseph Heller’s OTHER book. So, like, what’s the deal with highways huh? From Soviet secret…

Welcome to the gross world of wood frog mating. Hello warm blooded fish! In the end we’d all rather not be punished than be rewarded. Understanding leprosy through ancient skeletons (is a thing you could do). Maps as 20th century…

Big news in the bigfoot conspiracy theory world. Big news in the shaking robots hands world. Real talk: what are we going to do about this drought? Is it just me or are we finding more and more rare shipwrecks…

It’s pretty great/terrifying that scientists are still trying to reverse engineer a dinosaur. On the rise of “mama“. Your DNA changes with the seasons. (life is amazing!) I don’t normally link to things like this, but I’m super fascinated by…

Journey to the (literal) center of the country. The question of the morning is: can zebras be domesticated? Now you too can write like Einstein (for the record there’s a mistake in the subheader here that made me laugh). Very…

It’s important for my sake that you realize beards are probably NOT filled with poop. John Quincy Adams, hollow Earther. What’s up with purring though? That time a microwave baffled astronomers for two decades. Let’s all watch the sun set…

Did we just find life’s missing link? Coltsville, USA is your doomed utopia for the day. Elsewhere on Atlas Obscura: the strange beauty of city models. Very old Canadian ships. The question is, why don’t naked mole rats get cancer?

Hey look, it’s a new oldest known relative of modern birds. Centuries of quackery. Welcome back Large Hadron Collider! And now some movie palace porn.

Behold! The farthest of all galaxies. Now we can 3D print rhino horns, but you probably shouldn’t get too excited. So many historical images of Antarctica. The forgotten days of hog drives. Stretchy whale nerves is your phrase of the…

Nepal’s kung fu nuns are your actually very important badasses of the day. on Spalding Gray, Oliver Sacks, and Big Fish. Here come the portable cloaking devices. Stop feeding birds (counterpoint: birds are the worst). Now you can listen to…