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.
We are living in an age of holographic cooking simulators and envelope x-ray spray. The ice of Lake Michigan provide you with some gifs to make it through the weekend.…
Here is a baby dik-dik. You’re welcome, the internet. Photographing the impressions left by clothing and jewlery, is a thing you could do. (nsfw) So, what porn is the world…
No, we didn’t find 100 percent proof of extraterrestrial life, but we did figure out that life COULD have existed on Mars! Obviously the answer is floating cities. Soviet anti-alcohol…
“Please help, I am surrounded by herring and I’m terrified of fire.” Don’t worry, just use the DNA in their sperm! Talking Points Memo brings you the best obituary of…
In case you want to start your week reading fascinating and upsetting historical documents, over 10,000 Haitian runaway slave notices have digitized. There is something mysterious living in Antarctica’s Lake…
Welcome to the known world, new South African cryptic spider. Pendulum Choir is your art installation for the week. Space paradoxes are my favorite kind of paradoxes. You know what…
Giant salamanders are the best suckers of all. Your elevator is segregating you. Look, I know this is venturing way too far into pop-culture, but this article about what happened…
Studying the self-portraits of famous authors (is a thing you could do I guess). Perhaps you’d like to see some infrared images of emperor penguins. 1970s Soviet Futurism yes please…
And now matching unique editions of Fahrenheit 451 designed alternatively to burn and to never do that. Today’s scariest thing: anaesthesia wearing off mid-surgery! In honor of all this dead…
Here’s what we will wear in space. The Onion is not above its own satirizing, which is why it is the best. Shall we now discuss the possible origins of…
Yes, I love you Bear in Space. There is no denying. Perhaps you’ve wondered where (certain) insults come from. Science you guys! Mind-melded rats and franken-tadpoles. The NY Times tackles…
Here is everything you need to know about what happens to the outgoing pope. This is what piano notes look like. Important news: black holes are fast, like woah. The…