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Live Science
A popular science news outlet covering new discoveries in biology, geology, space, and medicine with accessible daily re…
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Living with Perfect Pitch and Synaesthesia
A musician explains from the inside what having perfect pitch and synaesthesia is really like - hearing notes in fridges…
Liz Phair, Steve Albini & Me
Bill Wyman's longform memoir of 1993 in Chicago rock, the year of Liz Phair, Steve Albini and Urge Overkill, and the mus…
LLMs on Turing Machine Architectures Cannot Be Conscious
An essay arguing that large language models running on Turing machine architectures cannot be conscious, drawing on phil…
Local-first software
A landmark Ink & Switch essay on collaborative software that keeps you in control of your data, weighing seven ideals ag…
Locus
The trade magazine of the science fiction and fantasy field, tracking awards, new releases, and news for readers deeply…
LOGIC: A Cardboard Marble Calculator
A build log of a fully working 4-bit calculator made from cardboard, hot glue and marbles, where rolling marbles through…
Logical Fallacies - Purdue OWL
Purdue's Online Writing Lab explains the classic logical fallacies, from slippery slope and ad hominem to post hoc and s…
London Jazz News
An independent blog covering the London jazz scene with reviews, interviews, and features on musicians from around the w…
London Reconnections
A deeply researched blog on London's transport infrastructure, unpacking the politics and engineering behind tube extens…
Losing Sight
Accessibility expert Leonie Watson writes a candid first-person account of losing her sight over a few months, and of le…
Louis-Joseph Marchand: Napoleon's Valet and Friend
The story of Louis-Joseph Marchand, Napoleon's valet in exile on St Helena, who nursed the emperor to his death, kept hi…
Lou's Pseudo 3D Page
A classic walkthrough of how old arcade racers like OutRun faked 3D roads with scanline tricks, with diagrams and code s…
L-systems
An illustrated explainer of Lindenmayer systems, the string-rewriting rules that grow branching plants and fractals, wit…
Lunch Posts
A designer's project of drawing a new sticky-note illustration for his son's lunchbox every school day for years, with t…
Lutherie Academy
A collection of free articles, interviews, and podcasts sharing the stories, techniques, and philosophies of working lut…
M&Ms and Skittles Sorting Machine
A maker documents his elaborate machine that sorts M&Ms and Skittles by color, with a spinning feeder, color sensor and…
Mac Themes Garden
A showcase of more than 3,000 Kaleidoscope color schemes from the Classic Mac era, with the backstory of how the collect…
Machines of Loving Grace
A moving personal essay on birth, the loss of a child and how technological interventions shape the experience of pregna…
MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
A gallery-style appreciation of 1980s MacPaint artwork, showing how artists made striking pictures in black and white pi…
Made for people, not cars: reclaiming European cities
A long read on how Pontevedra, Paris and other European cities are taking space back from cars and what streets built fo…
Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete
A step-by-step construction of a working Turing machine out of Magic: the Gathering cards, explaining which cards act as…
MagSafe Fishing for an iPhone in a Berlin Canal
A funny first-person account of rigging a magnet on a string to fish a dropped iPhone 12 Pro out of a Berlin canal, usin…
Make your electronics tamper-evident
A practical privacy guide on using glitter nail polish and photography to make laptops and other electronics show signs…
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