Dan Weiss

Why yes, science CAN bring back a 700-year-old caribou poop virus. Chris Hadfield’s (from) space pictures (are great). Here come the lifeguard drones. Can you really feel the weather in…

We all wish we could go to Space City USA sometimes. Today seems like a good day to talk about New York’s urban legends. Abandoned mental hospital cemeteries are sort…

Mondays are for animal things I guess. Here comes the Jesus snake. Climate change is shrinking mountain goats. I bet you’re wondering right now: how do mantarays eat? Baby sea…

I wish more than anything I could go to a 19th Century world’s fair. Let’s all take a look inside Gaudi’s unfinished masterpiece. Pity the poor Deinocheirus. Finally a positive…

There was a time when people were pretty sure birds migrated to the moon. Important news: some people don’t use the internet late at night. (It is almost Halloween) how…

The darkest timeline: there was a time when people called it “blunch”. Have you checked out NASA’s Soundcloud page lately? It has everything a nerdy 10 year old could possibly…

We try to keep this free of politics as much as possible, but right now seems like a good time to remember just how horribly Reagan handled the AIDS crisis.…

To be honest with you, we have no idea who Jack the Ripper was. A brief history of spinning buildings. Science used to be so much more whimsical and Mars…

Maybe killer whales and dolphins are talking to each other? Maybe a lot of things. Hey but also, whales just wish we would quiet down. The question is: what is…

Look we’re not saying that you can’t get to Mars, just that you’re going to starve to death very quickly. But I bet you’d like some midcentury space design now.…

I bet you were thinking “I’d really like to play some Edo-era Japanese games on my computer today.” Hey look, it’s Alexander the Great’s dad! This is an article about…

Long story short, the whole Third Reich was just totally messed up on crystal meth all the time. What can we learn from social spiders? Here is your pool noodle…