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.
Why are barns painted red? Because of dying stars. Very important news: yesterday the world’s biggest crocodile turned 110 (maybe). On the other side of feelings about the world, welcome…
We, as a species, have built one large scale dam a day for the last 130 years (on average). Here are some books with awful original titles. I’m not going…
Venezuela is out of toilet paper. Behold the Alternative Limb Project. If I’m reading this correctly, I could really use some electrical brain shocks. And now you’re midcentury design for…
Watch out for the solar flare you guys. On plate tectonics and the origins of monkeys vs apes. Children of the 1980s build the city of the future. We all…
The time has come for vintage Swedish movie posters. Perhaps there is a submerged continent off the coast of Brazil. I imagine we’ve all wondered what New York City would…
I’m sure we’ve all asked ourselves “why is Mercury like an orange and not a peach?” 19th Century Japanese bird paintings (are neat). This just in: gas masks are terrifying…
Just in time for, uh, yesterday: did you know that the founder of Mother’s Day fought to have it abolished? Split in half food is a good thing to photograph.…
You will be missed western black rhino. No, glass really isn’t a liquid. Not to keep being a bummer, but the Toba super-volcano probably didn’t happen either. Now let’s talk…
Some good news: Disney isn’t going to trademark Dia de los Muertos after all. Wired worms its way farther into my heart via a list of recent awesome dinosaur discoveries.…
What’s it like sailing a top the Arctic? What’s it like, swimming below the Arctic? Our solar system is actually pretty weird. Unwanted moles are basically the best archaeologists. Now…
Today in ruin porn, the world of abandoned borscht belt resorts. Banner ads are basically the least effective thing ever. Here is everything you need to know about the coming…