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Williamina Fleming: Maid to Victorian Era Astronomer
The story of Williamina Fleming, a housemaid who became a Harvard human computer and discovered the Horsehead Nebula, hu…
Windows
Michael A. Gonzales recalls a 1970s Harlem childhood of TV reruns and watching the neighborhood from the window, a story…
Windows 98 Icons Are Great
A nostalgic look at why the utilitarian pixel icons of Windows 98 still look wonderful, with plenty of examples and an a…
Windshield Pitting Epidemic of 1954
A HistoryLink account of the 1954 wave of mysterious pits and dings in car windshields across Washington State and the m…
Women Illustrators of the Pomological Watercolor Collection
Meet Deborah Passmore, Amanda Newton and the other women artists who painted thousands of exquisite fruit portraits for…
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Art & Design
Women of the Musee du Louvre
A self-guided tour through the Louvre that maps out where to find the handful of works by women artists in the museum, w…
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Tech
WonkaVision
A Shopify experiment recreating Johnny Lee's famous Wii Remote head-tracking trick with just a webcam, making flat scree…
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
A programmer reflects on swapping audio-engine code for a hand-built wooden chair, and on what physical craft teaches ab…
Words
A minimalist essay arguing that written content should come before design and that words are the web's most powerful too…
Words Without Borders
A magazine devoted to international literature in English translation, publishing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from w…
Working as a Software Developer
An essay adapted from a talk to first-year engineering students that explains what software development work is actually…
Works in Progress
A magazine of deeply researched, optimistic essays on economic growth, technology, and progress, illustrated with origin…
World Architecture News
A global architecture news outlet reporting on new buildings, competitions, and urban design projects from firms and cit…
World Bank Blogs
Development economists and researchers share findings on poverty, infrastructure, and growth in short posts illustrated…
World Data Crystals
Artist Scott Kildall shows how he turned world datasets like city populations into faceted 3D-printed crystals, with pho…
World Music Central
A news and reference site covering traditional and contemporary folk and roots music from cultures around the globe.
World Wide Words
A meticulously researched site exploring the origins and byways of English words and phrases, written by a former dictio…
World Wildlife Fund
WWF's site covers endangered species profiles, habitat conservation campaigns, and stories from wildlife protection effo…
Worldizing
An explainer of worldizing, Walter Murch's technique of replaying recorded sound through speakers in real spaces and re-…
Worse Is Better
Richard P. Gabriel's classic 1991 essay on why simple, imperfect software often beats elegant design, a foundational rea…
Worst of Breed
A deadpan satire of enterprise design patterns and tech horror, here walking through the business-critical Excel spreads…
Wound-man: Feldtbuch der Wundartzney
The Royal College of Surgeons library explores the Wound-man, a figure stabbed, sliced and bludgeoned in every way, used…
Writer's Digest
A veteran magazine for working and aspiring writers offering craft advice, market listings, and interviews about the fic…
Writing a Small Software Renderer
A clear walkthrough of how a basic software rasterizer works, building triangle drawing, depth buffering and shading fro…
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