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notes.atomutek.org Music

Power Metal: Is It Really About Dragons?

A data-driven look at lyrics from power metal bands, counting words to test the stereotype that the genre is all dragons…

htmlgiant.com Education

Power Quote: Finnegans Wake

An HTMLGIANT post featuring ten of the longest words from Joyce's Finnegans Wake, including the hundred-letter thundercl…

blog.uehiro.ox.ac.uk Education

Practical Ethics in the News

A University of Oxford blog applying rigorous ethical analysis to current events, from bioethics to AI, written by acade…

gamedev.net Tech

Practical Use of Vector Math in Games

An in-depth article on the vector math game programmers rely on, explaining practical uses in games with clear examples…

ghostinfluence.com Internet Culture

Pranking My Roommate With Eerily Targeted Facebook Ads

A story of revenge by ad targeting: how a roommate was driven to paranoia by Facebook ads seemingly reading his mind, wi…

amoses.dev Tech

Precise Geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning

An approachable investigation into how a laptop can pinpoint your location from nearby Wi-Fi networks, and how the datab…

premierguitar.com Music

Premier Guitar

A magazine for guitarists covering gear reviews, rig rundowns, and the history of iconic instruments and pedals.

prideout.net Science

Prime Knots Wall Poster

A knot theory poster for math teachers plus the algorithm that generates its SVG knot diagrams, with lots of pretty tang…

primitiveways.com Lifestyle & Health

Primitive Ways

An archive of illustrated how-to articles on primitive survival skills, from flintknapping and fire-by-friction to corda…

blog.rabidgremlin.com Tech

Procedural Content Generation: L-Systems

A clear walkthrough of L-systems, the rule-rewriting grammars behind procedurally generated plants and fractals, with ex…

blog.jrheard.com Gaming

Procedural Dungeon Generation: Cellular Automata

A walkthrough of generating cave-like dungeon maps in games using cellular automata, with step-by-step examples of the s…

martindevans.me Tech

Procedural Generation For Dummies: Galaxy Generation

A game-development tutorial on procedurally generating a galaxy, explaining how to place stars and systems so that a who…

agileotter.blogspot.com Tech

Programming Is Mostly Thinking

A short, widely loved essay arguing that the best programming days involve almost no typing, only careful thinking, and…

quotes.cat-v.org Tech

Programming Quotes

A long, old-school collection of quotes about programming, software design and computing from Dijkstra, Pike, Thompson a…

stilldrinking.org Internet Culture

Programming Sucks

A cult-classic comic essay on why programming is a miserable and miraculous craft, with vivid analogies that non-program…

pps.org Travel

Project for Public Spaces

A nonprofit dedicated to placemaking, publishing guides and case studies on turning plazas, markets, and streets into th…

news.northeastern.edu Science

Project Hail Mary: Right and Wrong About Astrophysics

A Northeastern University astrophysicist weighs the science of the film Project Hail Mary, including its centrifugal gra…

project-syndicate.org Business & Finance

Project Syndicate

A nonprofit syndication service publishing commentary from leading economists and policymakers worldwide on economics, p…

magazine.atavist.com Education

Promethea Unbound

A long-form Atavist Magazine story about a child genius who grew up in poverty in Montana, entered college at ten, and w…

thepoke.com Education

Pronounce Every Word in This English Poem

A famous poem of English spelling and pronunciation quirks that trips up native speakers, shared with the claim that rea…

prri.org News & Politics

PRRI

A nonpartisan research institute publishing detailed survey data on American values, religion, and social attitudes with…

pruned.blogspot.com Art & Design

Pruned

A landscape architecture and urbanism blog known for speculative essays on infrastructure, terrain, and the strange edge…

spring.org.uk Lifestyle & Health

PsyBlog

A psychology blog run by a psychologist that distills peer-reviewed research into short, practical articles about the mi…

qri.org Science

Psychedelic Cryptography

A contest write-up about encoding messages that can only be understood in non-ordinary states of consciousness, a strang…

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