Dan Weiss

THERE IS SO MUCH WATER NEAR THE EARTH’S CORE! How do you treat a mentally ill bonobo? (haven’t we all asked this?) Furthermore: What’s up with Canada’s wolves? Give a…

Looking at designs for new sea exploration ships is what I live for. Victorian occultism and the art of synesthesia. Book towns of the world unite! What are the most…

Perhaps you’ve wondered: what makes those new/old book smells? Elon Musk wants to give you a flying car too. I’ve never wanted anything as badly as I want to go…

Can we genetically edit HIV out of the picture? (Maybe!) Let’s talk about rat regrets, rats regret a lot of things. No matter what else is wrong with the world…

Life in 2014 is weird: behold the first Vine from outer space. Time is (culturally) subjective, man. “1783 was a big year for ballooning.” Maybe you’d like some midcentury German…

Sometimes popular fiction can end hundreds of years old feuds. Today’s Wikipedia page: Time in Antarctica. Self-entombing construction equipment of London. Perhaps you have wondered what’s up with the incorrupt…

Welcome back big-eared bat! Your flying car is (always) only two years away! I could really go for some mammoth meat right about now. On the fake rooftop towns of…

Here come the sperm-bots. Here come the bakeable origami robots. 2014 is a time of genetic replicas of Van Gogh’s ear. Jacque Cousteu’s grandson is up to some cool stuff…

Today in ruin-porn: abandoned mental hospitals! Today in ruin-porn pt 2: Rochester is a cool looking pretty empty place! Tomorrow’s hotels today! On the evolution of silent crickets. I sure…

These old pictures of the Field Museum are basically the best thing about today. Let’s all x-ray some mummies! Picturing the Russian suburbs. Today in inflammatory news: watching porn is…

Perhaps you’ve wondered “Hey, what’s due east or west of here?” And what of the laying of the transatlantic cable? Picturing Mongolia’s brutal winters. Remember that time a scientist was…

You are just so wrong about Hyena sex. And now the big bang (findings) backlash. I imagine you’d like to read about midcentury oceanographers. Psychedelic cookbooks. Let’s hear it for…