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.
Scientists want to help you pee (this is really important, I’m sorry for being juvenile). Yes, abandoned theme parks are still my favorite. Polish film posters are pretty great though…
Let’s all enjoy some pictures of DC’s early punk scene. India takes the next step towards dolphin personhood. Mapping every library and museum in America (is a good thing to…
Deep-sea cuddling whales will help you get through any Monday. News flash: you aren’t sleeping enough dudes. Congratulations Greg Snell on having the (official) best job in the world. This…
Let me just tell you, mutated silkworms are doing some crazy stuff. Cyborgs of the roaring 20s. Yes, I still love decaying old theme parks. Congratulations on reaching your full…
More early 20th Century Japanese children’s illustration. More! More! Mars used to be a pretty nice place (maybe). Very important question: why do male dark fishing spiders spontaneously die after…
Important: short stories are good for your brain! Blah blah Soviet design blah blah blah children’s illustration blah blah pop-up blah blah blah link. Let us now discuss inflatable architecture…
Photos of the Second Avenue Subway construction are my favorite things today. Manhattan’s payphone graveyard is pretty cool too. Behold the Fiji cannibal fork. It is time to put backpacks…
60 plus years of 1984 cover design. Perhaps you are need of some inspiration today; this is a story about a female amputee scaling Everest. Headline of the day: “Mind-reading…
Dang weird clouds are getting more and more common. Yes, we have discovered a new body part. Behold the first known fluorescent vertebrate (that you totally were already familiar with).…
Cheetahs ain’t so fast (they are still very fast). Here are some photographs of moths for you. Jackson Pollack: unknowing cold war warrior. Futurist domes march into the sea. Today…
The (verified) oldest man in recorded history has passed. More bad news, this time about coffee. Here are some pictures of bubbles for you. The answer is hallucinating robots. And…
Alastair Philip Wiper’s photographs of industry are my favorite things today. But these pictures of grandmothers of the world and their cuisine are pretty adorable too. More on the ocean…