Dan Weiss

Dark days: welcome to the age of because as recognized preposition. Why didn’t anyone tell me space architect was a job you could have? The desertification of Mongolia (hurray for…

The BBC takes you inside NASA’s giant rocket lab (so thanks). It’s time to admit that no one likes jazz. Here is your staircase porn for the day. This 6…

1850’s post-earthquake Japanese catfish paintings are one of the strangers phenomenons you could encounter. On menopausal killer whales. Today in man-Dubai-seems-pretty-nuts: The Miracle Garden. Now let’s talk about sheep brains.…

Who doesn’t love a good ship graveyard? Charles Babbage summons the devil. It’s time for the walls to start peeing back. On the quest for endless (solar) flight. Now let’s…

There’s a new first person in town. We should probably all go to the new Bedlam art museum. A lot of the time synesthesia just goes back to fridge magnets.…

Way to accidentally fix color blindness, scientists! I would very much like a court regulated dolphin partner. Colson Whitehead on the loser edit that awaits us all. We are all…

It’s Errol Morris Week over at Grantland, so I don’t know why you’re still here. Hey but it’s pretty neat that there are still lost cities to discover! Similarly: oh…

Horrible, horrible statues. I can admit that Google’s zip line view is pretty cool. 19th Century dramatic dinosaur fossil drawings. More on those restored Antarctic buildings. Looking up in Hong…

Look, there’s a million reasons I shouldn’t link to this, but it’s Monday and I’m not made out of stone so here are some quokka selfies. Why yes there was…

Let’s get this out of the way: io9’ll explain how that dang colored dress things works. Maybe what we need is a water pipeline from Alaska? (spoiler alert: probably not.)…

Today in impossible black holes: hey check out this impossible black hole! Maybe we’ll be ready for full body transplants in two years. Maybe a lot of things. Let people…

Behold the world’s oldest cheese. On a similar note: Atlas Obscura looks at the world’s oldest still operating companies (spoiler alert: they are mainly in the Japan). Darwin would put…