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Math Munch
A weekly roundup blog serving up bite-sized recreational math discoveries, puzzles, and mathematical art for curious stu…
Mathematically Correct Breakfast
George Hart shows, step by step with photos, how to slice a bagel so the two halves come out as interlocking rings, plus…
Mathematics in the Library of Babel
An essay by mathematician Daniel Litt that uses Borges's Library of Babel to reflect on mathematics, what could be found…
Mathematics of Animation
A slide deck that explains the math behind animation, showing how equations drive the motion of elements on screen in de…
MathPages
A dense, decades-old archive of essays working through recreational and research-level math problems, from number theory…
Matrices and Graphs
A clear illustrated explainer of how every matrix is secretly a graph and vice versa, and why this fact makes so much of…
Maximum Rocknroll
A monthly volunteer-run fanzine that has documented the global underground punk rock scene through reviews and interview…
Maya Angelou on the Road with Porgy and Bess
A scholarly essay following the young Maya Angelou as a dancer in the 1950s touring production of Porgy and Bess through…
Maybe you're not Actually Trying
An essay on selective agency in capable people, asking why talented people can act decisively in some areas and stay odd…
Mayerle's International Test Chart, 1907
The National Library of Medicine shows a lavish 1907 multilingual eye-test chart, with letters in several scripts and pi…
Mayo Clinic - Mayo Clinic
Nonprofit medical center site with authoritative articles on diseases, conditions, symptoms, tests, and treatments.
McKinsey Global Institute
A research arm publishing free, richly illustrated reports on global economic trends, automation, productivity, and the…
McLelun Anime Background Tutorial
A tutorial page showing an artist's workflow for painting anime-style backgrounds using Photoshop, Blender 3D and After…
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Literary humor site publishing satirical lists, columns, and short comedic pieces, alongside McSweeney's book publishing…
Me, Myself and I: Brunelle's Doppelganger Project
A look at Francois Brunelle's I'm Not a Look-Alike project, a 12-year photo series of portraits of unrelated people who…
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Meaning Is Use: Wittgenstein on the Limits of Language
A clear, friendly essay explaining Wittgenstein's shift from the picture theory of language to the idea that meaning is…
Meaning on a Lamp Post
Journalist Paul Slade tracks down the stories behind odd little artworks and messages fixed to lamp posts around London,…
Medieval Staircases Were Not Built Clockwise for Defenders
A myth-busting article tracing the popular castle-tour claim that spiral stairs favored right-handed defenders, and show…
MedlinePlus - Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
Free U.S. National Library of Medicine service with reliable information on conditions, drugs, genetics, and medical tes…
Megabite
A write-up of an algorithm that automatically turns photos of food into faces, with the image-processing approach and th…
Memories - SizeCoding
An illustrated breakdown of Memories, a 256-byte demo that won Revision 2020, walking through the history of tiny visual…
Mental Models
A widely shared essay collecting and explaining a personal toolkit of mental models drawn from science, economics, and p…
Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup
The opening chapter of Erin Kissane's meticulously researched series on how Facebook became entangled in Myanmar's crisi…
Metaballs
An illustrated explanation of metaballs, the gooey blobs that merge when they touch, with live interactive demos showing…
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