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The strangest letter of the alphabet
A history of yogh, the medieval English letter that vanished from the alphabet, tracing how scribes, printers and sound…
The tech of Terminator 2
An oral history of the groundbreaking visual effects in Terminator 2, with the artists and engineers behind the liquid-m…
The Tedious Intrigue of Art Conservation
A Carnegie Magazine feature that goes behind the scenes with museum conservators as they painstakingly clean, repair and…
The tiniest yet real telescope I've built
A maker's account of building a pocket-sized Dobsonian telescope that truly works, with the design choices and tricks ne…
The Tragic Relationship of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
A Literary Ladies Guide essay tracing the troubled marriage of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, drawing on letters rev…
The Treasures of Noh
A feature on a Kyoto woman who carves masks for Noh, one of Japan's oldest theatre forms, following her unusual path int…
The Twentieth Century Society
A UK heritage charity campaigning to protect modernist and postwar buildings, publishing case files on threatened office…
The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller
A literary-magazine essay arguing that Ferris Bueller's Day Off hides real weight about friendship, fear and growing up…
The Unique Art of Sign Painting in Los Angeles
A photo essay on the hand-painted signs of Los Angeles storefronts and the sign painters keeping the craft alive, from b…
The User Condition
Silvio Lorusso's online essay on computer agency and behavior, asking how users can evade automatisms inside software bu…
The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
A design look at LEGO's iconic interface panels, why their stickers, dials and switches teach interface basics, and what…
The Website Obesity Crisis
Maciej Ceglowski's classic talk on bloated web pages, arguing that page weight and needless complexity are making the we…
The World of Bosch
Journalist Stanley Meisler's essay on Hieronymus Bosch, the enigmatic master of apocalyptic visions, and why his bizarre…
The XB-70
A photo essay on the XB-70 Valkyrie, the Mach 3 Cold War bomber, told through the author's father who worked on it, with…
TheCollector
A site publishing well-researched articles on ancient philosophy, mythology, art history, and world religions for a gene…
There Are People Who Can See and Others Who Cannot Even Look
An illustrated essay on Nadar, the pioneering 19th-century photographer, showcasing his striking portraits of Hugo, Mane…
There Oughta Be a Bullet Time Video Booth
A maker builds a wedding video booth from an array of DSLR cameras to create Matrix-style bullet-time clips, with a vide…
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This is Versailles: Trianon de Porcelaine
The story of Louis XIV's Trianon de Porcelaine, a blue-and-white tiled pleasure house built for Madame de Montespan and…
Thomas Jefferson and Architecture
An Encyclopedia Virginia entry on Thomas Jefferson as architect, covering his Palladian influences, his drawings, Montic…
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Three Colours: Red
Science writer Philip Ball explores the colour red through art history and chemistry, from ancient pigments to painters,…
Throwing Shade at the Cartographer Illuminati
A walkthrough of raytracing topographic maps in R to cast realistic shadows, showing how a few lines of code make terrai…
Tintin, Herge and Chang
A long read on the friendship between Belgian cartoonist Herge and Chinese sculptor Chang Chongren, and how it reshaped…
Tove Jansson's Illustrations of The Hobbit
A look at the playful illustrations Moomin creator Tove Jansson drew for a Swedish edition of Tolkien's The Hobbit, and…
Two ISS Passes in One Morning
A photographer's write-up of capturing the International Space Station twice in one morning, flying between the Moon and…
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