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My Toddler Loves Planes, So I Built Her a Radar
A dad builds his plane-obsessed toddler a live flight radar display, then keeps upgrading it, with adorable release note…
My VHS Nightmare
A funny, honest story about 2000 old VHS tapes in a garage and the foolish hobby of digitizing them, and what it says ab…
My website as a home
A personal essay on treating a website like a home rather than a portfolio, tracing how a spirograph experiment grew int…
My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps
A personal write-up on the calming hobby of aimlessly roaming Tokyo in Street View, zooming into odd shops, signs and ev…
My Year in Data
A data scientist logged everything she did in 15-minute intervals for all of 2020 and shares charts of sleep, work, leis…
Mysterious Light Sources
An amateur astronomer investigates strange isolated bright spots on light pollution maps, tracking them down to gas flar…
Mystery Scene
A magazine for mystery and crime fiction fans covering new releases, author profiles, and the history of the detective s…
Myth and Monolith - The Nine Elms Cold Store
The story of the Nine Elms Cold Store, a vast windowless refrigerated warehouse on the Thames in Vauxhall, from its buil…
Mythical Wealth-Creation Machines
An illustrated essay on legendary objects that magically produce riches, from the Finnish Sampo to cornucopias and magic…
Narrative Magazine
An online literary magazine publishing free fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from both established and emerging writers,…
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NASA's Long Dead IMAGE Satellite is Alive!
An amateur satellite tracker tells how he stumbled on a signal from NASA's IMAGE spacecraft, silent since 2005, and conf…
National Bureau of Economic Research
America's leading nonpartisan economic research organization, offering free access to thousands of working papers and hi…
National Geographic
Media platform covering exploration, wildlife, science, history, and travel through storytelling and photography.
National Parks Traveler
An independent news outlet covering national park policy, wildlife management, and visitor issues across the US park sys…
NationalAnthems.info
A reference site covering over 400 past and present national anthems with background, sheet music, audio, and lyric tran…
Natural
A personal account of becoming a citizen of Japan, mixing anecdotes, opinion and observation about naturalization, belon…
Natural Process
The story of exonemo's art piece in which a Google homepage screenshot was painstakingly hand-painted onto a giant canva…
Nature TTL
A nature photography education site with in-depth tutorials on wildlife, landscape, and macro technique, plus gear revie…
Neil Armstrong's Moon Rocks Customs Form
The actual customs declaration the Apollo 11 crew signed on returning from the Moon, listing moon rocks and dust as carg…
Nerd Fitness: Helping You Lose Weight, Get Strong, Live Better
Beginner-friendly fitness site with workouts, nutrition guides, and coaching framed with a geeky, gamified approach.
NES Graphics - Part 1
An illustrated explainer of how the Nintendo Entertainment System builds its screens from tiles, palettes, sprites and a…
Net Exploration: What is Netstalking
An introduction to netstalking, the hobby born on Russian imageboards of searching the deep web for hidden pages, with i…
Networking and the Internet, from First Principles
A long illustrated explainer on how electricity, light and radio carry data across independent networks, built up step b…
Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
A visual essay showing that the boundary between settings where a neural network trains and settings where it blows up i…
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