Dan Weiss

I want to believe: is there still a underground “house of the future” in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park? While we’re on the topic, Silicon Valley is losing its domes. The world…

Seems like a good time to talk about monkey math. Here comes powdered alcohol. 1970s feminist trading cards. Maybe we just aren’t good enough for Celebration, Florida. The professional grotesques…

The Bonnie and Clyde ambush was 80 years ago this week (also it turns out they were very short)! So, how close are we REALLY from finding life on other…

Yes, I’ll link to the earth-like planet discovery too. Carl Sagan sounds like he was a pretty cool dad. The science of funk. How about a bit of 1920s satirical…

The whale poop hypothesis. Actually that wasn’t the world’s oldest message in a bottle. Let us now discuss Victorian era bathing machines. There is literally no way you don’t want…

Perhaps you have wondered when men hit their grumpy tipping point. It is your patriotic duty to vote for new space suits. Why do you have to keep raining on…

I will never get tired of 50 Watt’s ongoing 70s and 80s cosmic Japanese art series. Let’s all go to the 1982 World’s Fair! Maybe Saturn is making a new…

Wait did you just say space cherry? Napping will definitely (maybe) kill you. One-Star Book Reviews is your tumblr for the whatever. Important news: the Mesa Lab looks cool! Here…

Why don’t we all live in Arctic City? (Maybe someday we will all live in Arctic City.) Here come the bio-engineered vaginas! News item: beaked whales dive hella deep dudes!…

Behold the world’s oldest message in a bottle. The golden age of hippie sellouts. Science has some asteroid nightmare fodder for you. How about some midweek Soviet ruin porn? “Wait…

Doctor Zhivago as CIA propaganda. Let’s talk about mummy tattoos. Let’s talk about hummingbird DNA. Here are some 1850’s scientific engravings for you. Richard Teschner and his puppets (Are also…

I’m back and I come bearing baby octopuses (I promise never to leave you with no notice again). More Soviet space illustration! On a similar note: THE TRAIN OF TOMORROW!…