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The Caduceus Isn't The Medical Symbol You Think It Is
An explainer on how the caduceus, the snake-entwined staff of Hermes, got confused with the Rod of Asclepius and ended u…
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Education
The Camel, the Rope, and the Needle's Eye
A classicist digs into the Greek word kamilos to ask whether the famous New Testament saying meant a camel or a rope, tr…
The Camera-Shy Hoodie
A DIY wearable project that uses infrared LEDs to hide the wearer's face from IR security cameras, documented with photo…
The Case Against Computers in Math Education
Neal Koblitz's classic essay arguing that computers and calculators can shortchange mathematical understanding in the cl…
The Case Against Gameplay Loops
A game-design essay arguing that the industry's obsession with gameplay loops flattens what makes games memorable, drawi…
The Case for Dennis Rodman, Part 1 (a)
The opening of a long, data-driven series arguing with advanced basketball metrics that Dennis Rodman was far more valua…
The Case for Not Sanitizing Fairy Tales
An essay arguing that unsanitized fairy tales are the best way for children to learn that the world holds evil, violence…
The Casino in Your Pocket
A rough statistical analysis of the mobile game Wordscapes, with the data behind the claim that it uses casino-style tri…
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Education
The Cat in the Medieval Bestiary
A medievalist's illustrated post on how cats appear in medieval bestiaries, with manuscript images of mouse-hunting cats…
The Challenger Disaster
How Richard Feynman cut through NASA bureaucracy on the Challenger commission and showed the O-ring flaw with a glass of…
The Chatelaine of Vergi
Read the medieval French romance The Chatelaine of Vergi in Eugene Mason's translation, a tragic tale of secret love and…
The Chaucer Astrolabe (1326)
A detailed look at the 1326 astrolabe from the treasure of Richard II, with radiography and images, part of a site recon…
The Chemistry of Matches
A clear Compound Interest infographic and explainer on what is in a match head and striking strip, and the chain of chem…
The China That Deng Built
A long travel essay through Shanxi, China's coal heartland, meeting would-be mine owners and tracing how Deng Xiaoping's…
The Chinese Wheelbarrow
A Low-tech Magazine article on how the Chinese wheelbarrow carried huge loads efficiently, and why it deserves a place i…
The Closer to the Train Station, the Worse the Kebab
A tongue-in-cheek data study using restaurant ratings and walking routes to test whether kebab shops near train stations…
The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier
A long-form essay by Dimiter Kenarov on the Bulgarian border country and the changing life at the edge of Europe, from S…
The Colours of the Middle Ages
How were colours made in the Middle Ages? This exhibit explains medieval pigments and dyes from plants, animals and mine…
The Common
A literary magazine centered on the idea of place, publishing fiction, poetry, essays, and international dispatches that…
The Complete Lost Works of Samuel Beckett
A comic parody presenting the supposedly lost Beckett plays found half burned in a Paris dustbin: absurdly short scripts…
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Art & Design
The Complex Grid
An illustrated walkthrough of Karl Gerstner's famous grid for Capital magazine: a six-column grid layered on a four-colu…
The Computer Genius the Communists Couldn't Stand
The story of Jacek Karpinski, who built a briefcase-sized computer in 1970s Poland that ran a million operations per sec…
The Conet Project
An introduction to shortwave numbers stations, the eerie broadcasts of voices reading strings of digits that spies recei…
The Counter-Cartographer Who Mapped Hope
An essay recovering the story of Louise E. Jefferson, a pioneering Black American mapmaker whose illustrated maps of Afr…
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