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Arcade Authorship - High Score Table Credits
How 1980s arcade designers, denied on-screen credit, smuggled their initials and names into default high score tables -…
Archimedes' Cattle Problem
The famous ancient puzzle about the Sun god's cattle in full English statement, with solution pages and history of the e…
Are You Living in a Simulation?
Nick Bostrom's original 2003 paper laying out the simulation argument, the reasoning that made 'we might be living in a…
Are You the One Is Free Money
A reality-TV-loving husband shows how simple information theory and probability can crack the dating show Are You the On…
Arendt Speaks of Oases (In Praise of Oases)
An essay on Hannah Arendt's image of the oasis as a refuge that protects our self-understanding from the pressure to adj…
Armillary sphere
The Oxford History of Science Museum explains the armillary sphere, the ring-based model of the heavens, how its circles…
Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64: Fascism!
The text of a 1945 US War Department discussion guide for soldiers explaining what fascism is, how it gains power and ho…
Around the World, Part 30: Making Better Waves
A deep dive into rendering pixelated water waves, covering how the author models and draws ocean waves in a procedural w…
As Minerva's Owl Flies: The Dark Side of Hegel's Historicism
An essay in The Gadfly, an intercollegiate philosophy magazine, examining the darker implications of Hegel's historicism…
ASCII Characters Are Not Pixels
A beautifully illustrated deep dive into rendering images as sharp ASCII art, using shape vectors and interactive demos…
Ask Ethan #18: Why Aren't We a Black Hole?
Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel explains why the early universe did not collapse into a black hole at the moment of the Big…
Ask vs. Guess Culture
An explainer on the ask versus guess culture divide, showing why some people feel fine making big requests and others hi…
Aspen Moviemap
Michael Naimark's account of the Aspen Moviemap, the 1978 MIT project that let users virtually drive through Aspen decad…
Astral Codex Ten
A newsletter by psychiatrist Scott Alexander examining psychology, rationality, and social science with long, deeply res…
Astronomy Magazine
A long-running astronomy publication with observing guides, sky-event calendars, and explainers for backyard telescope o…
Asymptosis
An independent economics blog by Steve Roth exploring monetary theory, wealth distribution, and macroeconomic accounting…
Asymptote
The premier online magazine for world literature in translation, publishing poetry, fiction, and essays from dozens of l…
At a Loss for Words
An investigative audio documentary and article on why many schools teach reading with a flawed method, and how a differe…
Atari CX-2000
A museum page on the Atari CX-2000, a strange 1982 prototype 2600 redesign with built-in joysticks, explaining why Atari…
Atomic Clusters
A visual write-up of building a molecular particle simulation where simple bonding rules make atoms clump into clusters,…
Attack Magazine
An online magazine offering in-depth tutorials, interviews, and reviews focused on electronic music production and sound…
Attacking My Landlord's Boiler
A tenant who spent months cold digs into the building's shared boiler system to find out why it never works, in an enter…
Audiokarma
A discussion forum devoted to home audio and vintage stereo gear, covering turntables, tube amps, speakers, and receiver…
Audiophile Style
A forum community focused on high-end audio playback, from turntables and DACs to amplifiers, run by hands-on hobbyists.
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