Dan Weiss

Let’s just get one thing straight, NO ONE needs steam-punk themed luxury condos. Incidentally: artificial leaches and other failed Victorian inventions. Let’s all take a trip through PT Anderson’s San Fernando Valley. Endre Neme (is pretty great). It’s way harder…

Albert Einstein tells Marie Curie to ignore the haters. This just in: sea caves are neat. Walter Pichler’s wearable architecture. Crabs understand the importance of not dancing in time. And now an ancient map of Fairyland.

Breaking: the NSA are big nerds who used to write communist fan fiction. Breaking: electric eels are nuts! It’s time to count a jar of coins on the internet for science. A geologic map of the moon. On a related…

Here is a story about some stolen brains in Texas. And here is a photo-essay about them. Thanks ants for keeping New York streets hotdog free. Thants. I almost forgot to talk about this angler fish! Hello there, unpublished Raymond…

You most certainly need a sonic guide to afrofuturism in your life. Photographing London’s lost female subcultures. Elsewhere missing: New York’s lost museums. Obviously reading fiction makes you a better person. And now the 1960s house of the future.

Hello there, eight new spiders. It’s almost 2015, where’s my floating French super city? Here’s your psych ward ruin porn for the week. Plankton! Are neat! And now, accidental deaths in Tudor England.

I’m back! For real! NASA’s abandoned launch pads. (Seriously internet, am I that predictable?) This NY Times article on the significance of passwords is pretty great! Seriously everyone, bullying is just incomprehensibly awful. Here’s your Norwegian grass-based art for the…

will really return next Monday. I can’t begin to say how thankful I am for all of you who’ve been reading this dang thing for so long and for the whole Rumpus community. See you soon.

Will return on Tuesday as we prepare to move back across this fine country of ours. In the meantime here’s a short article about Gorbachev the Twin Peaks fanatic.

Maybe you’d like to watch all 15 of the International Space Station’s 15 daily sunsets? Very old Danish footprints. The question on everyone’s minds: what became of India’s corpse-eating turtles? Now let’s talk about the multiverse and pretend we understand…

We’re getting closer and closer to turning chickens back into dinosaurs. The future is filled with floating public parks. The fake future is filled with robotic hunting devices. It’s hard to argue with the largest gay twin study of all…

Today in mild alarmism: your iphone is injuring your kids. Ballets Russes on the beach. The only guaranteed form of hippo birth control is hippo abstinence. Cosmonauts were just so cool you guys! The internet has let me tie together…