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Why Medieval City-Builder Games Are Historically Inaccurate
A medievalist's look at what city-building video games get wrong about medieval towns, from tidy street grids to the way…
Why Modern Chinese is Just English with Hanzi
An essay on how modern Chinese grammar and vocabulary were reshaped by European languages in the 20th century, with exam…
Why Semi-Trucks in the US and Europe Are So Different
An illustrated explainer on why American semi-trucks have long noses while European ones are flat-fronted cab-overs, cov…
Why Ships Use Port and Starboard
A short NOAA explainer on why sailors say port and starboard instead of left and right, with the surprising history of t…
Why SICP Matters
Brian Harvey of Berkeley argues why the SICP textbook changed how people think about programming, and what it teaches be…
Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green
An explainer on the color theory and industrial psychology behind the pale seafoam green used in control rooms and facto…
Why Solarpunk Is Already Happening in Africa
An essay arguing that African countries are leaping past fossil infrastructure, with distributed solar, mobile money and…
Why Sony Can't Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models
A former Sony engineer explains the supply chain, tooling and parts problems that make reviving the classic cassette Wal…
Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks
Philosopher Joseph Heath's essay on Iain M. Banks's Culture novels and why this post-scarcity utopia works as a vision o…
Why Time Seems to Pass Faster as We Age
An essay exploring the psychology and neuroscience behind the feeling that years speed up as we get older, and what we m…
Why Wavy Walls Use Fewer Bricks
An explainer on crinkle crankle walls, the serpentine garden walls popular in England that are stronger and use fewer br…
Why We Need a Literary Canon
An essay by Joshua Fagan arguing for the enduring value of preserving the best of human thought and expression in a shar…
Why What3Words is not suitable for safety critical use
A security researcher digs into what3words and finds near-identical word triples sitting close together, showing how eas…
Why You Hate Comic Sans
An essay on why Comic Sans draws so much scorn, looking at the child-like handwriting font's infamy and the movement bui…
Why Your City's Street Grid Matters More Than You Think
An essay on the hidden impact street connectivity has on transportation, housing and how easily people can get around a…
Why Your Music Is Worthless
A long essay by musician Simon Indelicate on the economics of music when recordings are worth zero, and how cult indie a…
Wigleaf
A flash fiction journal known for its annual Top 50 Very Short Fictions list, curating some of the best micro-stories pu…
wikiHow
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Wild Food UK
A British foraging reference with photo-driven identification guides for wild mushrooms, plants, and berries found in th…
Wildwood Survival
A long-standing reference site on wilderness survival and bushcraft, with detailed guides to shelter, fire, tracking, an…
Will Eisner - Lambiek Comiclopedia
The Lambiek Comiclopedia biography of Will Eisner, pioneer of the graphic novel and creator of The Spirit, with illustra…
William Burroughs and London's First Espresso Bar
A London history blog tells how Soho's first espresso bar opened in 1953 and how William Burroughs later put a curse on…
William Faulkner's Nobel Banquet Speech
The text of William Faulkner's 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature banquet speech, a short address on the writer's duty and t…
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