Dan Weiss

Today in amazing local news: Phoenix is crawling with packs of chihuahuas. And you may ask yourself, how wrong is my timezone? Irina Margareta Nistor is your Cold War hero…

The feral buildings of Hong Kong (are neat). I don’t usually post things like this, but Faces of Olympic Figure Skating is the most important thing that has ever happened.…

Very important: it is nearly impossible to castrate a hippo. Don’t worry, you’ll be able to drink Japanese sports drinks on the moon soon enough. You guys I just remembered…

Don’t even worry about those asteroids my man, we’ll probably be fine. Finland is really leading the way in reindeer antler safety. Umberto Eco wants to talk to you about…

One of the secrets of Joe Gould’s Secret is no longer so secret. Now let us discuss corpse wax. How about a historical atlas of NYC? Very very important military…

MC will be back tomorrow morning. Happy President’s Day.

Good news! The world’s oldest bird just had a baby. On the genetic effects of slaves and empires. THE STONE OF MADNESS. In honor of the day: dating advice for…

More and more people believe in astrology (you probably are one of them). On irony and Nazi fonts. I don’t know if you know this already, but Iceland is magic.…

As it turns out there are even more fish in the sea. Here are some vintage magician posters for you. This is not the world I want to live in:…

Ok ok, let’s talk about Saint Valentine. I sure hope this is the worst story I’ll read this week, but these days… The ICE/ISEE-3 satellite is coming back to earth…

José Salvador Alvarenga is the best person today. “Should we kill all these swans?” is a pretty hard question to have to ask. Olaus Magnus’s Sea Serpent. Hello there, super…

Here is how to end the world (in 1962). Meanwhile: actually you don’t really have to worry about Yellowstone erupting. A bit of Italian futurist costume design. New Blog Piece…