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Where $3 Trillion Actually Goes
A data analysis of 4 million IRS 990 filings mapping where US nonprofit revenue flows, and how little financial disclosu…
Where Am I?
Daniel Dennett's classic philosophical tale of a man whose brain is removed and kept in a vat while his body roams, aski…
Where Did the Old Web Go?
A crawl of over 650,000 links from 2009 to 2014 reveals how much of the old web has vanished, with breakdowns of what di…
Where Do the Children Play?
An essay on growing up with machetes and wild places, and why children and the living world both need room to exist with…
Where does my computer get the time from?
A fascinating tour of how clocks reach your computer, from atomic clocks and GPS to NTP servers and leap seconds, writte…
Where Have All the Websites Gone?
An essay asking whether the quirky, personal websites of the late 2000s really vanished or whether we just stopped looki…
Whimsies - Brilliantly Beaded
An online Hudson Museum exhibit on beaded whimsies, the glittering pincushions and souvenirs Mohawk and Tuscarora artist…
Whiting
A three-minute short story by Deesha Philyaw told through six Sunday breakfasts of fried whiting that a father cooks for…
Who Are Nerds
A funny, sharp essay by Rosa Lyster in the independent magazine Popula about her long-running irritation with nerds and…
Who Asked the Little Fluffy Clouds Question?
A music detective story that tracks down the interviewer whose question to Rickie Lee Jones about childhood skies was sa…
Who's Received a Black Bar on Hacker News
A living list of notable people who earned the black bar on Hacker News after they died, compiled with dates and links t…
Why A4? The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size
An accessible essay on why A4 paper has its odd dimensions, explaining the square root of two ratio that lets every A-se…
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Why All Of Our Games Look Like Crap
A veteran indie game developer explains with humor and hard numbers why his studio's games look dated, and why that is a…
Why Almost Everything You Thought About Running Is Wrong
A visually rich ABC News long read explaining how running works, why many people do it poorly and what better technique…
Why Are Sloths So Slow?
The Sloth Conservation Foundation explains the metabolism, diet and muscle biology behind the sloth's slow motion and wh…
Why are there 5280 feet in a mile?
A short history of how the Roman mile of 1000 paces became 5280 feet, as Elizabethan England tried to reconcile the mile…
Why are these caterpillars climbing over each other?
A science writer explains the strange rolling swarm of Amazon caterpillars caught on video, showing how the same simple…
Why Are You So Slow?
A statistician explains how a pro sprinter compares with average and good runners, using running-speed data to show just…
Why Be Moral?
Larry Sanger's essay presenting his basic approach to ethics, arguing that living well is the foundation of morality and…
Why Bell Labs Worked
An essay on how Bell Labs produced the transistor, information theory and Unix, and how management culture and funding c…
Why Busy Beaver Hunters Fear the Antihydra
A science journalist explains the busy beaver game, the Antihydra program that resists proof, and why it ties back to th…
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
A well-known essay by David Moser on why learning Chinese is so difficult for English speakers, covering the characters,…
Why Cities Must Build Administrative Capacity
An essay arguing that cities spend too much money and time on basic projects, and that investing in administrative capac…
Why Didn't Gandalf Own a Colt .45?
A long, playful essay asking why Middle-earth never had an industrial revolution, using real economic history to examine…
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