Dan Weiss is a professional bookseller, amateur dilettante. He writes and plays in the band The Yellow Dress. He firmly believes that everything is going to be okay.
Hold everything, Lonesome George is on display in New York! A short history of European animal trials. Look I know that Christmas Island SOUNDS nice, but I promise you it’s…
Hey look, we might have a new oldest person ever. Hey look, we might have a new oldest shipwreck ever. The hidden world of underground cities. Long story short, we…
Also climate change is making polar bears eat geese. We’ve got about five billion years left in this galaxy. Let’s all take a tour of the world’s deadliest garden. Here…
Welcome to the fall (tomorrow), perhaps you’d like to know about the chemistry of autumn leaf color. BBC Earth looks at the insane world of sexual organs. Yes, but what…
Woah woah woah, Chris Ware is releasing a serialized novella over at The Guardian. The mortuary railway and other secrets of Sydney. Asking the important questions: do animals cry? The…
It’s pretty neat that we can still unearth five thousand year old monuments. Today in global warming being confusing: there is more sea ice around Antarctica than ever before. Would…
The water just outside the Golden Gate Bridge is littered with ghost ships. A giant word search puzzle of everything Borges ever wrote is a thing you could make I…
The world is a beautiful place because one time Neil Armstrong and Edmund Hillary went to the North Pole together. Actually Schizophrenia is a whole lot of different disorders. The…
There is no such thing as too many soviet space dog links. Look, we’re ALL hallucinating. Here are all of 50 Watts’s Don Quixote posts for you. Aerial shots of…
It’s Friday and all I want is for you to buy me a soviet cosmonaut dog spacesuit. Meanwhile, the world is full of cat paradises. Just in time for, uh,…
It seems like this is probably a good time to look back at the horrifying world of pre-feminist marriage counseling. Today in things that keep me from sleeping: pain isn’t…
Hey look! We found one of the lost Franklin ships! Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet: let’s all pretend we’re crossing Antarctica in the 50s! Io9 looks at…