Dan Weiss

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Thanks to metafilter, now you can have all of the Soviet propaganda art. Stop freaking out about teens sexting. But DO start teaching small children calculus. Very important space suit design news! Hello there brand new strange particles.  

Whelp, I guess it’s time to start eating crickets. I’ve linked to a lot of these before, but you can never have too much Soviet space art. Do sharks have personalities? Sure maybe I guess. There was a horrifying time…

More Soviet space dogs! More forever! 1000 Shadows is your Brazilian/French art installation for the day. Mapping the apocalypse. Let’s all watch some beautiful chemical reactions. Why yes, I WOULD like to look at some vintage Spanish sci-fi illustration.

It’s time to talk about ant slave revolts. Erik Kwakkel is the world’s expert on medieval doodles. Everything we know is wrong: there’s basically no reason to make kids do homework. Surrealist tarot deck (is a neat thing). And now…

We are living in the golden age of deep sea mapping. The questions on everyone’s mind: what’s so bad about Danish sperm? Futurists in 1900 and today rank the letters. Voices of East Anglia remembers Decimal Day. Let us now…

Important news: dolphins can recognize magnets. Here are some hypnotic flight pattern gifs for you. Actually, beavers DON’T chew off their own testicles. Breaking: holloways are neat! And now an underwater fashion show.

You’ve had your accent since before you could speak. Fritz Kahn is so great! Perhaps you’d like to watch Mongolia from eagle back? The history of island civilization is that of weird winds. An (actual real) apology from the Salem…

Basically we should all be terrified of “dormant” volcanoes. I bet you’d like to see some pictures from the Global Reef Expedition. Water is, like, crazy old you guys! It’s very nearly October so how about haunted Japanese real estate…

Today in the world being a very strange place: let’s take a look inside the CIA Starbucks. Hey look! Maybe we’ve found a planet being formed! The International Highline Meeting is honestly the scariest thing I can imagine. Surely we…

I hope that the Budapest Smile School is the weirdest thing you read about today. Being struck by lightning is more terrifying than I can imagine. Attention nerds: big deal prime number news. Maybe Marco Polo came to North America?…