Dan Weiss

Welp, here comes warp drive (maybe). The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments. Inside Spy Mountain. Here are those WWII ship wrecks you asked for. And now Soviet space pins.

Hey look a bat dinosaur! Perhaps you have wondered about Missouri’s shape. I’m mainly linking to this because of the phrase “ruddy blood falls“. Runaway galaxies! All of the midcentury prehistoric creature illustrations you could hope for today.

This is unfortunately a very appropriate time to look back at Baltimore’s civil unrest of the 1830s. Meet the T. Rex’s new vegetarian cousin. Perhaps you’d like to look at some name tags from a medieval orphanage. Atlas Obscura on…

I love a good rare book theft mystery. Back in the good old days of treadmill crane labor. On the bike highway LA almost had. Meanwhile, in the present, it’s time to terraform the LA River. Here are those closeup…

It’s not that poetry is dead, it’s that, mathematically, it’s dying. Georg Wilhelm Steller is your 18th Century naturalist for the week. The time has come for the TIFF once a decade poll of the top ten Canadian films. We…

We’ll be back to full-fledged Friday entries next month after DWIF DWEST activities have subsided, but in the meantime enjoy these wildlife and revolutionary war veteran pictures. I love all of you.

Marianne North is your historical bad ass of the day. But save a moment for (possibly first in flight) Gustave Whitehead. 19th Century escort cards. Maybe most of Christianity happened because of a meteor. Maybe a lot of things. Ready…

Dark matter (maybe) ruins everything. Here are those 1920s Soviet Constructivist movie posters you asked for. Perhaps you have wondered: sup with clouds? Perhaps you have wondered: sup with human body hair? Very fast Japanese trains (like, so fast).

Inside the bizarre giant ghost city of Naypyidaw, Burma. At least all this pollution is giving us cuter tinier sea life. The immense Columbus monument that could have been. After 250 years, clockmaker John Harrison has been vindicated. Congratulations. A…

Why aren’t film cuts just constantly destroying our brains? The battle for Toledo. Fanzine heartthrob Hitler. On Seattle’s mystery soda machine. Sometimes attempts to fix plumbing just lead to centuries of Italian history.

Will return Monday! I love all of you.

Exciting times, whale enthusiasts. Finding the oldest stone tools by accident. Relatedly: we’re getting some pretty good insights from chimpanzee hunting. Apparently no one had ever filmed knuckle cracking before. Now it’s time to enjoy the relative sizes of all…