Dan Weiss

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Get to know Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. On Bolvia’s spaceship architecture (this is great but it would be better if it was literal). Way to even be Antarctic fish. Enter the world of medieval crime reports. Neanderthals…

I can’t believe I missed this dragon dinosaur news, truly I have failed you. Pity the city robin. We have entered the age of space parking. Limpet teeth are like, SO strong. There is a definite chance that we are…

Let’s hear it for the Portuguese man o’ war. The strange tale of Marble Hill, Manhattan. Here is that Romanian Wizard of Oz illustration you asked for. Life-saving spider cunnilingus. The thing is, I LOVE presidential libraries.

Some design porn from the dying days of the Soviet Bloc. Elsewhere in the Cold War: remember that time we almost started a war because of a simulation? You have no idea how important your mom’s germs were. But, like, why…

By 40 you’re done (earnings-wise)(in general)(I guess). You can always use more bioluminescence. Important, weird looking spaceship design news. Let’s all go on a tour of some restored Adolf Loos interiors. Stop everything and look at this dang thing.

If you live in the bay area, you should spend your Valentine’s Day at the Museum of Broken Relationships. Who needs blood diamonds when you can have peanut butter ones? China’s unfinished Manhattan replica is a lonely place. Elsewhere in…

Time to take a trip inside the world of CIA psychological profiles of dictators and world leaders. Hospital robots hurray! Hospital robots boo! Also here come the AI poets. It’s always a good day to talk about Emperor Norton. Very…

Darwinian doodles. The last of the clamshell gas stations. Let’s all watch some people destroy New York buildings in the 50s. More about vintage rolling pins than you probably thought you’d read today. Before 1948, LA’s power grid was incompatible…

Dogs are doing their part (by smelling poop). A bit more on that subway study, truthfully we don’t know WHAT this junk is. Here are some 1930s fashion drawings for you. All my issues with the Goodnight Moon bedroom. We…

This weekend was the deeply controversial maybe centennial of feature films, here’s a couple of fascinating essays on 100 years of Birth of a Nation. Let’s talk about chimp accents. SECRET MOON ARTIFACTS! Soviet cosmonauts, on the other hand, carried…

Yes, the NYC subway might have a little bit of the plague, but you shouldn’t freak out too much. Oh hi Pluto. Ursula K. Le Guin on the future of the left. Recovering a 100 year lost font (I’m glad…