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Chalkdust Magazine
A free online magazine written by mathematicians for anyone curious about maths, featuring puzzle columns, crosswords, a…
Character Amnesia in China
Explores why many literate Chinese speakers now struggle to hand-write characters they can read, thanks to phones and ty…
Charles Mingus Cat Toilet Training Program
The jazz bassist Charles Mingus's own numbered instructions for teaching a cat to use a human toilet, a strange and funn…
Chasing Cats
A homemade project log in which a neural network watches the front yard through a camera and turns on the sprinklers whe…
Chess Puzzle From My Dad's Old Book
A chess problem composed by Kempelen, builder of the famous Mechanical Turk, found in an old book and presented to solve…
Child Catchers
A literary nonfiction essay by Josh McColough that begins with the boxes of childhood artifacts his parents hand him to…
Chili Oil Notes
A food blogger's obsessive notes on making chili oil at home, covering peppers, aromatics, oil temperature and the small…
Chinese Five-Spice
A simple recipe for homemade Chinese five-spice powder, grinding star anise, fennel, cinnamon, Sichuan peppercorns, and…
Chinese Foot Binding - Lotus Shoes
An online exhibit from the Museum of the City of San Francisco on the history of Chinese foot binding, with 19th-century…
Choose Boring Technology
A talk-turned-essay on why teams should spend a limited budget of innovation tokens wisely and pick well-understood tool…
CIA 2010 Covert Communication Websites
A write-up of the network of fake websites the CIA used to talk to agents in Iran and China, how researchers found them,…
Cigar Box Nation
A community of hobbyist builders and players devoted to cigar box guitars, sharing build plans, videos, and homemade ins…
Cinema's Greatest Scene: Casablanca and La Marseillaise
A film lover argues that the singing duel at Rick's Cafe in Casablanca is cinema's greatest scene, unpacking its history…
Cinematography of Andor
An interview with cinematographer Christophe Nuyens about lighting, lenses and location choices behind the look of the S…
Circles Do Not Exist
A short, playful look at why the shapes in logos and drawings that look like perfect circles usually are not, and what t…
Cities Alliance
A global partnership publishing research and case studies on urban poverty, informal settlements, and city development i…
Cities Forum
A platform hosting essays and events on European city design, mobility, and public space, connecting practitioners worki…
CitiesSpeak
The National League of Cities' blog on municipal governance, covering housing, infrastructure, and policy innovations fr…
Citroen Karin
The story of the 1980 Citroen Karin, a pyramid-shaped concept car with a central driving seat, told with early design sk…
City Monitor
An urban affairs publication analyzing housing, transport, and inequality in cities, continuing the data-driven city jou…
Clare Winger Harris and the 16 Main SF Themes
An essay on a 1931 letter in Wonder Stories where pioneering author Clare Winger Harris listed the sixteen basic plots o…
Classical Music in A Clockwork Orange
An in-depth analysis of how Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange uses Beethoven, Rossini and Purcell, and what the classical sco…
Classical Wisdom
A site translating ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, mythology, and history into engaging articles for modern readers.
Clay PCB Tutorial
A step-by-step guide to making printed circuit boards out of wild-dug clay, mixing hackerspace craft with ceramics and l…
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