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 dioramas). So, what happens when the queen dies? Bauhausify the…

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 way kidney swap is the craziest thing I’ve ever read…

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. Hey there new but prehistoric moth!

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 just enjoy some tilt shifted Van Goughs.  

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. The Soviet avant-garde Columbus monuments that could have been. Will…

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 (linguistically) Ukrainian (sort of). Here’s that 14th Century illustrated combat…

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 look it’s Genghis Khan’s fortress. Let’s talk some more about…

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 Kong (gives you some cool pictures).

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 a Strategic Defense Initiative video game. Celebrating African modernist architecture.…

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.) The world is still full of magic: Mongolian reindeer riders.…

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 go crazy in Antarctica before they go crazy on Mars!…

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 basically anything in his mouth. On the mathematics of snow…