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.
What I’m reading here is that math makes you sad. Radical cartography: William Bunge’s Detroit. Maybe we’ll all get to live in 1970s future space colonies after all! Duchamp’s optical…
Chris Hadfield has some pictures to show you. SPACE pictures. Mice inherit memories, so there’s that. Maybe we found the original Alamo! Someone please buy me a hand-carved cave cathedral…
Um, so, the nuclear launch code was 00000000. The metropolis of tomorrow (1929). Meanwhile: The (dystopian) future is now! Amazon wants to send you your items via drones. Perhaps you’d like to watch a small…
We’ll be taking the rest of the week off, see you on Monday! Important news update: Amazon is still literally the worst. Old news but news to me: No, lobsters…
Way to go science! Finding the oldest Buddhist shrine AND the number one pre-T-Rex predator dinosaur. Like I said, you’re doing great science, so hey why not try and grow…
Good news Olympic athletes: you have a very small chance at winning part of a meteor next year. The Upworthy generator is my favorite thing today. The Lake Monsters of…
Someone please buy me a diplodocus. Medieval kids’ doodles and embellished matriculation manuscripts (classy today). Let’s talk about mourning our pets. Soviet architecture was just the best.
Maybe people were in the Americas a lot earlier than we thought (and killing giant sloths). New York is a real toxic town. The world is full of awesome things…
The world’s oldest animal is no more (way to go scientists). More and more it seems obvious that the world of early man was just a crazy sex party. Here…
OH MY GOD LOOK AT THIS GIANT SQUID! Exciting boredom developments. All I want is to go to the island of swimming pigs. Home improvements 70s style. The hero shrew…
Would anyone like to join me on a road trip to find all the forgotten arrows pointing across America? Did you know that Galapagos tortoises can have 1,360 babies in…
Real talk, if you haven’t yet you should really read Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene. New advances in the world of dog origin theories. Paper dresses used to…